{"id":13936,"date":"2022-12-05T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/how-are-you-recharging-your-social-battery\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:26:26","slug":"how-are-you-recharging-your-social-battery","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/how-are-you-recharging-your-social-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"How are you recharging your social battery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As human beings, we need regular connection with others to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Social self-care consists of activities that nurtures and deepens the relationships with people in your life. When life gets busy, we often tend to disconnect from the world.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is okay to say \u201cno\u201d sometimes, it\u2019s important to make time for social interaction to re-energize your wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example, you can:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call a trusted friend or family member and talk things out.<\/li>\n<li>Choose who you spend your time with today. Spend time with people who are enthusiastic and positive.<\/li>\n<li>Converse positively with someone in customer service.<\/li>\n<li>Cuddle someone or something. Don&#8217;t be afraid to ask for it!<\/li>\n<li>Dress your pet in a silly costume and show them around to make others smile.<\/li>\n<li>Tell someone near you what you appreciate or like about them.<\/li>\n<li>Host a family movie night over the weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Brunch with friends!<\/li>\n<li>Make cookies or brownies and give them away to a neighbour, family member, friend, or even strangers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have the ability to, check in on your friends as well. You never know who might need the support during this time.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to speak to someone, you can always get in touch with Curtin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/students.curtin.edu.au\/personal-support\/counselling-guidance\/wellbeing\/\">Student Wellbeing Advisory Service<\/a> for free and confidential support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to forget that wellbeing and social interaction go hand in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"featured_media":20437,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[149],"class_list":["post-13936","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-wellbeing"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Self-care-4.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Nikita","last_name":"Osckar","display_name":"Nikita Osckar"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 01:12:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/13936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}