Train for Life

Category: Vulnerability

  • Welcome June

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  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Post-its Post-it Notes are a nifty hack that can have a powerful impact on your ability to create and stick to new habits. How often do you learn a new tool that you swear you are going to start using, only to realize days later…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 5, 5 or 5 Tool The 5, 5 or 5 tool helps with procrastination and overwhelm and can kick-start your motivation. Which 5 will you choose? 5 Seconds When you think about a positive behavior, take action within five (5) seconds. Have the idea to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Burrito Wrap This tool provides comforting proprioceptive input to calm your senses and soothe the nervous system to restore balance and peace. Here’s how! Grab a cozy blanket or a weighted blanket to feel more grounded. Wrap the blanket around yourself, rolling yourself up like…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Hot-Spot Scan ‘Hot spots’ are places in the body that hold anxiety, anger, and stress. If you hold tension in your body, the body sends a message to your brain that you are in danger, keeping you stuck in a stress-tension feedback loop and…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Name Your Emotion Naming our emotions can be healing and helpful. It allows us to create space for how we feel while we are processing the emotion. Externalizing emotions can help to down-regulate the limbic system and amygdala (the emotion centers in the brain).…

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  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Draw Your Emotion You do not need to be an artist! Grab some paper and get out of your head by intuitively drawing your emotion. How big is it? What color is it? What texture is it? What shape is it? Are the lines…

  • Welcome April

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  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Aroma Bombs Shake a couple of essential oil drops into the palm of your hands. Cup your hands together, making a little space between your thumbs for your nose. Take a lovely deep inhale of the aroma bomb. Try: Peppermint for when you are…