Self Care Archives • The Frozen Mind

Pacing yourself during the holidays is essential to being able to enjoy the time with family! - Here are 10 tips to help! - #PaceYourself #HolidayTips

10 Ways to Pace Yourself During the Holidays

October 16, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 12 comments

It will soon be Halloween and around here, some radio stations begin playing Christmas music the day after. So, in my mind, the holiday season starts the day after Halloween. That is usually when the Black Friday ads start being leaked and when I start planning out what everyone is getting for Christmas. The problem with all of this is the expectation of making the holidays perfect. This unrealistic expectation can leave you running in circles and accomplishing little. That…

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Breast Cancer Awareness - Early detection is vital to the successful treatment of breast cancer. Find out what you should do increase your chances of detecting breast cancer early. #breastcancerawareness #earlydetection

Breast Cancer Awareness- What to Do and What Not to Do

October 8, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 13 comments

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to help spread awareness, I want to share some information about this disease that takes so many lives each year. Breast Cancer By the Numbers About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12.4%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. In 2018, an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 63,960 new cases of non-invasive (in…

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Use these tips to pamper yourself on days that you don't feel well. - #chronicillness #selfcare #pampering #pamper

4 Ways to Pamper Yourself When You Don’t Feel Well

September 19, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 3 comments

Why Pamper Yourself? As I am writing this, Hurricane Florence has been pounding the North Carolina coast for 24 hours and is starting to slowly start her journey south toward me. All of the models show very little likelihood that it will make it here and for that I am incredibly grateful. That doesn’t exactly mean that I am completely “out of the woods” so to speak. The Barometric Pressure started dropping around 3 am and has continued to drop…

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Trying to accomplish too many things at one time is a recipe for anxiety! #goals #laddertheory #anxiety #mentalhealth #success

The Ladder Theory: How to Tackle Life One Thing at a Time

September 12, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 23 comments

A few years ago. my daughter was having severe issues with anxiety. She had just turned 18 and felt like the world was coming down around her. She thought that she had to have her entire life figured out. There were too many things to focus on accomplishing at one time and it was paralyzing her. This is when the “Ladder Theory” was born. I was sitting on her bed and she was completely distraught because she was so overwhelmed…

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4 Ways to Discover an Attitude of Gratitude

August 3, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 9 comments

It can be difficult to feel grateful when you live with chronic illness. Sickness, fatigue and fear can make it easy to become more resentful and less grateful. It is important to find things in life to be grateful for, in spite of living with chronic illness. It may take practice but you can discover an attitude of gratitude that will change even the worst of days. 4 Ways to Discover an Attitude of Gratitude: Don’t just look at the obvious things. It is only…

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How to Have & Keep a Joyful Attitude

July 25, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 2 comments

Having a joyful attitude comes easy on days when everything is right on track. But on days when the medication doesn’t seem to work or when the walls feel like they are closing in, it can become easy to be weary and restless. During weeks in which the Barometric Chart can show others how rough the migraine days have been, it is easy to get lost in the pain. Like many other emotions, being joyful is a choice. Having a…

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Self-Care Tools to use on a bad day - #selfcare #mentalhealth #health #pamperyourself

5 Self-Care Tools to Use on Bad Days

July 20, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 9 comments

As much as we want to say that all of our days are filled with roses and sunshine, we all know that it isn’t possible to have good days all the time. It really isn’t having a bad day that can create turmoil in our lives, it is how we manage ourselves while we are in the middle of it all. The tricks we employ for self-care can make all the difference on those days that make us want to…

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4 Ways to Make Something Good out of Something Bad - #positivity #mentalhealth #selfcare

4 Ways to Make Something Good Out of Bad

July 6, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 14 comments

I am sure that most everyone has heard the phrase, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade”. If only life were as easy as adding some sugar and water to some fresh squeezed lemon juice. Unfortunately, life can be down right hard sometimes and can throw things at us that sets our lives spinning. It is much easier to sit back, go on auto-pilot and be angry or depressed. It is much harder to look for ways to make something good come out of it.

There are positive things about looking back but living in the past is not good for your mental health. #mentalhealth #depression

Reflection: The Dangers and Possibilities of Looking Back

June 27, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 8 comments

Taking time for reflection or looking back is usually perceived as negative or counterproductive. Even in the Bible, God told Lot and his family not to look back when He saved them from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. When Lot’s wife looked, she turned into a pillar of salt. Through that story, God is warning us about the dangers of living in the past. When Does Reflection Turn Negative? It is difficult not to sit back and go through…

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It is important to push myself so I can gain back some strength and energy.

The Art of Knowing How Hard to Push Yourself

June 25, 2018 Jen Cannon Comments 23 comments

I have been tapering off of my last seizure medication and I have not been feeling well because of it. I have been requiring a lot more rest during the day, having headaches that are not migraine related and having some major stomach issues. To say that the process of weaning meds isn’t fun is an understatement! It is important to push myself so I can gain back some strength and energy but it is easy to cross the line…

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