Your Emotional Well-Being

We want to provide you with practices that can help the youth in our lives manage their emotional well being.

🙋 Why?

How you feel can affect your ability to carry out everyday activities, relationships, and overall mental health. How you react to your experiences and feelings can change over time. Emotional wellness is the ability to successfully handle life’s stresses and adapt to change and difficult times. So let's learn a few ways to manage those ever changing emotions!

1. Don't forget your basic needs like sleep, exercise , fresh air, and eating healthy.

2. Manage stress in a HEALTHY way. There's lots of unhealthy ways to manage, the key is finding something that works for you and is also good for you.

3. Stay Connected. Be sure to spend time with loved ones that you trust and can talk to.

4. Take a Break! Put a pause on social media or your phone in general to to prevent additional stress or anxiety.

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Growth Mindset

A growth mindset is based around the idea of learning from experience and feedback, developing new skills, and using challenges as opportunities for improvement — all elements that can help build internal resilience for you and your whole family.

This mindset allows you to approach obstacles as opportunities for growth, rather than setbacks which can be extremely powerful for your mental health. It is a way to understand that setbacks and failures are not reflections of your worth or abilities, but rather stepping stones on your journey towards success.

So how can you start cultivating this growth mindset? Here a a few ways to get you started -

👉 Seek feedback: Constructive criticism is a valuable tool that enables you to identify blind spots, so don’t be afraid to ask others where you can improve.

👉Embrace failure. You are going to make mistakes, and that’s okay. Take ownership of your errors and give yourself the opportunity to correct it. After a mistake, get curious. Ask yourself, “what obstacles kept me from achieving my goal?”

👉Take pride in your journey. Focus on your progress, not results. When you fixate on the end goal, you lose sight of what you could learn along the way.

Learn more at https://efr.org/2022/10/07/the-power-of-mindset-8-ways-to-cultivate-a-growth-mindset/

Affirmations

For Self-Care Sunday we are talking about the benefit of daily affirmations! This is a great tool for anyone in the family who is combating negative thoughts. An affirmation or “positive affirmation” is something you say to yourself in order to challenge overwhelming negative thoughts.

Just like how exercise strengthens your body, positive affirmations are like a workout for your brain. By repeating positive statements to yourself, you can rewire your thoughts and cultivate a healthy mindset. Studies have shown that practicing positive affirmations can lead to reduced stress levels, increased self-esteem, and improved overall well-being. So why not give it a try?

💗 Affirmations should be tailored to you and your needs, but here is a list of some to get you thinking about what yours could look like.

-Today is going to be a great day!

-I am in charge of my actions and words!

-I am ENOUGH.

-I am proud of myself.

-Today, I choose to be confident.

-I can get through anything I put my mind to.

Read more in this article: https://wellspringprevention.org/blog/the-benefits-of-positive-affirmations/

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