February 16, 2025

Issue 17

Weekly Pause & Reset

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

OT Lifestyle Redesign Pillar of Health — Self-Regulation

Happy Sunday!

So what the heck is self-regulation? To define it in a big nutshell, it’s how we manage our thoughts, our emotions and our behaviors, especially when facing stressful circumstances. For the “short & sweet” version, it’s being able to manage how we think, feel, and act.

Being able to effectively manage your emotions, thoughts, & behaviors under duress is pretty important…but just how important is it? Someone recently told me “self-regulation is the soup that everything else is swimming in”. Those other “things” swimming in the soup? Here are a few of them:

• Your goals

• Your healthy habits

• Your plans

• Your routines

• Your relationships

Having a solid foundation in self-regulation and stress-management is not a simple task, but it is key for having success with all those other “things” swimming in the soup.

Keep reading below for strategies that can help to build your solid foundation…

Have a great week! 🌿

Steph 🤍

Weekly Wellness Intention 💫

This week, I set the intention to nurture my wellbeing by being mindful of my thoughts, aligning my actions with my values, and responding to my emotions with compassion and understanding.

Info & Inspo ✨

OT Lifestyle Redesign tips & strategies for stress management (and ultimately management of how you think, feel, and act)

• Tense & Relax : This short guided muscle relaxation (5 mins) from Insight timer is a great way to reduce muscle tension and overall stress.

• Take a deep sigh (or 2 or 3): Sometimes it is that simple. Just taking that few moments to breathe in deeply and breathe out in an exaggerated way. Hint: when your exhale is longer than your inhale, it sends a signal to your brain to activate the relaxation response.

• Movement: Huge stress-reliever!

• Take notice of your “triggers”: . What are the experiences, people, places, emotions & thoughts that amp up and/or compound your stress? Once you become aware of these triggers, begin to develop a plan to help navigate through them.

• Wondering about more? Let’s talk! Find me here!

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