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Category: Health and Wellness

Instead of dieting and depriving yourself, learn valuable tips on Health and Wellness as it includes every aspect of your lifestyle – your eating and drinking choices and habits, your physical activity and exercise, your mental health, and your emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Being Present in the Moment: How to Stop Distractions from Hijacking Your Day

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Health and Wellness, Mindfulness.

Being present in the moment is in danger of becoming a lost art, because AI-driven notifications keep us mindlessly glued to our screens.If we’re being honest… most days we feel pulled in a hundred directions. Between work, family, texts, emails, and a steady stream of notifications, it’s no wonder being present in the moment is so difficult. Our mindfulness is being hijacked! And yet this precious skill is one of the basic foundations of a full, richly satisfying life.

Have you ever caught yourself scrolling through social media while half-listening to a conversation? You’re not alone. Our devices and the algorithms behind them are designed to grab our attention and keep it. But the real cost isn’t just lost time. It’s lost peace, presence, and the deeper connection we crave.

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What Sustainable Living Really Means. This May Surprise You!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Dream Big - Start Small, Health and Wellness, Transform Your Life.

Sustainable living means more than caring for planet Earth. Burnout and stress show we need to learn to USE and RENEW our personal resources. When people think about sustainable living they often focus on living green or minimalistic. They know the earth’s resources are limited so they try to use them sensibly. It makes sense to take care of the planet we live on. 

However, the same people treat their personal resources differently. They push, use, hustle, rush, and demand more of themselves than their bodies and minds can handle. That creates a huge disconnect in their approach to sustainable living. Because if we can’t sustain our own lives, how can we sustain the resources of this planet? Somehow, at some point, the commitment to living sustainably will break down because… it’s not sustainable!

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The Remedy for Burnout is Not Recreation but Sustainability

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Controlling Stress, Dream Big - Start Small, Health and Wellness, Life Skills, Somatic Coaching.

The traditional approach to burnout goes something like this: Push hard, reach exhaustion, take a break, repeat. It's a cycle that might seem manageable in the short term, but it's fundamentally unsustainable. Each cycle tends to require longer recovery periods and produces diminishing returns.“Exhausted. Totally drained.” “No motivation.” “Feeling disconnected.” “Can’t focus. Can’t keep up.” “Overwhelmed” “Don’t want to do it any more.” “I can’t do it any more!” Many of my clients are expressing sentiments like these when I ask how they’re feeling. Then our conversations center on finding a remedy for burnout. However, I’d like to share something profound that I’ve learned from this…

We live in times of great opportunities, but they come with monumental responsibilities and challenges. High achieving women manage the work/life juggling act for a while. But something has to give. And what usually gives is your spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health. Then it’s a long, hard struggle to recover.

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How to Strengthen Your Spiritual Foundation for Greater Peace and Joy

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Health and Wellness, Self-Leadership Skills.

Just improving physical, mental, and emotional health doesn’t satisfy a deeper need – our spiritual foundation — here’s how to mindfully strengthen it.When people think of improving their health, they often think of improving physical, mental, and emotional health. All these are good and essential, however, it doesn’t satisfy a deeper health that we all innately have – our spiritual health. Just as we can do strength training for greater physical stamina, we can also work on strengthening our spiritual foundation.

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Soul Care — How to Practice This Deepest Form of Self-Care

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Health and Wellness, Life Skills, Mindfulness.

Soul care is the profound lifestyle shift into mindful self-awareness, inner enrichment and meaningful connections that deeply nourish your well-being.I congratulate you! You’re doing very well at incorporating a self-care routine into your busy lives. You’re eating better, sleeping longer and deeper, and exercising more. And it’s paying off! You tell me that you have more energy and feel so much better. I’m proud of you.  But may I bring to your attention a trend I see? People are trying to steal a few moments to cram self-care into the busyness of life, which ultimately diminishes or negates the intention of self-care.  The result  I’m seeing is that this approach doesn’t allow space for soul care. 

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