Spiritual & Emotional Wellness Blog

Stress can affect our energy levels, our mindsets, our emotions and so much more. We can easily pick up stress from all sorts of situations and people. It’s our job to learn how to disconnect from stress and include these practices on a daily basis in order to connect back to peace and joy. 

We can all feel totally wiped out, exhausted & drained in life. Sometimes it comes and goes, but in winter it feels like these emotions truly take over. So, how do we move past them? Here are 12 Self Care tips that will help you let go of stress, step out of the mundane routine of life, connect back to your inner self, find peace & joy, remind yourself of your dreams & passions, and receive some guidance & support through life. 

My entire life I have been a people pleaser. I strive to make sure everyone around me is happy. I work 110% to create balance and harmony for everyone else. I love so unconditionally and I give that love to anyone in my life. It ended in a lot more pain for me. It ended in people learning that they could walk all over me and I would still see the good in them. It ended in me giving ALL of my time, effort and energy to the people around me, leaving nothing left in the tank for myself.

Have you ever been in a stage of your life that you are fearful of what other people will think of you, or what they might say about you? Have you wanted someone to be your friend so bad that you started to change the way you acted, dressed and even the way you thought in hopes that they would like you back? Stepping into self is all about coming to the realization that we CANNOT please everyone, so we might as well make 100% sure that we are pleasing ourselves first. 

Deciding you want to heal from past trauma and actually starting to work on healing yourself are 2 VERY different things. For those of us who have experienced trauma in our past, whether physical, mental/emotional or spiritual, we know that their has been a lot of pain, suffering and hurt we’ve experienced. Sometimes we actually still experience the pain and suffering as it comes up in new ways in our lives, bringing the old pain forward again.

5 Phases to Heal, Move On & Say Thank-you. We can experience trauma in many different ways, but there are 3 main distinctions - physical, mental/emotional & spiritual. It’s easiest to recognize physical trauma and this is the kind that is most notably talked about in society. However, the trauma that can be hardest to heal from is mental/emotional trauma & spiritual trauma and this is because it’s hard for others to understand the trauma you may have experienced and it is hard for you to recognize that it was trauma you experienced. 

Have you ever experienced a challenge in your life that brought forward negative emotions? Did you want to connect back to positivity as quick as possible so you stepped away from that challenge and moved on to something else? In the end did those old feelings come back up at a time you least expected them? When we bury emotions & feelings we can become more easily triggered in the future to experience those emotions again. Now is the time to understand how to properly move forward from challenges or hard times you have experienced. 

The lowest point in my life was a mental breakdown I had almost 2 years ago. In those moments I felt stuck in life, like I wasn’t worthy to experience happiness and joy, like I was alone in a world full of people who did not care or even see how I was suffering. This was my lowest point in life and I am here to share how I got through the darkness and was able to find the light once again.