As a first year, it\u2019s easy to get wrapped up in finding your niche, making friends, and practically starting an whole new life. This activity allowed me to take a step back and take a breather. I normally don\u2019t directly do \u201cself-care\u201d like face-masks and mani-pedis or something. But to decompress for a bit, I did the following:<\/p>\n
Talked to family and best friend. As stated, it\u2019s easy to get wrapped up in new friends and focuss on trying to find \u201cyour people\u201d here. Taking just a few minutes to check up on \u201cmy people\u201d back home reminded me of my roots while also significantly boosting my mood. For the duration of the talks, I forgot about the whirlwind of UR around me and got to decompress.<\/p>\n
Grey\u2019s Anatomy: I think I\u2019ve watched that show more times that I\u2019d like to admit but it\u2019s such a staple. Yeah it\u2019s cheesy and yeah it\u2019s basic but I always find myself going back to it. Like any other show, it allowed me to relax and forget about everything else.<\/p>\n
Nap: Just a necessity to rejuvenate and ~conquer~ the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (pictures to come)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a first year, it\u2019s easy to get wrapped up in finding your niche, making friends, and practically starting an whole new life. This activity allowed me to take a step back and take a breather. I normally don\u2019t directly do \u201cself-care\u201d like face-masks and mani-pedis or something. But to decompress for a bit, I … Continue reading Self-care :’)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[112576],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/biancacareymediajournals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}