Tag: self awareness

September 6th Women Untethered Newsletter

by Melinda, posted in Women Untethered

This week’s challenge. View entire newsletter here.

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This week’s challenge!

Connect with yourself!

There are so many ways to practice connecting with yourself! Here are a few of my favorites:
  • Meditate (Even just 5 minutes a day!)
  • Sit-spot (sitting in nature daily for 20 minutes or more)
  • Journal
  • Create (painting, poem, songwriting, etc)
  • Yoga
  • Dance
  • Self-pleasure
  • Self-care (take a bath, get a pedicure, get a massage)
Treat yourself to one or more of these practices daily. While you may not notice an immediate change, the effect will become profound in a few months time. Heck, I don’t even recognize the person I once was just a year ago. The process may not be easy, but it’s always worth it.

Which practices do you use to connect with yourself? Have you experienced any challenges in connecting with yourself? What does connecting with yourself mean to you? Share your thoughts and connect with like-minded women over at the closed Facebook group Women Untethered.

Let’s be wild and free together!

(all images via Pixabay)

August 30th Women Untethered Newsletter

by Melinda, posted in Women Untethered

This week’s challenge. View entire newsletter here.

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This week’s challenge!

Get outside!

I don’t mean take a walk from your house to your car. I mean, deliberately spend at least 10-15 minutes outside in the presence of nature. It doesn’t have to be woods or even a park, just anywhere you can find a patch of grass or even one lone tree.

Even city dwellers can find a bit of nature among their setting. Perhaps you have plants out on your windowsill. Well, then open the window, grab your cup of tea, and commune with those plants. Or, perhaps step outside and just begin to note how many birds, bees, and other critters you see flitting about.

Note how being in nature’s presence makes you feel. Do you feel more open? Do you sense the peace? Are you agitated? Whatever you feel, allow it without judgment. It’s all a part of the healing process.

Have some questions? Need guidance or just someone to witness your experience? Head on over to the closed, non-judgmental Facebook group Women Untetheredand share.

Let’s be wild and free together!

(all images via Pixabay)

August 23rd Women Untethered Newsletter

by Melinda, posted in Women Untethered

This week’s challenge. View entire newsletter here.

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This week’s challenge!

Shift direction!

Write down whatever area of your life in which you are feeling stuck, lost, or unmotivated. Be honest with yourself!

Write down all the attempts you have tried to change this particular area of your life.

Below are a list of suggestions on what to do from here. Feel free to try one, two, or all of them.

  • Burn the original list of things you have tried
  • Write a list of new things you have yet to try
  • Try one item on the new list
  • Say “f*** it” and burn the new list
  • Write a list of all things that currently make you happy
  • Do one of those things that makes you happy right now
  • Do one ‘happy list’ thing every day
  • Only do things that are on your happy list and forget about trying to change at all
Which one of these items makes your body feel like it’s free? Which items make your heart sing? Perhaps a new opportunity to shift direction came to you while reading this?

Perhaps if you are so entrenched in your circle of pain none of this is resonating with you. That is ok. Breathe into each of the suggestions and see if any of them release the tension in your shoulders just a little bit. Sometimes, it’s all about the baby steps.

Which suggestions resonate the most for you? Which tools have you tried to successfully shift direction? Do you have new suggestions that could help others in the same boat? Visit the supportive, closed group Women Untethered over on Facebook and share.

Let’s be wild and free together!

(all images via Pixabay)

August 2 Women Untethered Newsletter

by Melinda, posted in Women Untethered

This week’s challenge. View the entire newsletter here.

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Become aware.

This week, write a list of all your self-limiting thoughts, beliefs, and projections. You are likely not aware of most of them. And, you can’t change what you don’t know needs changing.

Start a list somewhere you will pass by often and keep a pen or pencil nearby. Once you begin noticing your limiting patterns, more will begin to surface. Write them down as you become aware.

Do not focus on changing anything yet. Just create awareness. Then, head on over to the Women Untethered FaceBook Group and share your limiting beliefs or any other awareness that has come to you.

Let’s be wild and free together!