The S.P.I.E.S. Self-Care Strategies: Practice Loving Yourself During February, the Month of Love and Beyond Now that 2024 is well underway, let’s work on attaining total wellness and satisfaction. My S.P.I.E.S. model is a framework for connecting with your self-awareness and utilizing your internal intelligence related to your strengths, interests, and needs. S.P.I.E.S. (Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social) is a multidimensional model that enables you to engage in introspection and self-care in the five dimensions as described below. Spiritual Domain Definition: Your inner guideposts, such as values; morals, intuition; principles; ethics; and sense of purpose. These guide the development of your character qualities. Spiritual Domain Self-Care: Activities and practices that engage you with your sense of purpose and or enable you to hear your inner voice. Spiritual Domain Benefits: Feeling grounded, centered, authentic and at peace with you...
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Happier Holidays: Get Ready to Turn Down the Stress and Turn Up the Joy
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Happier Holidays: Turn Down the Stress and Turn Up the Joy Is your holiday stress related to: Problems With Self-Care? Overeating Insufficient Sleep Excessive Alcohol Doing Too Much Financial Management Problems Overspending Managing gift expectations Entertaining and Social Demands Hosting guests Increased social events and activities Family Drama and Strain Grief and Loneliness Loss of loved ones Other major losses (job; relationship; decline in health) Feeling isolated The holidays are here with Thanksgiving kicking off the season through New Year's Day. You do not have to be overcome by the stress that often comes with them. Coping with holiday stress starts with your acknowledgement of its source(s); assessing the impact on you; and addressing stress related problems with effective strategies. By reducing and managing stress you can enjoy the holidays. Stay tuned for upcoming articles that will provide holiday stress management and reduction tips...
Taking Care of Me in 2023: Healthy Self-Love
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Elements and the Practice of Healthy Self-Love As February comes to a close, let's reflect on the major theme, represented by Valentine's Day, that of love . Healthy love is a powerful force. It provides us with motivation, joy, purpose, and energy. It is important to remember that healthy love starts with our ability to love ourselves. Healthy Self-Love Self-Acceptance and Being Authentic Like who you are Focus on and reinforce your strengths and positive qualities Embrace your individuality Self-Compassion Treat yourself well Forgive yourself for past mistakes Accept positive treatment from others Self-Esteem Recognize your value and honor it Honor the priority of your needs Assert your needs and wants Self-Awareness Be in touch with and in control of your emotions Set reasonable and Healthy Boundaries Practice mindfulness Positivity Recognize and celebrate your accomplishments Adopt an optimistic mindset Seek to enjoy life Pract...
Taking Care of Me in 2023: Healthy and Intentional Self-Care
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"Taking Care of Me in 2023" An Overview of the S.P.I.E.S. Self-Care Model Self-Care is the healthy exercise of your responsibility and your right to aim for wellbeing. It starts with our attitude. That which we can Conceive, Believe and Achieve contributes toward our feeling and being well. This is a conscious and intentional practice. My mindfulness approach: Acknowledge; Assess and Address enables you to work through and manage your emotions. This intentional process enables you to feel in control and resolve distress. Practicing deliberate self-care in a comprehensive manner promotes total wellness. My model, S.P.I.E.S. provides a framework that can be applied to guide you through self-care assessment and practices across five dimensions: Spiritual: Your sense of purpose, mission, values, and meaning that guide you and promote fulfillment Physical: Your health, physical characteristics, physical abilities and talents; Intellectual: You...
Welcome 2023 With Gratitude from 2022
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THE BENEFIT OF GRATITUDE Being Grateful for 2022 Helps Usher in 2023 As 2022 comes to a close, it it helpful to reflect on how we were successful in getting through the year. It is important to note that using a positive lens through which to evaluate what has transpired and where we have landed does not require us to ignore the painful or challenging experiences. It is healthy to acknowledge problems and negative situations. However, it is unhealthy to give those events and situations all of the power. That is what happens when we narrow our lens and focus only or primarily on the pain of hurtful events. A healthy attitude enables us to desire to be whole, feel well and move on. Psychological researchers have found that the practice of gratitude is helpful in switching our perspective from one of problem to solution and building the resilience to overcome the negative impact of hurtful events. Specifically, the attitude of gratitude is the ability t...
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CAREER SATISFACTION AND SUCCESS PODCAST SERIES by Dr. Diane Kern Podcast Episode Highlights Episode #1: Boosting Career Confidence (Aired November 15) Guest: Mr. Ralph Rosello, Sales and Marketing Expert Having strong career confidence is important because: It enables you to showcase your best It helps you promote yourself during the application and interview phases of job search It inspires others to have confidence in your abilities In sales, it helps you have influence potential customers It strengthens the foundation for your decision making It allows you to “take control of the room” and be in command of situations when necessary It helps you communicate effectively It strengthens perseverance and resilience that help you overcome challenges 3 Tips for Boosting Career Confidence: Reflect on your previous positive experiences and achievements Focus on your strengths, talents and abilities Seek and engage in opportunities to...
THE BENEFITS OF CAREER CONFIDENCE
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Career Confidence is Vital to Career Satisfaction and Success Career Confidence Consists of the Following: Having a strong and positive belief in one's work-related assets (i.e. skills, strengths, abilities, talents that enable achievement) Feeling comfortable demonstrating those assets Seeking and being willing to take on challenges, including learning new skills Feeling good and at ease with celebrating achievements Career Confidence is Important to Career Happiness and Sucess: When you experience a high level of confidence, it functions like a muscle that reinforces your desire and comfort with applying your work-related assets. This is especially true when you are performing work that you enjoy and is truly a good fit for you. You are also more likely to experience success when you feel the confidence to apply and demonstrate your work-related skills, talents and abilities. A High and Healthy Level of Self Confidence is Beneficial Because it Enables You To: ...