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Memory and Photos

September 10, 2024 No Comments

When you’re on vacation or you visit a scenic spot, you witness a beautiful snapshot before you. What do you do? When encountering a beautiful scene, we often whip out our phone to snap a photo of the moment because we do not want to forget this moment! But, what actually happens when we take a photo?

This week, we have 2 reminders:
1. Remember to back up your photos
2. Remember to put the phone down and experience the moment.

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Acceptance and Grief

September 3, 2024 No Comments

August 30th was National Grief Awareness Day. Grief is complicated, complex, and one of the oldest, universal human experiences. When you are hit with a loss, the grief is often so intense, it knocks you off your feet. Acceptance may feel elusive, almost like an unreachable goal.

So, let’s take it a step back. We do not need to reach for the full acceptance stage. Acceptance can be accepting two contradicting feelings, or the complexity of your grief.

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Meals and Mental Health

August 27, 2024 No Comments

August 29th is “More Herbs, Less Salt” day, a day to reassess and reduce your sodium intake. So, this week, let’s examine our meals and notice how what we eat affects our mental well-being.

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Slow Living

August 20, 2024 No Comments

In these days, we strive for maximum efficiency. Multi-tasking. Automations. Speedy technology. We have options for instant communication across the world. We can search for a question online and have an answer within seconds.

With everything expected to be fast or instant, we get caught up in this slipstream of hustle culture. But, what’s the rush?

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Simplify Your Life

August 13, 2024 No Comments

Simplifying your life is about removing unnecessary complexities and stressors. Particularly, these stressors are the small frustrations of everyday life that add up.

Stepped into a puddle and now you have wet socks. Went for a car ride with the windows down and now your hair is a snarled mess for your meeting. There are wires for every device in the house, and no matter how many times you untangle them, they always wind up in a tangled mess where you trip over them.

To say the least, these minor inconveniences are annoying at best and downright frustrating at worst. So this week, let’s look at how we can simplify our lives.

Morning Routine

August 6, 2024 No Comments

Habits are both hard to maintain and to break. It’s common to end up making a habit that you didn’t intend to make, like sleeping in during the summer season. Weeks go by and now the habit is ingrained in your routine and difficult to shake off. To make matters more frustrating, the habits you do want to build are having a hard time sticking to your schedule.

This week, let’s look at our morning routines and maybe shake things up a little bit so you can get an extra morning boost for a productive and happy day.

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Stress Relief

July 30, 2024 No Comments

Stress shows up in our life in many ways. Do you notice how one type of stress relief seems to work sometimes but not all the time? Or how one person’s stress relief does wonders for them but nothing for you?

Finding the right technique for the right situation may take some trial and error. This week, we have a list of stress relief techniques that you can explore and find what is best for you.

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Check in With a Loved One

July 23, 2024 No Comments

Most of the time, we may operate in our own little worlds. Especially when we get busy, we just get caught up in finishing the day’s tasks so we can head home to relax and get some shut-eye. As a result, we may forget to keep in touch with our loved ones. So, this is our gentle reminder to check in with our loved ones. Even one short text can go a long way.

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Sunshine Guilt

July 16, 2024 No Comments

Work during the summer poses its own set of challenges. If you work outside, you’re often working in sweltering heat that is difficult to escape. And, if you work indoors, you may get that guilty feeling in the pit of your stomach. A feeling that rises every time you look out the window to the green fields. You see the sun shining and the breeze blowing through the trees. The day is nice, yet you work indoors, and it feels like you’re missing out on enjoying the sunshine.

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It’s Hot, It’s Hard to Think

July 9, 2024 No Comments

It’s too hot to think. If you are not accustomed to the heat, then it can feel like your body is wilting alongside your houseplants. You move sluggishly. Your brain feels foggy and words sometimes don’t make sense no matter how many times you read the same sentence.

Even when heat isn’t dangerous, it can still be inconvenient and uncomfortable. So, if you are struggling to focus in these summer temperatures, you are not alone.