Mood and Mindset Archives • The Bliss Movement

8 prevention tips for seasonal affective disorder

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder where people exhibit depressive symptoms during the change of seasons, most commonly in fall and winter, and can persist throughout the season. Living in the northern hemisphere, I'm no stranger to "the winter blues" but, thankfully, there are a few things that really can help to either minimize the impact of a dreary winter or ward off SAD symptoms entirely.When we think about self care and the impacts on our mental wellness, we're quick to focus on physical health - regular exercise, nutritious foods, proper s[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

6 Ways To Feel Grounded When You’re Overwhelmed

get your hands in the dirt, mud, clay, paint, etc. There is something inherently grounding about getting your hands in the earth. So many avid gardeners and plant lovers are out there talking about how grounding and calming it is to get their hands in the soil. Scientific studies have been done about this very topic, showing interesting results claiming that gardening can provide health benefits like reducing depression and anxiety, improving life satisfaction and improving mood. For most, getting our hands in the dirt actually boosts our serotonin - aka the ha[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

9 Ways To Reduce Stress + Boost Energy

Today I'm sharing 9 simple ways to reduce stress and boost your energy. If you're frequently experiencing heightened levels of stress (or maybe your typical state of being is one within that higher stress threshold), you're not alone. And, you're in the right place! We're living in a world that values hard work and "hustle". Talk of resting, taking a break, doing things simply for the sake of adding more joy or peace into your day are met with eye rolls. Even the most well-intentioned person planning on taking a break from the chaos often finds the[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

6 Mindset Shifts You Need to Change Your life

Mindset is the key to your success and happiness. Your brain holds incredible power over your mood and how you interact with the world around you. Our brain has the beautiful ability for constant change and YOU have the ability to shape it. The key? Awareness and then consistency, consistency, consistency. By continuously practicing a few small shifts in the words that you use you will immediately begin to interrupt the neural pathways in your brain to create more positive and empowering connections. Here are 7 mindset shifts that have the power to change you[...]

Goal-Getters, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Intention Setting 101: Creating Goals With Meaning

What does it mean to set an intention? A guide sharing how to create powerful, true to you intentions with meaning and purpose.

Intention setting is a powerful tool that allows us to create goals with meaning. Everyone is talking about it and sharing their inspirational spaces in which they write their intentions but what even is it? What is an intention and how do we use it? Intention setting is more than just writing your average to-do list full of boxes to check. Writing intentions should be approached as a guide for how we want to be living our lives, how we want to be responding to situations, how we want to act as our best selves. An intention is, at it's simplest, a goal with me[...]

Mindset, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: Three Steps To Owning Your Power

Today we're digging deep into how we can start overcoming our limiting beliefs. We all have a little friend whispering to us inside our heads - sometimes she's as silent as a whisper, other times as loud as a scream. However loud or quiet she is, she's there, ready to voice her opinion at the moments she deems necessary. Maybe it's when we are about to take a step outside of our comfort zone, perhaps it's when you find yourself in the dressing room of a clothing store. Whenever your friend decides to rear her head, her words have likely been with you[...]

Mindset, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Get Out of a Bad Mood in 3 Easy Steps

Sometimes, bad moods are inescapable. For whatever reason, you're experiencing a day, or a week, or a month, where you're just not yourself. That's okay! I try to put out good energy, be good energy, and be someone who always has a smile easily available for whoever needs it. I think we all aspire to be that kind of person but some days, some weeks, it's hard. And that's okay. While it's important to sit with all of our emotions, even the negative, there comes a point where the more we wallow in it, the worse it becomes. And we start to take our bad[...]

Mood and Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Care

The Importance of Taking Care of Your Introvert Self

I have always been an introvert. On the Myer-Briggs scale, I am considered an INFP personality type: introverted (energized by time alone rather than with others), intuitive (focuses on ideas/concepts rather than details/facts, feeling (makes decisions based on feelings/values), and perceiving (spontaneous/flexible rather than organized/planned). While I've never paid for a professional test, all of the ones I've done have come up with the same answer and nearly everything about an INFP rings true for me.As a pre-teen and teenager, I was both an intr[...]

Goal-Getters, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Emotions, Intentions and The Phases Of The Moon

It’s only been recently that I’ve started paying any attention to the moon and the significance that its phases can play in our daily lives. On any given day, I can feel emotions running deeply – from within myself and from others. Right now, a lot of things are whirling around in my head and in my heart. There are so many emotions that I sometimes can’t think straight. Sometimes, it’s so forceful that I don’t know where to begin and I end up shutting them down to nothing rather than embracing them and using them for something positive.[...]

Mood and Mindset, NEW TO SELF-CARE?, Personal Development, Self-Care

How To Create Your Perfect Wellness Routine

Creating a wellness routine was something that evolved subconsciously for me, over time. I didn't sit down and think to myself, "OK, today is the day I start a wellness routine." Mostly what happened was that I would continue to be surprised by how much better something made me feel - whether mentally + emotionally or physically. As time went on, I started to incorporate all of those little things into my daily (or weekly - we aren't all perfect) life and since then, it's been a journey to figure out how to maintain my wellness routine even in the midst of consta[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care, Travel

7 Steps To Get Over Travel Burnout

We've had a conversation about post-travel depression here in the past, but what about when you're actually on the road and feeling a bit.. bleh? Have you ever had the realization that the things you used to love about traveling were only weighing you down? Have you stopped feeling inspired and excited about the places you were going and instead, don't feel much of anything? Or you're feeling constantly exhausted and couldn't really care less if you were in that beautiful destination or at home? If so, you might have been experiencing something called travel burn[...]

Mood and Mindset, Self-Care, Travel

Traveling Is a Beautiful Chaos

I wrote this post a little while ago and have been going back and forth between wanting to share it and wanting to delete it because it's not that inspirational, it's not that informational, it's really not that exciting. It's mostly just a rant on a day when I was experiencing some crazy travel burnout. But, that's part of living a lifestyle of travel. There's good and bad, even in beautiful destinations. So, here you go. I'm going to forewarn you that I may sound a little ungrateful for a moment - but please know that I'm not. I realize how amazing the life th[...]