Cheri’s Connection Corner - Swiss 🧀 Cheese & Healthy Living Balance
Hello health living Cupsers 🙌🙌💕💕💕🙌🙌🙌💕💕💕
Your journey have started in 2024! So glad remember to not over schedule too many goals at one time. Keep it simple and focus on few things small habit change will lead to big changes over time.
Self care is needed along the way as well. It goes hand in hand with being your best self with better habits. Beyond the movement and good but self care, sleep etc and so much more are part of your journey. There are times we need to breathe and take time to look after ourselves.
Cheering you on in your journey to better physical and mental health and self care 🙌🙌💕💕💕
Does your health living journey include these kind of Swiss cheese strategies as well Such as sleep 💤 boundaries, friends, mindfulness ??
What needs some work in 2024 for you??
What strategies do you use to track your progress… apps for weight or journals or photographs or self care routines ??
@SunShineAlwaysGrateful ooo swiss cheese nom nom 😋 thanks more cheese please? ❤
Sleeping I do well at, friends well does cups friends count?? I think I do all of them except meeting with friends. And the thing I need to work on is eating. I'm only smurf size so I don't need to eat alot, but my weight keeps dropping, I need to keep it at a certain level, it's really hard.
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@Tinywhisper11
Yes 🙌 all your friends here count definitely 💯 percent!! 🙌🙌🙌💕💕🙌🙌🙌💕🙌🙌🙌💕💕🙌🙌💕💕💕
@SunShineAlwaysGrateful
Thankyou for sharing the Swiss 🧀 model it is a great example and very relatable. Working with my psychologist over the last couple of years I have learned that as the seasons change so does your body. For example I usually go to bed early and get up early because I like to exercise. When it is daylight savings we have more sunlight in the evening so I have to go to bed later. I am listening to my body and trying not to beat myself up about it. I also track my exercise and food. Since September I have also been doing a 5 minute single object concentration and a 10 minute deep breathing guided meditation. Thats it for me for 2024 at this stage just to practice until these become my go to new habits.
Love these self care items and habits incredible ! Love how you build habits as you go. I agree it is relatable how these habits connect to make you in a better mind set and more prepared even seasonally like you do love that . Thank you for sharing! 🙌🙌🙌😎😎😎💕💕💕
@SunShineAlwaysGrateful
Does your health living journey include these kind of Swiss cheese strategies as well Such as sleep 💤 boundaries, friends, mindfulness ?? yes
What needs some work in 2024 for you?? my daily schedule to be fair, as i have a lot of stress that i need to deal with.
@SunShineAlwaysGrateful Yes, definitely! Self-care strategies definitely, definitely include this swiss cheese model
It's interesting, I've never actually seen this model, but I am glad that you shared it!
I've always conceptualized self care as armor that can help you cope with and process the emotional challenges that come with micro and macro stressors. And, in that process, you have different self-care activities that accomplish different things, which all add up to a major, functioning, self care unit that allows you to handle each and every day with enthusiasm and excitement!
So, for example, I do a daily yoga practice, breathing practice, meditation practice, journaling practice, exercise, and reflective practices during the day. I make sure that my work is fulfilling (which honestly took awhile to get there due to just how life is) and that I am spending ample time in healthly social interactions, exploring new interests and material, going on walks, and other reflective and explorative practices that allow myself to feel free and relaxed in my own body.
I normally find that even when I have something super negative come up, and my mind is racing, chewing on it, that when I do my yoga practice, it goes down a little, when I do my breathing practice it goes down more, meditation more, journaling more, until I ultimately feel like I have processed the emotions associated with that stressor and I can be completely present and work from a proactive state in the daily activities in my life.
Of course, physical fitness and nutrition is a really big factor in this! So in terms of apps for nutrition, I've used Noom in the past, which did a really good job at changing my relationship to food. I am now experimenting with MyFitnessPal as a way to track nutrition, because it integrates with apple health, as well as having a sleep tracker and smart scale that can put all of that together and give me a pretty comprehensive understanding of what's going on in my body and the relationships between some behaviors and my sleep.
Anyways, just sharing my experience! Thanks for making this post and bringing this up and please feel free to ask any more questions if you feel curious
You are welcome and thank you for sharing! 🙌🙌🙌
Both are fantastic absolutely!! I have used a variety of apps too and they help so much to track … 🙌🙌💕💕
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