September 2024 Newsletter
As we celebrate Self Care Awareness Month this September, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the importance of taking care of ourselves. In honor of this special month, we’re excited to share an insightful article featuring 50 golden rules for a happy life. These timeless principles are designed to help you cultivate joy, balance, and fulfillment in your everyday life. Dive in and discover how small changes can lead to a happier, healthier you!
50 Rules for a happy life: a therapist’s guide to contentment and growth
1. Own your life.
Choose how to live it. Be intentional. You are constantly making choices about the direction of your life. Ultimately, you are responsible for the life you create. Don’t be passive to your own life, it doesn’t last forever.
2. Your relationships are an interactive system with two people participating.
Look for what you do to contribute to your patterns, not just what they do. Stop trying to only change them, influence them by changing yourself.
3. Bigger and better doesn’t make you happier.
More money, success, accomplishments, or other external things only makes you temporarily happier, if at all. Pursue internal happiness.
4. Nature heals.
Get outside. Often.
5. Exercise helps.
Move your body regularly. Sweat.
6. Wherever you go, there you are.
You are the common denominator in your life. If you notice patterns, you are contributing to their occurrence.
7. Problematic behaviour still serves a purpose.
All of our parts serve or have served us at one point. If you are doing something that hurts you but is hard to stop, look at what it is doing to protect you.
8. Emotions matter.
Whether you like it or not. No one is comfortable with the core emotions of sadness, shame, fear, and core anger, but they drive our lives. Spend time understanding your feelings, not just your thoughts.
9. Realize when you are hiding behind thought.
Your thoughts aren’t as accurate as you think they are. Our mind works well when resourced but when overwhelmed it can be an enemy. Stop taking thoughts so seriously and look at what feelings are driving them.
10. All people suffer.
Being human means to suffer. Learn how to honour your suffering instead of minimizing or dismissing it. Particularly to yourself. This will liberate you from your reactivity.
