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How to Make and Use a Reflective Journal
A reflective journal is not as commonly known as some other journals like trigger journals and dream journals. Reflective journals are generally used by students to discuss and reflect on learning experiences in their lives. These are useful in public school systems but become increasingly useful in homeschool environments that are centered on how a child learns best. Let’s look at how to make and use a reflective journal for your students. We will also look at what to know about how it works. Parts of a Reflective Journal Reflective journals have a specific setup that most educators use and use well. Each page of the journal should be reflective…
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Journaling for Anxiety
There are many methods and tools people use to help with their anxiety, whether it is autumn anxiety during the fall season, to anxiety throughout the rest of the year. One of our favorite tools is using a journal, which has a long list of benefits for your mental health. Here are some tips for using a journal to help combat your anxiety. Getting Started with a Journal Why journal for anxiety? The act of writing in your journal is very therapeutic and helps reduce anxiety for a number of reasons. First, it can help you get those anxious thoughts and fears out of your head. Anxiety worsens when we…
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Get Back on Track with Your Health
When life gets chaotic and schedules are full, health goals tend to be the first thing to go. If you have been feeling lately like it’s time to get back to those healthy habits and goals you set out for yourself, here are some tips that can help. Don’t Start on a Monday One of the worst things you can do is start on a Monday or the beginning of a month. This creates multiple issues when it comes to staying on track. First of all, all those days leading up to the official start date tend to be over-indulgent where you get even further from your goals than you…
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Get Back on Track: Create Healthy Habits
Healthy habits are the cornerstone to a healthy life. They help you to create a routine in your life that allows you to find a balance between your responsibilities and reaching whatever goals you have. But if you have lost your way and need to get back on track, it is about finding that inspiration again. Create the Habit Without the Rules When you lose your inspiration for keeping up with healthy habits, it’s a lot harder to pick them up again if you start off with a long list of rules. You need to put all those rules and restrictions aside, and just focus on the habits themselves. For…
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Getting Back on Track: Find Your Creative Spark
If you have been struggling with a creative block, it not only feels like you don’t have the inspiration to do something creative, but it can feel like your life has lost a big part of its spark. It’s important to get back on track with your creative endeavors in whatever way you can. That will help you find more fulfillment in your life. Why Creative Burnout Hits You So Hard For creative types, burnout can be especially difficult to deal with. Why is that? A big reason is that your creativity and artistic nature is often a considerable part of your identity. You feel close to it and like…
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6 Tips to Get Back on Track
Falling off track, whether with your health and fitness, goals, or creative endeavors, is completely normal and common. The problem is that it can be really hard to get back up and on track again. Here are some tips for getting back on track, no matter what you have fallen behind on. Start Right Now, No Matter What Getting back on track shouldn’t feel like a grand decision. It is the small steps you take that will get you back on track with whatever goals or habits you have fallen behind on. This means starting right now, making at least one choice today that gets you a little closer. Put…
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The Sandwich Generation: Tips to Keep from Losing Yourself
When you became an adult, you likely focused on your education, career, and starting a family. Being a new parent and learning how to manage a young family takes a while but in time things settle down and life finds a rhythm. Just when you think things are running smoothly, you may begin to see your parents needing more and more support. Before long, you are juggling work, sports, and your parent’s health care. In the blink of an eye, you are overwhelmed and start to lose yourself. STOP! Amongst the stresses and strains of life, supporting kids and aging parents, there needs to be space to care for your…
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Occupational Wellness: Fulfillment in Our Work Lives
Occupational wellness is a dimension that weaves together a few different aspects of wellness. Where and how we work will affect our financial standing, our social lives, and other regions such as intellectual, emotional, and environmental wellness. What sets it apart, however, are the areas of work relationships, balance, and achievement. Occupational Wellness Means Balance at Work Work relationships exist between you and your employer/employees and coworkers. It is important to have an open line of communication, to have respect, and to feel appreciated. When faced with a challenge, addressing it in a timely manner and with integrity will serve everyone’s best interest at work. Getting support when needed by…
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Social Wellness Means Healthy Relationships
The Social Wellness dimension involves having healthy relationships with friends, family, and the community. Since the global pandemic of COVID-19 in early 2020, this has proven to be quite a challenge for many of us. We’ve at times, had to replace meetups and dinner dates with watch parties and zoom meetings. However, social wellness is one of the basic human needs and should not be overlooked. Social Animals Humans have been described for centuries, originally by Aristotle around 350BC, as social animals. “Fitting in” is something people do instinctually. Being part of a group, a family, community, or social circle provides us with safety and helps us feel secure. We…
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Financial Wellness: One of the 8 Dimensions of Wellness
Financial wellness is a category that many of us feel we could use some help in. Financial wellness is not only having a steady income to meet our basic needs but is also defined by reducing debt, managing money well, and investing in the future. A key starting point in managing your money is to take a look at what’s going out and what’s coming in. Organize: Put It On Paper (or Screen) Starting a finance spreadsheet or using an app or tool to organize your expenses is a great way to get to know your money better. Once you’ve completed this step, you will be able to see where…
