Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental Mess.

In today's podcast, I'm going to be talking about something that I think you'll find really interesting,

and that is how to make sure that your self-care doesn't morph into a bad habit.

As you all know, self-care is like so used, it's such a term for everything at the moment it comes up

everywhere everyone keeps talking about self-care self-care it's kind of like

boundaries self-care and boundaries you know it's coming up all the time so so I mean self-care is very important don't get

me wrong I talk about it all the time too and hopefully in a way that's

helpful to you but sometimes self-care can morph into becoming a bad habit. So here are three tips to help you make sure

that your self-care routine isn't morphing into a bad habit and then it's definitely not serving the purpose. But before we begin I want to remind you about my

latest book how to help your child clean up their mental mess which is for parents

parents teachers caregivers grandparents uncles and aunts,

this is to help two to ten-year-olds manage their mental health.

And as we know in today's age,

wow, I mean, it's like in any age,

it's hard to manage your mental health.

But imagine teaching a child as young as two and three already, which is the age that I taught this to my

youngest patients and my own four children. Imagine knowing how to manage your mental health from the age of two and three,

and that's what this book will help you do, how to deal with the challenges of life.

When a child doesn't have the mental skills to be able to understand what they're exposed to. It really does affect

their mental health and that can as we know early childhood experiences affect

adulthood to make it easier I created a little character called Brainy Cartoon

Character that helps a child understand the journey of mental health and we've made a little

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