Self Care Whose Responsibility

It is your responsibility to look after yourself, yet work can potentially have a big impact on you so where is the line? If you are continually expected to work long hours, sit at a desk for long periods of time or work in one of the helping professions where there are emotional pressures, what is your role and what is the role of your workplace in self care?



It is a tricky question and I don’t think there is a one size fits all answer. There are so many factors both at work and away from work that can have an impact on your wellbeing. This short article aims for bring some of these factors into your awareness and hopefully to think about how you can improve your wellbeing and the wellbeing or your workplace.

Individual factors that impact on wellbeing

Factors that you as an individual can have a positive influence on that will improve your wellbeing include:

Workplace factors that impact on wellbeing

Factors that workplaces can have appositive influence on to improve the wellbeing of staff as well as the organisation include:

Those other things that impact on an individual’s wellbeing

Sometimes it can be that you do a great job of looking after yourself and are part of a fun and understanding workplace yet you end up wondering “how did I get here?”

There are many events that you or your workplace do not have control over, or only some control over that can have a big impact on your wellbeing, some of these include:

Just one thing

Individual wellbeing can impact on your quality of life as well as how you perform at work. Sometimes the line is blurry at whose responsibility individual wellbeing is and it is an important conversation that individuals and organisations need to be having.

Go back and look at the list above and choose just one area that you can do something in today and moving forward that will improve your wellbeing and / or the wellbeing of the individuals at your workplace.

You could: get off one stop earlier and walk to work; take the bike instead; eat more vegies; practice mindfulness; ask yourself and others more often “are you OK?”....... Go on just one thing.

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