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Wellness

A place to discuss mental health and wellness

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ok rude my tricks for getting back to sleep after waking up between 4-5am are not working anymore. any ideas?

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To feel more "grounded" during acupuncture today I tested putting the thin cloth sheet that's resting on the table over me. It helped and I was noticeably able to relax more. 📍💆🏻‍♂️ I had forgotten that when I first started acupuncture many years ago I started lying under the sheet.

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Quick 0.5 mile walk while making rice last night

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I wanna get my hands on this book called super gut by William Davis desperately, hard cover. One of my fav wellness influencers said it’s really good and it’s def time to take my health journey to the next level.

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no you’re not mentally exhausted. you just need to spend the whole day creating a playlist of songs you loved when you were younger.

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I'm continuing to notice benefits of my quarterly week long coffee breaks. It's easier to follow my 12 pm caffeine cutoff time which means I'm probably less addicted to caffeine physically and emotionally. I only had 1 cup of coffee today and I normally have 2.

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Any recommendations for an exercise ball that stays filled? I've been sitting on an exercise ball as I work when I can for 9 years. Every ~3-4 weeks I have to refill this one.

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Hi I'm Joy 🩷

I believe everyone has a beautiful body. We are fearfully and wonderfully made 🩷 appreciate your body today by eating balanced Diet, drinking lotsa water, sleep 8hrs, working out, avoiding anger, practicing celibacy, and practicing gratitude 🩷our bodies are the vessels within which we operate, take care of urself for me 🩷😍

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Acupuncture has been a great tool to get back into my running and strength training and reduce pain and potentially reduce inflammation. Sometimes when I'm laying on the table flat on my back I don't feel "grounded" and feel dizzy or like I'm falling. I'm going to explore a new technique to visualize physical places I enjoy. They can be streets in cities I vividly remember walking dozens of times, cafes, coworking spaces, homes, etc. My theory is thinking about physical spaces may make me feel more grounded or it could just be a useful distraction.

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Hi I'm Joy 🩷

If you have a lot of anxiety in your body, breath in from your stomach, through your gut and out of your mouth and nose. You will clean out your respiratory system pathway and I promise you'll feel fantastic! Try it today and you will testify in the comments 👇

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Lori Ann Ferreri

Hi internet friends! A friendly reminder that we do yoga together every Saturday at 10am (EST) / 4pm (CET) ON AIR. ☁️🧘🏻‍♀️ Grab your mat and join us tomorrow from anywhere. Free for ON AIR members and drop ins avail for guests. Sign up here: https://www.we-onair.com/events

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did you know that complex ptsd involves flashbacks just like regular ptsd, but usually without the visual aspect? they’re generally emotional (like intense fear or anger) or somatic (like stomach pain, nausea, shaking), and can be as overwhelming and intense as the original trauma what makes cptsd so brutal is how constant and pervasive the flashbacks can be. when the trauma comes from chronic abuse or neglect in childhood, that means it likely happened hundreds or thousands of times, and became wired into your entire experience of life the triggers can be anything, often even mundane things—getting dressed, eating, bathing, getting a phone call, feeling emotions, talking, making minor errors (even a typo), getting compliments, making noise flashbacks can keep piling on before you’ve even recovered from the last and you end up dissociating just to survive it becomes extremely difficult to function even remotely normally in the world when your nervous system thinks you’re constantly about to die

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Does homemade citrus water with limes or lemons break an intermittent fast IF? 🍋‍🟩🍋 I've been raw dogging my IFs with only black coffee and water, no xylitol gum or citrus because they have a small amount of calories... I'm skeptical of Healthline's take "Plain lemon water is perfectly acceptable for intermittent fasting." https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/does-lemon-water-break-a-fast

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It's okay to rest, you're human and your body needs rest

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Anything can be a Gua Sha 🖊️ The physical therapist in 2018 that helped me get into running taught me about using a Gua Sha (Tool from Asian medicine) to gently massage tendons, muscles, fascia, etc. It's helped me continue running the last 7 years working on my ankle, knee, and hip. After accidentally smashing 4 stone Gua Shas on the way to Southeast Asia last year I decided to test using a pen as a Gua Sha which has worked well using the same techniques.

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