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Holding Yourself Accountable
First, I want to start my blog by thanking you for joining me on OUR discovering wellness journey. It has been great seeing the engagement in the comments and communicating my knowledge with you. I hope you were able to take something away from reading my blogs. Holding yourself accountable can be very difficult for some people. In school and work I am great at this, however, when it comes to my wellness I tend to slack. Holding myself accountable to maintain a healthy lifestyle is very difficult for me! This is something I am continuing to work on every day. Below I am including some tips and tricks to…
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Nutrition On-The-Go
Thanks for joining me for another week of, “Discovering Wellness”. So far, we have discussed dieting vs lifestyle changes, the importance of mental health, taking your workout to the next level, finding balance in nutrition, emotional intelligence, and at home workouts. I wanted to include a quick recap in case you are interesting in learning more about the blogs I’ve been posting! This week, I will be discussing how to maintain healthy eating within the busy society we live in today. Today, we are always on the move. Society is training us to pack our schedule with classes, work, meetings, sports, etc. Keeping up with your nutrition can become difficult…
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At Home Workouts
This week I am going to be discussing ways to exercise within the comfort of your home! Keeping your body moving is so important!! Moving keeps your blood flowing and muscles strong while improving your coordination, stability and balance. Exercising will also help enhance your mood and energy. These all contribute to your overall mental and physical wellness. At home workouts can look many different ways. I am going to provide a few examples of staying healthy and moving at home! 1.) Find workouts on YouTube! YouTube is a great place to start. Over quarantine a lot of trainers released a variety of different workout series. Below I’ve provided a…
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Emotional Intelligence
Welcome back!! Emotional intelligence is something I’ve been so excited to share with you! I recently took a course on emotional intelligence and learned many valuable lesson and tools to improve myself mentally. Emotional intelligence is broken up into 4 different categories. The four quadrants are self-awareness, self-leadership, social awareness, and relational management. While each quadrant is important and relates to one another, it is important to master each quadrant one at a time. This is something that takes LOTS of time! I took this course over winter and am still working on mastering my own emotional intelligence. I am going to discuss each quadrant in more detail below! Self-awareness…
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Finding Balance in Nutrition
I hope you have enjoyed tuning into my blog the past couple weeks! This week I am discussing, “finding balance in nutrition”. Side note: this will be different for everyone!! We all have different body with different goals, but I am going to make suggestions that a majority of you can apply to your own lives! Below I have included 10 suggestions on finding balance in your nutrition! #1 Know the difference between being hungry and being thirsty This was a huge turning point in my nutrition journey! I was eating great and exercising but wasn’t seeing the results I was hoping for! I learned I wasn’t drinking enough water.…
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Taking Your Workout to the Next Level
Welcome back!! I’m so happy you are back to learn more about “Discovering Wellness”! This week I am going to be focusing on taking your workout to the next level. Side note, I am not a fitness God by any means, so this blog will be most beneficial for beginners, or those of you like me who workout a couple days a week. I am going to start off by sharing some tips and tricks that work best for me! 1.) I believe hydration is key! Staying hydrated is so important! Being dehydrated at the gym will lead to a poor workout and is also very dangerous. 2.) STRETCH! Stretching…
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Importance of Mental Health
Mental health is by far my favorite thing to discuss! Mental health should not be a taboo subject. We all struggle with mental health in some way, shape, or form! About five years ago, I was at a really low place in my life. I wasn’t sleeping, had high anxiety, and felt very emotionally drained. I was lucky enough to have a great support system to provide me with the help I needed. I started going to therapy…BEST DECISION EVER! I am obsessed with theory! Finding someone to discuss the good, bad, and ugly with is so important. I used to hold everything in and feel stuck in my life.…
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Welcome!
Hello, welcome to my first blog! I am so excited you are here! Throughout the next couple of weeks, I will be taking you on a journey to help you discovering wellness. I will be splitting wellness into three different categories; physical, mental, and nutrition. Each week I will be alternating which aspect of wellness I will be focusing on. I will be starting our journey together off by discussing “Dieting vs Lifestyle Changes” in my blog next week. Why listen to a word I have to say? Good question! Let me explain my background in discovering my wellness and why I created this blog. From a young age, I…
