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10 Essential Rules for Emotional Health

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Maintaining emotional wellness is crucial year-round. Here are some key principles to help you create and sustain emotional health:

  1. Take Care of Yourself: Prioritize relaxation, exercise, a balanced diet, and spend time with people and activities you enjoy.
  2. Focus on Positives: Choose to see the positives in life experiences rather than the negatives. Most challenges offer opportunities for personal growth and understanding. Accept difficulties and take necessary actions to overcome them.
  3. Let Go of the Past: If you can’t change or control it, let it go. Don’t waste energy on things that don’t benefit you. Forgive yourself and others.
  4. Be Respectful and Responsible: Show respect and take responsibility for your actions.
  5. Acknowledge Success: Take credit for your achievements and accomplishments.
  6. Build Close Relationships: Develop one or two close relationships where you can be honest about your feelings.
  7. Speak Positively: Talk positively about yourself and others.
  8. Remove Yourself from Harmful Situations: Step away temporarily from situations that are out of control or harmful.
  9. Accept Change: Understand that life involves choices and constant change. Embrace change and make necessary personal adjustments.
  10. Plan for the Future: Develop long-term goals and work on them step by step, whether day by day or minute by minute.

We know these principles aren’t always easy to follow, but they can significantly enhance your emotional well-being and overall quality of life.

Practice Mindful Eating and Tune into Your Body by Brandon Bolton, RDN

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One healthy habit is to practice mindful eating to rediscover your body’s idea of normal eating. Mindful eating is eating with the intention of caring for yourself, while also eating with the attention necessary for noticing and enjoying food and the effect that your food has on your body! It’s important to tune in and listen to your body while eating the foods that you enjoy.

Here are some ways to practice mindful eating:


• Tune into and listen to your body – eat when hungry and stop when full and satisfied.
• Eating when your body tells you to eat (stomach growling, low energy).
• Eat foods that are nutritionally healthy.
• Eat with others at a set time and place.
• When eating, avoid multitasking and try to just eat without distractions.
• Connect with your food and consider where it comes from.
• Choose food for both enjoyment and nourishment.


Most importantly, love yourself and love your food! At NOAH, we’ll work with you and your #child to choose the best path for their overall #health and #wellness. Please call for an appt. at 480-882-4545. #gethealthy #nutrition

What is Body Positivity? by Mina Goodman, RDN

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Body positivity is a celebration of all body types and sizes, accepting your body, appreciating all that your body does, and loving yourself. Some also see this as a focus inward on a person’s strengths, thoughts, and actions, instead of what they look like and how much they weigh. Body positivity is also a social movement which has effected:

  • The way beauty competitions are run (removing bikini contests).
  • The way magazine covers are written (no more language like “drop two sizes”).
  • Even a change in modeling photography (less airbrushing).

How are some ways you can become more body positive? Many have found that encouraging one another, telling yourself that you are awesome, and healthy eating and fitness are all ways to promote body positivity. It is an individualized approach so each person should take the steps toward body positivity that make the most sense for them!

Every morning when you wake up and get ready for your day, tell yourself any or all of the following and be mindful about these words.

  • I’m Awesome.
  • I’m Pretty.
  • I’m Healthy.
  • I’m Beautiful.
  • I Love Myself.

There may be moments when you need to tell yourself these positive sayings throughout your day, and that’s okay. Just say them with meaning. Believe them and others will see you the same way! At NOAH, we’ll work with you and your #child to choose the best path for their overall #health and #wellness. Please call for an appt. at 480-882-4545.

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