Ever heard of the 10th apple effect? It’s this metaphor for practicing gratitude. Basically, you get your first apple and you decide that it tasted so good that you want more. You successfully get an apple tree that bears a lot of fruit. However, by the time you get to your 10th apple, the apple doesn’t taste as good anymore. What we immediately think is oh, maybe that apple is bad but then the 11th one doesn’t taste as good as the first one, and so on and so forth. What we failed to realize is that the 10th apple and all the apples actually taste exactly the same. Just…
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7 Night Time Self Care Routine Ideas For Fall
Good Evening my beautiful human beings. Domonique here with a fall edition Nighttime Self Care Routine. I have been working on my self-care game for a while now. Always looking for new ways to treat my body with the love and respect it deserves. As we enter a new season in a couple of days, it’s important for us to recognize that our summer self is a bit different than our fall self. Not that we completely become different human beings but our self-care changes a bit. The nights are longer and the days are shorter. You may not always have the same amount of energy as you did before.…
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3 Types of Self Care To Start Practicing Today!
A new season is about to begin and for some, this might bring absolute joy and for others, you might catch a case of end of season blues. I consider this a nostalgic feeling as you remember all of the memories you had in the current season and a slight feeling of uncertainty of the next. I think as we encounter and deal with these unprecedented times it is important to figure out what self-care practices we need to start practicing for our self and what works for us. I was watching a video the other day that stated if “the things that you do to celebrate joy and happiness…
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5 Necessary Self Care Tips
Hey, long time no talk. It’s been about 2 and a half weeks since I posted a blog post. Usually, I am on top of my weekly posting but last week and this week has been hard for me to creatively come up with a topic to write about. Mostly, a topic that I could write about, based on my own experience, that would hold significance to anyone. Then I started thinking about how I have been feeling. As a black woman in America… I began thinking about all of the things that have been brought to light this week and the other things that have not happened throughout my…
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3 Tips on How To Deal With Burnout
Ever get hit with waves of demotivation, where the things that you once loved just seem tedious and unappealing? Not gonna lie, this happens to me from time to time. I get these spells, where my hobbies, job, and sport feel absolutely draining. It is usually a gradual decline where the days get harder and harder. Usually a week into the spiral I notice that I am definitely fizzling away. I’ve noticed that there is usually a certain pattern to it or different events that bring it on, which has equipped me with my own arsenal of ways to carefully relight my fire and get me back to normal. Being…
