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The Wellness Wheel

The Wellness Wheel is a diagram used to help individuals reach fulfillment in each important aspect in human life. There are eight categories that include physical, emotional, occupational, environmental, social, financial, spiritual, and intellectual wellness. In this post, we will explore what each one means so you can reflect on what each category means and needs for you. Physical wellness talks about how well you can keep up your physical health. This is an important part of keeping not only your body healthy, but exercise also plays an important role in keeping your mental health at bay. This also includes getting routine check-ups at the doctor, dentist, eye-doctor, and any other place

Trauma

Everyone deals with things differently. Whether feelings are not our strong suit and we completely avoid them or we are emotionally distraught and find ourselves ruminating all too often. Both of these are unhealthy ways of dealing with traumas. On one hand, if you do not process through trauma, it can lead to unhealthy future relationships. If you ruminate in unhealed trauma, you never experience the chance of moving on and growing from change. This post is specifically for people who are stuck in a spot where they might not know what to do. When trauma occurs, the body goes into fight or flight mode which is our instinctual way of dealing with threat or fear. In response to this, our body

How to Feel Like Yourself Again

So much of our lives tends to be spent going through the motions and we may never realize that we have lost sight of the things we used to care so much about. Those things that may have put joy back into our lives even in the most difficult times of our lives. Life gets in the way of what we enjoy and we can end up leaving each day feeling like we have lost something. Maybe you truly did lose something: a loved one, a job, a friend, a relationship or connection, a sense of self. So what do we do when we don't feel like ourselves anymore? We start to do the things we love and we spend time with the people who bring out the best in us. Think of something that brings you joy that also involves

Filling A Void

Sometimes when we lose something or someone we can start to feel empty. Many times when this hopeless, drawn out sadness consumes us, we start to find ways to fill that emptiness with other things. Every once in a while we can find things that are healthy to fill up that void with like seeing our friends and family, but other times we may turn to things that aren’t healthy for us like alcohol, drugs, or other ways of coping. There are times in our lives where we don’t feel much and instead of trying to push through the despair, we relent and find ourselves in relationships with toxic people and substances that bring us a small amount of peace within ourselves but only for a short amount of t