Wellness Coach Teaches Techniques to Prevent Stress at Journaling Recess

As a community filled with entrepreneurs, innovators, and researchers, stress can often be associated with such career paths. As a way to help negate this detrimental response – and edify productivity – we sought to arm our members with beneficial techniques via our Recess: Journaling Workshop.

Hosted in the lobby of Centergy One in late January, our event centered around an interactive community gathering focused on wellness invited attendees to join our journaling stations to create their own vision journals for 2023 while also gaining tools to calm the nervous system and reduce stress hormone levels.

Equipped with blank notebooks, pens, crafting supplies, poster boards, motivational stickers, and sheets of photos with themes such as financial growth, traveling, mental wellness, and fitness goals, participants were educated by Wellness Coach Tracy Hall on how journaling can be used not only to manage stress, but to prevent it.

One surefire way is to focus on small, consistent steps to manage stress levels, as it’s a more much effective means than attempting large shifts or goals right away. A “brain dump” is another technique to help alleviate stress and create a journaling habit. As one member used the analogy of cleaning out digital space on your computer or phone instead, of buying more space to store your files, a brain dump helps clear out the clutter that resides within versus trying to hold onto so many thoughts and fears.

Tracy then dove straight into the activity at hand, sharing the following prompts:

1. What is the one thing I want to experience in this lifetime?

2. What am I grateful for that I want to expand? List everything that comes to you.

3. What does loving my body look like? How do I dress? What about my body am I most grateful for? What is my body asking for from me? Or is it telling me something?

4. What does connection look and feel like to me? Who am I attracting into my circle energetically? What/who am I letting go of or move away? What does collaboration with others look like?

5. What does abundance look like for my future life? Does it present in the form of time, health, money, love, all of these? What does this flow feel like? Am I open to receiving more? Does it feel uncomfortable or even scary?

6. What are the ways I want to enrich my self-care this coming year?

As members manifested their visions for 2023 and worked on their journals, they also mixed and mingled with one another, discussing related topics such as what they wanted their life to look like a year from now, the steps they’d take in order to make it happen, and any support they might need along the way:

Similar themes were present amongst the participants, which is no surprise when it comes to a community that connects like-minded individuals seeking productive collaborations to a curated environment that fosters growth and innovation. If you’re reading this and not yet a member, click here to join and be part of something great!