Chance a change 🎲
I hope you’re enjoying the warm weather as much as me. This week I am writing from the fields of Glastonbury. If it’s anything like last year, I’ll be at the front row of the Pyramid Stage come the weekend, feeling the beat of the music running through me! 😊
We’re busy taking bookings for our upcoming Getaway in September, and I realised that we’ve made quite a detour from our Building Blocks Model for Good Mental Health and what we cover on these weekends; so let’s make our way back.
So far we have discussed Building Block 1: nutrition and bodily ingestion and Block 2: the physical environment trilogy of i): toxicology, ii): work / home and iii): social environment. We started the enormous topic of Block 3: Toolkit and Skills, which comprises practical actions that we can take and the skills we can apply to support our mental health. We’ve covered many ways to improve our mental health and resilience like:
· sleep
· talking to therapists or those around us
· sunlight
· music and
· fasting
Implementing these Building Blocks requires change to our routine, lifestyle, environment, work, relationships or to our habits, including the habit of how we respond to external conditions. The latter is learned, and we’ll cover this another time.
“not moving forward leaves us stagnant, whilst all around us is changing”
In our newsletter of 17th February, we mentioned our Change Tree Model to help decide when change is appropriate and today we share what this looks like here. It is applicable in all areas including relationships, work, fitness, health, etc.
Pick a topic and start at the root of the tree with the question “are you happy with the situation?” and then follow the branches to come to your conclusion or advice.
Ultimately, we’re suggesting you should give a situation 3 honest and heart-felt attempts. At this point, if it still isn’t making you happy and you can’t live with it, or change the way you look at it, we suggest moving on and making a bigger change, or reach for something different. We’re not encouraging you to give up, we just want to help you to know how to manage a situation and when it’s time to give yourself a break or move on. Give it a go and let us know how you get on.
Risk and reward
As we look at the Change Tree, we also need to assess the risk and reward of making that change, or not. We also have a model to assess this, which we cover on our Getaways.
We hope you find it useful to get perspective on something in your life. I’ve made a lot of very significant changes in my life and many of them have been extremely scary. This model, amongst others that we share on the Getaways, has really helped me.
You’re the lead role
We’re here if you’ve decided you want to make a change but don’t know how to do it, or you’d like support on deciding what is right for you. Remember, you are the lead role in the story of your life and no-one else is going to play your part for you. The best things in life are worth the effort, so why not chance a change?
Well wishes,
Andie. x