Claim Your Space

A letter from the FMHCA office.

Are you claiming your space?

When we ask this we aren't asking how much space you are claiming physically. Moreover, we are asking: are you living up to your potential, dreams, ambitions, and values?

We are now six months into 2022, a perfect check-point to analyze our new years resolutions and how far we've come to reaching them (if they weren't already surpassed!).

It is also time to seek out a community of support, live unapologetically, and reflect on your daily self-talk/ languagelet us dive into what that really means.

Seeking out a community of support

Humans are social creatures, meaning, we must have interpersonal contact to survive. Whether this be an art club, book club, or even FMHCA- ensure that you are locked into a community that can support, encourage, and influence you.

Live unapologetically

To claim your space you must stop with the "I will... when.." talk. You do not need to be smarter, prettier, skinnier, or heavier than you are right now in order to make the first step forward. Living unapologetically means truly accepting who you are-flaws and all- in order to live your most authentic you.

Reflect on your daily self-talk/ language

Research shows that positive self-talk can improve stress management, wellbeing, and self-esteem. Self-talk and language are both things that you do naturally throughout your waking hours and they are key to the trajectory of your life. A great example and starting point on changing your self-talk can be found below.

"How ridiculous! I can't teach myself how to think more positively."

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"Learning to think more positively can help me in many ways so I am going to try my best."

Notice your emotions shift while just reading those- imagine them placed into action!

We hope that these tips help you claim your space in the remaining 6 months of 2022- we are rooting for you!