The Wellness Weekly
Week 2
Welcome back to the Wellness Weekly
We continue to wish you and yours wellness. This week we want to expand a bit on the idea of building resilience. Perhaps over the last week you've been able to find some time and space to get outside, make a cake with no eggs, zoom with family or friends in addition to students, brave the grocery store or just breathe. Maybe you are still in a place where surviving each day is all you can manage. No matter where you are with it all, take a moment right now to acknowledge your strength and resilience to get through each day, each moment. Well done. This kind of mindfulness, just paying attention in the moment without judgement has all kinds of benefits for our well-being. If you have a bit more capacity, we'd like you to consider a few other things over the coming week.
How can you be nicer to yourself? Just ponder the concept for a start. Maybe it is saying to yourself, "I am doing the best that I can." Then give yourself grace for the moments it doesn't feel like enough.
How can you make more time for yourself? Can you eke out a few more seconds in the shower? A few more moments on a walk or doing something else you enjoy? Maybe for a start just make a list of things you might enjoy if you had the time and capacity.
Ask for what you need. Start with identifying what might be helpful to you. Then how can you respectfully ask those that might be able to help? How can you offer help if you are able?
Surround yourself with people who care about you. How to do this while physically distancing? Maybe it's just reaching out to one person today via text or email or zoom or with an old school phone call to connect. Even writing a note to someone can help you feel supported.
Remember help is still available and where there is help, there is hope. Reach out to us with your wellness ideas, comments and questions so we can be well together.
~Brought to you by your Student Services Prevention and Intervention Team. For questions, please contact Amy Baker.
Practice
Sometimes the best way to build our own resilience is to send our best intentions out into the world for those around us. Send some loving-kindness into the world :
Podcast
Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are so that we can live, love, parent and lead with more courage and heart. https://brenebrown.com/unlockingus/
Play
The Met Opera is streaming a series of free performances on its website. This is an excellent, no-cost opportunity to discover beloved works of art like Carmen, La Bohème, and La Traviata. And...if Sting is more your speed, check him and others out playing a distance version of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” instead!
Helping Others Can Help You Cope
If you have the capacity consider how the science of helping others in the end helps ourselves. "Helping Others Can Help You Cope with Lockdown: In the time of coronavirus, turning outward is a win-win prospect.”
Website: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/helping_others_can_help_you_cope_with_lockdown
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