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FOR THE MIND...Eat some dark chocolate to give yourself a little treat and also to boost your mental health. It is proven to affect your health, memory, and mood.
Recipe: https://www.alphafoodie.com/how-to-make-healthy-dark-chocolate/ |
FOR THE BODY...To preserve your memory and get protein, eat more nuts and seeds. Trail mix is a great way to regularly keep nuts and seeds in your diet.
Recipe: https://www.thehealthymaven.com/how-to-build-a-healthy-trail-mix/ |
FOR THE SOUL...Eating well and making good meals for yourself is essential to taking care of your spirit, soul, and body. It shows you respect yourself.
Recipes: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/easy-healthy-meals |
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The Psychology Behind Body Image:
Psychology Today explains how there are actually 4 different components in the psychological study of body image: perceptual, affective, cognitive, and behavioral.
Perceptual is how you see yourself, and what may not be what you truly look like. Judgemental statements we make to ourselves should be recognized, and shifted to create positive self-talk. Affective body image is the amount of satisfaction you feel about your body. These are all the things you either like or dislike about your appearance. This is most often affected by popular media and unrealistic expectations, so we must remember to be kinder to ourselves. Cognitive body image is the thoughts and beliefs you have about your body. This is the idea that one may never be satisfied with what you have. In order to maintain positive thinking in regards to self-worth, we must remember gratitude and learn complacency. Behavioral is known as the actions you take in relation to your body image. Negative thoughts on our body image can lead to destructive behaviors. However, we can focus on what our bodies can do. The function of our bodies does its purpose, and if you want to change how you look, make realistic expectations and remember to be less harsh on yourself! Sources:
https://www.womenshealth.gov https://psychcentral.com/health/how-the-media-affects-body-image#negative-effects Morning to-do list example:
Healthy ways to get your mind off of your ex:
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Body ImageBY REBECCA SMILEY
EDITOR OF OUTDOOR RECREATION Your body image is defined as what you think or “feel when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind,” says the Office on Women’s Health. This is mostly related to appearance, and how you judge your own self-worth. Having a negative body image puts us at a higher risk of suffering from certain mental health conditions, so how can we learn to love ourselves and our body image? Having a positive body image takes time. As high school students, many of us come into contact with the pressures of the media. Psych Central explains how social media platforms, “feature images of people with perfect faces and bodies” using filters, and causing “unrealistic beauty standards, leading to body dissatisfaction in both women and men.”
A positive body image directly relates to our self-worth. Finding a safe place to be yourself can help to grow confidence. Being yourself is so important to truly feeling positive about who you are. As you take these steps to progress in positivity and loving yourself, you can start to live life to the fullest.
POSTED 4/17 HOw to wake up feeling goodBY ISABELLA SORENSON
SECTION EDITOR I don’t know about you, but waking up from an alarm the same way you have been for the past week is not the best feeling. I’m here to teach you how to get rid of that depressing feeling of hating waking up in the morning, because that’s really not what life is about. If you feel better about your morning you feel better about your day, and if you feel better about your day, you feel better about your week. If you feel better about your week, you feel better about your month. If you feel better about your month, you feel better about your year. If you feel better about your year, you feel better about your life. And if you feel better about your life, you feel better about yourself. You get it.
There are a few ways people mistake it for relaxing however. Sleeping as long as possible will not relax you. Binge watching Netflix will not relax you. Doom scrolling on TikTok for hours will not relax you. Calling your ex will not relax you. The idea is, give your brain a rest. I want you to silence and turn off your phone. Don’t even touch it until the next morning, when you’ve already gotten dressed. This creates a huge difference in your mood and productivity during the day. Figure out what excites you. Whether it’s getting morning coffee or seeing your friends at school, focus on what is going to make your day more incredible and more willing to wake up for.
POSTED 4/15 How to get over a breakup
GRIEVE.
Take as long as you need. A week, a month, maybe even a year to be sad. You are allowed to be hurt, and you don’t need to jump into another relationship to fill the space of what you do not have anymore. You do not need to have a glow up, and you do not need to drown in your schoolwork to get over them. Cry, scream, vent, hurt. That is the very process. It might be long and scary, because that person could have been a comfort zone for you. But do not text them back. Talk to a friend instead, if they are a good friend, they will let you cry and listen to your pain so you are able to move on from this stage when you are ready. MAKE A LIST. Are you done crying? Okay, good. I want you to pick up your journal, take a piece of paper, or open the notes app on your phone. I want you to write down every single need that was not met during that relationship. Because it ended for a reason. It was not a happy, perfect relationship, otherwise it would not have ended. Write down every feeling that you do not associate with love that you felt during the time of the relationship, in order to understand why it ended and why you are better off without them. I’ll wait. DO NOT HOLD GRUDGES. This counts for holding yourself accountable, and the other person. If they disrespect you, you do not need to forgive and forget. You can be mad. But do not let that consume you. Also, if you are hung up over the things you might have done wrong in the relationship, don’t let that consume you either. Headspace states “Relationships break-up for lots of reasons. Often, it’s no-one’s fault and nobody is to blame, instead – things just didn’t work out.” People come and people go. If you can’t accept this, you might be more likely to deal with the pain in dangerous ways, which is what I’m going to help you try and avoid. LEARN BOUNDARIES. When it comes to getting over this person, time is your best friend. You do not want to spend that time wishing things were different. If you want, you can make another list. You can write down what personal boundaries were crossed during the relationship. This is the time to work on never letting people cross it again. Do not surround yourself with people who do not resonate with your morals or beliefs. Do not surround yourself with people who you do not trust. Another way to set boundaries is to take time out of your day to do something you know you enjoy, and find relaxing. This is an act of self love. POSTER 3/22 |