Intellectual Wellness
Exploring your creative side and finding ways, each day to continue learning and growing.
What is Intellectual Wellness?
Being aware and present when it comes to food.
What is eating mindfully?
A way to manage intense feelings and create emotional wellness in your life.
What is journaling?
Creating and strengthening healthy relationships; building a safety net, or support system, and learning to communicate effectively and openly with others.
What is Social Wellness?
A deep connection with self, others, and something bigger than you.
Keeping a notebook handy, going for a walk, trying new things, and thinking outside the box.
What are ways to increase your creativity?
Habits that help improve sleep.
What is sleep hygiene?
Conversations you have in your head.
What is self-talk?
Showing the other person they have your full attention and focusing on what they are saying before you draw a conclusion.
What is active listening?
The openness and acceptance of family members, friends, and complete strangers.
What is a measure of your social wellness?
Making learning and improving yourself a daily pursuit.
What is becoming a lifelong learner?
Improves your health, makes you feel better, and helps you manage the physical and emotional changes that come with recovery.
What is increasing physical activity?
Steps to improve self-talk.
What are: Becoming more aware of it, Challenging negative self-talk, coaching yourself, and growing from challenges and mistakes?
Creating lasting memories of friendship and love.
What is sharing positive experiences?
The active, non-judgmental awareness of your thoughts and emotions as you experience them in the moment.
What is mindfulness?
The more you know, the better decision you make.
What is getting the facts?
7 to 8 hours
What is how long the average adult needs to sleep?
How to hold onto positive emotions your experience, even when you bump into difficulties over the course of a day.
What is practice gratitude?
A way to gain respect and establish ongoing understanding.
What is expressing your thoughts and feelings openly and honestly?
A powerful form of mindfulness that can redefine your relationships with urges and cravings.
What is urge surfing?
Being willing to consider ideas and opinions that may be different from yours.
What is being open-minded?
Seek out proper treatment for any current or mental illnesses, taking prescribed medications on time, and getting an annual physical exam.
What is getting proper health care?
Accepting difficult emotions as they come, without judgment or guilt, recognizing they are temporary.
What is coping with difficult emotions?
The most effective way to communicate.
When your behavior doesn't match this, it can lead to feelings of shame, guilt, anxiety, and poor self-worth.
What is values?