13 Tips for Sexual Assault Survivors’ Self-care 

I hope you are safe and well. 

As a sexual assault survivor, I know how important self-care is. My intention is to provide you with a self-care routine so you can reconnect to yourself. 

1. Get yourself to a safe place. 
   1. Click here for help. 
2. Consider what you currently do for self-care. Think about it and write it down. 
   1. Click here for why self-care is so important.
3. Begin journaling every day. Journaling will help you hear yourself. (If you are worried about someone reading it, destroy it after writing it, but make sure you read it first.) 
   1. Click here for some quick exercises.
   2. Click here for more about journaling. 
4. Listen to brainwave activation music. 
   1. Click here for my favorite.  
5. Meditate. It doesn’t have to be long. 
   1. Click here for a quick exercise. 
   2. Click here for more meditation tips. 
6. Schedule your days. 
   1. Click here for why it’s important. 
7. Set small goals. 
   1. Click here for tips on setting and achieving goals.  
8. Drink a lot of water. Double what you currently drink.
9. Take Epsom salt baths. 
10. Move your body. 
11. Walk outside alone, preferably in nature.
12. Let yourself cry. 
13. When you are able, go to:
    1. occupational therapy,
    2. some form of energy healing (like acupuncture or reiki) and
    3. psychotherapy.

I wish you light and love along your journey. You are not alone. You’ve got this. 

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