Month: July 2019

Holistic Health, Mind-body

Weekly Health Quest (July 15-19, 2019) – Relaxing Tea Ritual

Catie Fitzgerald

Join Amy Lynn Frost and me for this week’s practical self-care action. This week, we’ll be practicing a virtual tea ritual each day. This mindful exercise serves as both a method for reducing stress and hydrating the body. Want to join us?

At 3pm (PDT) each day this week, make yourself a cup of tea as a self-care practice to enhance your well-being. Engage all of your senses in the process:

  • Select a fragrant tea, relaxing tea (visit here for ideas)
  • Listen to the water boil and splash into the cup
  • Inhale the aroma as the tea steeps
  • Feel the warmth of the cup in your hands and on your lips/tongue
  • Taste and savor each sip.
  • Stay focused on making and then drinking the tea.
  • Breath deeply throughout the ritual.

Once you finish drinking your cup of tea, share anything you want to about your experience in the comments below.

Learn more about the Weekly Health Quest concept here.

Check out Amy’s and Catie’s Facebook pages.

Holistic Health, Lifestyle

Introducing the Weekly Health Quest – Practical steps you can take to enhance your health

Catie Fitzgerald

While having a nice chat with my friend Amy Frost this Sunday, we realized that we had allowed some of our daily self-care rituals to fall by the wayside. One of our favorite rituals involves us simultaneously preparing and enjoying a cup of tea at 3:00 pm each week day from our respective offices (mine in Mountain View, CA and hers in Las Vegas, NV).

We decided that this week we would re-institute this meditative tradition. We committed to do this ritual every day for the next 5 days. No big, long-term commitment. Just one small step towards enhancing our health through a simple meditative exercise that takes all of 5 minutes to perform. This hands-on experience provides both our body and our mind with a respite from the hectic work day.

As we chatted about self-care in general, we came back to a topic for which we both have a great passion: making self-care easy and practical. We all face a variety of constraints that can get in the way of self-care, including bandwidth, motivation, and financial pressures.

So, we pressed our “Easy” buttons and came up with the idea of a Weekly Health Quest to share health-enhancing actions that anyone can do in the real-world of deadlines and packed calendars.

How the Weekly Health Quest Works

Each Monday we’ll share on our Facebook pages (Catie’s Page and Amy’s Page) a Health Quest, an action we commit to take daily that will promote our personal well-being. We invite you to join us on the Health Quest and share your experiences via comments on the post. Amy and I will do likewise.

Together, we can support each other in practicing self-care on a practical level. Will you join us?