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Your Inner Child

Have big plans for 2024? You may want to spend more time focusing on your physical or mental health, or you may want to live a more balanced lifestyle. Whatever the case, January is a great month to put our best foot forward. A new year brings new opportunities, including a chance to start fresh and create healthier habits.

A new year allows us to create new habits, live a healthier lifestyle, and say goodbye to things that bring us down. The holidays tend to be busy and stressful, and it’s easy to let our self-care fall to the sidelines. After a couple of months of attending holiday parties, spending extended time with our families, and trying to balance the day-to-day, many of us feel completely exhausted by the time January comes around.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… for burnout. We all know how the holidays go - planning get-togethers, holiday shopping, all while juggling your day-to-day responsibilities. If we aren’t mindful, the holidays can easily turn from the best time of the year to one of the most emotionally exhausting. Plus, the added expectations and responsibilities of the holiday season can send your existing burnout into overdrive. a dangerous zone.

It’s easy to get caught up in the daily grind of life and forget to slow down from time to time. When we overlook the present moment, we’re missing out on our lives here and now. The past is behind us, and the future is yet to come, but the present moment is always with us if we allow it to be. If you’re interested in living in the present, continue reading as we discuss mindfulness and its benefits to our emotional well-being.

How well do you know yourself? Many people lack deep self-awareness, meaning they have an inaccurate or jaded view of their values, likes, dislikes, wants, needs, and goals. Self-awareness is a mental superpower. It allows us to be reflective and insightful about who we are as humans, how we interact with others, and why we make the choices we do.

Healing your inner child is the best decision you can make for your adult self. It allows you to acknowledge, release, and recover from childhood wounds and traumas that are subconsciously dragging you down. We all have an inner child who wants to feel safe, understood, and supported. Did you know that trauma is stored in our bodies? If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the body keeps the score,” - that’s what they’re referring to.