Weekly Wellness

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.

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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!

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Hello there beautiful! This week my wellness tip for you is something that we have not been able to fully dive into yet. You know that wellness encompasses so many different dimensions of our health, and it’s all about nurturing who we are from the inside out. This helps to boost our confidence, feel good in our bodies, achieve mental clarity, and so much more in order to be the best version of ourselves.

Therefore, I think it goes without saying that all of this includes knowing how to build, nurture, and maintain the loving-kindness relationship we all should have with ourselves. And because I’m human just like you, and I’ve been at a point in my life where I lacked confidence and self-love many times before, I wanted to share with you what has helped me over the years change all of that.

Our confidence is either built or destroyed for us at a very young age. We learn very early in childhood what standard we should or should not hold ourselves to, who and how to prioritize others in our lives, and of course how to personally love and care for ourselves. All of this comes from the role models that surround us while growing up. Role models we often don’t get to choose.

This can either be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you were raised. Either way, life comes at us fast and as we get older and experience more life, our level of confidence and ability to engage in self-love will shift significantly. Engaging in these self-love practices as often as possible can and will help you significantly increase your confidence and help you be able to maintain that level of comfort.

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