Self-care
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Tips to Getting in Shape and Losing Weight
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Parent Health Advice, Self-care
Getting a workout in can be tough. Especially if you are a working parent, there never feels like enough time in a day to get it all done. Here, working parents share how they manage to squeeze in exercise and get back in shape.
Wanna lose some baby weight? Be sure to read these PSP member post-partum specific fitness tips here.
How to find time for self-care and exercise, including tips from a parent AND personal trainer
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Self-care, Parent Health Advice
"Are you good at fitting in self-care?" asks a PSP Member. They go on to write, "I really want right now is to return to regular exercise but I find the exhaustion and the lack of time hard to negotiate. Do you have any tips? How do you get your hands free when your kid literally always wants to be holding your hand?"
Here are PSP member replies...
Parental Burnout
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- Parent Category: Working Parents
- Category: Work/Life Balance Resources, Working Parents, Work Management Advice, Self-care
A Park Slope Parent Member summarizes how to avoid "parental burnout."
Tips for Leaving Work Stresses at Work
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- Parent Category: Working Parents
- Category: Work/Life Balance Tips, Mental Health, Self-care
Do you bring the anxiety of work home with you? Sometimes it feels like it’s impossible to let go of job related stress. Here are tips parents have shared about how they let go of work-related negativity.
How to Handle Holiday Stress
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- Parent Category: Holidays and Special Events
- Category: Christmas, General Parenting Advice, Mental Health, Self-care
Christmas can bring more than presents, cookies and Santa Claus. With it can come stress, worry and anxiousness. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the Holiday buzz and feel like yourself spinning out of control.
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