Overwhelmed | Carving out time to regulate your emotional & mental well-being

Overwhelmed – No matter how smooth, poignant or stable it appears…it’s bound to topple over, 2023, created during a period when I thought I was managing my stress and overwhelm pretty well. And as we all know at some point it all comes toppling down and over.

It’s important to remind ourselves that we don’t have to allow it to take the lead in our lives, we have a level of agency. Those emotions and feelings are there for us to pause, take a breath, step back and to soothe and tend to ourselves. That’s not just reserved for when things hit the fan or you’ve reached your breaking point. I hope this piece reminds you to check-in and carve out time for you to regulate your emotional and mental well-being.

How do you manage your stress and overwhelm? What are some things you do before, during or after?

Resources For You

• Mindful Magazine
  • Calm Down When You’re Overwhelmed Using 3 Science-Backed Ways
  • How to recover from Burnout: Effective Techniques to Reclaim Your Well-Being
  • A Steady Heart: A Cardiologist’s Advice for Lowering Stress
• Medicinal Media:
  • Boost your mood with the right scent
  • The importance of finding your comfort creators
  • Soothing sounds: birds on a wire
  • If you get upset or angrey while meditating, you’re on the right track
• Meditation Apps
  • Insight Timer
  • HeadSpace

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Sustainability In Practice

How sustainability shows up in the materials used

• Current Tombow Pens
• Donated Textured Paper from Vital Spaces Community Art Closet

How the sustainability continues

This falls in alignment with my values of creating one-of-a-kind works. Once purchased, to reduce carbon emissions, shipping is done on a weekly basis through EasyPost, which offers carbon neutral shipping and is packed with packaging from EcoEnclose.

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