How to View Your Weekly Self-Care Patterns

Priya, a 41-year-old marketing director, was laid off after fifteen years at the same company. She upgraded to Plus within two weeks of downloading Grief Companion because she wanted the data. She tracks everything — sleep, movement, nutrition, social connection — and she reviews the weekly summary every Sunday evening the way she used to review her week's metrics at work. The difference is that this data is about her, and the app never tells her she performed poorly.

After at least seven days of self-care tracking, your weekly summary becomes available. It shows what you tracked, surfaces gentle observations, and connects your self-care habits to your emotional check-in data when patterns are strong enough to mention.

Steps

1. Open the self-care section and view your weekly summary

From your dashboard, tap the self-care card. If you've tracked for at least a week, the card shows a Weekly Summary button at the bottom. Tap it to open the full summary.

You can also reach past weeks' summaries from within the summary view by tapping Past Weeks and selecting any previous week.

2. See a gentle pattern insight

At the top of the weekly summary, you'll see one or two observation cards — short, specific observations about your week. These are not judgments. They are pattern-detections:

"You tend to feel lighter on days you got outside."

"Movement and Social Connection often happen on the same days for you."

"This was a heavy week for nutrition and sleep. That's common during difficult periods."

These insights appear only when the data is clear enough to be worth saying. If your week was too mixed or you didn't track enough categories, the summary shows your raw data without commentary.

3. Review the correlation between self-care and emotional check-in data

Below the insight card, the weekly summary shows a side-by-side comparison: your self-care category tracking on the left, your daily emotional check-in results on the right, aligned by day of the week.

You might notice that the days you marked yourself as "Lighter" or "Present" on the emotional scale were also days when you tracked two or more self-care categories as "Did." Or the opposite — that your self-care doesn't seem to correlate with your mood at all yet. Both are useful observations.

This view does not imply causation. The app does not say "sleep causes better days." It shows you what happened side by side and lets you draw your own conclusions.

4. Notice trends over the past month

Tap View Monthly Trends to see a month-level view. This shows each week as a summary bar — a quick sense of whether the overall pattern shifted month over month.

For example, you might see that your first two weeks had heavy "Didn't" marks across most categories, but the most recent week has more "Did" and "Partial" marks. Or you might see the opposite — a hard stretch after a period of stability. Both are normal.

5. No judgmental language about missed categories

Anywhere in the weekly summary, categories you consistently marked as "Didn't" are shown as neutral data. The app does not say "you failed to get movement this week" or "only 2 of 7 days for sleep — try harder." The summary is descriptive, not prescriptive.

If you want to change your tracking habits based on what you see, that decision is yours. The app will not suggest it.

What to Expect

Weekly summaries are stored permanently and don't expire. You can view summaries from any week you've tracked, as far back as your first week of use.

The correlation insights between self-care and emotional check-in data become more reliable over time as more data accumulates. In your first few weeks, the observations may be absent or tentative. After two to three months of consistent tracking, the patterns are usually more clearly defined.

You can export your self-care and check-in data from Settings → Data Export if you want to do your own analysis or share the data with a therapist.

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Weekly self-care pattern summaries with correlation insights are available on all plan tiers, including Free.