5 Ways to Use Journals to Help Soothe Your Worries and Sleep Better
In the last post we talked about why a worry journal is helpful. You know what a worry journal is and the benefits it can deliver, now it’s time to learn the best ways to use them for better sleep. There are a lot of different ways you can use a journal to help soothe your worries and get a better night’s sleep. Here, we’re going to look at 5 effective ways to use your journal to combat those worries. 1. Write down your worries a few hours before bed Whether you write in a worry journal in the morning or at night, you’re still going to experience some benefits. However, if you’re looking to sleep better, experts suggest using your journal around three hours before you get…
How to Have Courage To Embrace Major Life Changes
Have you ever been faced with a life-changing event and felt totally lost on what you should do? You become paralyzed with fear, leaving you stuck in inaction. You don’t know if you can find the courage to go on. Life seems to have lost its color, it’s shine, it’s music. You fear the changes instead of learning how to embrace change with positive steps. Life hands us events that can totally change the course of our lives, for the better or for worse. It’s your choice of how it does. Marriage. Birth of a child. LossĀ of a loved one. Disease. Overwhelming debt. Move to a new home. Divorce. Empty Nest. Disability. I’ve been there. Many times. Marriage, the birth of a child (x3), loss of…
How’s your Mindset?
How’s your mindset? Do you try to be positive or are you more of a negative Nelly? All my life I’ve always tried to have a positive outlook. Even when situations in my life looked it’s worst, I’d push through until I came out on the positive side of it. This mindset has helped get me through numerous losses of loved ones and jobs and disappointments in people and situations. Until recently though. In the past few years, I’ve battled depression, lack of self-confidence, fear of losing everything, the loss of direction and finally, forgetting who I am in my soul. After years of being the caregiver for everyone else I forgot to take care of me. Now that I no longer am in that…