Event: Making Self-Care a Priority in My Life | Online Event |
Speaker: Margaret Ong
Date: 9 MAY Thu
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm *GMT + 8hrs
VENUE: ALBY Events via online ZOOM Video
Fee: $11 or
$28 (includes Margaret's book ONE HUSBAND TWO MEN worth $18.40+post)
$29 (includes Margaret's book STILL MY HUSBAND worth $20.20+post)
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Self-Care is defined simply as care for oneself. It means paying attention to and giving your physical, emotional, mental and relational care what it needs - find a balance! We can get so drained from merely living our day-to-day life. Our mentality of always-on-the-go and keeping up with the Joneses , over-emphasizing on productivity have made us lose sight that a large part of what it means to be human is to do things like rest, play, eat and pray and not feel guilty about making time for it!
Like it or not, we were created with bodies that need. We can cheat our bodies for a time (some people longer than others), but eventually our needs will win out and at these times our body actually forces us to rest: maybe a headache or migraine, major or minor illness, sleeping half the day and missing work, or whatever signs of distress or life crisis.
It can be easy to become imbalanced, being too self-centred or too self-sacrificing. Although self-care is a popular movement, choosing a balance between self-care and loving others will continue to feel countercultural for a long time.
Self-care techniques can be learned. But first you have to believe that they are important, otherwise you will just exhaust yourself fighting your own guilt about taking a little time to care for yourself.About the speaker
Margaret Ong had a very successful career in the IT industry. All these have to give way when she chose to be the primary caregiver to her husband who was diagnosed with schizophrenia 14 years ago.
She and her family, two young boys then, were very traumatized by this sudden mishap. It took them quite some time to finally come to terms with his condition and what he was experiencing.
Author of the two books, “One Husband, Two Men” and “Still My Husband”, Margaret shared her journey as a wife of a man who suffered from schizophrenia. This difficult journey did not bring her down, instead, she grew stronger and more spiritual. With a bigger heart and wanting to create awareness of mental health and caregiving, she volunteers to be a caregiver leader and a trainer with two local NGOs; Caregivers Alliance and Caring For Life. She also takes on opportunities to go on air, shows, interviews, and talks to create more awareness and to remove the stigma on mental illnesses.