Title: The Importance of Self-Care for Mental Health – The Gooden Center
Headings: The Importance of Self-Care for Mental Health
The Importance of Self-Care for Mental Health
What Is Self-Care?
Why Does Self-Care Impact Mental Health?
A Sense of Security
Because You’re Worth It
Yourself And Others
Self-Care Tips

Content: Self-care refers to anything you do to improve your wellbeing and happiness. This can include anything from regular exercise to the occasional bubble bath. Usually, we speak of it in the context of doing things for yourself that, technically, don’t need to be done. You don’t need a massage. You don’t need to listen to relaxing music or go out to the movies. Doing these things therefore epitomizes self-care. Some would consider it indulgent, as it isn’t technically productive time. But it does something of far greater value than most of what we consider productive activity. Why Does Self-Care Impact Mental Health? Some forms of self-care are intuitively helpful for mental health.