Table 2. Types and Examples of Activities to Maintain Physical Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Along with Common Maintenance Strategies.

Domain	Types of activities and maintenance strategies
Physical health	Adequate sleep was achieved through earlier bed times or combatting accumulated sleep debt on the weekend through “a sleep in” or nap.
	Nutritional needs were met when they allocated time for regular healthy meals, often through overlapping mealtimes with socializing and ensuring healthy ingredients were available.
	Meeting health needs included maintaining currency with health screenings and treatments by attending scheduled appointments with medical and allied health professionals.
	Formal exercise included group fitness classes, competitive sports and training sessions. Informal exercise was more common, and included deliberate walking or running and incidental exercise embedded in daily activities (for example pushing a pram was “a really good cardio-vascular workout”).
Mental health	Counseling was described as “like taking my vitamins… I do have a very fast paced life, I do have a stressful job, all that stuff and I just need it… to unload. And sometimes you just need someone to tell you that it’s okay.”
	Taking time away from other roles was achieved through following advice to “walk away for five minutes just to clear your head”, “close the door or just sit in your room”, retreat to a “tranquil” location or remember to “breathe.”
	Reflecting alone or with others reinforced feeling “I don’t think I'm alone, I think a lot of people are just like me”, facilitated problem solving by articulating barriers and potential solutions, and enabled acceptance of temporary challenges because they believed “this too shall pass, we’ll get through it.”
	Optimistic thinking involved seeing the opportunities and benefits of multiple role occupancy. Seeing the opportunities was exemplified with the literary reference “Pollyanna plays this Glad Game and it’s very good training … to think of your glass as being half full and not half empty” and the comment “aren’t we just lucky.” An example of seeing the benefits, or “that sense of dreaminess about why you do it”, in relation to her domestic responsibilities was “I love to be able to have that place where everyone knows it’s home and everyone comes together.” Other benefits of multiple role occupancy were role modeling positive behaviors, recognizing the value of intergenerational relationships, affording a better lifestyle and contributing to identity.
Wellbeing	Passive leisure activities included watching television, reading and playing computer games, for example “I get my time to me in the evening. I tend to have a good hour or so before bed to play my Nintendo or read my books or chat to my husband or whatever it might be.”
	Creative leisure hobbies comprised sewing for pleasure, playing piano and painting.
	Social leisure interests took place with friends or family, and included watching movies, attending book clubs and other “activities that I enjoy the most—like going to the beach with the family and unwinding.”
	Pampering as a form of leisure included hair appointments, facials, manicures, massages and foot soaks. Pampering activities were described as “my treat”, “it’s one of those things that I feel that I have to really do for me to maintain my sanity” and “it kept me balanced… It kept me being me… It kept me being a good everything.”