just keep swimming

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I graduated last week and I am now a registered Lifestyle, Food and Wellness Coach ⭐️☀️❤️ I also finished a Certificate in Mindfulness and will continue studying (looking at counseling next I think) It wasn't easy BUT I DID IT! You can do cool things too - you just need to start somewhere and give it a go. Will it be perfect? Will you just glide through it? Probably not. But that's life, that's living! Don't leave behind a trail of regrets ✌🏼️

What do you want to change? What could you change?

Whether you're sad, angry, tired, worried or scared -- acknowledge how you FEEL without adding a story to it. 'I feel sad'. 'I am scared'. 'I am angry'. Don't add 'because....' - just sit with your emotion, feel where it lives in your body. And breathe it away. Let it dissolve into a billion tiny atoms, then a million, then a thousand.. Until it is so small that it doesn't bother you anymore. Oh it's still there, as it should be - we are HUMAN, but you can control the power behind it and how you react to it. ☀️✌🏼️

A personal post on my practice with mindfulness.... My 7yo daughter has a rare genetic disorder called #rettsyndrome and suffers from epilepsy as a result. Tonight she's had so many seizures in a short timeframe that we've had to give her the rescue meds to stop it. The seizures have stopped but we're so worried that she's going to sleep in our bed tonight - first time we've ever done that. (Last time it was like this we called 000 straight away but we're a bit more experienced now). Anymore seizures after so many meds, we'll call an ambulance. So imagine how stressed out I am, to the point I was bringing on a migraine and felt sick to my stomach. BUT I wanted to write out some mindfulness notes and I feel like they've really helped calm me down, enough so that I'm relaxed enough to sleep now without taking a painkiller (I don't think there's need now!). This is a pic of my last page of mindfulness notes -- Process the Emotion, Not the thoughts. Don't create drama - don't write a story about your suffering. Acknowledge how you feel, sit with it and let it dissolve away. Remember this next time stress bubbles up. We cannot change the past or future but we can be present in what's happening right now. Right now, I'm going to sleep. Goodnight ☀️✌🏼️❤️