Elemental Wellness

Healing from trauma does not have to be centered around the event(s). Talk therapy, or CBT, can be beneficial for so many reasons, but it can often leave those who are healing from trauma feeling overexposed, frustrated, and unsupported.

That's because talking about trauma without a foundation of safety causes your nervous system to re-live the same trauma; over and over again.

Our nervous system is designed to protect us in moments of emergency. But being stuck in survival mode is not supposed to be your everyday experience.

Re-teaching your nervous system that it's safe, gathering the tools to work through stress, and providing it with the support it needs to heal day after day allows your nervous system to regain it's sense of safety, shift out of overdrive, and allow you to have more flexibility with everyday stressors.

This is for everyone who has been told they don't look sad enough to feel depressed or that because they're functioning, there's no way they can have anxiety.

You are not your feelings and you do not have to look or act like them 100% of the time for them to be valid.

We never know what someone else is going through, be kind! 🌱

Gretchen Rubin categorized mental energy into 4 levels:

1️⃣ Contemplative Energy means you're ready for planning, deciding, creating, inhibiting (holding yourself back from saying, doing, or thinking something), setting priorities, making transitions

2️⃣ Engagement Energy consists of talking to other people; reading or observing, using critical thinking

3️⃣ Audience Energy looks more like passively watching or listening

4️⃣ Habit Energy is solely mindlessly executing a habitual behavior

These levels of mental energy can be a helpful tool used to identify where your needs are at. If you're faced with a level 1 task but your mental energy is at a level 3, you're going to have a really difficult time completing that task.
Depending on what level you're at, you can prioritize your tasks, schedule in time for self-care, and reach out for support if needed.

These numerical cues can be useful when feelings are messy & complicated!

What level are you today?

🔍I think my friend might be considering su***de, what do I do?🔎

→ Have they been showing some common signs of suicidality recently?
→ Ask them! You won't put any ideas in their mind that they haven't already thought of.
→ Stay with them or make sure they're not alone!
→ Put away all means they could use to harm themselves.
→ Need guidance or support? Contact a helpline, 911, or bring them to your local emergency room!
→ Be prepared that they may be upset at you through this and unwilling to accept help but their safety is the most important thing!

🍁Working Through Anger🍁

→ Deep breathing exercises
→ Remove self from the trigger/situation
→ Move the energy out of your body
→ Ground Techniques
→ Visualization/Imagery
→ Express your feelings through creation

🌱It's okay if today turned out differently than you expected ​​​​​​​​
🌱But I know change is difficult and can make us feel like we're losing control ​​​​​​​​
🌱If you're struggling, try to focus on what you CAN control ​​​​​​​​
🌱Or allow yourself to feel the disappointment ​​​​​​​​
🌱Not everyday will be a good one ​​​​​​​​
🌱But you have another chance to try again tomorrow

🌿 Things Worth Living For 🌿

Which one have you been neglecting lately?

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2. 🤸
3. 🏕️
4. 🧘

✨Last Event of Go L*ve Yourself Week✨

Join Dan and Jenny over on Instagram as we go live this evening to sip some tea, catch up, and bring some self-love into the upcoming week! ☕

✨Happening in 30 minutes ✨

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✨Giveaway✨

I was thrilled when Amanda told me she was willing to give away 5 one-on-one Reiki sessions to some lucky winners!

I'll make the rules simple:
1. Like this post
2. Comment below answering this question: "What is one thing you're proud of yourself for?"

Wait!! There's more! We'll give you one extra entry each for completing these:
1. Follow/like both EleMental Wellness & PRSL Mental Health (comment a 👊 to confirm!)
2. Tag a friend (each friend is an additional entry)
3. Share to your story & tag us!

✨ Giveaway ends 3/3 ✨

✨ Anxiety Meditation Today ✨

Join Amanda this afternoon for an anxiety meditation for general relief and connecting with the body.

*Keep an eye out for a Reiki giveaway coming after the session

Join here:
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🌿 Unclench Your Jaw🌿 ​​​​​​​​
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Where we hold tension can tell us a lot about what we're feeling. In any regard, the purpose of tension is not to be annoying, painful, or harmful, but it's actually the opposite. When we tense our muscle, it's to protect ourselves. Whether physically or emotionally, the body doesn't really know the difference. But the location that's tense can tell a story about your experiences:​​​​​​​​
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🍵 Tension in your head could mean you're fast approaching burnout, if you're not already there. ​​​​​​​​
🍵 Tension in your jaw is indicating that your body is in survival mode, or that it feels like it is during your sleep. The natural position of the jaw is with your tongue at the roof of your mouth gently behind the teeth, teeth slightly parted, and lips just pressed to close. ​​​​​​​​
🍵 Stomach tension tends to be very emotional, or even grief. It may be time to let go of toxic relationships or major stressors. But in the meantime, a focus on diaphragmatic breathing can help regulate ​​​​​​​​
🍵 The shoulder/neck area tends to mean we're feeling overworked & overburdened. As if "the weight of the world was on our shoulders". ​​​​​​​​
🍵 Tension in the lower back could mean you've been holding in some anger or feeling that your stability is being threatened. ​​​​​​​​
🍵 Hips hold a lot of repressed sexual energy, tensions, or trauma, and can also be a sign of inflexibility. ​​​​​​​​
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🌿 What is your tension telling you?

✨ Start your morning off with a guided meditation with Ashton tomorrow!

Your mics & cameras will be automatically off for the duration of the session so feel free to come in your pajamas with a coffee in hand! ☕

✨ Join here:
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Passcode: 698018

Happening in 15 minutes! We hope to see you there ✨

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The only way to get it off your mind is to get it out of your head...​​​​​​​​
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Whether you: ​​​​​​​​
• Speak It ​​​​​​​​
• Sing it ​​​​​​​​
• Write it ​​​​​​​​
• Draw it ​​​​​​​​
• Paint it ​​​​​​​​
• Move it ​​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​​.. express it.

Thank you to everyone who joined the ✨Tarot and Chill ✨

Catch Hailey tomorrow at the same time for an Energy Healing Meditation!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82338154208?pwd=QWM3T1JWMGwyMkNqTGhXNDBEVjFUZz09

Meeting ID: 823 3815 4208
Passcode: 664198

✨ Welcome to the start of Go Love Yourself Week ✨

In collaboration with Punk Rock Saves Lives Mental Health, we're bringing you a whole week of events all focused on taking care of and showing love to YOU! Be your own Valentine this week and Go Love Yourself 💖

Tonight: Join Jenny and Morgan as we chat about self-love, pull some tarot cards, and ways of healing.

Zoom link:
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Passcode: 263964

🌿Sober - Curious🌿

👏 Let's normalize *NOT* drinking as much as we normalize drinking

🌱4 Ways to Practice Non-Toxic Positivity🌱​​​​​​​​
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What's on your list?

"If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not 'How do I stop suffering?' but 'Why am I suffering - for what purpose?'" ​​​​​​​​
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-Mark Manson from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Things to Detox This Year: ​​​​​​​​
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🌱 People who drain you ​​​​​​​​
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🌱 Clothes that don't fit ​​​​​​​​
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🌱 Habits that don't serve you ​​​​​​​​
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🌱 Social media accounts you could go without ​​​​​​​​
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🌱 Unrealistic expectations ​​​​​​​​
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🌱 Anything outside of what you can control

🌿 How To Validate Hard Feelings from a Crisis Worker 🌿

-The majority of my job is supporting others in some of their darkest moments
-It's not about telling them what to do or what they should be grateful for or how they should "look on the bright side"
-It IS listening and validating their experience & feelings
- You can't force the desire to keep living into someone, but you CAN help them get through the day

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📔 "I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired, or to be real and loved. We must decide. If we choose to be perfect and admired, we must send our representatives out to live our lives. If it's e choose to be real and loved, we must send our true, tender selves. That's the only way because to be loved, we have to be known. If we choose to introduce our true selves to anyone, we will get hurt, but we will be hurt either way. There is pain in hiding and pain outside of hiding. The pain outside is better because nothing hurts as bad as not being know."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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-Glennon Doyle from Love Warrior

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else. - Paul Arden from the book Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite

🌛 There's Still Time 🌜