The Self-Care Handbook: A Practical Guide to Integrating Self-Care Into Everyday Life to Improve Wellbeing

by Gill Hasson

The Self-Care Handbook provides practical and achievable tactics to incorporate self-care into your everyday life. Best Selling author Gill Hasson shows you how to take responsibility for your own happiness, and fulfil you psychological, emotional, physical and social needs, while overcoming stress and negativity. Learn how to change your life for the better through eating healthily, regular exercise and activity, and having meaning and purpose. The Self-Care Handbook will show you:


How to achieve a work-life balance To connect with others and manage your relationships To be kind to yourself To manage stress To have resilience, bounce back from adversity How positive thinking will give you an optimistic outlook

Genres: Self Help, Health, Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

Published December 31, 2019

About the author

Gill Hasson is the author of Mindfulness: Be mindful. Live in the moment works with people from diverse backgrounds and situations. Her key motivation is her belief in the ability of people to positively change their way of thinking - about life, other people, and themselves.

She is a freelance journalist and writes articles on personal development and relationships for a variety of magazines, including Psychologies and Take A Break, and for a number of websites.

As well as delivering adult education courses in personal development, she is an associate tutor for the University of Sussex where she teaches career and personal development and academic study skills. She delivers training in child and adolescent development to preschool, youth and social workers, teachers and parents.

Reviews

[studyinspomood · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Bec · Rating 3 out of 5]

The problem with these books is that the advice is the same and rather generic, take example the chapter on work, while yes it's nice to put boundaries in place many corporations don't really care about your boundaries they have their own expectations. Overall whoever some helpful bits if you pick out what you need

[Jeffrey Ning · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gill Hasson delivers her intended objectives of the book: taking care of oneself to become happier, healthier and fulfilling one’s life.

Did not expect to read the book initially and glad I did so. Her succinct anecdotes and action list plus excellent quotes, where applicable are spot on to drive her points into your mind, body, and soul.

Truly a self-care handbook and excellent choice to keep one for your personal library. It may also inspire you to carry out personal projects.

[Agatoni · Rating 4 out of 5]

— insightful, even-toned and to the point

— divided into care for your i) mind ii) body iii) the good times and bad times

— can seem obvious but wisdom tends to go that way

would recommend

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really 3.5

[ポピ · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

Didn't like the layout of the book but has some good recommendations, especially at the end there's a lot of books and websites you can look at

[Nightingale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really useful book - lots of helpful advice, external resources. Very UK centric, but applicable elsewhere too.

[Susan Hidde · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super quick read. Not really new information but helped reinforce best practices of self care we all need to incorporate

[Charlie Bradford · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved how she acknowledged that some people can't exercise as a non disabled person can.

[V · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good self care framework definitely a handbook. It's straight forward.

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not like this book. While I'm sure it was written with 'good' intentions it didn't come across well. The tone of the book was super patronising. Though I did listen to the audio version so not sure if that was down to the book itself or the narrator or a combo of the two. However, one thing it differently did do was super simplify extremely complicated issues. This was not a good thing as a lot of the challenge and complexity was lost was as a result. It also lead to a large undertone of shame and that the reader was lacking for not being able to do things. It also implies that self care is easy. To conclude speaking as someone with mental illness this book is extremely damaging. I would not recommend.