How We Can Support Your Wellbeing
The My Wellbeing pathway offers one to one coaching that will provide Wellness clients with the tools they need to be able to manage their thoughts, feelings and emotions to have a positive impact on their everyday lives. The coaching process is person centred and led by the client’s individual goals, structured so that they can explore their strengths and become more resilient and feel in control and confident in times of personal challenge.
Importance of Wellbeing:
- Helps you to perform everyday tasks with more ease
- Supports your overall wellbeing
- Can help with your confidence and self-esteem
- More awareness of your personal needs
- Builds your resilience
- Feel in control
- Manage your health conditions
- Cope with your thoughts, feelings and emotions
- Does not take a lot of time to incorporate into your life.
- Can be done socially
Quotes from clients who have received coaching around Wellbeing goals, reflecting on how they made a shift in their behaviour and the changes that they made
“I have to make time for myself, I cannot help everyone else if I’m running on empty myself.”
“The importance of making time to look after my mental health.”
“How to cope with stress in a healthy way”
“Circles of control, being self aware of thoughts feelings and emotions and how these can impact my positive and negative thoughts”
“Meditation techniques & mindful eating.”
“To give myself time and not feel guilty about doing so.”
“Being aware of eating habits and missing meals when stressed and in pain. Now trying to think about fuelling body by having something small regularly”
Please DO NOT take part in any of these while you are driving or using machinery.
#1 Body Scan
Body scans can help us relax and to release tension. They can also help in those times when we are feeling flooded with strong emotions such as anxiety or anger. This body scan starts at our feet and works up through the body to our head. When we relax our body zone by zone, it becomes almost impossible to also be stressed, anxious, angry or otherwise overwhelmed with difficult emotions.
#2 Breathing Exercise
Breathing exercises can help you lower stress in the body by allowing your body to feel like it does when you are relaxed. When you breathe deeply, your brain receives a message to be calm and relax. Your brain then sends a message to your body which allows the heart rate and breathing rate to lower and your blood pressure decrease. Your nervous system becomes soothed, just by choosing to take control of your breath, as a result your mind becomes calmer and more still.
#3 Mindfulness Technique
In this exercise you will learn how to put some distance between yourself and troublesome thoughts by watching them float away. You can’t stop a worry or negative thought however hard you try, so when they arrive, let them come and then let them float right on by. If you don’t engage with them, they can’t stick to you.
#4 Grounding
By re-focusing on your body and what you’re physically feeling, you get out of your head and divert your mind away from anxious or stressful thoughts and into the moment.
#5 Progressive Muscle Relaxation
In this relaxation technique, you focus on slowly tensing and then relaxing each muscle group starting from your toes and progressively working your way up to your neck and head. This can help you focus on the difference between muscle tension and relaxation and can become more aware of physical sensations.
