Simple Self-Care Tips and Ideas for Busy Lives | Balancing Life’s Demands

Welcome to AIN with Dr. Ami! 💖 In this video, we’re diving into the art of prioritizing yourself amidst the hustle and bustle of managing work, family, and relationships. Valentine’s Day is a perfect reminder to show yourself some love and care. As a career-oriented woman, wife, and mother I perfectly understand the challenges of balancing multiple roles. In this video, I share personal tips and proven techniques for incorporating self-care into our busy schedule.
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Thank you so much for clicking on this video and for watching this video it means a lot to me please do subscribe if you haven’t and if you’re a returning subscriber thank you thanks so much for doing this with me I don’t take your support for granted either do I take

Your likes your comments and your encouragement for granted today I’m going to talk some talk about my own personal experiences with you and um I’m a career woman yes yes yes yes I’m a mom I’m a mother of three and I’m a wife and for me self

Care is so so important for me because I juggle a lot of things and I’m trying to also keep this YouTube channel Alive give myself that gentle remind selfcare of yourself you’re better equipped to actually take care of of others take care of other things but for me it’s also so important for my mental health physical health and I I was like let me share this with my friends you know let me

Share this with with all of you like selfcare is so important and we should not lose ourselves in the process of helping others of supporting others and while speaking this upon myself being self aware of the importance of this but also knowing that those who are near me those who care for

Me those who love me wants me to be relaxed wants me to take care of myself wants me to to flourish yes so that’s that’s that’s what informed us so I’m prioritized on selfcare I a love to myself but love to those who care about me who love me who

Cherish me yes so happy V’s Day to everyone if you do believe in V’s day uh I would I would eat chocolate and I would have some nice time with my family with my sweetheart and with my kids yes but I’m also consciously prioritized on selfcare actually helps me to to to deal

With the demands of everyday life everyday hustle and basle of life so that’s why it’s so important important to me maybe you can also pick one or two things from this perhaps you also have some ideas to share with me and I’ll be very very happy to hear it before I

Really actually go into it I think it’s very important for us to talk about why selfcare is important for us especially I am taking myself as a mom as a wife as a daughter as the various roles I play as a researcher and for me it really helps my mental wellbeing

Um when I’m relaxed I smile a lot I laugh a lot I’m such a happy go girl if you like naturally know me I can laugh on apologetically I just laugh and I’m a happy person I’m a cheerful person so for me selfcare is really really important for my mental health but also

For my physical health because when I’m um I’m stressed come on you don’t want to see that you don’t want to see that because it also affects my emotions and the way I like I become Moji and I have this headache and I’m like come on different shades of baki different

Shades of ience it means quality time for myself I have a lot of hobbies you know YouTube is one of my hobbies I I love myself oh my god when I see myself if I’m happy I’m like that’s beautiful girl anyway on on the more serious not

So quity time with myself with my family is something that I consider as an important aspect of my um selfcare routine because I tend to do a lot of things I touch this I touch this i i t and I know that some of us feel like we

Are very good with multitasking but can we do one thing and enjoy it it and then not feel guilty that we didn’t complete something and all that and spending time like good time but for me like sometimes putting my phone away and just having a good rest I was watching someone was

Like I am good at doing that and I’m like yeah we all have to have those moments and not feel guilty about it right one thing I for realized is to know that it’s okay to not be perfect I’m not going to be perfect if you watch

My videos I make mistakes I correct myself but I have come to understand that everything is not going to be perfectly laid out and I accept my my mistakes and I move on and I’m happy so that I don’t stress myself with what could have been better and better and

Better as I learn to become a better person that are doing a lot of things I also have Ste my floors so I think that’s an important aspect of for me selfcare cuz then it helps me to embrace my imperfections like this is me I cannot be as perfect as I

Want yes but maybe you have seen a way to be perfect and you can share it with me but I’m embracing the imperfections for now having a good support network like if you watch my previous video someone who lessons my husand can listen to all my ts forever and ever someone

Who encourage me but beyond that also have like sisters and friends if you haven’t watched that video where my friends and I talk about how we both Sisterhood in P of for PhD education please I recommend you watch that video I also have a support system that helps

Me I also have my mom I call I call people who can just listen to me and that I can also listen to them and we share ideas and perspectives so it’s not one way street I listen to them they listen to me we share IDE yes encouragement support those kind of

Things so that’s one thing I do as an important way to balance balance expectations of me as a mom as a wife As showing that my my husband my husband and I have this shared responsibilities like we don’t have the 50/50 we don’t have the 7020 or the 80 7030 or the we do what works for us so every day and every activity in every plan and how it

Works for example if I’m out of home perhaps would be 90 10 for my husband when he’s away from work it would be perhaps 80 20 or we see what works for us like I’ve had a lot of people share the idea that there is no 50/50 always you have

To balance it right yes so that’s some of the things that I do to nurture my marriage but to also help me to like pause and breath and have time for myself and have time to just admire myself record my videos and as a career woman um I think

Prioritizing my career is so important but I don’t want to be in that Loop of always like it’s all work all work I’m really consciously consciously when work is done is done I used to feel have that pressure like I have to do this and I have to finish

This article and I have to read this number of books but for me now when when when my job time is closed I don’t do that extra extra my weekends are for me and my family and for other things like I want to have a relaxed

Life yeah we live in a NE liberal Society and capitalist the way run run run run time money time money time money time money time money and sometimes just work yes I want to excel in my profession I don’t want to do it at the back of not having the mental stability

The happiness the joy to do it and it’s like it becomes a competition and something I just have to run too I don’t also do some mentorship so it’s it’s it’s fulfilling for me to know that I can encourage someone I can build someone up

And I can be an inspiration to someone I mean it makes me feel good it makes me feel really really good and this is not to be very egoistic but for me building someone up and it’s it also encourages me that this journey it’s not

Only for me it’s for all of us so we are doing it together so I’m doing it with somebody and the person is inspired and I’m also being inspired by what the person is being able to so for me mentorship it also as well as self care

But don’t let it be a very big responsibility then it’s hanging on your Head I also seek for mentorship opportunities to get mentors who also encourage me let me know like what path to take on what are the things that will build me up yeah we need that right we need that we want to nurture every aspect of Our

Lives while Lear new skills I think I’m improving with a lot of things that I’m learning on my own reading some selfcare books so it’s not every day that I read academic books with all our theories I’m not saying it’s bad it’s very good but to balance work life you Know finding time for myself I’ve talked about how I want to be a perfect a perfectly imperfect mom a perfectly imperfect wife a perfectly imperfect researcher but also having time for myself like having some time for myself like me time and Miss time and what that means is very varied but I

Want to just say this like try to evaluate priorities is this thing important is if it’s not every you can’t tell me everything is so important let’s be honest with ourselves it’s not everything that is like there are some things that that are nice to do but there are some things

That are important to do there are some things we want there are some things we need ask yourself do you need this or you just want it yeah so I’m prioritizing time for myself for for things that make me happy and I love to spend time with my husband I love to

Spend time with my children these are the things that do make me really really really really happy so I got to attend to it right and that means letting go some Things now that’s also requires a lot of time management like I really need to manage my time have an agend gender see what I can do when I can do it when I cannot do it let me know if perhaps you also have some tricks and

Tips for me as I priortize my own self care I’m learning to say no I’m saying no when it’s when it’s not necessary it’s not everything I can do so some there are some calls I say no to someone was can you come and give this guest

Lecture I’m sorry can you can you handle this job for me no I can’t because I have a lot on my plate not that I don’t want to be supportive I’m supportive I’m kind I’m I’m thoughtful but I have to also think about myself yes self care is

Important If I Lose Myself what will I have to support the other people I’m not being selfish please I’m just taking care of myself I’ve got me selfcare activities I’ve been thinking of but I’ve have not done yet SP day oh my God I want day have a sp day but I

Love reading so I love to read books that are not in my academic field and are nice I also love movies so um quite recently my husband and I made committed efforts to just watch movies together and at first I used to feel guilty like I can get this done but now

I just enjoy it I watch it and enjoy and we talk about it at L and I’m like this person should have done that and that I’m like I’m happy so when I take my kids to school there is an opportunity to bike you know I love biking in the Netherlands biking

Is quite common but I walk and when I’m coming back I just enjoy each and I’m taking the habit of taking pictures and during my walks I take some pictures I used to want to record a video for my YouTube I also felt like I want to do a

Lot more fun because when I’m taking videos for YouTube I feel like I’m consciously doing it while this is my hobby I also want to explore other Hobbies so maybe some tips for you and some ideas for you if you want to do something else you know I dance

Sometimes I just listen to music and dance and my dance is not like perfect perfectly perfect is not that my dance is not that good but I just dance and AD myself in the mirror and I give myself some self affirmations I’m like girl you’re beautiful girl you got this girl

You can do this girl and I give myself [Laughter] F some few things if there are some support system some friends some family members some loved ones you enjoy spending time do that if it’s me seeking Professional Care please do if you need therapy please go for it don’t take things for granted use you have to protect yourself

To be able to support your loved ones to able to care for your loved ones please also reciprocate some support sometime we get a lot of support from people I don’t like when we are always at the receiving and right we also have to give support So re reciprocate that support

Maybe someone is helping you to be able to do selfcare to be able to have time for yourself reciprocate that support that person or other people can also take care of themselves yes I can go on and on but I would want to make this video quite short so that you can watch

And watch everything give yourself positive affirmation you got this God got you you you will do fine you’ll be well you’ll be great you will achieve your dreams it’s possible but in all that if you need extra help please seek that help take care of yourself until the next video Bye