The week between Christmas and New Year’s can be such a strange week. Part of you is still in the holiday spirit and ready to celebrate, while the other half is in sweats ready to sleep for 3 days straight.
Whatever you need this week, honor that.
Release the guilt, listen to your intuition, and honor your mind, body and soul.
I wanted to use this Monday blog to really check in with you. How are you?
I know you probably get asked that a dozen times a day, but I mean it - how are you doing?
For me, it’s been a really crazy and beautiful year…and I can not believe that October will be here in a few days!?!
Sometimes when life seems to be going a million miles an hour, your to-do list is never ending, and there is a cloud of negativity every where you look…it can be tough to stay present, stay calm, and just breathe.
We are all human, each of us having our own experience here, and we all have these days/weeks. The important thing is to notice when this happens, pause, reconnect to your breath, reconnect to this moment right here right now, and just breathe.
It may seem too simple, but I promise it’s all it takes.
Close your eyes, place one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly and just breathe.
Notice the chest rise and fall with each breath, and begin to notice the belly rise and fall as you start to deepen your breath.
When life gets too hectic and you loose your center…come back here. Come back to your breath and just breathe.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and throughout this month I have shared tips on my blog and on my social media accounts on way we can check in with our mental health and ways in which we can help to keep our mental health on track.
Our mental health is just as important as our nutrition and fitness. Lean and Green Body® believes in full body wellness - which includes our mental health wellness.
Some of my personal favorite ways to improve my own mental health wellness are meditation, long walks, yoga, and reading. So much of my life as a busy entrepreneur is go-go-go and it can take a real toll on your mental health, especially working in a client based business. So it’s important for me to check in and intentionally schedule periods of times every single day for my mental health wellness.
Just as I schedule time every morning for my morning routine to keep my nutrition on track, I schedule time throughout my day to keep my mental health on track.
Another tool that I use to keep my mental health on track is setting a mantra or a selecting a word/phrase for the day. Sometimes I use this is my mediation practice, and more often than not I wear my mantra. I have been wearing Mantra Band bracelets for years now, and I love the idea of selecting a mantra or in my case a few mantras to wear daily. It has become a real source of inspiration for me!
I truly love Mantra band because their mission is so simple and pure. You select a mantra that you connect with and wear them on your wrist. It seems so simple, but has been incredibly powerful for me when I am manifesting something big or if I am working through something and need a positive reminder to look at. It helps me to remember my why.
I use these mantras during difficult meetings, never ending days and through many of life challenges and celebrations. It may sound so simple, but for me personal having a mantra (and having a mantra visible to me daily) has been a powerful tool for keeping my mental health on track.
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month Mantra Band has release a special collection of mantras, and I’m loving all of them!
Two of my favorites from this collection are Never Give Up and One Day at a Time. These remind me that I am never alone in my journey and to take life one day at a time. Even if I only make small baby steps forward each day I am still moving forward, and that is a beautiful thing.
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In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month I wanted to share 2 tips with you on how I keep my mental health on track daily. As many of you know I am obsessed with my morning routine…not going to lie it’s one of my favorite parts of my whole day! Click HERE to learn more about my morning routine.
Part of my morning routine is my daily mental health check in. How can we expect anyone else to check in with us if we aren’t checking in with ourselves? One of my big tips is to take a few moments every morning and really check in with yourself. Put aside distractions and really sit with yourself, how are you feeling today, what is coming up for you in this moment? Whatever comes up, let it be, take it all in. Then perhaps take these thoughts and feelings to your journal, your meditation or your yoga mat. Whatever is calling to you in the moment. Allow yourself to move through those thoughts and feelings in a way that honors your body today…through writing, breathing or moving.
My second daily tip for Mental Health Awareness Month is to schedule time every day for yourself. Every morning as part of my morning routine I go over my schedule for the day, this allows me to mentally prepare myself for the day ahead and understand what tasks are MUSTS and what tasks are WOULD LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH, it took me a very long time to realize that these are different things. It also allows me time to see what self care I have scheduled for myself that day.
In my planner I like to use different colors for client sessions, meetings, personal appointments, and self-care/personal essentials. I have an entire section of my planner every day dedicated to my mental health. In this section I add self care items that I know will help me to keep my mental health in check and help me to feel my best. For example every day I have read for at least 30 minutes, meditation, and movement as part of my self care action items. These are my non-negotiables. I then add in other items like acupuncture, massage or beach walk with a friend depending on the day. Over the past decade I have noticed that when I prioritize myself, my care and wellbeing I am not only able to remain in a health space mentally & emotionally, but I am also able to handle everything on my plate with much more ease.
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I am by no means a mental health expert or therapist, I am only sharing tips that have worked for me. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health please reach out for help.
SAMHA’s is a national hotline open 24/7/365 1-800-662-HELP. You are not alone.
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