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, …
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 as to why you’re feeling the way that you do.
Healing happens through feeling. By refusing to acknowledge bad feelings, you’ll become stuck in the negativity.
Inner peace doesn’t mean you never feel bad. Inner peace allows you to feel the bad, to process the bad, to release the bad, and to move on. The more practice you have with processing your emotions, the easier it will be for you to return to inner peace. The more you heal, the more you can let go.
It’s okay if you don’t know how to process your emotions. A lot of people don’t. Contact me me to learn how to start.
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.
This dish is seriously delicious! It’s hands down my favorite salad I’ve ever made. It’s simple and easy to throw together for a quick lunch and is perfect to meal prep. It’ll keep you full and satisfied plus it gets those greens in! Brussel sprouts are high in fiber and antioxidants. They help protect against cancer and help with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and diabetes. This salad will leave you feeling your best!
We go out of the way for the people we love. It’s often how we show them we love and support them. We make extravagant homemade dinners for our families, we pick out the perfect presents for our friends, we buy bagels for our meetings on the way to work. We show up for others when they are having a hard time.
Have you ever thought of doing something nice for yourself like draw a fancy bath, light candles, or buy yourself flowers and then decided not to go through the trouble of doing it? Next time, when something sounds nice but you’re about the come to the conclusion that it’ll be too much of a hassle, do it anyway. Take the long way home because the scenery is better, make a yummy home cooked meal even if you’re the only person eating it, set up a pile of blankets to read by the fire even though you’re going to have to clean it up later. Show yourself the same love and support you provide others.
I’m not telling you to make more work for yourself when you’re exhausted but if you have the time and the energy, go out of your way for yourself.
You’re worth the extra effort. And by taking the extra time you’re signifying to your subconscious and the universe that you deserve this level of care. This will help bring about more things in your life that you want.
Challenge: make a list of the times you have felt genuinely happy or at peace. This list will remind you that your happiness never came from things looking seemingly perfect on the outside. Your happiness came from being present and open and connected to yourself …
Everything in life is temporary. So when you feel content and satisfied, ground yourself in that feeling. If you’re used to chaos it can be tempting to focus on if or when things may go wrong. Worrying about all the ways your peace can be …
Small continuous actions are what lead to monumental changes. Consistent actions towards your goals are what lead to sustainable and long term change. Although, we would all like to have a huge “ah-ha” moment where everything clicks into place, this is rarely what happens.
The moments where we feel like things are clicking are created by the 1,000 small moments that came before it. The big moments are created by the times we took tiny steps towards our goals, when we felt stuck but kept going.
The instances you chose to add a vegetable to one meal had to come before you could regularly eat a balanced diet. The hundreds of time you wrote a paper and scored below average had to come before you could get an A. Running for 5 minutes had to come before you could finish a marathon. Paying $20.00 towards your loans had to come before you became debt free.
We often discredit these “small” steps in the right direction. We want the big moments where it seems like everything serendipitously came together. The graduation, the wedding, paying off your debt, working out regularly. But those huge moments are the results of thousands of small choices made day after day, year after year. It’s the small moves in a general direction continuously repeated despite setbacks, mistakes, and failures that matter.
Next time you feel discouraged remember it’s the small things that change your life. It doesn’t have to be perfect; you only have to keep getting up and keep moving forward.
Today I challenge you to take one small step towards your goals. What’s one action you can take right now to bring you closer to the person you want to be or the life you want to live? It can be anything but here’s a list you can choose from if you’re feeling uninspired: drink a class of water, make your annual doctor’s appointment that you’ve been putting off, call your mom, write a letter to your grandma and mail it to her, go for a walk, organize your t-shirt drawer, plan out what you’re having for dinner this week, eat some blueberries, make some tea and read a book, invest in yourself, stretch for 5 minutes, meditate for one minute, put $20.00 into your savings account, go look in the mirror and give yourself a high five.
What’s one thing you can do today? Keep looking for the small things you can do. Those small actions make all the difference.
The holidays are a joyful time of year for many but it can also be overwhelming. It’s the season of more. Many times that’s more love, more yummy food, more warmth, more family, more rest. But it’s also more money spent, more parties to attend, more cooking to be done, more conversations to be had, more expectations you want to meet. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and drained it doesn’t mean you’re a grinch, it means you’re human. It’s normal and it happens.
If you are able to step away this holiday season without it having the adverse effect of making you more stressed once it’s time to step back in, that’s great. Keep doing that. But if you find your stepping away is creating more stress than perhaps it’s doing more harm than good. Here’s 7 tips to combat overwhelm this holiday season.
