9 ways a notebook/journal can support your care-giving journey- Empowered Care taking

Hey Wonderful Soul! These tips are geared towards my fellow caregivers out there, but most of them could be used by anyone. Here are 9 ways to use a journal/notebook to support your care-giving journey.

1. Vent, it’s perfectly ok to spew out your frustrations. Especially if you don’t feel you have anyone who get’s it.. sometimes just getting it out of your head helps one feel calmer.
2. Gratitude, sometimes finding that gratitude will feel like an excavation. Try and express it anyways.. One thing in depth, a list of 2-5 things, doodle it (maybe it’s that cup of… or the sun-shining or a good day for your loved one)
3. Doodle, you DO NOT have to have any (like zero, zilch) drawing skills to doodle. Just create spirals, draw bits from your day to day (remember embrace imperfection here)
4. Write your favorite quotes or song lyrics
5. Write down your wins from that day or week. (and they can be seemingly tiny)
6. Make a list of what things you need to do, want to look into, follow up on.
7. Track your loved ones symptoms, behaviors etc..
8. Make a list of self care actions you can take. (even in a few minutes a day, deep breaths, music, gratitude, creativity etc..)
9. Glue in pictures, images from magazines, words you are drawn to.. this is a space, budget and time friendly way to engage in creativity on the regular.

I will leave the list at that for this post, though I could probably go on!

Essentially you really can’t do the journal/notebook thing wrong.  Choose one or a few ideas that you are drawn to and start there. It also doesn’t need to be anything fancy… The journal can be a composition notebook, spiral bound “cheap” one, pretty journal, blank book.. anything goes!

Here is to living and caring with intention

Heather

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Reflect and plan -Journal Prompt

Hey Inspiring soul,

Shockingly as always the month is coming to a close, September is just about about upon us.

A great way to help you transition into the new month is to reflect and plan.

Reflect: on the month coming to a close

• What were my wins this month?
• What was difficult?
• Things you want to remember?
• Read,watched ,learned

Plan:The month coming up

• What do I need to get done?
• How do I want to feel?
• What is my intention?
• What needs to be carried forward from last month?
• What can I release from last month?
• What do I want to savor?
• What do I want to create space for?
• How van I create that space?

Here is to living with Intention

Heather

Monthly Intentions Prompts (August)

 

Hey Beautiful Souls!

How are you? Another month is upon us already! Time is flying by so much this year (pretty sure I say that all the time!)

Each month I like to sit down and plan my to do’s, want to do’s intentions and a bit of a wishlist for the month.

With time flying by so fast it’s easy to just react to the days, months, year. However with a little bit of time set aside you can go into and through the month with some intention.

1. What do I want to feel this month?
2. What do I want to create this  month?
3. What do I want to accomplish, need to do this month? (this can be calls, appointments, research, errands, projects etc.. )
4. What do I want to explore this month?
5. What do I want to savor this month?
6. What needs my attention this month?
7. How can I nourish myself this month?

I will share a few of mine!

I want to feel grounded this month. There is a lot going on in my life/family and it’s easy for me to get caught up in a panic/anxiety energy.

I can nourish myself this month by going to the beach at least once, putting foundation practices into place daily (like water, movement, journaling, deep breaths)

I want to savor time with family this month in the form of conversations, laughter, tears if that’s what the moments present, watching things that inspire us.

Here is to living with Intention

Heather

In Detail- Journal Prompt

Hello Kind Soul,

Life get’s chaotic, we get distracted by all the undones, not yet’s, not rights etc.

I was recently reminded of how powerful detailed gratitude can be. What I mean by this is instead of writing out  say 3-5 + things you are grateful for (Clean Water, my job, family etc.. )  You get specific about 1 (I am grateful for my family and the way we can rally together in times of difficulty….

So this week’s journal prompt is to do just that.

Choose one thing you are grateful for and describe what and why in detail.

Here is to living with Intention

Heather

Respond – Monday Mindset

Hello Beautiful Soul,

Something I have been working on (over and over!) is to remind myself to respond, not react.

Reacting is a very different energy than responding. This is true in verbal interactions and many situations. There are times in life where you need to react. But many of us (myself definitely included) tend to react when in reality responding is what we need to do.

To me, reacting is more of the energy of panic, anxiousness, frustration. Response is more calm, thought out, planned.

So this Monday’s Mindset Mantra is:

I choose to respond in a way that honors what really matters in this situation (interaction) 

Here is to living with Intention

Heather