Hope Through Winter and COVID-19
Are you nervous about the upcoming winter months and your mental wellness? Here are 8 tips to support you in creating more hope this winter.
Are you nervous about the upcoming winter months and your mental wellness? Here are 8 tips to support you in creating more hope this winter.
Mindfulness is not simply meditating every day, it is a practice of intentional awareness of each moment throughout our day. Practicing mindfulness practices daily, bringing simple awareness and intention to our thoughts and actions, we create a greater understanding of ourselves, what sets us off, and brings us joy.
Our sympathetic nervous system (SNS) helps us engage in fight or flight so that we can protect ourselves from danger. The brain is not able to discern perceived vs real threat, it simply sees a threat as a threat.