Supporting the supporters: Self-Care Approaches for Moms

Introduction

There are many turns and twists in the life of a woman. She passed a joyful life at the home of their parents being a daughter. But with the passage of time her responsibilities increases which makes her life complex. It does not meant that the joyful days eliminate from a woman’s life. Nonetheless, when a woman enters into a practical life, while performing her duties; she neglects the thrilled jiffies of her life. Especially, when she became married, she disregards precious occasions of her life for the sake of her husband and children care. Selflessness is a good deed but you should not ignore yourself to this level so that your own personality become dull. It is imperative to spot out importance of self-care. In fact when you do not pay attention to your sleep, rest and happiness. Ultimately, you will soon become physiological patient and unable to raise your family and performing your life’s obligatory task. Diving deep into this blog, you will come to know that self-care is how much important and how to tailored different healthy strategies to create self-care basket.

Change Motherhood to Parenthood:

Motherhood is a bunch of responsibilities which a mother have to perform for the well-being of her children. But it is a dark and injustice truth of our society that children are only the responsibility of their mothers. In fact, children are the responsibility of both parents. Therefore, we should change motherhood to parenthood. So, that mother can get enough time to deal with her own self-care tasks.

Self-Care Hacks for Moms:

Self-care is not any unnecessary job.in fact it makes you able to fulfill your responsibilities in more energetic and reasonable way. Here are some hacks which can help busy moms

 Healthy meals:

Health is your foremost concern. Always use to take a healthy meal on time. Never delay your hunger.

 Adequate sleep:

Be practical and always expect realistic results of your efforts. Care for the family is very imperative, therefore, do not go beyond limits to achieve the desires for your family.

 Be socialize:

Spend time with your family and friends. Make video calls or chat with them. This will help you to relax your mind.

 Learn to refuse extras:

You are not an order-taker, who is always ready to take orders while they are responsibility or not. Never burden yourself more than you need. Learn to say “No”. But, at all you have to say polite while refusing.

 Pick any healthy hobby:

Try to adopt any mind-relaxing hobby that can help to boost up your mental health. Such as painting, book reading, reciting darood pak etc….

 Exercise:

Different physical exercises acts as stress-reliever. Therefore, try to add any physical activity in your life.

Self-care Strategies for Mental Health

Maintaining your mental health is the most important self-care approach. So let’s start knowing some therapies that can assist you in improving your mental health

Psychoanalytic Therapy:

Try to support your mental health by perceiving unconscious thoughts and past thinking for the improvement of current situations.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):

In this therapy, you have to focus on transforming negative thinking into positive thinking and behavior.

Humanistic Therapy:

This will help you to explore yourself and assist you to overcome over your weaknesses like if you have stress, anxiety and OCD like psychological issues. This therapy emphasis to overcome these issues and make you able to realize the significance of the present flashes.

Mindfulness-Based Therapies:

It incorporate to promote self-care awareness and helps to reduce stress and tension.

Family Therapy:

Consultants give therapy about your relationship with each and every person of your family. This therapy will help you how to address your problem to your family members and how to build inter-personal relationship while staying into your limits.

Group therapies:

Brining together the people having similar psychological issues to give them mind relax and controlling therapy.

Interpersonal therapy:

It is required when there is any problem related to your different relationship. This therapy will help you to treat with interpersonal relations such as relation with husband, father and mother etc. The time of working these therapy is different from person to person according to their will power and mental health. Identify that what type of therapy you need for stress relieving and for boosting your mental health. These therapies are also the part of your self-care. So, never ignore them as they can play important role in re-constructing your destructive life.

New mom self-care:

The news of welcoming a new little guest to your family is very thrilling for a newlywed couple. To show care to a new mom, you can gift her a self-care basket containing gifts such as pregnancy guide, novel, religious book on how to raise your kid, skin care products or massage machine etc. Doing this, will realize her that she has importance in her partner’s life. Let her express her feelings openly. So, that she can make herself relax and chilled.

Bottom line:

A woman life is really critical as compared to man. Because she has many responsibilities to perform without any limitation of time. Whether it is day or night, she has to perform her duty. Due to all these reason she often neglects herself. This selflessness can lead her to both mental and physical health. Therefore, she should follow some self-care hacks which could make her life easy to some extent. She should take healthy meal, unbroken sleep for 6 to 7 hours. Develop a habit to exercise on daily basis. Try to stay positive. Neglect and forget the negative aspects of your life. When you feel much exhausted, take deep breath or perform yoga. Be socialize. Do not perform all the household chores by yourself, instead divide your responsibilities to other family members like your elder son or daughter…. We often burdened women with such responsibilities which are mutual duty of parents. Consequently, they hurt themselves. On the other hand, partners should also care for their better halves. They should encourage them to do self-care other than performing house hold tasks.