A proactive and holistic approach to promoting personal health and wellbeing to support professional care of others | |
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Prudence | Through self-care, what we are doing is developing a relationship with ourselves – which actually supports us in developing relationships with everybody else. |
Gwendolen | Self-care - it’s looking after me to look after patients, so to speak; if I’m not of a good healthy physical state or emotional state, I’m hardly likely to be able to support someone. |
Darrell | You can’t look after dying patients without looking after yourself, really, can you? And do a good job of that, in a compassionate way? |
Felicity | Balancing care for yourself and others is essential. |
Patrick | It’s part of a holistic approach… if you’re not caring for yourself then you’re less able to care for others. |
Merilyn | [It’s about] maintaining a good balance between body and mind… being able to stay fit and healthy. |
Winston | You look after your own health so that you can deliver patient-centred care. |
Prudence | That’s what self-care is; it’s a way of living, it’s a way of living every moment. |
Mason | The thing is, [self-care] is not a tick-box commodity. |