Looking to learn strategies for wellness. Feeling the weight of worry, anxiety, sadness, pressure and stress? Try one of our strategies.
Practice Movement
- Move your body: walk, exercise, stretch, dance, yoga
- Talk to your medical professional
- Read a new or favourite book
- Watch an inspiring or favourite childhood movie
- Do something special for someone
- Reconnect with an old friend or relative
- Write letters or cards to distant friends and family
- Make a wish list of hopes and dreams
Sometimes, you may not have the language to communicate how you are feeling, what you are thinking, and how you are reacting. Movement helps you to express these inner thoughts and feelings, when words just can not.
Be still and know you are stronger than you think
- Listen to music that makes you feel good
- Talk to your medical professional
- Practice mindfulness
- Connect with a trusted friend/person or neighbor
- Be creative: draw, paint, color, write, doodle, journal, dance
- Limit news media and replace with soothing, fun activities
- Exercise and stay active, move your body
- Balance alone time and find ways to be around supportive people in and out of your home
- Talk to your medical professional
- Create a group chat to share creative coping skills
- Join or create a virtual lunchroom or dinner room
- Eat a meal with your family over a fun game
- Play games and have some fun; laugh and be silly
Put yourself first so you can lead the way
- Keep up with self-care like showering and bathing
- Talk to your medical professional
- Pamper yourself with something
- Cook a new or favorite healthy meal or snack
- Try a new form of physical activity or set a new fitness goal
- Get solid sleep and rest each day
- Stay hydrated with healthy drinks like water, juice and tea
- Avoid junk food
- Keep up with self-care like showering and bathing
- Pamper yourself with something extra
- Cook a new or favorite healthy meal or snack
- Try a new form of physical activity or set a new fitness goal
- Get solid sleep and rest each day
- Stay hydrated with healthy drinks like water, juice and tea
"Our deepest fear is that...you are powerful beyond measure. Wellness begins when you start putting yourself in a good space and in a practice that keeps you steady throughout life's challenges.
My Action Plan
Steps to change is closer than you think:
Day 1: Create 3 types of goals for your wellness: IMMEDIATE, SHORT TERM, and FUTURE. Write a list of the strategies you hope to try. Schedule time in your calendar for enacting your goals.
Day 2: Write down all your worries, anxieties and fears about yourself, your future and your wellness. Place the worries in a box. Seal the box. Add new worries when they come. Ask God, the Universe, or whomever you choose to believe to help you contain your worries.
Day 3: Look at the calendar. Find YES days. Days that you say yes to whatever opportunities may come your way. Choose NO days. Days that you will spend placing healthy boundaries on your self-care, your mental health, and your wellness.
Day 4: Try a strategy from your self care goal list. Video-blog how you felt in the activity. Share the strategy with a close friend or family member.
Day 5: Practice imperfection. Notice when you are less than your ideal self. Be compassionate and kind to yourself. Treat your self with something on your self care goal list.
Day 6: Practice gratitude. As you move throughout the day, see how many things, experiences, people, and more that you are thankful for. Mediate, pray and practice mindfulness to bring your attention and focus on all that builds your soul and your wellness.
Day 7: Give back! What a week you have had! Great work for the effort. Beautiful try for the difficult days. Share your joy, your passion, what you learned, and how you grew with someone else. Give Back. Give of yourself to another. Show love in the best way you know how.
Want to learn more? Need consultation?
Contact: The Kujenga Wellness Team
