Music for Recovery

The Self Care Song
Therapeutic Activities Dept: Music for Recovery TU1
Summit Oaks – Nov 14, 2019

Prompts:
1. Self care is hard because…
2. One self care action that helps me is...

Hook:
Self-care takes energy
Self-care takes time
I need to take a breath
And focus my mind

It’s hard to pay attention to myself
‘Cause I’m paying attention to everybody else
I feel better when I meditate alone
In the privacy of my own home

Obligations and lack of energy
Make it hard to focus and care for me
But when I connect with people who care
I know I have the strength to make it there

Meetings and mediation
Yoga and preparation
If I never put myself first
Things will always just get worse

I need self respect to let myself do it
Put it forward and push myself through it

Something that makes me feel better
Is to take the time
To put myself together and quiet my mind


Don’t give up it’s not the end
Just because you have a friend
Don’t give up don’t pretend
You should know you have a friend
Don’t give up it’s not the end
We just started all over again
Don’t give up and find
A friend to help you start again
Don’t give up it’s not the end
Just because you have a friend
Don’t give up don’t pretend
You must believe to start again
To trust yourself and you will find your friend
And we will make it to the end
And you should know you have a friend