CHECK IN WITH YOU
When life is busy, it is easy to become very good at noticing everyone else's needs while losing track of your own. Check In With You is a practical Maggie's Coaching resource designed to bring your attention back to your body, emotions, capacity and needs before pressure becomes overwhelm.
Inside the full guide, readers learn a simple pause-and-notice check-in that explores body sensations, emotions, thoughts, capacity and the next helpful action. The resource explains why capacity naturally changes from day to day and offers a practical 0-10 capacity scale to help people respond more realistically to what they have available.
The PDF explores physical, sensory, emotional, relational, practical and meaning-based needs. It includes a dedicated neurodivergent section covering interoception, masking, executive-function demands, sensory overload, external prompts, body doubling and why concrete questions can sometimes be more useful than simply asking, 'Are you okay?'
There is also guidance on checking in before saying yes, using boundaries to protect wellbeing, noticing how different relationships affect your nervous system, and remembering to notice what is going well rather than turning every self-check-in into a search for problems.
Practical pages include a personal check-in menu, daily reflection questions, weekly pattern spotting and a 'this week' planning exercise. The guide also explains when repeated check-ins may indicate that something needs professional or medical support.
The final section contains a fuller personal message from Maggie, a Carl Rogers person-centred perspective and quotation, recommended books, further support routes, clinical notes and references.
The central message is that you are allowed to be part of the equation. You do not have to wait until you are completely depleted before your needs deserve attention.
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Until next time, give yourself space to breathe.
