WEEKLY HEALTHY LIVING CHECK-IN APRIL 23rd, 2022
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- How has your week been?
- How are you today?
- What was something Healthy that you did for yourself this week? What healthy habits could you create or work towards for yourself this month?
- FOR FUN: Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?
- What were your "Highlights Or Struggles" this past week?... How were you able to work through your challenges?!
- What would "YOU" Like to talk about or share with us this week?! WE want to hear from YOU!
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@HopieRemi
- How has your week been?
My week has been okay. Been in a lot of pain, but I have a big highlight 😀 I now have a counsellor I can annoy weekly 🥺💖 gosh they are literally perfect.
- How are you today?
quite tired due to the fact I didn’t sleep until sunrise and only had like 4 hours of sleep. But I’m happy. My dog is currently with me 🥺🥺🥺💖💖💖💖
- What was something Healthy that you did for yourself this week? What healthy habits could you create or work towards for yourself this month?
I got myself a counsellor 😀 yayyyyyyyy.
- FOR FUN: Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?
dinner for breakfasttttt 😮
- What were your "Highlights Or Struggles" this past week?... How were you able to work through your challenges?!
highlights: sending commods a rickroll link 👀 the reactions are so funny.
struggles, idk, sleep XD
- What would "YOU" Like to talk about or share with us this week?! WE want to hear from YOU!
One week till my birthday 😮 (6 days for meeee) I get double birthday on cups 😈
@emotionalTalker2260
Hi! I am glad to hear that you have a counselor that you can talk to on a weekly basis. I am glad that you have been okay this week despite your pain. I hope you get some rest tonight and I love dogs, give that dog a cuddle for me! And lol omg you rick rolled the mods! I would love to see their reactions. And really dinner food for breakfast? :O why that?
@HopieRemi
snowy (my dog) is actually in my lap rn 😮 he’s getting plenty of hugs and pats rn.
and some of the commods reactions were hilarious 💀 No one can Rickroll Anne.. and Jennie doesn’t trust my links 🤡
Awh that’s a cute doggo and I don’t blame Jennie lol you Rick rolling them and all @EmotionalTalker2260
@HopieRemi
👀 I got one commod. And I might get a few more 😀
and snowy is cute 😊
@emotionalTalker2260 good job!! Haha
@HopieRemi
- How has your week been?
It's been a good week; I was visiting my parents and just came home yesterday. I've felt really overwhelmed on and off with everything going on though.
- How are you today?
I'm really tired today and still feel very burned out.
- What was something Healthy that you did for yourself this week? What healthy habits could you create or work towards for yourself this month?
I went for a walk most days! This was really helpful. This month, I want to work on getting more sleep.
- FOR FUN: Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?
Breakfast for dinner!
- What were your "Highlights Or Struggles" this past week?... How were you able to work through your challenges?!
My biggest highlight was getting a job offer for an internship!! I've applied and interviewed so much and it was so good to find something.
I've really been struggling with burnout recently; I'm working part time and in school full time, in addition to lots of other things I've been trying to do. I just keep getting discouraged and feeling defeated, but I keep going.
- What would "YOU" Like to talk about or share with us this week?! WE want to hear from YOU!
I hope you all are doing okay and just know you're not alone. Healthy living is a struggle when my mind tries to go back to unhealthy thinking. It's worth the effort though.
Thank you for checking in @MoreThanAConqueror18 I am glad to hear all these good things and I hope you manage to get some rest this coming month and curb away that burn out feeling. Keep it up!
*I am tired, bit burned out, and fighting chronic infection while dealing with C-PTSD symptoms, yet thankfully I have been able to sleep.
*Today my infection seems worse, which seems to relate to yesterday’s high fat intake (too many avocados in one day).
*This week I started using a sauna bag daily and it is wonderful for my peace of mind and health.
*I don’t have a preference for breakfast for dinner or the opposite, as I’ll be drink green juice, a green smoothie, or eating veggies regardless.
*Struggles this week were attending a family event against my intuition and then eating sugar while there because I didn’t want to be there ((one non family member who is a negative presence was there). After that day, I cut out all sugar and have been exercising, walking, lots, etc, to cleanse.
*Lastly, I want to state that focusing on my research paper is all I will be doing this week.
@peacefulpisces hi there! i am sorry to hear about how you are feeling physically and mentally, that does sound really exhausting to deal with. i hope that you can somehow get some rest/relief from those symptoms and some rest very soon. i'm however happy to hear that you were able to catch sleep and therefore give your body some rest already.
and wow, a sauna bag! i looked that up for the first time and it looks so comfy :O
i hope that you were able to reset your body and system after that family event and that your body feels better. good luck with the research paper!!
thank you for checking in with us <3 i hope you have a wonderful week ahead
Thank you so very much for your kindness. 🌸🙏🏻 Yes, a low emf sauna bag is life changing. Thank you for all your good wishes. I am doing my best, and hopefully will get it all done soon. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead, and you are welcome for the check in. Peace. 🌎🌞
Hey @peacefulpisces good luck with that paper. I am sorry to hear about your struggles but I am also glad to hear you managed to get sleep despite it. What’s your paper topic? I also have to write a paper.
Hey @hopieremi Ty! 🌺 my paper is about creativity and development of voice after childhood trauma. What is your paper about? Plus, good luck with your writing.
@peacefulpisces that sounds like a very interesting assignment! I’d love to see it. My paper is on ethical boundaries and practices in mental health and wellness. So basically about the boundaries a professional needs to have with patients as well as the ethics involved in decision making.
Oh, wow, your paper sounds terrific, so valuable and needed on the field. My paper is part of an exegesis for my PhD, so it won’t be done for a few months.
@peacefulpisces oh wow a PhD ! Marvelous ! I’m working on my masters. What do you want to do with your degree?
@HopieRemi Thank you! 🙏🏻 I am a writer and a filmmaker, so I will continue writing and making films. Well done on the master’s degree. That is terrific. If you are studying psychology, consider taking a class in sandtray or sand play. They are life changing positive tools for dramatic deep psyche change.
@peacefulpisces
What is sandtray / sand play? sounds interesting! So you write and make films, that sounds exciting. How are you going to use your Ph.D there?
I had to make a new row for talking smh lol
- How has your week been?
I moved from a motel to a dorm hostel, then moved rooms to another dorm because someone new spilled their bong water everywhere, then moved today to a private room without as the dorm I was moved to was crazy noisy (right by the office). The private room has no heat so I hope it’s warm enough and that they only charge me for a dorm otherwise I may not survive the month. There is a piano here which is nice as it feels therapeutic somewhat to play maybe and we had a paint night. I rarely drink but someone left some craft beer and I tried it last night and it brought some social skills out of me I didn’t know I had. I went to an open mic later and had a glass of wine and some coconut prawns, and had some laughs and enjoyed the music. I’m feeling very lonely though and don’t want to rely on alcohol to be social so I practiced being social sober today. I also dropped off two bags of donations to Salvation Army to help lighten my pilgrimage, and pulled some cards (cards say I need to focus on being calm, trusting the process and taking gentle action, healing myself, believing in myself and being honest.)
- How are you today?
I’m worried.
- What was something Healthy that you did for yourself this week? What healthy habits could you create or work towards for yourself this month?
Something healthy that I did for myself this week was keep trying to do the water challenge which I’m thankful and grateful for as it cleared my skin up a bit.
- FOR FUN: Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast?
I would rather have breakfast for dinner.
- What were your "Highlights Or Struggles" this past week?... How were you able to work through your challenges?!
Highlights: Dad paid for a phone card. Went to open mic. Had a rare beer and glass of wine and fried food. Socialized. Painted a picture. Tidied. Asked for help. Went to a toy store and played with the toys. Shared my food. Played piano and sang. Went for walks in nature. Went outside my comfort zone. Gave compliments and recognition to others. Gave compliments and recognition to myself. Looked into how I could allow myself to receive the help I need. Listened to many meditations, visualizations and did laundry, morning and evening routine and exercises as best I could. Worked on forgiving, being smiley, compassionate, positive and fun.
Struggles: Feeling upset about how old and cheap I look lately. Spots on my hand and pores, blemishes, sagging skin and bags all new to me and somehow so disheartening. Also losing my housing due to not finding the help I need and ending up in a place where rent is so high and housing is so competitive that all my old fears and doubts are tearing through me. My family not willing to allow me to live with them through this difficult time...it’s been a time of despair. I just want to be young and desirable and have been given a chance in life, and to accept myself and be wise, courageous and strong and successful, not this failure of a human being that can’t even keep the basic needs locked in.
- What would "YOU" Like to talk about or share with us this week?! WE want to hear from YOU!
I would like to talk about what it’s like living in the world as someone with a mental illness. How it’s similar to being a ghost in that we live on earth yet can’t be part of it. How we watch the mentally healthy live their lives as though they are in a parallel universe where they won some random healthy brain lottery. The senselessness of it and the lack of appropriate community, communication and resources that keep people in the streets and cycling in and out of poverty and misfortune.
@HopieRemi
Hello @Dallady I am glad to hear that the water challenge has been helpful. I’m sorry to hear about your current struggles and I hope some positives vibes reach you and that things get easier soon for you. I agree about your parallel with the mental healthy individuals and those with mental illnesses. How can we as a community support this? Do we need more resources ?
I forgot to answer “what healthy habits could you work on” or whatever it was as it got lost in the other question.
I would like to work on what the cards said and also keep practicing drinking enough water throughout the day.
I want to find a good sunscreen and place to live and get the help I need if I need it.
@Dallady Those are good goals and I hope you can work on these through the next month.
