WORDS OF WELLNESS: YOU ARE WHAT YOU… THINK
At Tin Man Towers this New Year, we’ve been talking about being mindful and how to reap the benefits of a well earned break - from work and ourselves!
With Christmas events came drinks, nibbles and mince pies - so it got us thinking around the theme of consumption. Not just in terms of what we eat food and drink wise, but how what we consume in the media (cozzie livs for example), on Netflix, etc, and how that can have a big impact on our brain and day-to-day lives.
We kicked off our theme of consumption by inviting the wonderful Nancy Best, founder of Ladies Who Crunch, down to the office in December, to chat to the team about relationships with food, drink and exercise, as well as body image and mental wellbeing during the New Year.
Read this:
Eat To Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body and Your Life by Jenna Hollenstein. Jenna’s recovery book encourages readers to re-analyse their mindset and the way they frame eating and self-love. She also investigates the toxicity of diet culture and uses a focal lens of mindfulness to examine stigma around eating issues.
Something to be mindful of as we enter one of the biggest months in the year for dieting.
Try this:
One in three of us continue to follow influencers on social media - even when they make us feel bad about ourselves. Reframe your Instagram feed and ask yourself how peoples’ content makes you feel? If you don’t want your feed to show you certain things - remove them.
Listen to this:
The Habit Coach with Ashdin Doctor, in each episode, Ashdin focuses on taking his listeners through how to maintain habits on a range of different subjects: health, sleep, de-stressing and productivity. In keeping with this month’s theme of consumption and mindfulness, start with Understanding Brain Health - an episode which deep dives into getting to know your grey matter and how it works.
Follow this:
Laura is an ‘anti-diet dietician’ who focuses on intuitive eating and body acceptance. She provides non-cliché, real tips on how to embrace your body just the way it is, and shines a spotlight on the ways in which diet culture works against people who are already marginalised. Expect to be educated in the chillest way!
Monitoring what you consume online can be difficult and sometimes it is okay to recognise that we all need a break, so take a breather, reset, and use the downtime of January as an opportunity for some good old TLC.
If there’s something you’d like us to consider sharing next time, email wellness@tinmancomms.com