Self-Care Check

It’s easy to lose track of yourself when you’re busy, under pressure or feeling overwhelmed. The Self-Care Check allows you to compare your daily actions and habits to the things we know can protect our mental health.

It’s free, anonymous, and takes only a few minutes. Ready?

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What is the Self-Care Check?

Sometimes you might know you’re not taking care of yourself as well as you’d like, but it’s hard to pinpoint what you really need.

The Self-Care Check is a quick and simple self-assessment tool designed to give you clarity and confidence in how to strengthen your wellbeing.

In just a few minutes, you’ll see how you’re doing across four self-care action areas: Lifestyle, Mindset, Connection, and Direction. You’ll then get personalised tips to help you keep building your mental wellbeing through simple self-care ideas and practices.

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Lifestyle - How well my daily habits look after me

Habits that support your overall health (nutrition, sleep, physical activity, work-life balance).

Mindset – How helpful my thoughts are

Your self-talk and how you interpret situations in healthy, balanced ways that support your personal growth.

Connection - How supported and connected I feel

The strength of the relationships you have with others, your community, nature and culture.

Direction – How meaningful my days are

Your sense of purpose and direction, goals, and contribution to your community.

How it works: explore the areas that shape your wellbeing

Answer a few questions – it only takes about 3-5 minutes
Get your scores for each action area
Receive tailored feedback based on your results
Apply insights to your daily life

This tool helps you to think about the areas you’re doing well in, and where you might improve how you’re looking after yourself. Your results will pinpoint which new actions might boost your mental wellbeing.

Understanding your scores

Your scores offer general guidance only, based on your own responses to how you’re looking after yourself in each area. They’re a snapshot of your current habits. As life changes, so will your scores.

The Self-Care Check is not a clinical tool, but a simple way to help you pause and reflect about how you might be able to better support your mental wellbeing. If using this tool brings up any difficult thoughts or feelings, or you’d like support for your mental health, we encourage you to reach out for help.

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Learn how to use this tool with your team

Our tailored training and advisory solutions help organisations meet WHS obligations, reduce risk and build a mentally healthy workplace.

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Your privacy is important to us

Beyond Blue’s Self-Care Check is completely anonymous. We don’t ask for your contact details, and we don’t use any cookies that remember any answers you provide.

We record how many people use the tool. We also record the responses for each question, and the results pages displayed. This helps us review the tool’s accuracy and improve it over time.

For more information, please read our privacy policy.

Acknowledgements

This tool has been developed by mental health experts at Beyond Blue.

"I felt like I’d been believed for the first time... it was really refreshing to have that support from someone, especially an actual professional.

It was nice to finally feel like I wasn’t alone."

- Rachael, Beyond Blue Speaker

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