Begin the Challenge

Look After Yourself – Mind & Body

Contents

Introduction & Instructions

Lesson 1 – Take The Quiz

Lesson 2 – Positivity

Lesson 3 – Self Esteem

Lesson 4 – Stress & Anxiety

Lesson 5 – Diet & Exercise

Lesson 6 – Assertiveness

Lesson 7 – Indulge Yourself

Lesson 8 – Communication

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the first of our ‘30 Day Fun Family Challenges’

This first challenge is to introduce you gently to the challenges to come!

Looking after a family is a full time job, but you need to look after yourself as well, and then you will be much better equipped to look after others.

You need to prepare yourself mentally and physically for family challenges, because many, many problems can be more easily overcome if we have the correct mental attitude and we love ourselves. This in turn allows us to love and understand others and gives us the mental strength to succeed in anything that life throws our way.

Looking after yourself is vitally important if you are to have the energy you need to look after a baby, an older child, a partner, a home and maybe a job outside the home too!

This challenge can be useful to everyone, but I particularly wanted to mention you new Moms out there.

In the days after the birth our emotions and hormones are in a turmoil. Whilst one Mom may feel elated and on top of the world, for some it is something of an anti-climax.

You do need to know that these feelings are all perfectly normal, and you may swing from one extreme to the other.

When the initial phone calls, visitors and well wishers have died down, you may feel flat and let down. You are probably physically uncomfortable, exhausted, and overwhelmed with the enormity of what you are facing. Mood swings during these early days are to be expected, as are tears and feeling that you simply cannot cope. These feelings are known as ‘the baby blues’.

When you bring your baby home, you will feel a bit scared. It will help if you can have someone with you for the first few days or so. The sheer feeling of total responsibility can feel overwhelming at first but you will gain confidence.

You will be extremely tired. Try to encourage your visitors to make themselves useful and mind the baby while you take a nap, do some simple household tasks, or even bring along a meal.

Gradually you will be getting to know your baby, but you simply must take care of yourself if you are to make a good job of caring for your baby properly.

Even moms whose babies are older (even up to 2 or even 3 years+) must make efforts to look after themselves.

No matter the age of your baby, take breaks if you can.

What is most important is that you DO NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT. It is as necessary to your physical and mental well being as eating and breathing.

REALLY!

INSTRUCTIONS

So first of all let’s tell you the ‘Rules’

All the ‘Family Fun Challenges are totally FREE to join.

You simply go to http://www.yourchildrensfirst.com. All the lessons for this first challenge are right there in the sidebar at the right.

The only thing I ask of you is that you post to the forum at LEAST once per week to share your progress through each challenge.

To access the FUN FAMILY CHALLENGE FORUM go to http://www.yourchildrensfirst.com/forum. That link should take you straight to the forum page.  If it doesn’t it will take you to the home page of my blog, so you will simply need to click on the ‘forum’ tab at the top of the screen.  You will need to register, introduce yourself and then you will be able to make your posts.

I am really looking forward to getting to know you all.

The forum will help you to share your problems, your triumphs and your general thoughts with our group of like minded people, who are in exactly the same position as you are.

You can begin your challenge at any time – I call them my ‘30 Day Challenges’ because it helps to add to the fun – we have a start date and an end date – and it makes it easier to compare how you are getting along with other members of the forum. Also it gives more of an incentive to know how much you can really achieve in just 30 days!

My mission is to help at least 1000 people by the end of the year. So please do join the forum and keep talking!

Read more about your GOLD MEMBERSHIP here:- http://yourchildrensfirst.com/gold-upgrade

You may upgrade to ‘GOLD CHALLENGE MEMBERSHIP’ status at any time throughout the challenges.

The cost for your upgrade is $19.

UPGRADE HERE!

So…….. lets get going shall we?

WE CAN DO THIS!

TOGETHER!