Weekly Wellness

*Deep sigh*

It has been the longest time since I’ve been able to connect with you all, and honestly, I have missed it greatly! While I’d like to say that I’ve been absent for a lot of good reasons, I unfortunately can’t. Make no mistake a lot has happened, but not in a positive light. Since we’ve last connected, I have been getting sick, week after week, and failing to get enough proper rest to function normally and recover quickly!

A lot of this was mainly due to stress I was experiencing with my 9-5 job (which I have recently left), and trying my best to follow through with commitments that I had made even though I have very limited time. As a result, I completely checked out of my own emotional, physical, and mental space personally, locked in on everybody else’s, and paid the cost for it severely.

I was completely defeated and exhausted mentally and emotionally, and it showed up in me physically every single week for nearly 2 months. If I wasn’t sick with strep throat (not fun and caught it several times), I was sick from dehydration, or lack of proper nourishment, or a general cold. Especially because the weather is changing and my body never adjusts to that easily.

It was always something that just had me confined to my bed most hours during the day, taking cold medicine like it was my full-time job, throwing up, struggling with sleep, having consistent headaches and stomach aches, feeling extremely lethargic throughout the day, having throat problems, losing my voice, sensory issues, and so much more.

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Breathe in…now breathe out.

What a whirlwind life has been taking me on lately, and even though there have been plenty of moments when I just want to say “fuck it”, drop everything and run for the hills, I don’t. I am very grateful and appreciative for the life I live and everything that encompasses it, but I won’t sit here and pretend that my life doesn’t get overwhelming at times.

Which I know is also the case for nearly every other person on the face of this Earth! Life can be hard, unexpecting, uncontrollable, and overwhelming. However, in spite of these hardships, we continue to honor the blessing we have been given and take life one day at a time. It’s a constant reminder for me to be grateful for the cards that I have been dealt because they could be a lot worse.

This post isn’t going to be about appreciating the life we have. We are all well-minded enough to know that each day we are given is a blessing. Instead, I want to share with you a grounding mindfulness technique that helps me get through the hardest of days and moments in my life. Like the past couple of months that I’ve been experiencing, which have been both, physically and occasionally mentally exhausting.

I work a very demanding job, and I love my job, but it is nothing short of working round the clock in order to best serve our community. Compared to my nurses I guess you can say I’ve got it easy, but I’m also aware that I carry a lot more of the weight of what this field of work requires than my nurses do. So maybe the work I do is not that easy, more on the demanding side, but not as time consuming as I know it could be if I were a nurse? I don’t know, but what I do know is that the job can be very taxing on the mind and body.

[Read more…] about Weekly Wellness: Mindfulness Grounding Technique

Hey there beautiful!

I’m so happy to be out of the month of July. I don’t know about you but last month was just disastrous for me! There were so many unforeseen changes happening with my 9-5 job, and of course all of these changes were things that were out of my control. So, I had to just go with the flow of everything that was happening, and in doing so it did not make managing my personal and professional life any easier.

Thankfully I have a vast amount of wellness tools in my toolkit to help me manage and cope with all the stressors that were coming my way. I was able to continue to do hot yoga a couple of days out of the week, make sure I was getting as much sleep as possible (yes this includes naps), eating right, and drinking plenty of water. I even picked up a new wellness activity that I can’t wait to share more with you about (next time)!

But the overwhelming rush of being flexible on the drop of a dime was definitely a test to how much my overall wellness meant to me, and what I was willing to do in order to maintain all that I have achieved thus far on my journey. It definitely was a test that took me back to my roots, and I’m proud to say that despite a few little bumps here and there, I was able to pass the test!

Curious to know how? Don’t worry I got you!

[Read more…] about Weekly Wellness: Creating A Wellness Vision