Looking For More Leisure-Time? 📚🎶🛶🧶🏓

January 26, 2025

Issue 14

Weekly Pause & Reset

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

Leisure-Time

Happy Sunday!

Question for you…how much time in a week do you spend focusing on your leisure activities? Not as much as you would like I’m guessing?!

Leisure is “time when you are not working or studying; free time to participate in activities that you enjoy”. It’s actually considered one of the main pillars of Occupational Therapy, right up there with overall health management, work, sleep, play, and more.

OK, now for the less dry stuff — How you benefit from leisure! To name a few perks, leisure-time promotes relaxation, self-expression, a sense of freedom, improved mood, and it can just make life more fun and enjoyable! The list of leisure activities is endless and personal to you, but could include all hobbies, physical activities, reading, crafting, music, socializing…you name it!

Here are some small steps towards adding more leisure into your life:

Explore what leisure activity(ies) bring you satisfaction & joy…maybe you feel like you “get lost in” while doing it.
Pick one of these activities.
Decide what materials or resources you need in order to make it happen (and borrow or acquire anything you don’t already have).
Get out your calendar and look at your schedule for the upcoming week.
Set aside a realistic window of time once or twice this week (15 minutes will do).
Do your leisure thing. Repeat. Enjoy :)

Wishing you balance & equilibrium 🌿,

Steph

Speaking of adding LEISURE into your life… Announcing a NEW Wellness Workshop!

→ Steep & Sip: Blending Your Own Wellness Teas 🫖

→ Saturday, February 15th, 10-11:30 am

→ 49 Brigham St, Morrisville VT

More deets and sign up here! Includes all supplies, 20$ per person. Bring your favorite mug (or will have some too :)

Weekly Wellness Intention 💫

I will create time and space in my week to engage in leisure activities that bring me peace and joy, allowing me to unwind, rejuvenate, and maintain a healthy balance in my life.

Introducing… 🎤

Jennifer Volansky, Artist, Art Educator, and Health & Life Coach

Remember the joy you felt when you made things just for fun? Whether it was making up stories, singing self-made songs, or crafting with whatever you could find, expressing yourself came naturally. For some, that creative spark remains strong, while for others, it gets pushed aside. Making art begins with giving yourself permission to play.

Nurturing Creativity: Tips for Developing your Creative Practice.

Read full article and more info about Jen here.

Thanks for being here!

If you’re new to the Weekly Pause & Reset, Welcome!

I’m so grateful to you for being here. If you have any questions or comments for me, just hit ‘reply’ to this email. To learn more about me and what I offer, click here.

Feel free to forward and share this email. 💌 If you’re receiving this as a share, lmk so I can add you to the list!

EVOLVE & GROW WELLNESS

Health & Wellness Coaching and Occupational Therapy to redefine & redesign your life-balance, add healthy habits & routines, feel more fulfilled, less stressed, and more productive.