Mya's Balance

Mya’s balance of activities and physical activities relies heavily on self-care, spending more time engaged in passive leisure with a little socializing on the telephone with family occasionally. Her activity revolves around self-care, illness management, church and trying to keep engaged with family. She may be good at caring for her physical care needs in the way of hygiene; her social needs at unmet as she spends a lot of her time alone. Mya also spends a lot of time at home, ruminating on her bed which gives her little structure and unhealthy routines. This can lead to poor sleep hygiene, if it is not already effecting her sleep (Canadian Sleep Society, 2004). Mya’s only structure and routine comes from church and health care attendance.
Mya primary satisfaction currently comes from church and talking to her family on the telephone. She finds it hard to engage socially,
2010). Mya spends a lot of time in self-care, passive leisure and some resting. She may have some productivity if she engages in home maintenance (resource 2.2). Interpretation of engagement levels: Mya has some engagement, however most is passive leisure. Helping her to find ways where she can increase passive to more active leisure will increase her engagement in what she already does. Mya has expressed feeling of needing to be more productive and enjoys her church attendance, maybe using these tools to help her to be more actively engaged such as volunteering through her church or finding English classes for her to attend. Action over Inertia offers suggestions that are designed to promote empowerment through small, easily accomplished micro-activity changes (Krupa, 2010). Our activity plan should also address the fact that she is not eating well. Perhaps there is a program offered in a group setting that teaches good nutrition habits with the added benefit of social