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How to Self-Care: Lily-Jo’s Story
It is estimated that one in four individuals will struggle with their mental health at some point in their adult life. While not every mental health challenge is entirely preventable, practising good self-care can help to prevent certain challenges, such as anxiety...
Your Self-Care Weekend Playlist: 15 Songs for Self-Care
We couldn’t host the International Weekend of Self-Care without releasing an official playlist to go with it! Self-care is defined as, “the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own wellbeing and happiness, in particular during periods of stress.”...
Even Olympians Need to Step Back: What Simone Biles Can Teach our Children about Self-Care and Prioritizing Mental Health
Last week, the world watched in shock as the world’s most decorated gymnast (over thirty championship medals in her career) took a few uncharacteristic missteps, stood still as tears gathered in her eyes, and perhaps made the most difficult decision of her life...the...
How to Self-Care When Battling Loneliness: Pete’s Story
Loneliness can, in many ways, be very debilitating. The more time an individual feels lonely, the harder it can become to step out of that feeling. It can become increasingly tiring to participate in social activities just because of how much energy it can take to do...
Finding the Good: Five Affirmations to Build Self Esteem in Our Children
In an increasingly digital world where “highlight reels” abound and real, but yet imperfect, seems to be “not enough,” it is so important to help our children build feelings of worth. Our tween daughter will look at pictures of celebrities in magazines and...
How to Self-Care When Battling Anxiety: Mari’s Story
First things first, ‘self-care’ is very different to hands-on advice about what to do when anxiety hits. Why is it important to differentiate? Because when you are already going full steam into the next panic attack, self-care tips don’t quite cut it. In those moments...
Top 5 Self-Care Products for Teens
Adolescence...the tender time when one is gingerly moving towards the person he or she wants to be as an adult. First loves, college or career prep, making friends, and figuring out what you do NOT want in your relationships and friendships. It’s a challenging time...
150th Blog Special! Meet LJP Founder and Executive Producer, Lily-Jo
We’ve made it! It’s our 150th article on The Lily-Jo Project blog! To celebrate, we thought that we would interview our founder and executive producer, Lily-Jo. Both a pop artist and qualified counsellor, Lily-Jo founded The Lily-Jo Project in 2016 as a way to help...
Top 5 Self-Care Products for Young Children
Self-care definitely looks a bit different for the littles than it does for teens and adults, but the ultimate purpose is the same. Self-care helps us to regulate and find peace and joy within our lives. Let’s explore what that could look like for our young children...
How to Self-Care When Battling Depression: Alexis’ Story
Depression is something I have battled my entire life. It comes and goes in waves. There are seasons when I am doing absolutely great and other seasons (some very long ones) where I face-plant into the trenches and see absolutely no way of climbing out. As I...
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