In the midst of the holiday season, it’s easy to forget to take some time apart from the busy season and make time to focus on your mental, and physical health.

In this edition, you’ll find information on how to best manage stress this holiday season, as well as upcoming events to help you build your mental and socio-emotional well-being skills– from Instagram Live events to in-person pop-ups and mental health resources.

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Mental & Socio-emotional well-being this holiday season and beyond!

Box Breathing

Box breathing, or square breathing, is when we breathe in regulated, time-controlled patterns. The goal is to help regulate your nervous system and ground yourself in the present moment enough to minimize activation of your fight, flight, fawn or freeze response. This technique is useful in moments of low to medium stress and best utilized when you can separate yourself (literally physically) from the situation to focus on yourself and your desired calmness.

Practice these 4 easy steps now and then challenge yourself to engage with this technique next time you feel yourself getting upset.

Boundary-identification & maintenance

Boundaries are value-centric limits, rules or expectations we set (or otherwise allow) with others as we build relationships. Boundaries are important to maintain our sense of trust and strength in the relationships we engage with.

However, when boundaries are poorly enforced or not well identified and communicated, a lack of mutual understanding of one’s boundaries can cause major conflict or misunderstandings. Below you’ll find ways to help you communicate your value-centric boundaries and potential pathways of communicating and maintaining these with others.

An Instagram Live Event

New Year, New Chapter, Updated Mindset

Join us for a virtual session on Instagram as we delve into the challenges and opportunities the new year presents us. Dione from Caliber D fitness will join us to offer tips and help with recalibrating our mindset for a successful and fulfilling new year and updated you!

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Upcoming Events

Date: April 2nd, 2023

Strength and Grounding Forest Bathing

Engage in an empowering Spring forest bathing session designed to help you ground in the present moment while identifying your goals, values and vision for the new year and beyond!

Date: April 16th

Spring Bloom Bootcamp

“Spring Bloom” Bootcamp theme incorporating ideas of embracing the present, using it as fuel for your future goals/the self you’re building, and tapping into the “power of you”– or learning how to build self-confidence and trust in yourself.

Join us on one of our Bay Area wellness pop-up events

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