Month: November 2024

BOOK, Harmonious Health 4 Life

Managing Daily Stress For Lasting Wellness – Love, Wendy

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Find your inner strength and resolve to allow your mind to steer you towards wellness, recognizing that true resilience comes from within with every opportunity that affords you to practice navigating with a clear mind and healthy body, not from the fleeting relief of external substances. External situations, no matter how challenging, should never dictate your choices or push you towards unhealthy coping mechanisms.

By recognizing and nurturing your inner clarity, you have the opportunity to make healthy practices a lifestyle. Try grounding yourself in healthier ways to manage stress—such as mindfulness, exercise, organic foods, loving connections, and self-reflection where you empower yourself to face life’s challenges and adversity, disappointments and hardships with awareness, grace and stability.

In choosing wellness over temporary escapes, you honor your body and mind, building lasting strength, and a sense of agency that no external circumstance can take away. Remember, the power to heal and grow always resides within you when you practice daily self care, self respect and self preservation.

As it states in my book, Write Pray Recover:A Journey To Wellness Through Spiritual Solutions and Self Care, “Self care is the actions that we take to achieve wellness, and wellness is where we stand in our power.”

Take care of yourself for yourself, and to demonstrate to others how you expect to be treated. By honoring your own needs and setting clear boundaries, you show others that you value yourself and deserve to be treated with kindness and consideration. 

And perhaps, you will encourage those observing your agency and practices to set their own standards a little higher.

Love and blessings,

Wendy

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Mental Health and Wellness – Love, Wendy

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Our mental health is on a continuum and on any given day, for any given reason, at any given time we move along that continuum and we must be armed with a variety of tools at our disposal as we move along the continuum.

Movement along the continuum could relate to biological factors, environmental factors and even how we practice daily self-care.

Self care is one of the most effective ways in managing our symptoms and to stay ahead of our symptoms. This is especially true when we are aware of our body/mind connection and recognize the symptoms in the early stage of escalation. With this information, we can intervene immediately, and/or ask for support.

We all have mental health.

Our relationship to self driven by self care, self respect and self preservation above all else is the foundation of wellness.

Wellness becomes not just an outcome, but a living practice grounded in our ability to honor and protect the integrity of who we are, and how we experience life.

Love,

Wendy

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Who we are – Love, Wendy

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We can’t stop others from their own interpretation, but we never internalize their experience of who we are.

Their inaccuracies and limited understanding and beliefs of themselves project onto what they believe and what they think they observe.

Most importantly, it is their own lack of self worth and lived experiences, combined with fear of uncertainty that confines them to live with an illusion of “control and certainty.”

They cling to narratives that offer them comfort, even if those narratives are distorted born from their own insecurities and fears. These are merely reflections of their own inner world, not the heart and soul of who we are.

Love and blessings,

Wendy

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Adulting – Love, Wendy

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The only control that we have is how we are taking care of ourselves, daily, and the way in which we choose to respond to external situations of which we have no control. 

We really DO have control over our lives in many ways and we need to utilize our power and filter it to our benefit. I will not dignify anyone or anything that does not align with my values and chooses to be hurtful. 

When we choose “to adult” and to use these social emotional living practices, we can make room for love and friendship on our terms and hopefully have the relationships that both sides are excited about. 

This is an opportunity to stand in our power. 

“Self care is the actions that we take to achieve wellness, and wellness is where we stand in our power.”

Wendy Blanchard-Write Pray Recover:A Journey To Wellness Through Spiritual Solutions and Self Care

www.writeprayrecover.com 

Love and blessings,

Wendy

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Living in my truth – Love, Wendy

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Live your life in your truth confidently, and with conviction. Take the time to explore who you are, and even when your circumstances change around you, continue to be that person. Continue to stand firmly in your truth…your power, regardless of the circumstances or opinions.

This is the inner work that guides you, and builds character, strength and self awareness. It leads to healthy living through choosing healthy practices and loving relationships.

When we are rooted in self-discovery and personal growth, and we recognize the positive ripple effect it can have on others, we create a space of empowerment…

For everyone.

My reflection:

Being on my own for so many years has given me the opportunity, time after time, for self discovery and exploration. 

And just when I think I “get it,” I am given another opportunity to go deeper and to learn even more. 

Being a lifelong spiritual student is not for the faint hearted. However, it creates such a deep sense of self and connection to Spirit that builds resilience. 

When I look back on my 12+ years of recovery from substance use disorder and mental health disorders, and I recognize where I am in the present moment and how I arrived here, I am in awe of how I have embraced the lessons and have empowered myself to become the woman, mom, grandmother, and friend who I admire, who I depend upon, solely, and most importantly, who I love. 

There have been so many times where I became so filled with anxiety and felt hopeless, but when I pause and reflect, it reminds me of the many times before that one where I felt the same way and used my knowledge and experiences to help me take another step forward. 

I speak up. I advocate for myself. I live my life as me, for me.

www.writeprayrecover.com

Love and blessings,

Wendy

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What Can We Control? – Love, Wendy

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The stress of every day living, most especially in our current world culture and climate, is the major cause of “dis-ease.”

Remind yourself every day that you are doing your very best in the current moment, and strive only for wellness, love, joy and peace. Otherwise, your body and mind become hostage to unreasonable expectations, demands and opinions of others.

Practice self awareness and use your body/mind connection as your compass for alleviating stressful situations and toxic people.

Practice social awareness setting healthy boundaries.

Practice self regulation through mindfulness practices including being outdoors in nature.

Practice making responsible decisions that positively impact your wellness and that of your loved ones.

Finally, engage only in loving, healthy, reciprocal relationships.

These are the social emotional, self care living practices that you CAN control in a world that has gone out of control.

Love and blessings, Wendy

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Thoughts on losing our Democracy and Freedom – Love, Wendy

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I was taught to never question Him. I have always stood strong in my faith. But today, as I continue to process, I question Him. I question everything. I question how our constitution allows a convicted felon, rapist, racist, sexual predator, traitor, etc., to even run for president as a role model, especially for our young people. 

So are we saying to our younger generations that it’s OK to lie, cheat, steal and to be a predator because there will be no punishment and you can even become the president of the United States?!

I try to be very impartial when I post about politics, but I know I am not alone in the way that I’m feeling today. Betrayed. Confused. Alone. 

I always teach my clients and my children to look for the positive in every situation. 

So here is my small take away. Reds engaged in an insurrection when their candidate lost. Blues became silent and practiced beautiful acceptance with dignity and grace. 

Take away – I’m proud to be a blue Democrat and I’m proud of the way we are loving and supporting each other through this very surreal and difficult time.

To my children…

My dearest son, daughters and granddaughters…

I’m so sorry that you were born into a world with so much evil. 

But I implore you to think about all of the beautiful things that we have and encourage you to concentrate on your own life, to stay in your own lane, and to create your own way. 

Enjoy your friends, travel, your family, your job and your treasured relationships that are meaningful to you. Practice daily self care. Do all of the things that are healthy for you and bring you happiness. And don’t wait another minute to do so. As you can see, life is precious, and it is fleeting. Most importantly, my dear loved ones, please do not be bitter. Bitterness only creates discourse in your body and in your mind. 

Yes, take time to process and to grieve for the loss of our democracy and freedom. 

Lead the way through by loving each other and staying close. Put humanity and love over hate. And there are no better words to live by for us at this time than to live “one day at a time.“

I love you all so much. I’m so sorry for us all.

Live your life with dignity, integrity, love and grace.

Love always, Mom/Grandma

Wendy Blanchard, MS, INHC, NYCPS

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Music – Love, Wendy

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Music, including melody and lyrics, is the universal language of expression. Music is the accompaniment to one’s experiences, and where one feels safe to “feel” and to emote.

Music reignites our soul and encourages us to reflect, to express our emotions, to be vulnerable, and deepens the process of processing our experiences.

Music invites us to remember, to connect to our joys and sorrows, to celebrate, and to heal in the safe space of our own memories.

Love, Wendy

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“Carry Quietly” – Love, Wendy

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Recently, the famous saying, “There are none so blind who will not see,” has pierced my heart. It has become very personal.

And so as I typically do, I asked a question of the angels as to how I will move forward with this information, and they answered me through music. A song entitled, “Carry Quietly” began to play on my Pandora station immediately upon posing my question.

I take it to mean to hold that relationship with love, not to challenge what I observe, to simply practice acceptance without judgement, and to “carry it quietly,” as “there are none so blind who will not see.”

Love can still shine through the cracks of our differences, illuminating the genuineness of the human condition.

By embracing acceptance, we cradle the beauty of imperfection, allowing compassion to blossom even in the face of ignorance.

And perhaps at another time, we plant another seed.

It’s in this quiet carrying that we find strength—not in force, but in gentle resilience, nurturing connections that remind us we are all part of a larger tapestry, woven together by shared experiences and emotions.

Perhaps we can even find a lesson of a deeper understanding of the human condition creating a deeper connection to Spirit, to ourselves, and to others as we “carry it quietly.”

Love, Wendy