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We post new weekly wellbeings every Wednesday. These are activities which anyone is welcome to try out at ANY time! Here is an updated list of all our weekly wellbeings (plus some other activities)- feel free to check them out! The previous masterlist can be found here (I've copied and pasted a lot of that over onto this post 🙂 ). More recent posts that might be needing a little extra attention 🙂 are marked with (NEW!)

Best of Weekly wellbeing: celebrate your favourite weekly wellbeing

Boundaries

• Mental boundaries
• Saying yes and saying no
• Switching off

Celebrating who you are

• Affirmations: Coming up with your own affirmations, or finding some you like and sharing them. 
• Celebrating our heritage
• Cultural pride
• How do you show your LGBTQIA+ pride?
• Power words: Turning unhelpful words/phrases into more helpful words/phrases
• Why are you proud of yourself?

Connecting with nature

• Caring for the environment
• Nurture a plant
• Take some time out to connect with nature
• Things I like in this world: The nature edition

Connecting with others

• Casual covid catch up: reaching out to people you've been meaning to talk to
• Meeting new people
• Old faves: Share some of your favourite things
• Reconnect and reach out: Reconnect with those around you
• Staying socially connected during Coronavirus
• Supporting and connecting with others
• What's your love language? How we show we care
• Your Support Network: Thinking about who is in your own support network, and how you can be supportive to others. 

Coping with tough times

• Journaling- sometimes it helps just to write things out
• Managing stress: What is something that helps you stay calm in a stressful situation?
• (NEW!) Overcoming obstacles: setting goals and sticking with them
• Problem solving: Use this neat method to solve problems and make decisions
• Random Coping Strategy Game: A fun game incorporating the coping strategies thread on the forums!
• Toolbox of coping

Create something

• DIY Self-Care inventory
• (NEW!) Get crafting! Using what you can find try and make something
• Get creative by making a cool character
• Identifying emotions activity
• Vision boards: Post an image that motivates or inspires you
• What's your superhero?: Create your own superhero or pick your favourite!

Food

• Food
• Mindful Eating: Picking your favourite food and spending some time eating mindfully, focusing on the senses and thoughts. 
• Soul food recipes

Getting into life

• Explore somewhere new
• Getting active: build some physical activity into your week!
• Oh, the places you'll go! Share your dream trip here
• Rediscovering an old interest: spend some time on hobbies/interests have been dropped
• Shaking things up
• Share what inspires you
• Trying Something New: Finding something you've never done but have been wanting to do for awhile, and doing it.

Gratitude and Giving back

• 5 day gratitude challenge
• Appreciating those around us: Thinking about someone you appreciate and letting them know!
• Create a Gratitude Post-It Wall  What are some things you're thankful for?
• Everyday gratitude
• Gratitude photo challenge: Share some gratitude with the community
• Improve your day and someone else's by sharing your smile
• Practice finding the silver lining in tough times
• Random Acts of Kindness: Doing one random act of kindness for a stranger, and sharing about it here (if you'd like to).
• Spreading some kindness

Holidays

• Christmas Edition
• Halloween activity

Important dates

• Dry July 
• International Men's Day activity
• Men's health week

Just for fun!

• Favourite Live Cams: Stream the zoo and so much more
• Favourite podcasts
• Feel-Good Music: Spending a few minutes enjoying some of our favourite songs.
• If you were a superhero... This isn't technically a weekly wellbeing but it's a fun activity!
• Making time for fun and enjoyment: What do you do for fun/enjoyment?
• Pets!
• (NEW!) Scavenger hunt! Take notice of things during your day and complete the challenge!
• Share music that uplifts your mood here
• What is your spirit animal? Tell us which animal you identify with, and why
• What is your Superpower? 

Learn something

• Articles, articles, artciles: Find and share an any type of media about wellbeing or coping
• Keep Learning: Researching a topic you're interested in and sharing 3 things you learn!
• Post or read about a good news story
• The power of poetry
• What interests you?
• Words words words: Learn a new word!

Productivity

• Do something you've been meaning to tick off your list in  Life Admin.
• Self hacking: how to trick yourself into taking care of your wellbeing!
• (NEW!) Spicing Up The Mundane (Making lockdown lifestyle a little more fun)- get your chores done in a breeze with these hacks!
• There's an app for that! Sharing our favourite apps!

ReachOut's Community Values

• Art Attack: create an artwork capturing one of our ReachOut community values!
• 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.

Recovery as a journey

• (NEW!) Facing your fears: a practical guide to tackling things you've been avoiding
• Personal Strengths: Identifying some of our personal strengths.
• 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. 
• Recovery: Identifying a challenge in recovery and how you overcame or are overcoming it.

Reflecting and looking to the future

• (NEW!) Blast from the past! Reflect on things you used to love that you may have forgotten about
• Goal setting: Practice setting SMART goals in all areas of your life
• Gratefulness Reflection: Reflecting on a few things we are grateful for.
• Habits
• Mid-year reflections - reflect on how the year is tracking 
• New Years Reflection: Thinking back on the past year, and what we're looking forward to in the new one.
• Reflect upon some of the role models in your life and the way you are a role model to others
• Reflecting on the positives: remember a moment that brought you happiness!
• (NEW!) Reflecting on what's within your control
• Reflection rituals
• Self-advice: Use reflection to unlock your inner wisdom and give advice to future or past you
• Story telling
• Write a letter to yourself

Self-care

• Being kind to yourself when you make mistakes
• Give to yourself: Time to treat yo-self and recognise how great you are - you deserve it!!
• Improve your sleep by focusing on healthy sleep hygiene
• Make a Self Care Kit
• Self care at home: here's a list of all the things you can do!
• Self promises
• Self-care challenge: make a self-care plan for the next 3 days
• Self-care during lockdown: Not a weekly wellbeing, but a thread with many ideas for self-care during lockdown!
• Small changes
• Treat yo self: Do something you wouldn't normally do for you
• Wind down routines

Taking notice

• Appreciating our Surroundings: Taking some time out of your day to walk and enjoy your surroundings. 
• Learn to Meditate 
• Mindful Mondays
• Things I like about you and me