Wellness

Vision

As we near the end of our first quarter of the year, it’s time to revisit

your vision for 2022! BUT - every badass woman knows that vision boards are not merely cutting and pasting pictures of wishes and things. A vision board is a visual representation of the individual you want to become through experiences, challenges, lessons, and achieving specific goals. It should be kept somewhere in your room / office / home so you can see it daily. This will help you when you need to make decisions, determine which habits you need to continue / begin / eliminate, and even the individuals you should surround yourself with. It is time to revisit your vision board for 2022. Has anything changed or altered? Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Who do you want to be? 2.What do you want to manifest for the year ahead? 3. What experiences do you want to have to support you in becoming who you want to be? 4.What goals are you willing to go after and achieve? 5.What is missing in your life currently that will help you become the individual you said you want to be in question 1?

Once answered, begin to make any adjustments using your answers as a guide. If you are just getting started on building your vision board for the year, today is a great day to start. The “how to build” is varied and depends on who you are. You can build one digitally, or manually. You can use cutout magazine pictures, hand-drawn images, words only. The key is doing whatever feels right for you and will keep you inspired every time you look at it, 365 days of the year.

Spring is here and it’s time to get active...with your brain! By challenging your brain by learning something new, you keep your brain active, which helps to keep you mentally sharp and ready to take on any challenge! Cognitive activity is all about creating enriching environments to stimulate the your brain’s growth (super simple...there are synapses and dendrites, axons and myelin, neurotransmitters and neurons involved). How can you exercise your brain on a daily basis?

• Play brain games • Practice mindfulness

• Listen to music

• Have a conversation

• Read books about a new topic • Travel (now that the world is opening up) • Become a beginner • Complete a puzzle

Exercise

Self-Love

There are literally thousands of ways to exercise your brain. So, find the thing that makes you curious and start learning away! Your mental health will thank you.

Do you take the time to grow yourself love? To invest in...being grateful for who you are, on purpose? Self-compassion can be one of the most badass things you can ever do for yourself. Not sure how to even start? Try one, or even a few of the following:

1. Create a self-love list! Write out 100 things about yourself that you love.

Keep it and pull it out on days to remind yourself of just how awesome you are. 2.Write Mirror Messages. Now, write some of those awesome things about yourself on your mirror. A couple that fit nicely on the mirror and still allow you to see your beautiful soul, “I am enough.” or “I love you.” 3. Gratitude journal. We’ve talked about this before! Journal 10 things you’re grateful for at the end of each day just before you go to sleep. Fall asleep focusing on the good things that happened in the day (including those lessons). 4.Breathe deeply and slowly. So simple - 15 deep, slow inhales and exhales to slow down, to refocus, to go inward. You deserve it!