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2025 is literally just days away, BIC! Let's start off the year strong with making our health, wellness and self-care one of our priorities. We can make it fun, too, with another game of wellness bingo!
Self-care can be a very personal thing - what works for one person may not work for someone else. Practicing wellness is a process - it takes time and effort. We have our good days and bad days - moments when we are thriving; and others, where we need to pause, take a deep breath (or multiple ones, for that matter), and reset. But even as our self-care journey is a personal matter, support, encouragement and just knowing there's something there doesn't hurt. Wellness takes work. Let's do the work together, BIC!
▶️ How to play: There are many different ways to take part in this wellness challenge. A few are mentioned in the spoiler below, but if you have a way to approach wellness bingo that works best for you, go for it!
Spoiler
- Treat it like a game of BINGO, except in this BIC-version, you are your own moderator, either (a) selecting which activities you want to engage in or (b) putting them into a random generator tool, blindly pointing at a square, or writing each activity (or each square) onto a piece of paper, placing all of them into a bowl and pulling one out each day you intend to undertake a wellness activity, and then doing that activity.
- You can aim to do 5 activities in a way that earns yourself a BINGO! 5 activities across the same row, down the same column or across diagonally from upper left corner to lower right, and/or upper right corner to lower left. OR
- You can just go about your day picking one activity to undertake and work towards doing all the activities on this B Well card (but see notes on making adjustments below).
- You can choose to go row by row or column by column each week. Thank you, @Mellmars1185, for sharing how you went about your wellness bingo last month. It's such a great approach!
🗒 Monthly Self-Care Activities:
- The self-care activities in the squares change from month-to-month, with some appearing in a previous month's bingo wellness card, and others being new or tailored to the specific month/season.
- For a more detailed description of the activities in each of the squares above, click on this link ➡️ January 2025 Wellness Bingo Activities
- If you're interested in seeing what others have done for some of the activities being repeated, you may want to take a peek at some of the replies from other members of the Community in previous wellness challenge threads - and .
🌟 Posting Your Self-Care Activities. This challenge is certainly one you can do on your own. It's also something we can take part in together. If you feel comfortable, share about the activities you did to earn each square by replying to this original post - with words, photos, and/or a pic of the bingo scorecard with the activity / activities you took part in crossed out. You can post weekly or at the end of the month, depending on your preference. We love hearing from the Community and have learned about new ways of doing things that we wouldn't have thought of otherwise.
🎀 Make Adjustments As Needed. We are all at different stages of our wellness / self-care journey. While it cn be good to challenge ourselves, sometimes, it's best to take make adjustments. I'm not at expert at this at all, and if there's an activity that is not something you are ready for or that you shouldn't engage in, make the adjustments you need to, or just skip that square altogether.
- Be safe. Consider weather conditions or where you are in your own wellness efforts. For instance, the second square in the last row is for a winter walk or hike - if it's storming outside or you're in an area where it is not safe to do this (e.g., weather advisory, shelter-in-place, etc.), then skip this one and stay indoors. Be safe. Also, for some of the activities listed in the boxes, particularly the physical ones, please consult with your physician or health care provider before starting, if and as appropriate, and adjust accordingly.
- Focus on one activity per week vs. one per day. We have BIC'ers who engage in wellness activities in some form every day, some more than one activity in a day. We also have BIC'ers who are starting out on their wellness journey or are coming back to self-care. There's be different objectives for each of us; make this work for you. If there's an activity in a square that you've been eyeing for whatever reason and you want to focus on that for the week, focus on working towards that activity for one day, two days, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 for the week. If there's another activity that piques your interest, give that a try for another week.
⏲ Duration for Certain Activities. The time periods for certain activities included here are arbitrary.
- For example, the third square in the first row is for "Exercise (20 minutes)" - if you want or can do more than a 20 minutes, go for it. If you're starting out or if you're crunched for time, aim for 5 minutes and work up from there, when, if, and as appropriate for you.
- Same with the "Stretch (20 minutes)" in the third row, second square.
- If you're starting out or are aware of certain conditions that may make either a more challenging effort, please discuss these activities your physician or health care provider before starting, and adjust accordingly.
Excited for another month of wellness bingo, BIC. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!
@PrettyPaint, a lot of it is taking a step back and figuring out what activities can be easily combined based on how long you want to leave in the hair mask - folding laundry, putting away dishes, vacuuming, sweeping/mopping, etc. I have also applied a hair mask, braided my hair, gone out to do my grocery shopping, and come back, put away the groceries and then jump into the shower and rinse out the hair mask.
Here are a couple photos of the HigherDOSE Infrared PEMF Go Mat for Recovery and Stress Reduction on a chair. You could throw a blanket over it if you didn't want other people on the Zoom call to see the mat.
Ummmmm, is it just me or does the person in the second photo seem like his sitting position is not ergonomically correct???
Not off to a bad start, considering my year has been horrible so far!
- Resolution I mentioned in the and
- Cook- I made a delicious street cart bowl with pita bread from Hello Fresh, it was amazing and delish.
- Try- I'm trying to learn Indonesian. I was looking up easiest languages for English speakers to learn and a lot of them were the Romantic languages (French, Italian) but I struggle remembering things and languages with masculine and feminine versions are too much for me. I read Indonesian is phonetic language so that's what I am starting with. It's a very very slow process. I think I have like 5 words remembered lol .
- Hydrate- I drank a whole Cirkul bottle one morning.
- Listen- I listen to music usually to and from work. But occasionally at lunch when people near me are too loud for me.
- Started my year off with a Créme shop corgi mask, posted in the
Same for you!
this might cheer you up
Monster energy tabs haha
thank you I appreciate you! Hoping same for you! @Samtian
