Self-Harm Recovery Daily Check-in: Saturday August 1st, 2020
Hey everyone! Happy Saturday everyone, hope you all are having a great week so far! This week has been really wacky and a bit hard. I'm slowly getting everything back together now though, so we'll be okay. I start school soon and still have to finish all my assignments and I have a few projects this week that I need to work on as well. Hopefully I'll be able to manage it all and get it all down.
I saw this image this morning while scrolling through some mental health graphics. It's such a good representation of self-care and maintaining a stable and healthy mind. We have to continue to nurture ourselves by practicing self-care, trying to remain peaceful and calm, and eventually, we will be able to flourish and grow! I hope everyone gets the chance to practice some self-care this weekend. Whether if it's simple self-care like reading or it's more challenging forms of self-care like yoga or exercise, it's important to take time out of our days to relax a bit and love ourselves a bit.
Check-in questions:
1) How has your week been and how are you doing?
2) What's one self-care activity you plan to practice today?
3) What's one thing that you want to grow in and learn this week? (Example: I want to grow in terms of confidence and emotional stability and learn how to take care of myself and learn more Mandarin this week)
4) I just handed you a time machine, where would you go first? (You can fast foward or go back)
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@TheAtticusFinch
Hey there :)
I'm sorry to hear about your week, I hope things get easier for you ! Good luck with the assignments, I believe in you, you've got this <3
1) How has your week been and how are you doing? Been a busy tiring week, but I'm making the most of the weekend :)
2) What's one self-care activity you plan to practice today? Already done some : did my hair and nails today :)
3) What's one thing that you want to grow in and learn this week? Hum this is a difficult one. I'd say I want to learn how to stand up for myself and improve my communication skills.
4) I just handed you a time machine, where would you go first? I'd definitely go back because 1) I believe in butterfly effect so I don't want change anything now in case it impacts my future and 2) I generally just live reminiscing about the 'easier days'. I'd probably go back a few years when I was at uni and the biggest stress factor was passing my exams. It was a sweet time ...
Thanks for the check-in, I enjoyed the time traveling question, got me thinking ! Take care <3
@Slizzy564
Hi Slizzy :)) Awh you're the sweetest- my life is getting back together so I'm happy about that and thank you for your well-intentioned wishes! I gotta learn to make most of the weekends I think! :o I might shift to working ultra-productively on projects and school assignments over weekdays and more relaxed days over the weekend if that makes sense. Even though it's quarantine and it doesn't really doesn't matter. I'm super glad to hear that you want to improve communication skills! I gotta learn that too for networking stuff because I have Skillshare and I've seen great courses on that. Yes!! I hope you do get to learn how to stand up for yourself as well, that's such an underrated skill. Remember you deserve the best and nothing less! Awww I'd also go back to easier days (except my easier days are middle school) but yeah I can definitely understand that. I've learned a bit about time travel concepts in a philosophy class I took and have heard about the butterfly effect! :o Thanks for the reply, as always, you're the best.
@TheAtticusFinch
Hey :) I'm glad to hear that things are getting back on track. Sometimes we need a good storm in order to appreciate the calmer times again. Managing one's time without any schedule is hard to do ! I can relate to that so much ! At the end of my studies, I had to hand in a research paper that I worked on for a year. Trying to find the right timing for it all was an adventure x) Though I did do like you're suggesting : I did most of my work over the week and made the most of the weekends and chilled a lot. Even if it's quarantine, if it's important to you then it matters, easy as that :)
Ooh networking is a struggle for me, I hope it's easier for you ! But yeah communication skills are really handy ! Good luck with Skillshare, hope it helps you out :) As for standing up for myself, I think that one is more of a life long task you know ? Old habits die hard x) Thanks for your kind words <3
Bittersweet memories yeah ? Oh I used to enjoy philosophy classes though I never used to get good marks but it's nice subject to study :) I'd be curious to what your teacher had to say about time travel !
Take care <3
@TheAtticusFinch
Hi!
1) How has your week been and how are you doing?
My weeks been good I'm okay and you? I'm a little worried about swimming tomorrow with my scars they're still visible.
2) What's one self-care activity you plan to practice today?
I was social and went and met my friend.
3) What's one thing that you want to grow in and learn this week? (Example: I want to grow in terms of confidence and emotional stability and learn how to take care of myself and learn more Mandarin this week)
I want to grow in loving myself and learn more french!
4) I just handed you a time machine, where would you go first? (You can fast forward or go back)
I'd want to stay where I am honestly the past wasn't too great and I don't want to skip time now because I'm so happy with my husband. My life wasn't always bad just alot of bad moments I'd prefer not to revisit. I don't want to skip the good stuff now! 
@itidc
Hi! I'm glad that your week has been pretty okay so far! :D I'm so sorry that you're worried about people seeing your scars.. that's totally valid. Society has really weird stigma around self-harm and I dislike greatly the idea of someone judging you for that. I wish you the best of luck with it honestly and validate yourself if someone judges or stares. <3 I'm here for ya. My week has been o_0 .. but I'm actually doing really well right now! Got my life back together and *hopefully* back on track hehe. Awww I'm so glad you got to see your friend after being a bit social, that's always awesome. Yayyyy language learning during quarantine is so important and I'm glad you're doing that! Awhhhh I'm really glad to say that you're comfortable with the present and so glad. I'm sorry that you've been through a lot in the past and I wouldn't revisit either. :( Take care hon and I hope you continue to have a great week :)
@TheAtticusFinch
It's okay I actually went and no one cared or noticed!
I'm so glad you're weeks getting better and I hope it continues to get better!
I'm actually not in quarantine anymore it's been like a month or two since France has been out.
It's okay! And I'm sorry as well you take care too and have a wonderful day!
Hey @itidc :)
Glad to hear that your week was good :) Good luck with the swimming, dealing with visible scars can be difficult ... You could always say that you got attacked by a shark ? ;)
Meeting up with friends sounds lovely :) Hope you had a good time :)
Loving yourself is a great project, full of adventures if you ask me ! Good luck on your journey <3 And good luck with the french too ! Been through that, was a fun ride !
It's really heart warming to see that you're confortable in the present. I'm sorry about the bad moments in the past. I hope that in a way they make the happy moment now even more enjoyable, if that makes sense ?
Take care <3
@TheAtticusFinch
Alright I know its Sunday already but still :p Plus its good to see that Im not the only one loving these kinds of illustrations! Where do you find them by the way?
1) How has your week been and how are you doing?
The week has been good, I was still in the mountain, enjoying hikes but taking it easy due to the heat (and being sore after another week full of hikes already) Now Im really looking forward to going back to my own place and hopefully starting work again!
2) What's one self-care activity you plan to practice today?
I cant really do my usual self-care as Im still at my mothers place, but Im trying to take time for myself in between all the chores to help her.
3) What's one thing that you want to grow in and learn this week?
I want to grow in sociability and take time to learn more biology stuff plus read articles, maybe try an dedicate one hour a day to this so as to progress slowly but steadily!
4) I just handed you a time machine, where would you go first? (You can fast foward or go back)
Id go back in time, not to live there but only for a visit (or several :p) to my dad, to have a real chat with him now that Ive grown up and to learn more things from him, theres just so much I wish I had time to learn from him!
Good luck on starting school and on finishing your assignments plus working on your projects! It sounds like a busy but interesting and surely productive week ahead! Take care x
@LinearWaves
Linearrrr <3 <3 Thank you for replying and I'm so sorry I haven't been able reply to your check-ins, but I definitely will be going to reply to them soon. Ahhh I want to go on hikes soon and just go outside soon but I live with some high-risk people so it's still a no go for me so far, but I'm super glad that you are doing that. Going out to enjoy nature is amazing and I hope you get more chances to do so. I hope work goes well for you too this week <3 Yes, I take care of my grandparents too so I understand it's sorta hard sometimes to find time for self care between chores!! You deserve some alone time <3 Your plan to dedicate some time to biology and reading articles sounds good- I'm doing something similar with political theory and I always admire you doing so. Awww I'm glad that you want to go back in time to chat with your dad, that's super adorable and I don't have a great relationship with my own father, so I look up to you wanting to talk to yours a lot. Take care linear have a wonderful week!! <3
@TheAtticusFinch
Hey no worries about not replying to check-ins :p It's really great that you're taking care of the people you're living with, it must be tough at times so I really hope you get the chance to go for nice hikes once the situation gets better! And I'm sorry to hear about your father, unfortunately we can't chose our family or the relationships we have with them :\
Have a wonderful week as well, take care! <3