Dealing with issues and differences in a relationship is important as finding a solution is improving how healthy the relationship is. Relationships with friends and family are the two main groups of people a teen would interact with almost day to day.
Embracing Your Wellness & Learning How To Improve it
Our personal fitness, social wellness, and wellness are both important to us and help us to make the quality of our life so much better.
A health triangle represents your emotional or mental health, your physical health, and your social health.
Social
You
Mental/Emotional
Physical
Personal fitness is how you take care of yourself counting your hygiene, nutrition, and exercise. Social wellness is how you interact with others and what you do in those situations. Mental wellness or emotional wellness is how you interact with yourself whether it be how you think, act, or feel.
Social wellness is our ability to interact with others If you have a good, honest friendship with someone you are socially well with them. Listening to others, trusting others, and respecting others is an example of having strong social wellness.
Improving social health is a huge step in improving your wellness in general. You can improve your social health by spending time with yourself, not judging others, taking responsibility for mistakes, commit to something when you commit to it, and respecting others for who they are. People who are socially strong assist others, possess empathy, work hard to build a relationship, and positively talk and interact.
With family a relationship should circle around the parent teaching and providing for their child, and teaching them respect and authority for the parent and understanding why rules are set. A family relationship does not always revolve around just a parent and a child, but can be in any shape or form.
With friends it's important to be considerate of the other person, listening and showing respect, not just focusing on yourself, being honest and reliable, respecting differences, and admitting when you made a mistake so you can both improve.
There are three stages of stress called the alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage. The alarm stage is when your body releases adrenaline and your body begins to tense and have the decision of flight or fight. The resistance stage occurs when you decide to stay in the situation and you may feel tired and weak. Lastly, the exhaustion stage is the occurrence of when you can longer with stress. When managing stress you should tell yourself it will be okay and set priorities and plans that focus on what matters most at the moment.
Managing stress is important as it is dealt with everyday and learning how to deal with it is ideal for growing as a person and using positive strategies to help with coping against them.
Mental wellness is comfortable being around others and yourself and emotional wellness is how we react to events that happen in our life, positive or not.
In a stressful situation, you may use defensive mechanisms that are unconscious ways that you cope with situations that create a distance between you and the situation. An example is denial that is a refusal to accept reality as it is.
Stress eating is an example of another coping mechanism that can affect you negatively. Undereating and overeating are both examples of stress eating. Ways to cope against stress eating is trying not to skip meals to influence future events of avoiding meals. Writing yourself notes is a way of encouragement and reassurance that can help! Take your time while eating and make sure to be flexible with your meals.
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