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Hello Life Stages Community! 🌱
It seems like yesterday the 2024 year transitioned from April to May and then June! We’re half-way through the year— can you believe it?!
In this newsletter, we’re combining our May and June newsletters to bring you essentials on mental health awareness and wellbeing— because taking care of your mental health is a priority year-round not only during Mental Health Awareness month in May! We also bring you a quick guide for a “one step-at-a-time” approach to make caring for yourself easy and simple!
Summer is not only a time of recreating outdoors, it’s also a time where more family bonding can occur and more intentional check-in opportunities are present as kids are home from school. In this special newsletter edition, we include information on cognitive distortions and how these can impact your adolescent.
Don’t forget to check out our Life Stages Spotlight highlighting recent community events and happenings at the end of this newsletter!
Happy summer! 💫
– The Life Stages Team
✨This newsletter is brought to you by Life Stages interns, Sehoon (CP) Park and Lindsay Behrens with special research by Jocelyn Back and Hanjie Shao✨
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Happy Summer! ☀️ 💫
Keep yourself hydrated, well slept, and in-motion with our curated list of wellness gifts to keep you, friends and family members healthy throughout the summer and beyond!
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LARQ Bottle PureVis
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Loftie Alarm Clock
Two-phase alarm that matches with the body’s sleep cycle Offers soothing sleep sounds, meditation programs, and personalized sleep stories
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NOHRD TriaTrainer
Multifunctional training bench for stomach and abs strength-building, stretching, and bench workout with or without dumbbells Made with wood that is FSC certified Offers a variety of choices of wood with ash, cherry, oak, and walnut
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Theragun
Mini
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Burt’s Bee Hand Repair Set-
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Mental Health Awareness Month & Beyond….
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May was Mental Health Month… yet it’s important to work on your health every month and every day! Get to learn a little bit about Mental Health Month and then dive into ways to support your wellbeing below.
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Oftentimes, people overlook the importance of taking care of themselves as they focus on responsibilities, such as their education, jobs, or other people.
Yet, it’s important to cultivate a consistent daily mental health practice. Review this Wellbeing Checklist below to help you maintain holistic health year-round!
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Follow us on Instagram to get more easy everyday-wellness tips!
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Do you have teens?
Do you know about cognitive distortions and how they impact them?
Now that summer break is in session for students, it’s a great time to check-in with your teen on their mental health. Teenagers and young adults are especially prone to experience various mental health issues. One of the main issues that the youth population face is cognitive distortions.
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Cognitive distortion: exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological stress, such as depression and anxiety
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- Adolescents with cognitives distortions arising from childhood abuse or assault may face a persistent risk of engaging in harmful behaviors, chronic mental health issues, and can even lead to suicidal ideation
- Adolescents, particularly males, who develop online gaming addiction influenced by cognitive distortions have risks of developing social isolation, academic failure, and impaired emotional and social development
- Poor academic performance due to cognitive distortions can limit higher educational opportunities and future career prospects
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So what can we do to fight cognitive distortion in order to not go through these consequences?
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CBT can stop cognitive distortions through mindfulness.
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Cognitive interventions such as CBT can help identify and challenge cognitive distortions by changing your psychological processes that are associated with stress and vulnerability and promoting your resilience through long-term changes in your behavioral patterns
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Mindfulness: A strategy to help you focus on your current circumstances, sensations, and feeling
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Mindfulness is helpful for reducing anxiety and depression symptoms in addition to increasing brain activity and the size of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, decreasing amygdala activity which is related to stress, and increasing functional connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and amygdala
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Life Stages Spotlights
Life Stages is proud to support more women and Latinx in tech!
We got to speak to tech jefas and hear inspiring stories of resilience and aspiration. Thanks to all of those who joined us at this year’s Latinas in Tech Summit! Special thanks to Latinas in Tech for spearheading the expansion of latinas in the tech industry.
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Center top: Life Stages founder, Zulma Y. Terrones, and Branding & Communications intern, Gloria Carbajal.
Lower left: Presentation on the state of Latina and general Latino representation in the tech industry by Latinas in Tech founder, Rocio van Nierop
Lower right: Latinas working or with aspirations to work in the tech industry gather for the 2024 Latinas in Tech Summit in San Francisco
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Life Stages founder, Zulma Y. Terrones, is helping companies build holistic wellness for their employees!
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Life Stages’ founder, Zulma Y. Terrones, was invited by REI to use her expertise on whole body health and personal development to facilitate two wellness workshops and one day-long mindfulness forest bathing hike for their top employees over a two-day period. Zulma had a great time helping them tap into mindfulness and de-stressing techniques! Get a sneak peak below:
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Have you heard about our hyper-personalized wellness app, Align?
Align empowers you to cultivate mind-body habits for sustained wellbeing. Learn more about Align and how to Align Your Behaviors to Align Your Life™.
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