self care
For a healthy mind, body, and soul.
Are the Type of Daydreams You Have Affecting How Happy You Feel?
I have always been a daydreamer. Have you? When we daydream we unknowingly wander into such an entirely private place that it is not a subject we often discuss nor something we often think about in relation to our daily lives, but whether you consider yourself to be a prolific daydreamer or not, we all spend from a third to a half of our waking hours daydreaming, albeit often without any conscious acknowledgement that we are doing so.
By Cait Fawkes8 years ago in Longevity
Mentality Is Everything
All too often as humans we are faced with day-to-day trials that can either cause our destruction or send us to the highest peaks of our lifetime. What’s critical is to not lose sight of our own importance on this earth. Yes, we all come face to face with struggles that can lead us to drinking, drugs, sex, and anything to sterilize our thoughts of reality. We can also be too overbearing and critical of ourselves as individuals, maybe think way too highly of ourselves and take a massive blow if someone says otherwise. This can be both extremely damaging and rewarding to our relationships, personalities, communities, and so forth. Sometimes the recovery is harder than the mishap itself. We, as people, should remember that me make a imprint on each and every person we come in contact with on a daily basis. Even if it’s just a simple smile or a wave to someone you don’t know. Everything you do impacts everyone in some way or another. There needs to be a balance in everything on earth. You can think the same about your person. You need balance. Your own stability and self-worth. No one person or thing can give you these qualities. They are earned through experience and knowledge. You can’t expect a baby to be born knowing how to dress itself, or a two-year-old how to drive a car. Why place such expectations on yourself then? You try, fail, and try again to succeed. With that being said, should you find yourself not feeling your most optimistic and best self, I offer my go-to's as a vice to aid in a complete and total rejuvenating process.
By Brittany Smith8 years ago in Longevity
Me, Myself, and I
One of the biggest regrets of my high school career is not loving myself. I spent all of my time in high school believing that my self-worth was completely based on what others' perceptions were of me. I thought that I wasn't worth a single thing because other people didn't think of me as attractive. It seemed like everyone else was getting into relationships while I just wasn't. This not only affected my mental health, but it affected my physical health, as well. I started to gain weight and my depression started to make me break out constantly, and I was even starting to lose my hair.
By Brianna Ryan8 years ago in Longevity
Overcoming Emotional Eating
Eating can be many things. It can be for the pleasure of taste, a way of escapism, or to fuel our bodies. Fueling our bodies is the main purpose for food, however we often do not think of it that way. We think of eating to feel good with, often with calorie dense low nutritional valued ‘comfort foods’ that leave us feeling unsatisfied.
By Amanda Rose8 years ago in Longevity
To the Kid with "Potential"
“Winnie, you’re going to do big things in life.” If I got a dollar every single time this was said to me, hey, I would not be sitting in Wiley College trying to get a degree, I’d probably be somewhere in the gorgeous streets of Venice, living life, but alas! Here I am.
By Winnie Rugamba8 years ago in Longevity
Why Dancing Should Be Part of Your Daily Routine...
Have you ever had one of those moments where you start dancing like nobody's business, and by the end of it, you feel euphoric? Dancing has been proven to have a number of health benefits. Some of which include improving the condition of your heart and lungs, stronger bones, muscle strength and tone, lowering stress, improving emotional well-being, and even weight management.
By Jacob Elliott8 years ago in Longevity
Exactly What I Needed!
Adulting—one of the things we wish we could play hookie from, am I right? We all have schedules, we have obligations, but do we ever just have that moment of “my time”? To gain the momentary values we treasure that never seem to last long enough, we go through the typical routine. If we want to go on a date, we got to get a babysitter. If we want to have the weekend off, we have to use our PTO/COMP time. If we want to take a vacation, we have to do both. It’s frustrating. It’s annoying. It’s overwhelming—why? You have to count down the weeks, the days, the hours just to have some solitude of sanity to your chaos. So why not have a little unplanned fun?
By Sherika Gaines8 years ago in Longevity
Watching TV Stresses Me Out
It just takes up so much time. That’s the real problem I have with watching TV. And it never seems to be as easy as just deciding not to. Once you expose yourself to it even for a moment, it seems to have an irresistible draw. I always feel as though I am being compelled to watch, the very act of doing so inducing inertia and draining my resolve. It feels like some kind of sucking leech, distracting me with sound and colour while it feasts upon my time, life, and energy. This description is histrionic beyond belief, of course; it’s just TV. But it is true to say that I am often left with a desolate feeling of loss after I have inadvertently watched one, then two, then three episodes of something.
By Cait Fawkes8 years ago in Longevity
I Just Can't, Today.
I don’t care who you are or where you’re from or what you do for a living or how many friends you have…we all have these days. They are real and we all have them. If you want to pretend like you don’t, then that’s fine, but I definitely don’t believe you. These are “the bad days.” Or, at least, that’s what I call mine. If my fiancé asks me what’s wrong and I respond with “just a bad day,” he knows exactly what I mean and exactly how I’m feeling.
By Ashleigh Corriveau8 years ago in Longevity
What Do You Hate about Yourself?
"What do you hate about yourself?" Well, if we're being honest, a lot of thing about me are less than pleasant. I am a complicated creature that loves to simplify my complicated features; I am a man that hates confrontation and a woman that craves conversation. I am an 18-year-old child with a wild imagination that stops when my feet touch the ground; I am a realistic 18-year-old adult that is down to earth and hates when people make impossible interpretations of their own reality.
By Lavon Swygert8 years ago in Longevity
