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📖 Definition of self-care
"A self-initiated, deliberate act to establish and maintain physical, mental and emotional health"
📖 I won't tell you to stop working, but I can try to help you not burn out
A Medium article by Jennifer Parsons about why self-care is a problem in the tech industry.
🌟 selfcare.tech
Open-source repository full of resources, sorted by category, targeted specifically at developers and others working in tech. They also have their own Twitter bot.
🛠 You Feel Like Shit
A check-in tool that asks a series of looping questions to discover and track which areas of self-care you should focus on.
🛠 Aloe Bud iOS App
A self-care companion app where you can build out your own dashboard - balancing concrete actions, self-reflection and gentle reminders.
🛠 Mental Health Resources
List of help line numbers and other general resources for addressing mental health emergencies.
🛠 Programming Your Hands
Exercises you can do at your desk that focus on a developer's tool of choice - hands.
🛠 burnout.io
A resource that reads like software docs by breaking down issues and providing actionable steps for burnout prevention and recovery.
🌈 A guide to self-care twitter bots
List of Twitter bots devoted to self-care, written by yours truly. For each bot, I cover its background, style, tweet frequency and favorite topics.
Some example bots:
🤖 @tinycarebot
🤖 @DOTHINGSBOT
🤖 @check_o_tron
🤖 @everydaycarebot
🤖 @selfcare_bot
🤖 @yayfrens
If you're feeling down, send a 🌹 to @aloebud
🍋 100 Days of Healthing
A challenge that mimics the concept of 100 days of coding, except you commit to spending 1 hour per day on your physical, mental or emotional health for 100 days.
🍋 LemondAid
Active, supportive community for women where you can unload your struggles and share successes anonymously.
🍋 CodeNewbie
The CodeNewbie slack has a channel dedicated to mental health where you can discuss wellness in the workplace.
🎤 AnxietyTech
A conference for learning how to advocate for mental health at work and how technology can be better designed to support mental health.
🎤 You Got This
A conference for juniors covering around what's needed for a happy, healthy work life.
🏠 Work from home on therapy days (idea from Bryan Hughes)
🤳 Bathroom mirror selfies at work
🚿 Long showers (colder showers for relieving anxiety and stress, warmer for relaxing muscles)
🍴 Eating lunch alone
📲 Turning off badge alerts on my phone
💖 What have I done today that feels nourishing, supportive and inspiring for my well-being?