Self-Care Archives • The Bliss Movement

10 Winter Self Care Tips To Support Your Wellness This Season

It’s that time of year again! The hustle and bustle of the holidays can leave you feeling a bit frazzled and off kilter as we rush around, living in a whirlwind of family gatherings and potential holiday vacations. With the new year closing in, you may feel drained and seeking some solitude from the activity that surrounds you. If so, you’ve come to the right place! Not only are the holidays upon us, but as the winter season approaches, our bodies and minds go through a transition of their own. Here is a wonderful list of Winter Self-Care Tips to prioritize[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

Self Care That Works: 5 Practices To Transform Your Life

Self care that works goes a lot deeper than a bubble bath every now and then. Impactful self care has the power to massively transform your life when used consistently and intentionally. It's an underrated wellness tool that can not only help you to overcome challenges and stressors in life but prevent them from getting too disruptive in the first place. The key here is the intention that you place upon your self care activities, the presence you show up with as you engage in self care, and ensuring you're choosing self care practices that genuinely work for you.[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

8 prevention tips for seasonal affective disorder

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder where people exhibit depressive symptoms during the change of seasons, most commonly in fall and winter, and can persist throughout the season. Living in the northern hemisphere, I'm no stranger to "the winter blues" but, thankfully, there are a few things that really can help to either minimize the impact of a dreary winter or ward off SAD symptoms entirely.When we think about self care and the impacts on our mental wellness, we're quick to focus on physical health - regular exercise, nutritious foods, proper s[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

6 Ways To Feel Grounded When You’re Overwhelmed

get your hands in the dirt, mud, clay, paint, etc. There is something inherently grounding about getting your hands in the earth. So many avid gardeners and plant lovers are out there talking about how grounding and calming it is to get their hands in the soil. Scientific studies have been done about this very topic, showing interesting results claiming that gardening can provide health benefits like reducing depression and anxiety, improving life satisfaction and improving mood. For most, getting our hands in the dirt actually boosts our serotonin - aka the ha[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

3 Things To Stop Doing To Live a Life You Love

Are you feeling stuck in a life that doesn't even feel like yours? Craving the ability to live a life you love? Making decisions that end up feeling all wrong? If you're in a loop of dissatisfaction with the life you're living then chances are you may have fallen victim to one of three common life traps, or what I call: The Big Three. When you pull yourself out of the temptation of The Big Three, you'll notice massive shifts beginning to take place in your life. And these shifts will, over time, lead you to living a life you love. I know, it seems to[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

9 Ways To Reduce Stress + Boost Energy

Today I'm sharing 9 simple ways to reduce stress and boost your energy. If you're frequently experiencing heightened levels of stress (or maybe your typical state of being is one within that higher stress threshold), you're not alone. And, you're in the right place! We're living in a world that values hard work and "hustle". Talk of resting, taking a break, doing things simply for the sake of adding more joy or peace into your day are met with eye rolls. Even the most well-intentioned person planning on taking a break from the chaos often finds the[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

6 Mindset Shifts You Need to Change Your life

Mindset is the key to your success and happiness. Your brain holds incredible power over your mood and how you interact with the world around you. Our brain has the beautiful ability for constant change and YOU have the ability to shape it. The key? Awareness and then consistency, consistency, consistency. By continuously practicing a few small shifts in the words that you use you will immediately begin to interrupt the neural pathways in your brain to create more positive and empowering connections. Here are 7 mindset shifts that have the power to change you[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

4 Self-Love Rituals To Try This Valentine’s Day

Valentine's Day gets a bad rap for being a cheesy Hallmark holiday but it breaks my heart when I hear people say that they don't celebrate Valentine's Day, that they hate Valentine's Day, the "anti-Valentine's Day" movement. After all, Valentine's Day is what you choose to make it and love is love. Of course, self-love (and love in general) shouldn't be limited to one day a year but being reminded to share and receive love is always a good thing. Let this be the year that you start creating a new Valentine's Day tradition by incorporating meaningful self-love[...]

Goal-Getters, Personal Development, Self-Care

4 Steps For Simple Yet Effective Goal Setting

Setting goals is important for helping you stay focused, determined and on track for success. But do you get stuck on actually turning those big dreams into realistic goals on paper? These four steps are simple yet effective ways to help you turn a brain full of scattered ideas into achievable goals.GET CLEAR ON YOUR VISION Before you start writing anything down you need to start getting clear on your vision. No wishy-washy goals around here - envision your goal in as much detail as possible. Get super specific about exactly what this goal is and wh[...]

Personal Development, Self-Care

7 Benefits Of A Gratitude Practice And How To Start One

The benefits of a gratitude practice have been seen in the emotional, physical, social and mental improvements of those who choose to practice gratitude daily. Gratitude is one of the positive psychology tools that everyone is able to access all on their own and through consistent, intentional use, you can use a gratitude practice to physically rewire the neural connections in your brain.What does that mean? It means that by practicing gratitude daily you can change the way in which your brain notices and interprets things - reducing stress, negativi[...]

Self-Care, Tips, Planning and Packing, Travel

How To Practice Self-Care While Traveling

Maintaining a self-care practice while traveling is essential to prevent travel burnout and ensure you have the best experience abroad!

Goal-Getters, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Intention Setting 101: Creating Goals With Meaning

What does it mean to set an intention? A guide sharing how to create powerful, true to you intentions with meaning and purpose.

Intention setting is a powerful tool that allows us to create goals with meaning. Everyone is talking about it and sharing their inspirational spaces in which they write their intentions but what even is it? What is an intention and how do we use it? Intention setting is more than just writing your average to-do list full of boxes to check. Writing intentions should be approached as a guide for how we want to be living our lives, how we want to be responding to situations, how we want to act as our best selves. An intention is, at it's simplest, a goal with me[...]