I have been a holistic therapist for almost two decades working with people who needed help in a number of areas - from occasional discomfort in the body to various mental and life challenges. I have learned to recharge myself when I have been feeling depleted, protect myself from negative energy and much more.
We therapists give a lot - of our energy, time, compassion. We give all of what we can give to our clients and most of us feel uplifted when we do it, especially when we hear how much what we've done has helped our clients.
Being giving and positive about it, many of us still struggle with self-care, especially when our working schedule is busy. Feeling tired and overworked, we often ignore the signs.
Therapists are only human, and we also need to make a living to pay bills. When work is scarce, we get stressed. This has its own destructive effect on our body and mind. And we all know how it ends. Physical and mental challenges wreck havoc with our immunity, hormones, ability to recharge and so on.
So it is important to spot the early signs of it and do what we can to bring ourselves back to health and start enjoying what we do again - and life itself. I do have to remind myself about it all the time.
I have created this journal for myself, to help restore my own health and a happy attitude to life and the work I do. I believe that nobody can help us as well as we can help ourselves.
Healing starts from honest introspection, doing a lot of inner work and deciding where our lives need adjustments. And of course, if we are to achieve long-term results, we need to record our progress day by day. This is why keeping a diary or a journal is such a great idea.
I hope that this journal will help you establish a habit of looking after yourself every day. A habit takes time to form. I think it requires about 3 months on average to get a new habit to take root. This journal has more than one habit waiting to be learned and used in order to bring back vitality, health and a sense of well-being we all need, especially those of us in the giving profession.
