The Self-Care Handbook

Introduction

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Who needs self-care? You do. We all do. Self-care is central to living a life that makes us feel good and that we feel good about. And yet too few of us recognize and honour our need to balance our mind and body; to protect, maintain, and improve our physical and mental health and our wellbeing.

The NHS's website ‘One You’ www.nhs.uk/oneyou says that ‘without knowing it, by the time we reach our 40s and 50s many of us will have dramatically increased our chances of becoming ill later in life. Whether we are eating the wrong things, drinking more than we should, continuing to smoke despite everything ...