Care for Yourself

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Six Ways to Care For Yourself: Reach Out

Step 3: Talk yourself into it

For a moment, imagine yourself as your best friend. How would you advise your friend to care for herself? Now take your own advice.

Try this: Write down your advice to yourself and post it somewhere you will see it daily. Or write it in a journal and read aloud to yourself every morning as an affirmation. Repetition works!

Step 4: Say 'yes' to offers of help

Caretakers are quick to help others but slow to accept offers of help.

Try this: Deborah Halpern of the National Family Caregivers Association suggests writing down individual tasks or chores you need done on index cards. Then, when someone offers to help, pull out one of the index cards and give him or her a specific task.