Discover how to create your own Menu of Self-Care — a gentle, personalised approach to self-care built through curiosity, awareness, and what truly works for your body.
My Story
When I began my own healing journey after long-Covid left my immune system reacting to almost everything, I realised that the remedies and self-care routines that had worked effectively for years no longer supported my body. What once built and maintained vitality and resilience simply stopped working.
My body was facing a new challenge and needed new kinds of support.
So I went back to basics — experimenting with small, gentle practices that felt possible. Some worked, some didn’t, but over time I began to see patterns. Every bit of feedback from my body — not just the positive — helped me understand and refine my self-care more deeply.
That growing list became my Menu of Self-Care, and it completely changed how I approached my health.
A Different Kind of Self-Care
We’re surrounded by advice that tells us what to do: drink more water, meditate, stretch, journal, sleep earlier. It can feel overwhelming, and often we don’t know which practices actually make a difference for us.
Your Menu of Self-Care is different.
It’s not a fixed plan or a morning routine to copy — it’s a living list of practices you’ve tried, observed, and found to genuinely support you — physically, mentally, and emotionally.
It’s built through curiosity and awareness, rather than other people’s rules or results. You listen to your body, you notice what works, and you let the rest go.
How the Menu Works
Natural health looks at the overall balance and demands of whole-person well-being. Being emotionally triggered or caught in years of mean self-talk impacts the body and energy levels just as much as junk food or lack of movement.
So it makes sense that you’ll need more than one type of self-care to maintain not only vitality and resilience but also mood and outlook.
Through the Make Self Care Simple approach, you’ll explore four pathways:
- Practical – help your body do what it does best — repair, renew, and thrive.
- Nourish – find your individual approach to diet and nutrition
- Align & Uplift – small mindset and mood-boosting practices
- Mindcraft – gentle ways to reshape thoughts and reactions
You can start anywhere. Choose one small self-care challenge from a pathway that interests you and give it your attention for a few days or weeks. Each challenge is a mini experiment — a chance to see how your body and mind respond.
Creating Your Own Menu
You don’t need a fancy template to begin. A notebook, notes app, or printable page works perfectly.
Try this simple framework:
- What you tried – the practice or habit
- How it felt – physically, emotionally, mentally
- Keep or release – does it earn a place on your Menu?
Over time, you’ll build a deeply personal collection of self-care practices that feel right for your unique body and season of life. Some may stay forever; others will come and go. That’s the beauty of it — your menu evolves with you.
Why It Matters
When self-care becomes something you choose rather than something you should do, everything changes.
You start trusting your own signals.
You notice small improvements sooner.
You spend less time chasing routines that don’t fit and more time honouring what does.
Self-care stops being another item on the to-do list and becomes a quiet act of connection — a conversation with your body.
Ready to Begin?
If you’d like help choosing your first challenge, download the free Self-Care Toolkit — it walks you through how to complete your first self-care challenge and start building your own menu.
👉 Start Here – Your Free Self-Care Toolkit
Then, when you’re ready to see how I apply this approach in real life, visit my Monthly Self-Care Updates page — where I share my own Menu of Self-Care, what I’m tracking, and what I’m learning each month.
You can also join our Skool community for Reflection Weekends and shared encouragement as you build your own Menu of Self-Care.
Small steps. Steady awareness. Genuine results.
That’s what makes self-care simple.
If you’d like a little more clarity on why gentle challenges create such steady results, this explanation might help things click into place.
