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Building Memories

September 30, 2025 No Comments

The days that stick out to you: do they fill you with love, joy, happiness? Or do they fill you with a heavy weight? Our minds tend to focus on the negatives in life. It’s how we survive: scan for threats, notice them, and remember, so you can survive the threat.

So, remembering your favorite dish is out of stock on a night out is more likely to stick in your mind than the delicious taste of your second favorite dish. It may even cloud your senses so you don’t notice the cute baby’s contagious laughter (but you do notice the tiny pieces of burnt food instead).

This week, let’s examine our memories and discover how we can build positive, long-lasting, happy memories.

A dirt road in the woods with fallen orange leaves scattered about. The trees still hold orange, red autumn leaves.

Letting Go

September 23, 2025 No Comments

Yesterday was the autumnal equinox—a time when day and night are of equal length. We’ve already begun to see the trees letting go of their leaves. Their leaves that pulled in the sun’s rays and turned them into energy, supporting the tree’s growth and survival. As the season turns cooler, the days shorten, and the leaves age and die, the trees shed the leaves that are no longer serving them. Today, let’s learn the art of letting go.

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Wellness Check-In

March 18, 2025 No Comments

ou’ve likely already mastered the art of checking in: with teachers to see how you’re doing in a class, with doctors to keep your health in check, or with collaborators to see how a project is shaping up. If you’ve followed our newsletters for a while, then you may also know about another crucial check-in: checking in with yourself.

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Reflect on Your Month

January 30, 2024 No Comments

One day bleeds into the next. Months blur together. The years fly by and you can’t help but wonder: where did the time go?

There is a simple but profound way to slow down the pace of life: by pausing and reflecting. Then, when we capture these reflections in a journal, we have a record to show where we invested our time.

Journaling During the Holidays

December 20, 2022 No Comments

Whether or not you are enjoying the celebrations, family or other gatherings, and holiday spirit, these few weeks can be overwhelming and stressful with the weight of expectations, obligations, traditions, or loss. The weight of these stresses can muddle our thoughts and dampen our mood, but one way we can gain mental clarity is by journaling.

Check in with Yourself Using Journal Prompts

September 27, 2022 No Comments

We’ve covered a lot of topics over the summer: we have learned
about the grieving process and how to cope with grief,
how to befriend our body,
how to mindfully color,
how to overcome procrastination and build discipline,
and last week, we learned how to build healthier relationships with social media.

Whew! That’s a lot to take in! And understandably, it can feel overwhelming, so this week, let’s pause and check in with ourselves.

20 Prompts to Check In with Yourself

July 12, 2022 No Comments

We’ve covered a lot of topics in our newsletters, and it can understandably feel overwhelming to learn how to care for our mental health. Occasionally, we need to pause, breathe, and absorb what we’ve learned by looking inward.

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Keeping a Diary or Journal

July 5, 2022 No Comments

Keeping a diary is something we may associate with our younger teenage/pre-teen years—an activity that many stop doing as they grow older. But keeping a diary and journaling have many mental health benefits that should be shared with everyone at any age. This week, we’ll share the benefits of keeping a diary or journal and a few journaling techniques you can explore.

Journaling

November 2, 2021 No Comments

Did you know that there have been studies showing that the average person has more than 6,000 thoughts a day? That’s a lot of thinking!

We want to partner with you in discovering new ways to process and work through our thoughts for a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

Today, our focus is the tool of journaling. This is NOT a one size fits all practice. There are endless ways to to explore to find what works for you!

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