Considerations for a Healthy Lockdown

• Apply Self-Care practices
  • Take a moment to do a self-audit- how are you?
  • Respect warning signs & action supports
  • Keep a diary
• Stay connected- to family, friends, colleagues, clubs, work
• Put challenges into perspective
• Focus on positives
• Ensure you have a quality life balance
  • Own time, family, friends, work, hobbies
• Take opportunities
  • Go for a walk
  • Take regular breaks
  • Read that book you’ve been meaning to start/finish
  • Get out in nature- even if just the garden tidy-up, plant something or simply to eat lunch
  • Reach out and connect with that long-lost friend, local or abroad
  • Do that interest of yours that has been sitting on the backburner for a while
  • Do some home cooking
  • Play music during the day
  • Tell a joke/read a joke/watch a comedy
  • Set yourself a small and achievable goal, daily or other.
• Maintain/ Establish good habits
  • Consistent sleep patterns- wake up/go to bed times
  • Look to maintain simple but important routines
  • Eat well
  • Set healthy work routines- block times out for non-work activities (especially post 5pm)
• Respect screen time durations- computer/phone/tv etc.
• Apply the KISS principle- less is more/quality not quantity
• Order of Priorities- yourself, your family, then your work

We have an important role to play in the community, to model healthy practices in times of challenge. How we carry & conduct ourselves is, in itself, is a lesson to our students.

Supports are there for you- just reach out. 😊