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Wellness

Mindful Minute: How My Day Planner Became a Journal of the Unplanned

By Heidi Weaver

I’ve understood my whole life that there are many wellness benefits to writing in a journal. Self-reflection, stress relief, and recording good ideas are a few that come to mind. I realized these benefits in my teen and early adult years, when I regularly poured my deepest (and not so deep) thoughts out in page after page of my diary. But as my obligations increased over the years with working full time and a busy family life, I started to see journaling every evening as yet another pressure-filled, time-consuming chore rather than a healing opportunity, and abandoned the practice. Read More

Wellness

Still Stepping Six Feet Back

Mentally stepping six feet back can help us remain accountable while letting go of the judgment we may hold about ourselves and others as we make our way through stressful work situations.

Wellness

Rethink Your New Year’s Resolutions

It’s going to be a new year, which means a new us! We make all sorts of promises to ourselves about the things we’ll do: we’re going to eat healthier, we’re going to work out more, we’re going to spend less time on social media, and so on. In short, we’re going to become better versions of ourselves.

Wellness

Need to Boost Your Mood? Try Busting a Move

If you’re like me and miss the big, loud, social aspects of dancing, I hope you can continue to enjoy the fun aspect of dancing and soak up all the happiness and wellness that a micro-dose of dance can generate.

Law Practice

Diversifying Your Day — The Mindful Break

The notion of compartmentalizing spaces is a useful technique for many purposes, but the primary goal of such an exercise is to establish a mental association with why you are spending your time at a particular place and what you have come to that place to do.