This is a brief 15 minutes episode on self care. In this episode Dr Wendy discusses what we mean by self care and some of the basic building blocks of self care. The episodes contains some useful ways of identifying when self care has slipped and a few tips around increasing self care habits. Please see below references which includes a few books you may find useful. All articles can be found on www.scholar.Google.com. Austin El-Osta et al, Tools for Measuring individual self-care capability: a scoping review, BMC Public Health,2023: 23:13:12

Boere et al , Exercising is good for the brain but exercising outside is potentially better, Nature, Scientific Reports, 2023: 13:1140

Chaput et al, The role of insufficient sleep and circadian misalignment in obesity, Nature, volume 2023:19: 82-97

McKeown (2021), The Breathing Cure, OxyAt Books, Ireland

Nestor (2020), Breath, The new science of a lost art, Penguin Random House, UK

Pincus, J. (2006). Teaching self-care. Pennsylvania Psychological Association on the Ethics Educators Conference

Walker M (2021), Why we sleep: The new Science of sleep and dreams, Penguin books, Uk