Deep Listening: Are You Being Helped, Hugged or Heard?

Sometimes, the most powerful response is simply being present. Sitting in comfortable silence. Nodding encouragingly. These small acts signal: "I'm here, and I'm not rushing to fix or change anything about this moment."

Strategic Recovery: Moving Beyond Basic Self-Care

Strategic recovery isn't just about bouncing back; it's about bouncing forward with purpose. It's the thoughtful integration of practices that help us maintain, protect and grow our wellbeing across individual, team, organisational and cultural levels. Think of it as creating a personalised ecosystem of recovery practices that work together harmoniously.

The Time Paradox in Self-Care: Reframing Our Relationship with the Clock

Welcome to Day 4 of WA Mental Health Week. Today, we're diving into one of the most complex dimensions of self-care: time. It's the resource we all wish we had more of, yet often struggle to manage effectively. Let's unpack the various faces of time and discover how to make it work for our wellbeing, not against it.

Narelle LemonOctober 10, 2024self-care, selfcare, wellbeing, time, time management, rethinking time, routines, self-compassionComment

The Self-Compassion Challenge: 5 Acts of Radical Self-Love

Welcome to Day 1 of Mental Health Week here in Western Australia. This week I’m going to blog each day with some quick ideas to build your self-care toolbox of resources. Today, we're diving headfirst into self-compassion, one of the five key dimensions of self-care.

Narelle LemonOctober 7, 2024small acts of self-care, self-awareness, self-care, self-compassion, compassion, wellbeing whispererComment

Citizen Wellbeing Scientists: Empowering Self-Care Through Documentation and Community

A Citizen Wellbeing Scientist is an individual who actively engages in documenting, reflecting on, and sharing their self-care practices to contribute to a broader understanding of wellbeing.

Soothing touch, flow and the dentist: Interrupting avoidance and anxiety

I’m not the biggest fan of visiting the dentist. So, after 12 months of resisting some major work I needed to have done, I prepared myself to just get it done. What happened for me on this journey? Well number one was that I had to tune into my thoughts and my responses and embrace them as a personal development lesson. Here’s my findings: 1. Communication, 2. Know your body, 3. Mindfulness, 4. Soothing touch, and 5. Explore the power of your noise cancelling earphones and an audiobook.

Collecting stories and strategies of self-care and wellbeing to help others during COVID-19

Self-care is about taking care of yourself. It is a proactive action involving steps to develop, protect, maintain and improve health, wellbeing or wellness. Self-care can be seen as a repertoire of practices – different things you do that help you care for you, no matter how small, in the act of treating yourself like you would a close friend. The importance of valuing self-care has not changed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the ways in which we engage with and value our self-care may needed to have changed.

Why is self-care a dirty word? Rewiring our reactions and interpretation of self-care

I thought perhaps we had moved forward in our notions of self-care and that indeed we require care for our self in order to care for others. Maybe not?

mindfulnessNarelle LemonFebruary 22, 2019self-awareness, selfcare, self-care, care, compassion, self-compassion, mindfulness, present, workplace, communityComment

7 mindful tips to overcome performance anxiety in the workplace

Is my face red? Is my voice wavering? How will I survive this presentation with everyone looking at me? Nearly every one of us has had one or more of these thoughts when under pressure to perform in the workplace as we lead a team, give a pitch, or even speak in front of others.