Weekly Wellbeing Activities! Updated Masterlist
Hello everyone!
Wellbeing is super important. It can be helpful to take some time out of our day and reflect on some of the things we can or need to do to help ourselves feel better. There's a little wheel of wellbeing called the wheel of wellbeing.
Each section represents a different way that we can take care of ourselves and our wellbeing. It could be through being active, connecting with others, taking notice of our surroundings and being mindful or learning new things. There's so many different ways that we can help have a positive wellbeing.
So, to help us on that positive journey, we're going to do Weekly Wellbeing! Every Wednesday, we're going to share a new wellbeing activity with you all. We'll explain what the activity is, and give an example so you can see what to do. Even though it's posted on a Wednesday, you can reply on a Thursday, a Saturday, or even a week later! There's no time limit on these activities 🙂
Check out below for a giant list of all the activities we've done in the past and give one a go! 😄
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Here is a list of all our Wellbeing activities. It is updated every week! Feel free to do any that catch your eye! There's no time frame to complete them 🙂
- New Years Reflection: Thinking back on the past year, and what we're looking forward to in the new one.
- Gratefulness Reflection: Reflecting on a few things we are grateful for.
- Recovery: Identifying a challenge in recovery and how you overcame or are overcoming it.
- Your Support Network: Thinking about who is in your own support network, and how you can be supportive to others.
- Random Acts of Kindness: Doing one random act of kindness for a stranger, and sharing about it here (if you'd like to).
- Personal Strengths: Identifying some of our personal strengths.
- Appreciating our Surroundings: Taking some time out of your day to walk and enjoy your surroundings.
- Feel-Good Music: Spending a few minutes enjoying some of our favourite songs.
- RO's Community Values: Identifying with one (or more!) of ReachOut's Community Values and how you show this value on the forums or in the world around you.
- Trying Something New: Finding something you've never done but have been wanting to do for awhile, and doing it.
- Affirmations: Coming up with your own affirmations, or finding some you like and sharing them.
- Recovery is a Squiggle: Draw and/or share a picture of your recovery "squiggle", remembering to end it going up as we're always making positive progress.
- Mindful Eating: Picking your favourite food and spending some time eating mindfully, focusing on the senses and thoughts.
- Appreciating those around us: Thinking about someone you appreciate and letting them know!
- Keep Learning: Researching a topic you're interested in and sharing 3 things you learn!
- Give to yourself: Time to treat yo-self and recognise how great you are - you deserve it!!
- Managing stress: What is something that helps you stay calm in a stressful situation?
- Random Coping Strategy Game: A fun game incorporating the coping strategies thread on the forums!
- Words words words: Learn a new word!
- Getting active: build some physical activity into your week!
- Self-advice: Use reflection to unlock your inner wisdom and give advice to future or past you
- Problem solving: Use this neat method to solve problems and make decisions
- What is your spirit animal? Tell us which animal you identify with, and why
- Mid-year reflections - reflect on how the year is tracking
- Reconnect and reach out: Reconnect with those around you
- Goal setting: Practice setting SMART goals in all areas of your life
- Making time for fun and enjoyment: What do you do for fun/enjoyment?
- Get creative by making a cool character
- Post or read about a good news story
- Being kind to yourself when you make mistakes
- Reflecting on the positives: remember a moment that brought you happiness!
- Improve your sleep by focusing on healthy sleep hygiene
- Create a Gratitude Post-It Wall What are some things you're thankful for?
- Do something you've been meaning to tick off your list Life Admin.
- What is your Superpower?
- Share music that uplifts your mood Music
- Learn to Meditate
- Practice finding the silver lining in tough times
- Take some time out to connect with nature
- Rediscovering an old interest: spend some time on hobbies/interests have been dropped
- Reflect upon some of the role models in your life and the way you are a role model to others
- Improve your day and someone else's by sharing your smile
- Share what inspires you
- Nurture a plant
- Halloween activity
- Explore somewhere new
- Saying yes and saying no
- International Men's Day activity
- Favourite podcasts post
- 5 day gratitude challenge
- Caring for the environment
- Christmas Edition
- Make a Self Care Kit
- Treat yo self: Do something you wouldn't normally do for you
- Meeting new people
- Self hacking: how to trick yourself into taking care of your wellbeing!
- Story telling
- Self care at home: here's a list of all the things you can do!
- Pets!
- Soul food recipes
- Wind down routines
- Staying socially connected during Coronavirus
- Shaking things up
- Switching off
- Old faves: Share some of your favourite things
- Men's health week
- Dry July
- Gratitude photo challenge: Share some gratitude with the community
- Favourite Live Cams: Stream the zoo and so much more
- Everyday gratitude
- Small changes
- Habits
- What interests you?
- Mental boundaries
- Food
That's awesome!!! I have been practising randomly from the list.
@Jay-RO this is such a lovely idea! I'm not 100% if this fits in with the past activities but I think it could be helpful to have an activity focused on strategies and exercises we use to cope and manage our lives such as specific grounding exercise, meditations/playlists people like, or anything concrete like that. It could be like a remix of the 100 coping strategies thread, but maybe a bit smaller in scope because I personally find threads with lots of page really intimidating to navigate
Hey @DirtWitch , i just realised that the week on random coping strategies game, is kind of what you were suggesting in your comment above!
Did it help to navigate the long coping strategies thread?
