In tough times, you want to support your family and friends. While a call or text can show you care, why not also send your love with a thoughtful gift that speaks to the heart? With the best get well gifts, you can share a spoonful of compassion, a basket of joy, or a box of healing greenery with your loved ones.
Our gift insights can help you discover the best ways to send a heartfelt message to your nearest and dearest when they aren’t feeling well. Lift their spirits, support them long distance, and send gifts and cards to remind them you’re here for and love them.
6 Thoughtful Get Well Soon Gifts
Personalise the get well gift so your person knows you chose it specifically for them. Liven up their day and help them find the strength to endure until they feel better with the best get well-soon gift ideas.
1. A gift basket of locally curated items
Who doesn’t love a personalised gift basket that says, “I’m thinking of you”? Locally curated items like fruit preserves, handmade soaps, snacks, pottery, essential oil diffusers, hand-knitted teddy bears, a comfy sleep mask, or a jar of cookies are the best.
Share a get well basket brimming with goodness, love, and comfort while supporting local artisans, crafters, and bakers. Wrap it uniquely, or get creative with the basket or other container, showing you care.
2. A craft kit
If one of your contacts or friends is in the hospital for a prolonged stay or recovering at home, they’ll adore the chance to keep their hands and minds busy. Long hours with nothing to do can soon transform into determination and fun as your loved one takes up creative activities while they heal.
Craft kit ideas include crochet kits, miniature painting kits, and jewellery-making sets. Choose a kit that will appeal to your loved one’s interests and capabilities while providing enough challenge to distract and entertain them.
3. Wellness-focused gifts
What better time to encourage wellness practices and routines than when someone is recovering from an illness or surgery? With extra time on their hands while healing, you can gently channel their focus and self-awareness to contemplate relaxation and the development of healthy habits.
Consider sharing gifts like scented candles, sweet herbal teas, nourishing handcrafted soaps and creams, or a weighted blanket to improve their sleep patterns.
Bring their focus back to their innate ability to improve their own health with gifts like shower steamers, a plush robe set, a meditation beaded necklace, or a mandala colouring book.
4. The gift of courage
Help your loved ones recover with a caring, inspirational gift that shares a motivational saying to boost their courage.
A printed book block can be placed on their bedside table where they can see the inspirational message or motivational affirmation daily. There are so many encouraging products to choose from at Cedar Mountain Studios, so find the best design to help carry your beloved through their illness.
- Courage Typewriter Sign printed on wood
- Courage, My Love Card in which you can dedicate a poem to your person
- Inhale Courage Timber Bit they can easily place next to their bed, reminding them of you
- This Too Shall Pass Timber Bit because most things in life are temporary
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5. Inspirational books
Choose an inspirational self-help book to help your friend or family member find the courage to face adversity and focus on the positive.
Great books can teach us to be grateful, resilient, and triumph over life’s ups and downs. Consider these excellent motivational books to help your loved one’s mind heal while their body recovers:
- Steering by Starlight by Martha Beck
- The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You by Robert Leahy
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. A bouquet or plant from a local florist
Plants produce oxygen, making them excellent additions to recovery rooms. Giving a plant is also a beautiful reminder of the power of nature, growth, and continuation. Support local florists and buy a lush bouquet or an idyllic green plant to liven up their space.
If you choose a bouquet, feature lively flowers like daisies or sunflowers. The brightness of these flowers will help inspire the person you’re trying to cheer up.
Choosing an easy-to-maintain plant, such as golden pothos, ZZ plant, or philodendron birkin, is a good get well idea. Or, why not send a stunning dried bouquet that doesn’t need any care at all?
Wrap Your Thoughts in a Gift Today
Consider that someone special is going through a tough time, and show you’re thinking of them with a thoughtful get well gift. Cheer them up, remind them they are loved, and help them recover through the power of joy and happiness.
A thoughtful gift can make all the difference in times of hardship or illness. At Cedar Mountain Studios, we understand the power of a heartfelt get well gift, so explore our product catalogue to find the perfect way to show your support and love.
