Featured Weekly Tips

MENTAL WELLNESS: “Soul Food” by Golda

Grab a Hammer and Break Down Your Assumptions

We all make a lot of assumptions about many aspects of our lives, but the assumptions we carry are not necessarily the truth. They just feel like the truth. For example, if you believe, “I have to lose weight before I find a good boyfriend,” that’s an assumption that feels like the truth and keeps you from finding a good boyfriend right now. This week, take some time to examine your assumptions or limiting beliefs, particularly in areas that you wish to change. Do you make assumptions about relationships, food choices, clothing choices, your education, or your job that keep you from pursuing your desires?  Write out some limiting assumptions that you have and then go deeper with each one. Usually, we build limiting assumptions on top of limiting assumptions. Once you’ve done this exercise, you can decide which assumptions you want to release because they don’t represent your truth. Want some elaboration on how to use this tip? Then check out Soul Food for an example and more.

NUTRITION: “Feed Your Life” by Sara

Improving the Social Connections in Your Life

This week, recognize the value to your health of social connections and relationships. Seek to foster just one relationship, particularly one that may have lapsed. Alternatively, try to foster some new relationships. Here are just a few ideas to add more social connectedness to your life:
•  Plan to eat a meal with family or friends at least once a week
•  Plan a monthly game night with college buddies
•  Join a community group or religious organization
•  Volunteer for a local nonprofit
•  Get a pet

Want to learn why and how social connections and relationships are good for your life and health? Then read, Feed Your Life.

FITNESS: “Fitness For All” by Sue

Take a New Path and See What You Discover

We get so set in our ways that some of us haven’t taken a different way to work or a friend’s house in the last however many years. But why not! Sure, you may be going the shortest way, but think about learning something new! Now, with gas and timing and such, that can be difficult, so this week, get on foot and explore your neighborhood, suburb, area or town. Make sure to take paths, roads and turns that you’ve never taken before and see what you can discover. You would be amazed at the things you find out about your area when you are on foot and going in new directions. Perhaps you can try to find a new vantage point from which to spot your house. Check out this week’s Fitness For All to learn about my explorations trying new directions and my client mystery!

Word of the Week: Interpretation, by Andrea

Read about how Andrea hopes to find balance and enrich her life through the interpretation of experiences in her life.

Quote of the Week:

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut