In a world full of hustle and bustle, people tend to overlook the idea of doing pleasurable things for themselves. Not taking time to recharge often leads to crashing. Part of Doctor TK’s General Psychology course from her undergraduate program is to teach a contextual background of how to understand why self-care is important. In today’s episode, she will share with us how to implement self-care by setting up some form of token economy behavior modification plan.
Podcast Goals:
- Determine the reward that’s right for you broken down into three categories: free, cost-efficient, and big reward
- Realize the importance of self-care reward system
Episode Timeline:
- Doctor TK Highlights from Psychology 1, Mastering the World of Psychology [00:40]
- The analogy behind self-care explained [1:18]
- Doctor TK on bringing up the self-care category when working with new therapy clients [2:10]
- Contents to include on the reward sheet [4:00]
- Why should we list a lot of things under the “free self-care” column? [6:08]
- The “cost-efficient” column [07:47]
- How often should we do the things from the “cost-efficient” column? [08:20]
- The “big reward” column [08:44]
- What is hustle mode and is it good? [11:00]
- Doctor TK’s personal experience with crashing [11:20]
- Personal ways on how to be alert and mindful of the moment [14:17]
Standout Quotes:
- “You can’t meet the needs of other people if you first have not taken care of yourself” [3:54]
- “The reason why some individuals don’t engage in self-care is that they carve out hours and hours and they don’t believe in self-care unless they can do it for 2 hours. But sometimes sitting still for 15 minutes is what you need to recharge” [6:33]
- “The whole purpose of self-care is to recharge yourself, to press the restart button. This is why you want to engage in self-care every single day.” [10:25]
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