Staying well regulated and prioritizing self care often starts with being able to identify your triggers and knowing what coping strategies and tools work best for you.
If you can't do either, then your battery might run out, leaving you feeling completely burnt out.
So that's where this free self care battery printable comes in. You can use it to list out the things that drain your energy, as well as the things that help you recharge and feel energized.
Then hopefully you can manage your energy levels accordingly, stay well regulated, and avoid burnout.
About the Free Self Care Battery Printable
This self care battery printable is all about identifying the things that drain your energy and the things that help recharge your battery. In other words, it's about identifying your triggers and your coping strategies, but with a fun battery theme.
I know that battery levels and even percentages can be a special interest for some hyperlexic learners so this printable really leans into those interests.
You can use these self care batteries to help monitor your energy levels and plan the activities and events you participate in accordingly. That way you can stay well regulated and avoid feeling burnt out.
For instance, if you know that birthday parties are going to spend 50% of your battery, then you might want to plan more rest and self care activities afterwards to recharge your battery. Or maybe you plan to do absolutely nothing else that day to make sure you have enough energy to get through the party.
Before you download the printable, let's take a look at some ways you might want to use these self care batteries.
Suggestions for How to Use These Self Care Batteries
There are many different ways you can use these self care batteries, but here are a few suggestions. Feel free to get creative though and come up with your own ideas.
- Write down different activities, events, or things that drain or recharge your battery or energy levels.
- Write a list of things that drain or recharge your battery and include a percentage for how much of your battery that activity, event, or thing drains or recharges you.
- Write a list of things that drain or recharge your battery and how long you can engage in those activities before you are fully drained or recharged.
- Color a portion of the battery to represent how much an activity drains or recharges you and then write the activity, event, or thing in that colored portion. Repeat with different colors for different things.
- Draw pictures of the things that drain or recharge your battery.
- Laminate the blank batteries so they are reusable.
- Laminate them after filling them in and hang them up as posters so you can monitor your energy levels and remind yourself to use your favorite coping strategies and tools.
Download the Self Care Battery Printable
This printable is five pages total. There is a page with some suggestions for how to use the printable (the same as listed above), as well as four batteries to write or draw on. Some have lines to write on and others are blank.
To get your copy of the self care battery printable, click the link below:
>> Click here to download the free printable
