What Else Was Going On

A Healthy New Me Self-Reflection Toolkit

Your habits don't happen in isolation. Your life matters, too.

Have you ever looked at a day when things didn't go as planned and wondered why you couldn't just do what you intended?

Perhaps you were exhausted after a poor night's sleep. Work was stressful. Home life was demanding. You'd spent all day looking after other people, had no time to yourself or were dealing with more than anyone else could see.

It's easy to focus on the behaviour itself without considering everything happening around it.

What Else Was Going On? helps you widen the lens.

This practical self-reflection toolkit encourages you to explore the circumstances, pressures and competing demands that may influence your habits, feelings and choices.

Rather than treating every difficult day as a personal failure, you'll have the opportunity to consider the bigger picture and identify what you might need to feel better supported.

This toolkit invites you to reflect on:

• What's happening at home, at work and in your everyday life.
• How sleep, rest, movement and stress might be affecting you.
• The influence of relationships, responsibilities and the people around you.
• Whether you've had enough time, space and opportunity to meet your own needs.
• What might be making certain habits easier or harder at the moment.
• What you could change, plan for or approach differently in the future.

This isn't about making excuses or suggesting that everything is within your control. It's about understanding the context in which your choices happen.

When you recognise what is influencing your behaviour, you can begin to look for realistic ways to support yourself rather than simply demanding more from yourself.

Before you judge the behaviour, consider the life surrounding it.

Created by Healthy New Me — helping women thrive through change.