Sasha W.

Take naps and make sure to prioritize sleep, limit screen time and turn off notifications for social media naps, meditation and breathwork followed by journaling.

No email apps on phone, never skip lunch, even if I’m not hungry I’ll take a midday break, and recognizing I work to live not I live to work and that my worth doesn’t come from a job.

Meditation followed by journaling. When you meditate and take the time to journal, you’re effectively putting a pause button on the day and prioritizing stillness, mindfulness, and overall mental wellness. We are incredibly overstimulated and it can be very hard to hit the pause button. When you’re overstimulated you’re reacting, you’re not being proactive, reasoning, engaging your critical thinking skills, or emotional intelligence. You’re not in tune with your thoughts or even your body. That pause for meditation and mindfulness followed by journaling forces you to activate your brain and keeps you sharp.

The ability to bring something that is impactful to others and pull back the curtain on mental wellness, specifically meditation. Wellness has been westernized, white-washed, and co-opted there commodified. As an unfortunate result, a lot of people think that in order to practice wellness you have to look a certain way or it has to be done in a certain way in a certain space and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Mindfulness is for everyone. So is breathwork. So is meditation, no yoga pants or fancy yoga studio necessary. It doesn’t have to be WOOOO, no performative Ommmmmms necessary. You can do it at your desk, commuting to work, as you walk, anywhere. I love that as a Liberate leader I can make wellness and mindfulness accessible to people in the spaces they’re comfortable in which I think empowers people to incorporate into their own lives on their terms.

“No matter where you are, no matter what you are going through, you owe it to yourself to keep moving forward.”