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Day TWO of Break THRU Boredom, a Family Mindset Challenge: GRATITUDE

04/22/2020 06:00 AM Central
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Earth Day EVERYDAY!

When we feel grateful for our own lives and the body that we have, that gratitude can be felt by everyone that you come in contact with. It has to be cultivated within the family and practiced internally for the Family Mindset to transform. Let's heal the world bY starting with our own family.

"Be the Change you Wish to See in the World"

Daily Affirmation

I love myself, I love the world

Snack

Activity: Interactive Read Aloud

The whole family needs to participate!

Invitations to play

Gratitude Jar: An 'Attitude of Gratitude' takes practice and routine. Introduce this at a family meal. We keep a special jar, paper, and pens near our dining room table so we can visit this often. Our family has a tradition to read the entire year's gratitude slips on January 1st as we say goodbye to the old and invite the New Year. It's amazing to see just all that we've accomplished as a family in one year the extraordinary and the mundane!

Scavenger Hunts: Set out a basket with the Scavenger hunt, clipboards, and maybe some special writing utensils. This makes it inviting and a little bit novel seeing special items. You can also choose a special route to take.

For Younger Children:

For older children

Find the 5 Day Break THRU Boredom challenge in my facebook community too! That's where you can participate for prizes and get more free trainings.

Here is DAY 3 of the Series

If you like this blog, you may also like this Free Guide: 5 Ways to Reduce Childhood Stress and Anxiety.

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Meet Tanya Milano Snell

Becoming a wife and mother was so exciting for me. I had so much love to give and I strived to always find solutions to life's bumps in the road. From cloth diapering to buying as much organic or local food as we could I was trying to keep us as healthy as possible. I found products that I liked at online stores and corporations, big box stores, local shops, and local farms.....you name it, I was using it all and it was complicated. I also stressed the importance of self care so my husband and I can be there for our kids and for our community, but there just never seemed much time for this.

So, then came a series of traumatic events in our life. First, the death of my mother in law after a long illness followed 2 years later with the death of both of my parents from cancer. Having 2 young kids (one of which was diagnosed with asthma) and navigating this time in our lives was nothing short of a miracle. We have so many friends and family to thank for this! We were maintaining self care (honestly, my yoga practice was crucial) and healthy living as best we could given our circumstances or at least that's what I thought.

In the summer of 2018, my husband was hospitalized with severe gastrointestinal problems. After a week in the hospital, we received a diagnosis of Crohns disease. On the day of his release from the hospital, I was a mess. My body and mind had HAD enough. I didn't know how we were going to manage all of these changes. I cried all day!! I felt like I couldn't be strong for the one person that was strong through all of our battles so far. In the next few months, we had new food to buy, new supplements, new medical bills, and the list goes on. I was having daily headaches, irregular bowel movements, and increased anxiety. Bills and shopping were so hard to keep up with. It was time to make some decisions for the whole family.

I realized that staying in the teaching field was unsustainable to my well-being and detrimental to my family's well-being. I chose to really listen to my intuition, strengthen the practices that help me listen, and follow the path that I was being led to follow. Leading and living from the heart was the only option. My love for what yoga does for my mind, body, and soul was the missing piece to my puzzle on how to make all my passions and dreams a reality.

Today, I have much less stress because I have developed a self awareness that keeps me from self abandonment (SacredSeat and SafeSeat practices). I sleep better. I have much fewer headaches and muscle pains. My anxiety is managed and I worry less about providing what my family needs for proper nutrition. And best of all, I now have a self care routine so that I can be there for my family and their needs. I also have more time for the things that I enjoy doing like reading, playing outside, and family time.

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