Self-Care Week 14- 20 November 2022

Supporting Our employees Wellbeing

Cartrefi Cymru Co-operative

National Self Care Week

14 th – 20 th November 2022

What is self-care?

The definition is self-care is - the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress.

The WHO’s definition of self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote their own health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability.

Encouraging Self Care for good work life balance.

Why is self-care important?

Any part of taking care of yourself will lead to better health, in this current climate we are all struggling with a variety of issues and looking out for ourselves tends to fall onto the end of the list. If you are not taking care of yourself physically or mentally everything around you can suffer. In essence self-care helps you perform at your best, a study found that medical students who practiced self-care reported less stress and a higher