July 20th, 2025

Issue 39

Weekly Pause & Reset 🌿

Mindfully designed to offer healthy lifestyle-design & wellbeing info, tips, inspiration & insights to jumpstart your week.

Finding the Yin in Your Yang

Hey there and Happy Sunday 😌

How are you today? How is your energy?

It’s not unusual for summertime to be a bit draining. Between the busy-ness of the season and the dog days of summer, our motivation and drive can easily get zapped. This can be hard on the body and mind, especially when there’s a full calendar of events, activities, and to-do’s.

Maybe it’s time to slow down and soften, to meet the needs your mind and body are asking for.

Maybe it’s time to bring a little Yin (qualities include: soft, receptive, wet, slow, passive, restorative, quiet) into your Yang (qualities include: active, fast, hot, hard, dry, loud).

Some supportive tools to help you bring some Yin qualities into your daily life include:

• Resting

• Alone time

• Stillness

• Quiet

• Spending time in or near the water

• Nature

• Introspection

• Gentle Breathwork

• Meditation, Yoga, Journalling

By taking an intentional and mindful pause,

your breath slows

your mind quiets,

your nervous system resets,

you’re better equipped to re-engage with life in a more meaningful way. And that will feel pretty magical ✨

In what ways can you invite more stillness and being into your days this week?

With 🩷,

Steph

Weekly Wellness Intention 💫

This week, I choose to embrace the quiet power of stillness, softness, and deep rest. I honor my need to slow down, turn inward, and nourish the gentle rhythms that restore balance.

What is Lifestyle Redesign Occupational Therapy?

The services I provide as an OT are informed by Lifestyle Redesign®. I work with people to create and implement healthy & meaningful habits and routines that match their values and goals. Examples might include building the following lifestyle activities into your day: stress reduction & management, physical activity, ample sleep and rest, nutrition management, life-balance, mindset shifts…all with the goal of increasing health & happiness.

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