Self Care Plan
Tokunbo Fashanu
HR – 4170-997 Introduction to Counseling
Professor Katie Allen
Friday, October 24, 2014
Tokunbo Fashanu Self-Care Plan
My self-care issue is balancing schoolwork with work, personal life and extra curricular activities. As a junior I have a lot of schoolwork, meaning a lot of assignments, projects, papers, readings and so on due every week. I am also looking for internships before I graduate that will help me get into a good Law school after I graduate, in addition to taking LSAT lessons. I am in a number of school organizations and clubs such as the pre-law club, sociology-criminology club and African Student Organization in which I am the secretary. With all this I still manage to have an on-campus job. To be honest, I have done a good job joggling my responsibilities this semester, but I have been extremely bad in taking care of my health. At the beginning of the semester, I was consistent in going to the gym, eating healthy and keeping in touch with my family. However, that has extremely depreciated. I do not go the gym anymore, I really don’t care what I eat, plus I eat at strange times due to my horrible sleeping schedule. I hardly call my parents or siblings; I just send them text messages a couple times a week to keep in touch or they call me. Also, as the secretary of the African Student Association, I have to help organize our bi-weekly meetings and executive meetings, I have to help organize the events we have and so on. I also have to balance my friends into this mess of an equation. I try to hangout with them at any free time I have, so as not to be seen as a bad friend.
Though this semester is one of the rare semesters where I actually like all my classes and Professors, I can see that the workload is causing stress. My roommate, who is a senior petroleum engineer had to go to the hospital last month due to sleep deprivation. She was extremely stressed out and was malnourished, after seeing how the stress of school affected her I
HR – 4170-997 Introduction to Counseling
Professor Katie Allen
Friday, October 24, 2014
Tokunbo Fashanu Self-Care Plan
My self-care issue is balancing schoolwork with work, personal life and extra curricular activities. As a junior I have a lot of schoolwork, meaning a lot of assignments, projects, papers, readings and so on due every week. I am also looking for internships before I graduate that will help me get into a good Law school after I graduate, in addition to taking LSAT lessons. I am in a number of school organizations and clubs such as the pre-law club, sociology-criminology club and African Student Organization in which I am the secretary. With all this I still manage to have an on-campus job. To be honest, I have done a good job joggling my responsibilities this semester, but I have been extremely bad in taking care of my health. At the beginning of the semester, I was consistent in going to the gym, eating healthy and keeping in touch with my family. However, that has extremely depreciated. I do not go the gym anymore, I really don’t care what I eat, plus I eat at strange times due to my horrible sleeping schedule. I hardly call my parents or siblings; I just send them text messages a couple times a week to keep in touch or they call me. Also, as the secretary of the African Student Association, I have to help organize our bi-weekly meetings and executive meetings, I have to help organize the events we have and so on. I also have to balance my friends into this mess of an equation. I try to hangout with them at any free time I have, so as not to be seen as a bad friend.
Though this semester is one of the rare semesters where I actually like all my classes and Professors, I can see that the workload is causing stress. My roommate, who is a senior petroleum engineer had to go to the hospital last month due to sleep deprivation. She was extremely stressed out and was malnourished, after seeing how the stress of school affected her I