Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Celebrate Yourself More Often

Holistic Therapy Tips: How To Celebrate Yourself More Often

When you work hard to get things done it can be exciting just to think, “Yay, I’m glad it worked out and I got it done” and next pivot our attention and start looking at the next task to be done. In society there’s a not so subtle push to rush, run, and sprint to get things done, and then take on even more things to work on. The pace of following a moving target of goals also creates a feeling of being on a continued hamster wheel with little to down time or time to reflect in-between. When we feel as though we’re on a revolving hamster wheel in our lives, it can also make us feel a sensation of emptiness emotionally. Without making space to feel more connection to our wins, obstacles, and growth opportunities we can miss out on the beauty of feeling more present and presence in our day to day lives.

In the paragraphs below, I’m going to walk you through 2 methods to increasingly celebrate yourself more often. This will help you stay anchored in self-connection, which ultimately makes us feel more centered and confident.

Stop and Savor The Small Victories

When you decide to work on your goals it’s worthy to also celebrate your small victories on your way to task or goal completion. It may seem odd to stop and celebrate completing another day of effort placed towards your goal but, trust me it’s a great way to nurture your practice. 

Imagine if we celebrated all of the small efforts that create the end results of growth, increased knowledge, or success and accomplishment. It’s like enjoying a long beautiful scenic car ride without having to wait until you get to the final destination on your road trip. You’ll naturally get more from your experience and efforts. Remember to stop and enjoy the view on your journey to success, not just when you get to the top of the mountain as they say.

Create A Celebration Ritual

If you don’t normally practice celebrating your small victories you may not have a celebration ritual worked out just yet. That’s okay, let’s start thinking of different ways you can celebrate, smile, and savor your small wins. Sometimes we attach a large celebration to the completion of a goal like going out to a nice dinner, getting a new outfit, inviting all of our besties over to have wine and dish about the job well done. This is fine to celebrate the whole experience but you can decide how to celebrate based on what feels right and best.

Sometimes we don’t go big-party mode at the end of the goal, we might just opt to rest or have a drink, or shift in to downtime mode so we can rest a while post goal completion.

But if we focus on the journey instead of the end result you get a bunch of milestones that will be within your view for celebration. Some simple ways to celebrate the journey while on the journey may be to smile and verbally commend your own progress. You can say “great job on x, y, z” as though you are talking to a friend (you’re the friend). You can break into a mini- journal session to process and savor your win, aim for a single paragraph or go for a whole page just to feel more present and celebratory. You can also talk with a friend or support about your recent win and of course please be open to remember that our loved one’s may not be as engaged or happy (as we would be) about our play by plays so they may be supportive in their own ways but your happiness is not reliant on how much your loved one demonstrates enthusiasm for your updates and successes. That’s our job for our goals, we are the one’s who need/ will be excited at 100%+ percent.

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5 Unconventional Tips to Improve Your Depression & Energy Right Now!

Ever wake up and feel like your energy is already spent for the day and that getting out of bed is going to require major effort? Maybe you’re feeling sluggish and with cloudy thinking or have low patience to be with others because you know they’ll ask for more than you feel you can energetically offer. Maybe you find yourself coping with comfort foods or binge watching Netflix more often. This may be how depression looks for you and as a Licensed Therapist who has treated many clients who experience Depression; I know that being depressed can feel isolating, exhausting, and inevitable. In support, I’m sharing 5 unconventional tips to help you improve your depression and energy right now. Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have feel stuck any longer?

Make Up Your Mind

Did you know your mind has the power to produce thoughts that aren’t always true? When depression symptoms increase you may notice that your thoughts include a higher rate of negative thought cycles including anger, isolation, hopelessness, or worthlessness. When your mind increases negative thought patterns, it’s a best time to identify that you’re on the verge or in an active episode of depression.

Once you identify your experience of having depressed negative thoughts you have an opportunity to take action to shift those negative thought cycles to positive thought cycles. You can shift your negative thought cycles to positive thoughts by challenging the negative thoughts you experience with an intentional positive thought. For example if you ever think, “my family doesn’t care about me, what’s the use”, the alternative thought may be “I know my family loves me even though they show me differently than I would like”. Challenge your negative thoughts often in order to improve your depression experience. I know it may not be easy to believe your intentional positive thoughts at first but over time and with practice; thinking intentional and positive is a helpful tool to change how depression feels.

Schedule Your Phone Time

Yes, I know we all love our cell phones, laptops, Internet, and social media. And, what if being continually exposed to electronic devices throughout the day is making you more depressed? The more time you spend consuming media without having a structured schedule increases the probability of developing unhealthy coping behaviors for depression. Giving our screens too much attention can cost us the ability to concentrate, to maintain focus, to remember things clearly, to feel connected to ourselves, or to feel a sense of adequacy.

Scheduling your phone use not only helps you to avoid "ongoing phone in hand syndrome", but gives your mind a sense of order to know when and how long you will be using your devices or using social media. Scheduling time for using your phone can increase productivity. Scheduling phone time also will help improve your symptoms of depression, and boost your energy.

Set Your Home & Work Intentions

Before you’re actively in the midst of your day at home or at work, a great tool to organize your mind and reduce depression and low energy is to set your intentions. If you’re at home or work consider setting your intention for the day to help being home or at work and interacting with others feel mindful. Before opening emails or jumping into work projects think about how you want to experience the day. Setting intentions can be as simple as stating or writing “today will be a day with positive interactions, more laughter, and productivity”. When we practice setting intentions our mindset has the support in place to become collaborative and flexible to experience energetic and emotional success.

Change Your Focus in Nature

It may not always be a sunny day outside but being outdoors is an amazing way to reset your depression or experience of low energy. Many great things happen when you make a habit of going outside routinely. You get access to open space, which allows you to practice mindful observation. Mindful observation is a tool to explore your environment using your 5 senses of hearing, touching, seeing, smelling, and tasting. To make this tip work for depression choose to focus your attention on observing the objects or interactions that you can appreciate, help you feel joy, or that you find interesting.

Going outdoors also has a great benefit of increasing access to sunlight and Vitamin D, which is known to ward off depression and balance mood. Additionally, being outside and away from your primary environment can help your mind to rest from negative thoughts and reset your energy.

Scale Your Mood Daily

Depression is something that occurs on a spectrum of stability to acute intensity. Therapists often ask their client’s to select a number between 1 and 10 in order to better understand the stability or intensity of client symptoms. You can do this practice for yourself as well. Consider locating your depression on a scale of 1 to 10 when you start your day or as needed. Assessing and seeing where your depression is scaled numerically daily helps for you to assign the right coping practice to match your needs intentionally. If you find that your symptoms are low, you have feedback that what your doing is working. If your depression is increasing continually, it’s also helpful feedback to retrace your steps to determine the root issue and to create a plan to reduce your symptoms.

Practicing any one of these tips may be helpful for depression and low energy relief, but practicing more than 1 will definitely give you a greater advantage. As hard as it may feel to tell yourself that you can do much to change how you feel, please know that you can. Depression management means proactive daily attendance. Taking action is the first step. Count reading this article as a good sign you’re already working on feeling better and still have some hope left. Improving your depression may take effort at first and with continued practice and using my 5 unconventional tips you can feel empowered may find eventually your depression management is easy and simple. Don’t give up.

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How to Empower Yourself: Well Empowered Series E2 Ft. Self Care Belle: Kemi Huntley

HI WELLNISTA,

I have quite the treat for you today! Today is EPISODE 2 for The Well Empowered Series! I’m so happy you are here to see it! Please give me feedback in the comments below for this fun and magical project so I can keep building the best wellness and empowerment vlogcast ever!

WHAT IS THE WELL EMPOWERED SERIES?

The Well Empowered Series is meant to inspire and motivate women with self-empowerment enrichment through the collaborative conversation of growth experiences from women from all walks of life.

This (TWES) series is focused on wellness, realness, and creating a more candid conversation about the process of working through the hard parts of change and crushing goals!

Each month The Well Empowered Series features a new unique guest interview, a seasonal rapid-fire question session, and access to an exclusive empowerment based special offer for the viewers from the interviewing guest.

WHO IS KEMI HUNTLEY?

A creative mind and content creator for the Self Care Belle T-Shirt Line and Mental Health Enthusiast. Kemi is also a Mental Health Therapist, Mom, Wife, Boss Babe, and Fit Mama based in North Carolina.

Kemi is the brand creator for Self Care Belle T-Shirts (tees, tanks, and sweatshirts) including cool designs pictured below! Kemi’s wellness message closely weaves the importance of taking care of self and shining more brightly as a result as worthy and essential. Kemi also hosts Wellness and Self Care events in her local community, try and catch the next event if your in the North Carolina area! You won’t be disappointed. Go check out all of the Self Care Belle offerings here. Prepare to be inspired!

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You will find out more about how Kemi practices empowerment.

Kemi’s tools for managing a negative inner thought cycles.

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