Your well-being plan

Even if you now know how to take care of your health, it doesn’t mean you will. That’s natural, knowing doesn’t mean doing. New habits form slowly.

It’s worth to make a plan for how you want to take care of yourself, so that it translates positively into your studies. Print out and fill in your well-being plan.

Tips

• Start with just one new thing and gradually add more, don’t try to change your life from scratch. Even small changes are meaningful and can be the driving force behind bigger ones. If you load yourself up with too much in the beginning, you’ll probably set yourself up for failure, and that may discourage you.

• Everyone is unique, so choose the tips that fit you.

• It’s clear that sometimes you’ll fail to stick to the plan, that’s completely normal. Just try again the next day and don’t criticize yourself unnecessarily.

• New habits are easier to stick to when you have a commitment to your friends or do things together. Tell them about your plan and share your successes together.

If you already know that you need some kind of support with your studies or are more prone to mental health problems because of your illness, contact the ELSA Support Centre at CTU now and not when it might be too late.