Hey everyone! Welcome back to a new year and a new series! I hope your new year has started well and you are getting excited for your resolutions and your future. As a way to open 2024 I’m writing a series on self-care, and I hope that it can help a lot of writers out there. So, without further ado…
Care for Writers: What Does Care Mean?
In recent years as I’ve made more and more writer friends, I have come to notice a pattern. Most of my writer friends have a difficult time doing self-care for themselves. There are a variety of reasons that my friends or other writers might have for not practicing self-care and part including not knowing how, not understanding what needs they have, or even just not feeling like they have time to care for themselves. I hope that this post and the rest of this series can help shed some light on all of those problems.
Self-care is an essential part of life. The human body is a complex organism that requires dedicated time and effort to maintain at a proper working level. People can often function almost as well without properly caring for themselves, but it becomes a lot more difficult and leaves them a lot more tired. In fact, many scientists have recommended a minimum of 12-16 hours of self-care a month (that’s 3-4 hours a week) not including normal care such as showering, eating, and general welfare.
As a writer who doesn’t write full time and has a job to do, I have also struggled with self-care in the past both in university and after it. One of the many ways I’ve found that help me understand something better is to learn more about the words of something (the writer in me I suppose). Self from self-care has an obvious meaning. It means I care for myself personally on my own. But what is the actual definition of care? According to the Oxford Language Dictionary care is the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
So, that is what I will be discussing in the next several weeks. I want to discuss self-care in terms of health, welfare, maintenance, and protection. All of which are important aspects of self-care and can be applied specifically to writers as well as in general for those who are simply looking to practice better self-care.
I know this week’s post was rather short, but it was really meant to be an introduction post to this series. I hope that it is helpful to many writers and that it can help more writers write more stories more often. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, become a blog page member, share, and follow me on social media at the links below. And remember,
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