Sacred Self-Care Rule of Life Resources
Helpful resources for creating and using your personalized self-care plan
The resources here are best used together with the book, Sacred Self-Care. There are pdf versions of worksheets that appear in the book’s appendix, but also a few extra resources.
Sacred Self-Care Inventory
This is the starting point for creating your Sacred Self-Care Rule of Life. Use this fillable pdf to assess and reflect upon your current self-care practices in five areas: spiritual, physical, emotional, mental, and relational. This will help spark your imagination about practices that you might want to add to your self-care repertoire.
Goals & Growing Edges Worksheet
This fillable pdf helps you to clarify your goals and intentions for your Rule of Life. You’ll identify your strengths and growing edges. As you name your goals, keep them simple, aiming for challenging but doable. Sometimes it’s enough to aim for consistency in your current practices.
Sacred Self-Care Rule of Life Planning Worksheet
After identifying your goals, use this worksheet (another fillable pdf) to identify each element of your Rule of Life. In other words, what you’ll do in each area (i.e., spiritual, physical, emotional, mental, relational) and how often you hope to do it (e.g., daily, weekly, annually).
Sample Poster Template
The last step of creating your Self-Care Rule of Life is to make it visible. Each time I revise my Rule of Life, I create a poster. I usually print 2-3 copies of my poster and put it in various places as reminders: in my planner, on my office bulletin board, beside the vanity mirror in my bedroom.
Here’s a Canva template that you can use to develop your own variation on the poster below. Just replace the text with your own. You can also change the colors, fonts, and pictures. You’ll need to create a Canva user account (free) if you don’ t already have one.
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This is so helpful and greatly appreciated! So many “self-care” resources are so overwhelming that they end up feeling more stressful than helpful. This feels so manageable.
I'm always up for a renewal, taking a good look at my self-care plan. So, I scrolled and stopped at that beautiful Rule of Life you created. Thank you for the challenge, 52 books a year. As many books as I buy, this number causes me to pause and ask myself, "Are you reading enough books?" "Are you slowing down enough to read a book?" Thank you, hope to see you at the AAR/SBL conference in Boston this weekend.