Gentle reminder: You don’t need to fight the old in order to do things differently. Simply put your energy into doing things in a new way. Lovingly release what’s no longer serving you and turn towards what is.
Just as pilots plot their routes before take-off and have a GPS to help them navigate if the weather turns, you too can plot a way out of your bad mood before it happens. Create a bad mood tool box that contains a list of things you can run through to help you navigate your way out of the bad mood cloud and back to enjoying life. This bad mood tool box will be your guide back to inner peace.
This practice is a game changer. Creating a place where you can look at things that bring you joy is a simple and effective way to bring your focus out of the things that are wrong and into all the things that are going right. To create a “good things” space in your phone simply create an album in photos and label it “good things.” For a week, take a picture or video of things that make you feel good and put them into the good things album. These good things can be anything from pizza and puppies to spring flowers, a video of your favorite candle burning, or your favorite TV show’s theme song. After the week, occasionally update your good things album. If, for instance, you’re lying in bed after an awesome dinner with your friends and you happen to have a picture from the evening, add it to the album.
Creating a good things space has a few benefits. For one, when you’re making the album, you’re training your brain to focus on and put more time and energy into the good things in your life. This will help change your inner dialogue to one that focuses on all the things going right for you. Resulting in a positive impact on your overall quality and satisfaction of life. Second, when you find yourself in a bad mood, struggling to do hard things, or feeling like everything is going wrong you can look at the pictures to remind yourself of all the things you love in your life. Focusing on these joyful moments will remind you of how you were feeling when you experienced them. Have you ever looked back on a time you were embarrassed and cringed? You can do the same thing with positive memories. You can look back on happy moments and feel as happy as if they had just happened. The good things space reminds you, even though things can get tough, that there are aspects of your life that you love. The good things album is a great tool to have at the ready when you’re in a bad mood, in a funk you want to get out of, or doing hard things. For more tips on how to create a bad mood tool box, click here. And remember, you got this.
It’s a great day to focus on all the things going right in your life ☀️ Your mind likes to draw your focus to what’s wrong/to do lists/what’s missing but you can change this. Focus on the good. Ruminate on the good. Think about everything …
Do you feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place? Is something causing you frustration and you don’t know what to do about it? Have you searched and thought but still can’t find the right answer? If you thought through every angle, …
Some people show their love with gifts or words of affirmation, I show it with homemade pasta. I got this recipe from the blog The Clean Eating Couple. The owner of the website has tons of great recipes, you should definitely check it out-i’ll link her blog post here. The only thing I changed from Liz’s recipe is I like to use half white flour and half whole wheat. Either way, it’s delicious! Cavatelli is the perfect place to start if you want to make homemade pasta. You don’t need any fancy machinery, just a simple pasta board you can get for $9.00 on Amazon. This would be a great recipe to make with your family if you’re looking for fun things to do together! Enjoy!
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Do your best. We hear this statement often. And what does it mean? Feeling you did your best should enable you to go to sleep at night feeling fulfilled and satisfied with the activities you engaged in that day. Wanting to do your best encourages you to put forth the effort needed to meet your goals. How do you define your best? The answer depends on your individual goals and gets harder to navigate the more you look outside yourself for the meaning.
Let it hurt, then let it heal. There’s nothing wrong with feeling bad, with being unhappy, or with anger. When you have negative emotions feel them. Don’t push them away, don’t pretend they aren’t there. Acknowledge them, bring awareness to what you’re feeling, get curious …
You don’t need to apologize for how you feel, or for still being affected by something when you think you should be over it. If something affects you longer than others, it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. It simply means you care.
Don’t apologize for your ability to feel deeply. It’s a gift. The feelers are the people who change the world. The feelers become the doers. You can turn your feelings into action. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable. That discomfort provokes change. It prevents complacency. It fights injustice.
And it’s not just the sad things you feel. It’s the beautiful things too. The sunsets, the laughter, the crash of the ocean. You can sense the monumentality of moments. Sometimes it’s the sad, but it’s also the good you feel so strongly. It can be “a lot” but all the best things are. It’s always worth it.
There is a period, the time of which is different for everyone, where a gap exists between knowing better and doing better. It is when you have taken the step of becoming self-aware of what habits are no longer serving you, or are hindering you from enjoying your life, however you find yourself continuing to fall into the same unhealthy patterns nonetheless.
Our tendency to fall back into what’s familiar, even if it’s not what’s best for us is why it’s imperative to make healthy coping habits part of your daily routine. Don’t solely keep healthy habits in your back pocket for when life gets hard. Practice them and strengthen them. This will reinforce the positive consequences of their use. The more practice you have, the more familiar these habits will become. The more familiar the healthy habit, especially when times get rough, the more likely you will turn to it instead of a destructive habit.
