I love what you have expressed, Joshua. What's highlighted is how we have some deeply embedded pictures of what rest and self-care look like. I have been observing of late how the quality of my rest matters. So if I check out to rest by watching some TV, for example, I actually don't feel like I have rested at all, and yet if I work in full presence, I feel completely rested, whilst I am working and yet I haven't had a break or aimed to 'rest'.
I find this eternally fascinating as what this raises is what then is rest and what is self-care? We need to be careful not to box either of these very important aspects of how we are and live within the bodies we inhabit. I raise our bodies because both rest and self-care are things that we can feel very tangibly in our bodies and if we can't is it self-care or rest? Importantly here is not having pictures of any outcome of what self-care or rest may bring, all that brings is expectation onto ourselves.
Its like how many times when we take leave, the first thing our bodies do is become physically unwell. So our bodies make the most of periods were let go a little. Maybe we have taken on what is not ours to take on in the first instance? Everyone's bodies has different reasons for these releases. But what if that is needed for us to clear what is no longer needed so we can re-start a fresh?
Self-care is never a fix all or cure all for healthcare staff, and I love that you are questioning this. Yes, self-care is hugely important because it's with self-care that we realise we have bodies that require to be tended with care, nurturing and love by ourselves first. Self-care is a foundation on which self-nurturing and self-love can be built and was never a means to an end in and of itself and certainly never a fix for health systems across the world that are under increasing strain.
Should we be resilient to the increasing demands of health care? I agree that resilience feels like putting on armour to fight another daily battle just to get to the other side, i.e. finish the day. I don't think this is particularly good for us, and I feel we have been doing healthcare like this for way too long. I am a huge fan of Florence Nightingale, but that side of nursing where we grin and bear whatever we move through on a daily basis just results in hardened, sore and tired bodies is for history only now, and we need to move in a completely different way in our daily work.
Work is inherently good for us and offers and brings us many things on many levels. We can literally turn our lives around through work, and I don't mean the financial aspects, although that helps. I have certainly reviewed the meaning of many things because of work: commitment, family friendships, confidence, appreciation, value, empowerment and looking that the quality of rest and self-care has been very much a part of the development and evolution of this.
Thank you again Joshua and I look forward to reading your next offering.
I love what you have expressed, Joshua. What's highlighted is how we have some deeply embedded pictures of what rest and self-care look like. I have been observing of late how the quality of my rest matters. So if I check out to rest by watching some TV, for example, I actually don't feel like I have rested at all, and yet if I work in full presence, I feel completely rested, whilst I am working and yet I haven't had a break or aimed to 'rest'.
I find this eternally fascinating as what this raises is what then is rest and what is self-care? We need to be careful not to box either of these very important aspects of how we are and live within the bodies we inhabit. I raise our bodies because both rest and self-care are things that we can feel very tangibly in our bodies and if we can't is it self-care or rest? Importantly here is not having pictures of any outcome of what self-care or rest may bring, all that brings is expectation onto ourselves.
Its like how many times when we take leave, the first thing our bodies do is become physically unwell. So our bodies make the most of periods were let go a little. Maybe we have taken on what is not ours to take on in the first instance? Everyone's bodies has different reasons for these releases. But what if that is needed for us to clear what is no longer needed so we can re-start a fresh?
Self-care is never a fix all or cure all for healthcare staff, and I love that you are questioning this. Yes, self-care is hugely important because it's with self-care that we realise we have bodies that require to be tended with care, nurturing and love by ourselves first. Self-care is a foundation on which self-nurturing and self-love can be built and was never a means to an end in and of itself and certainly never a fix for health systems across the world that are under increasing strain.
Should we be resilient to the increasing demands of health care? I agree that resilience feels like putting on armour to fight another daily battle just to get to the other side, i.e. finish the day. I don't think this is particularly good for us, and I feel we have been doing healthcare like this for way too long. I am a huge fan of Florence Nightingale, but that side of nursing where we grin and bear whatever we move through on a daily basis just results in hardened, sore and tired bodies is for history only now, and we need to move in a completely different way in our daily work.
Work is inherently good for us and offers and brings us many things on many levels. We can literally turn our lives around through work, and I don't mean the financial aspects, although that helps. I have certainly reviewed the meaning of many things because of work: commitment, family friendships, confidence, appreciation, value, empowerment and looking that the quality of rest and self-care has been very much a part of the development and evolution of this.
Thank you again Joshua and I look forward to reading your next offering.
Warmest regards
Jennifer
Gosh, there is a lot of goodness here. Multiple restacks incoming.