Stress Awareness Month – How to Make Well-being a Priority

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April is Stress Awareness Month so the perfect opportunity to look into your habits and see how you can reduce the stress in your life. In this article, we’ll look at ways to make well-being a priority in your daily life, how you can unwind and relax after a busy day. We’ll also look at how to create beautiful moments of calm, using some wonderful products from Aery. Read on to find out more. 

If you feel that you could do with some more calm in your life – and less stress! – there are many things that you can do. Below, you can see some of my favourite ways to prioritise well-being throughout the day, along with some useful tips. There’s also a discount code for you to enjoy here at the end of the article.

Morning Calm

How you start your day is so important as it will set the tone for the rest of the day. A rushed, stressful morning can easily ruin your mood for the whole day ahead. Equally, a calm morning with helpful routines and a bit of time for yourself, can set you up for the day with a positive mindset. This will help you all through the day in so many ways. It’s wise and well-worth the time to ensure your morning runs smoothly. 

Tips for a calmer morning:

• Prepare what you can the night before. Choose your clothes and lay them out (teach your kids to do the same!), pack your bag if you are heading out, do a quick tidy up, and decide what you will be eating for breakfast, and so on.
• Get up earlier. Of course, it’s lovely to get as much sleep as possible but if you snooze your morning away, you will end up rushing. For a calmer morning, get up earlier to ensure you can do everything you need to do and want to do, without any stress. If you have kids, get up before them if you can. Then you can sit down for a little bit on your own and start the day calmly. I love doing this with a cup of coffee in the morning, a book in my hand, and a scented candle lit in the room. In the summer, I sometimes head out for an early walk and then have my first cup of coffee in the garden. Bliss!
• Have a routine. Do the things that you need to do in the morning in the same order every day. The steps of your routine will flow more easily this way and without you having to make lots of decisions. For me it tends to be: quiet coffee, get the kids up, make breakfast, pack lunches, get dressed and ready, help get kids ready, school run, a quick walk, then home and start the work day.

The Little Things

When looking into how to make well-being a priority, it’s easy to get sucked into the big things such as eating healthily, exercising and sleeping. These are all important things to do for yourself of course but it’s important to not overlook the little things. The small details in our lives can have a huge impact too. I find that the little things are especially important for creating moments of relaxation, calm and indulgence throughout the day. Here are a few of my favourite ways to pamper myself with smaller details:

• Home fragrances. Enjoying beautiful scents through scented candles, aromatherapy oils, or natural room sprays to create calming environments. Choose calming scents in the evening and more invigorating fragrances in the morning and daytime. The Wonderland Fragrance Oil Set from Aery is a trio of well-being wonders, a great way to enjoy the smaller things in life with feel-good fragrances.
• Mini moments of pampering. I keep a hydrating lip balm and a nourishing hand cream on my desk so that I can apply as needed while I’m working. I take a moment to be mindful when doing this and it’s become a little ritual. Likewise, having a luxurious hand wash with a matching hand cream in the bathroom creates an opportunity to make handwashing a pampering ritual too – enjoying the fragrances and the nourishing formulas on your hands. 

I have the Himalayan Hand & Body Wash and Lotion set from Aery that has a luxurious scent and leaves hands feeling pampered. The aluminium bottles look great too and are infinitely recyclable.

You can find lots of wonderful products to create calm and relieve stress in Aery’s Relax & Unwind collection – sustainable home fragrances including candles, reed diffusers, fragrance oils as well as some amazing hand washes and hand creams.

Evening Wind Down

Last, but definitely not least, let’s look at ways to wind down at the end of the day to prepare your mind and body for a good night’s sleep. Ensuring that you get enough sleep is so important for our well-being. If you sleep well, you will feel better mentally and physically so do what you can to improve the quality of your sleep and the amount of sleep that you get.

• Create an evening routine. One of the best things that you can do to improve your sleep is to create a calming evening routine. That could involve anything that you find relaxing such as some stretching or yoga, a walk after dinner, a cup of herbal tea, doing something calming such as knitting or colouring, reading a book, having a relaxing bath, taking time to do your skincare routine, and so on. Create a routine with habits that make you feel relaxed and calm. Doing the same kind of things in the same order each evening will help tell your mind and body that it’s time to unwind for bed. 
• Go to bed at the same time every day. On the same note as above, going to bed at the same time every day will help you sleep better too. Likewise, waking up at the same time is optimal as well. If you start going to bed at the same time, you might even find that you wake up naturally around the same time each morning too.

The Ultimate Wind-Down Products

I have recently started prioritising my sleep and going to bed at a reasonable time instead of staying up late. To help my sleep, I like to have a cup of herbal tea whilst watching a bit of TV with my husband, then I have a hot bath which is my favourite way to relax. To maximise the relaxation, I love lighting a scented candle or spraying a mist with a calming fragrance before hopping in the bath. I always read a book while I’m having a soak too. After my bath, I brush my teeth, then grab my book for a little more reading in bed before turning the lights off ready for sleeping.

Aery’s Better Sleep range features dreamy fragrances that will help you unwind and relax ready for bed. Here, you can see the Dream Catcher Gift Set with one of Aery’s signature sleepy scents, Lavender, Patchouli and Orange. The set includes three bedside essentials to promote better sleep and to relieve stress and anxiety:

• Dream Catcher Scented Candle
• Dream Catcher Pillow Mist
• Dream Catcher Hand Cream

The scent is amazing and the products all make a great addition to a relaxing and pampering bedtime routine.

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