Destressing Tips:

To get you started, here are some ideas for relaxing and calming your body and soul:

• Call & visit friends

• Pray, mediate or read scripture

• Tapping

• Sing & hum

• Journal

• Enjoy nature - garden, walk on a beach, look at the stars

• Sleep - Try a weighted blanket

• Clean something, a drawer, room, outside, etc.

• Do something creative - draw, color, paint, write

• Make something - have you been putting off a project, want to paint a piece of furniture, fix something that is broken, make something beautiful

• Have a meal with friends, cook for someone, go out for a meal

• Go out and meet new friends, join a group

• Reach out to others - help a friend

• Travel and see something new-go to a museum,

• Start a new hobby

• Listen to music

• Surround yourself with beauty - put some fresh flowers on the table, set a formal dinner for your husband.

• Watch a movie, read a book

• Socialize - call a friend, visit someone who is shut in.

• Animals - play with an animal

• Hold a baby

• Laugh, tell a joke, read

• Be Grateful - look around and think of what and who you appreciate

• Self-care - Go out and get a pedicure or manicure, get your hair cut.

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