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Direct Your Breath Oct 21, 2020

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Mindfulness techniques offer us so much, but nothing is more important than paying attention to what your body needs. Today, we practice self-directed breathwork to help check in with how we feel and care for ourselves.
Takeaways:
1- Your body is powerful.
2- By slowing down and checking in with it, you can better connect to what you need.
3- Bring attention to your breath and see how breathwork can affect the way you feel.
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Mantra: I offer my body what it needs.
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Experiencing election stress? You're not alone. Learn how to take better care of yourself before, during, and after the 2020 election. Take our Election Self-Care Quiz and get a personalized self-care plan of action: https://bit.ly/33UcNvX

Strengthen Your Emotional Immunity Oct 20, 2020

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Our emotions require care and space to build up their strength. Today's meditation shows us how to build our emotional immunity by processing our feelings regularly.
Takeaways:
1- Emotional immunity means being in touch with your feelings and processing them regularly.
2- Notice what's coming up inside of you and try to label it.
3- Release it by acknowledging it's part of you, without letting it take over.
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Mantra: I process and release my emotions.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20
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Experiencing election stress? You're not alone. Learn how to take better care of yourself before, during, and after the 2020 election. Take our Election Self-Care Quiz and get a personalized self-care plan of action: https://bit.ly/33UcNvX

Challenge Your Self-Imposed Rules Oct 19, 2020

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Today we're setting the intention to challenge the rules we've set that may hold us back. Grab that journal! Takeaways: 1- We often create rules for ourselves because we crave order or want to feel protected from our worries or insecurities. 2- But they can keep us small, holding us back from growth and the big lives we deserve. 3- Push back on your self-imposed beliefs. You have the power to challenge and rewrite the rules. --- Mantra: I can challenge and rewrite my rules. --- Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20 --- Experiencing election stress? You're not alone. Learn how to take better care of yourself before, during, and after the 2020 election. Take our Election Self-Care Quiz and get a personalized self-care plan of action: https://bit.ly/33UcNvX

Offer Yourself Empathy Oct 16, 2020

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We're quick to empathize with other people, but sometimes it can be hard to do it with ourselves. Today's meditation is a practice in observing and identifying your emotions through self-empathy.
Takeaways:
1- Empathy is recognizing and identifying your feelings.
2- To feel empathy for ourselves is to know that our feelings are part of being human.
3- Reflect on an emotion, and notice where it might be coming from and what you can offer yourself, the same way you would a friend.
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Mantra: I offer myself empathy.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

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Experiencing election stress? You're not alone. Learn how to take better care of yourself before, during, and after the 2020 election. Take our Election Self-Care Quiz and get a personalized self-care plan of action: https://bit.ly/33UcNvX

Reset Your Boundaries Oct 15, 2020

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Boundaries can help us protect our mental energy—and it’s always helpful to check in and reset them. Today we're practicing setting boundaries, worrying intentionally, and identifying what we can do to take action.
Takeaways:
1- Our worries follow us along, from doing the dishes to going to bed.
2- Offer yourself the practice of deliberate worry time, so you can get them out of your head and onto paper.
3- Reflect on something worrying you and notice if it's actionable or not—then let it go.
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Mantra: I let go of my worries.
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Experiencing election stress? You're not alone. Learn how to take better care of yourself before, during, and after the 2020 election. Take our Election Self-Care Quiz and get a personalized self-care plan of action: https://bit.ly/33UcNvX

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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

Release Your Body's Stress Oct 14, 2020

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We often carry our stress in certain parts of our bodies. Today we'll connect with those points and relax them with gentle movement, so you can move with the day stress-free.
Takeaways:
1- We know stress lives in our minds, but it can also live in our bodies.
2- We often carry tension in our neck, shoulders, hands and feet.
3- Stretch these muscles regularly and check in with where you might be carrying stress in your body.
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Mantra: I release the stress I carry.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

Aim for Imperfect Oct 13, 2020

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So many of us want to be perfect at everything right away. But when we're brave enough to let ourselves struggle or fail, we open up to all the joy and progress we may get out of an activity.
Takeaways:
1- It's human to want to be perfect at something right away.
2- Remind yourself that trying something new means being bad at it, and that's okay.
3- Focus on what you get out of the activity, regardless of your own ability.
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Mantra: I give myself permission to be bad.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

Your Self-Care Audit Oct 12, 2020

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As our needs change, so should our self-care. Today we're taking stock of our self-care practices and setting the intention to move forward with what serves us best. Grab your journal!
Takeaways:
1- We can have what feels like a catalog of self-care practices.
2- We use some more than others or we even outgrow them if they no longer serve us.
3- Do your current practices support your needs? Audit your routine and make updates to works best for you.
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Mantra: I will support my needs as they change.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

Embrace Your Love And Kindness Oct 10, 2020

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Happy World Mental Health Day! In this special weekend Daily Shine, we're honoring our wellbeing and community with a special loving-kindness meditation. Be sure to share this meditation with someone special—listen and care for your mental health together.
Takeaways:
1- Caring for our mental health is a very personal journey, but it's not one that you have to navigate alone.
2- The more open we are about our wellbeing the more self-compassion and empathy we build.
3- Your love and kindness are expansive—even when you feel alone, you are connected to the people you care about and the entire world around you.
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Mantra: May I be safe, happy, healthy, and live with ease.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

Meet Social Anxiety with Grace Oct 09, 2020

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It's okay to feel socially anxious when you aren't seeing your people as often. Today, offer yourself grace in the face of social anxiety with a smile meditation.
Takeaways:
1- It's OK if you feel socially anxious—it's one of the challenges so many of us are going through right now.
2- Find ways to practice being social in a safe way, and remember not to judge yourself for a natural outcome of your situation.
3- Smile to yourself gently as an offering, with deep breaths and positive mantras.
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Mantra: I offer myself grace.
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Founded by two women of color, Shine is on a mission to make mental health more inclusive, representative, and accessible to all. For a limited time, get a year of Shine Premium for only $20 at theshineapp.com/20

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