My Wellness Experience

It was my junior year of college when I began to take health and fitness more seriously. I quickly realized that I’d need more than YouTube workouts and generic plans. So I got a personal trainer and nutritionist but I still wanted more. In a world of flat tummy teas, waist trainers, and quite frankly, White women as the gold standard for health, I was looking for the girls with “lived-in” bodies that they loved and melanin like mine who promoted actually being well, not just eating clean and working out.

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What is Wellness and Why is It Important?

The eight dimensions of wellness are part of a model created by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, also known as SAMHSA, and this model or guide offers a broad approach for things we can do—at our own pace, in our own time, and within our own abilities—that can help us feel better and live longer.

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Self-Discipline: Benefits for Your Health

The truth is, self-discipline makes your life better in every single way. When you work on building your self-discipline in all aspects of your life, you’re going to end up happier, more successful, and physically healthier too.

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Self Discipline: Benefits for Work and Studying

Out of everything you learned as a kid growing up, self-discipline is probably one of the most vital skills. If you have learned this lesson, you’ll reap the benefits your entire life by reaching for and meeting your goals more easily.

Self-Discipline: Benefits for Your Social Life

So many people have this misconception about self-disciplined people. They think that they’re boring, or creatures of extreme habit and fun to be around. But nothing could be further from the truth.

#MHAM Book List

If you’re looking to learn more about mental health, help yourself, or help a loved one, one of the best ways to do that is by reading books. In light of Mental Health Awareness Month, here are Kayla’s picks for adults, teens, children.

Steps to Mastering Self Discipline

Anyone can master self-discipline if they really want to do it. Even the process of trying to develop more self-discipline will make a huge difference in your life. You learn to control your impulses, desires, and wants so that you can stay focused on achieving your long-term goals.

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The Pandemic That Is Changing the World

I know you’ve been inundated with information about COVID-19 that may have left you feeling informed, stressed, overwhelmed, relieved, or some combination of all of those. In this post, I’ll get straight to the point.

What Is Self Discipline? 10 Ways to Demonstrate It

When someone is referred to as self-disciplined, it means that they’re intrinsically motivated enough to avoid short-term temptations to achieve long-term goals. They tend to be the person everyone else can count on to get things done due to their highly reliable nature and by default, those people also tend to be very successful. They are people with integrity. So, how can you demonstrate or build self-discipline?

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