Self-care for bear alterhumans
For bears (mainly for brown bears and grizzlies, maybe may fit others aside from polar, it can be a future separate post, if you want)
Bears are quite easy to match food for. They eat foods such as fish, apples, pears, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins, dried fruit such as golden raisins, lettuce & salad greens, potatoes, cauliflower, beet root, kohlrabi, leek, fennel, grapes, melon, plums, bananas, peaches, tangerines, berries (particularly strawberries), nuts (especially walnuts), almond butter, honey, and mushrooms.
• Bears forage a lot, so go for walks often and patrol your territory.
• If you can, try gardening - growing various foods that bears eat (see above). The feeling of preparing your own food can bring species euphoria (and not only for bears, of course).
• Baking! While your baked goods are still warm, you can hide them (or ask someone to hide them) around your house, then try to find them using your nose. The aroma of baked goods is quite strong for a few minutes. Bears are able to detect food from 3-5 km away - why not try sniffing out a fresh cookie in your own house?
• Read or watch stories about forests, mountains, survival.
In hot weather bears love to chill in water. Get a forest-themed bath bomb or pine concentrates for baths. To prepare the concentrate should be about 1 kg of pine needles pour 7-8 liters of water, then boil for thirty minutes and leave to infuse for 10 hours.
The same goes for the room, use forest-themed essential oils.
Search for forest sounds/webcams on Youtube. Let them be your background noise.
Get lots of plants, real or fake.
Draw/print pictures of various animals that are your home's neighbors.
Grow out your nails (or get fake nails) - bears got huge claws! Or buy these rings - I recommend, I got these too and they're really cool.
Wear clothes in the color of your species - a universal advice, easy and nice.
Weightlifting; working out the neck, shoulders, traps, and forearms
There is also a literal Bear Crawl exercise (youtube link)
Stock up! In the fall, buy your favorite foods, snacks, tea, honey. Try new varieties. Maybe those foods will become more expensive in winter (who knows?), so you’ll have gotten them cheaper too!
Make a den: blankets, pillows, lamps with warm light, perhaps candles or aroma lamps.
Plan only necessary trips to the grocery store for short-shelf-life foods; spend the rest of the time in comfort. Bears don’t get up unnecessarily during the cold season.
Go to sleep early and sleep longer. Allow yourself more rest during the day, and move slowly and consciously.
What do you think of ideas I came up with for bears? Add your own tips in reblogs!
