Sunday Self Care Challenge – Week One

It’s time you started prioritising yourself! It’s time you started making time for you! So, I’d love to invite you to join me for a beautiful 10 week ‘Sunday Self Care Challenge’. Each week will follow a theme, and have a self-care activity, a yoga pose to practice, an essential oil to diffuse and some journal prompts that all correlate and focus on our theme. This will be a chance for you to take those very first steps into setting up new routines that prioritise your own selfcare, mental health and wellbeing Mumma, so come and join me and let’s get started!

Today’s focus is mindful breathing and self reflection.

Essential oil:

So first things first, if you are following along with the essential oil side of things, then go grab your Lavender oil ladies, get it in that diffuser and let it be the beautiful relaxing base of your practice today. We are using our Lavender oil today to help promote feelings of relaxation and serenity while we work through our activities for the challenge.

Next up.

Activity:

Today’s main activity is to to take 15 minutes to practice deep and mindful breathing, you could work on some box breathing
(Breathing in to the count of 4, hold the breath for 4, breathe out to the count of 4, hold the breath for 4 and repeat) or some deep belly breathing (place your hand on your belly for sensory feedback and breath in deep all the way into your belly until you can feel your belly expanding outwards into your hands, slowly release and feel your belly contracting back towards your spine and repeat) so find a comfortable seated position or even laying down comfortably on your back, pick which breathing technique you’d like to work on, maybe even pop on some nice peaceful music and then take 15 minutes to really focus in on your breath, thoughts and feelings.

Yoga Pose:

Our yoga pose today is Child’s pose or Balasana, we are using this pose to help switch on the parasympathetic nervous system, (the parasympathetic nervous system is our rest and digest function, it gets us out of that stress, fight or flight mode that most of us are constantly living in and allows our body to fully relax) and promote feelings of cooling and grounding. Have a quick watch through the video and get yourself familiar with the details of the pose before you get started (or even check out my stories for a more detailed explaining of the pose) then come down to your mat and practice this pose for about 3 – 5 cycles of breath or for as long as feels comfortable for you. You may find you allow yourself to really let go and release into this pose so if you are feeling a sense of comfort and releasement then just stay with this pose and feeling for aslong as you need 🧡

Journal Prompts:

Now our final aspect of today’s pratice is our journal prompts. So once you are finished with your Childs pose, come back to a comfortable seated position, grab yourself a diary or a notebook and this is what I want you to think about, reflect on and write about today. Take as long as you need and be really honest with yourself.

– What are three things you are grateful for today?
– What are three things you are proud of yourself for?
– What are three things that you’d like to work on and improve on throughout this self care challenge?
– Also what brought you here today? What made you take the step to get started on this challenge and what do you hope to get out of it?

If you’ve joined along and completed week one with me today, then drop me a comment below and let me know, you could let us know how it’s made you feel or even just drop a 🧡 emoji. We are all here doing this together Mumma, so let’s really ride this journey out and support each other along the way 🧡 See you back here next Sunday for more!