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Sustainable Self-care
Real-world self-care for people who can’t always stop. These posts explore rest, energy, boundaries, and the daily work of looking after yourself, without cliché or overindulgence.
Day Crafting: The Self-care Workbook
Crafting involves intentionally focusing on each step of the process, an attention to detail that leads to a well-formed product. Crafted...
Sep 20, 20233 min read
Journalling Prompts to Refine and Design Purpose
Days with meaning: is it time to design and refine your purpose? Day Crafting examines the flow of energy from your maintenance (energy...
Jul 17, 20233 min read
Sleep, Eat, Move, Rest: Crafting Your Daily Blueprint
Under the heading of maintenance (how we look after ourselves in a day), our four most important actions are sleep, eat, move, rest....
Mar 30, 20233 min read
NEAT Tricks from Blue Zones for Longer, Healthier Days
Are your days NEAT enough? Why is it that citizens of certain places live significantly longer, healthier lives than the rest of us?...
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Counting your happy days
Here's a short story about Abd al-Rahman III and Day Crafting. He was the grandson of the Emir, who selected him from all potential...
Dec 2, 20223 min read
When self-care meant getting dirty and skirting peril
What does self-care mean to you? Is it on autopilot or something you relish giving attention to? What problems do you encounter in your...
Sep 4, 20222 min read
Get Your Day Crafting Five A Day
What five things could you craft into every day to help your life flourish? This simple intervention goes to the heart of the Day...
Jun 4, 20213 min read
Reset your days to your internal clock
Imagine a clock that told you personally when it was your best time during the day to do certain tasks, such as the optimum time to do...
Apr 21, 20215 min read
Redesigning effective rest and unlocking energy use
Given that the human brain is constantly monitoring our energy budget and predicting our energy use and attempting to get us to balance output with restoration, it is perverse, but not altogether out of character, that the part of our brain that thinks it runs the show should come up with a notion such as, 'I'll rest when I'm dead'. Sometimes we choose to believe the dumbest ideas.
Feb 5, 20214 min read
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