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    When Wellness Runs Dry Your Return to Self-Care Begins Here
    When Wellness Runs Dry Your Return to Self-Care Begins Here
    When Wellness Runs Dry Your Return to Self-Care Begins Here
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    When Wellness Runs Dry Your Return to Self-Care Begins Here

    By Ashley Jelks-Fragier

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    Embarking on a wellness journey is a process of searching for the appropriate "tools" to make you a healthier and happier person, plus discovering your own effective methods to use these "tools" for continued growth and development. Wellness is the cornerstone for our quality of life. It determines how we ultimately look, feel, interact with others, and thrive in life and work.

    Ashley Jelks-Fragier brings us back to wellness basics with simple tips and exercises that ensure the reader has an enjoyable and renewed sense of encouragement to return to self-care.  

    When Wellness Runs Dry is the ultimate self-help book for people that are looking to restart their self-wellness routine and get back to basics. This book will:  

    • Introduce the Self-Care Burnout™ and why it is hindering your progress
    • Provide an overview of all eight areas of wellness
    • Challenge the belief that "we must be kind to live happily" 
    • Help you begin your wellness journey today in five minutes
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKoalatative Guided Soluitions, LLC
    Release dateOct 31, 2019
    ISBN9781393152217
    When Wellness Runs Dry Your Return to Self-Care Begins Here
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    Ashley Jelks-Fragier

    Nice to meet you! My name is Ashley and I enjoy spending a lot of time attempting to make small impacts on the world one day at a time. I am serving as the Managing Member/CEO of Koalatative Guided Solutions, LLC while beginning my self-wellness routine for the 500th time. With over 10 years of evperoence educating, mentoring, and providing information to adults concerning the path to self-wellness, I thought it was about time that I took my own advice. Educational background consists of a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Sociology with a Criminal Justice emphasis and a Master of Arts degree in Psychology. Currently, I am pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Psychology with a Trauma Services concentration while selectively chosing to focus on clinical health psychology. I live in Colorado Springs, CO where I get the chance to view the true beauty of mother nature every single day. Drop by LinkedIn or Facebook to say hello! Take care!

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      When Wellness Runs Dry Your Return to Self-Care Begins Here - Ashley Jelks-Fragier

      PREFACE

      THROUGHOUT MY CAREER, I have encountered several instances and situations that involved teaching adults about self-wellness. Whether it be in the education, psychology, organizational or leadership areas, individuals would approach me with questions and concerns about their self-wellness journey. Many have asked me for guidance with their personal development strategies (educational pursuits, reflection techniques, mindful awareness, etc.), while others were interested in learning how to relieve stress at home and in the workplace. Before I knew it, I was giving life coaching mini lessons seemingly everywhere I went! The demand for this knowledge/assistance grew larger than I could handle (although I absolutely love working with people face-to-face), that it became impossible to keep up with while still trying to maintain my own self-wellness journey.

      I was drowning. I had been dealing with several life stressors that included a toxic workplace environment that contributed to physical illness and stress levels that were beyond comprehension. I was handling all major responsibilities alone while helping others plow through their own personal crises – stretched myself too thin and paid the ultimate price. Suddenly, I found myself extremely sad, confused, sick, and functioning on excessive fatigue. Sleep was not happening very often, and healthy self-care was obsolete. Life as I knew it was crumbling around me and I could not get a hold of it. I was sinking... sinking...

      How could this be? With all this knowledge and experience, I was not taking my own advice! I was eating horribly, not exercising, and not getting enough rest to function at my highest level. Something needed to change and that was ME. I needed to take my own advice and turn inward for help. I began to research (the student and educator in me) and apply my own self-wellness treatment plan in my own life.

      Building my self-wellness treatment plan was based upon the most recommended self-care strategies I could find. I even soaked in a mud-like substance for over an hour because it was recommended (yes this really did happen – it was horrible). From make-up and cleansers to intermittent fasting – I tried and failed repeatedly; until one day – I was done. I simply could not focus on trying anymore. I gave up and became lonelier and more depressed. I had grown tired of, you should try this, you should try that, and the famous, it only takes this [insert whatever product here]. Stress took over every facet of my being and the spiral continued. Before I knew it, I was suffering from The Self-Care Burnout.

      You will notice that throughout this book I use the terms we and us a lot. I wrote this book as a partnership with you, to continue my own self-wellness journey. Everything has not been perfect, and I have failed many times. To be honest, even with all the knowledge that I have acquired over the years, I still mess up. There are days where I feel like I’m being unhealthy in my choices. There are other days where I feel so defeated and stressed out that I just hide in my safe place and cry until my eyes hurt and tears dry on my face.

      Then something amazing happens... I go back to my self-wellness treatment plan I made and renew my agenda. I start over. Every day we wake up, we can live our lives as if it were our first. We can change the way we think and handle life’s challenges. We can start over. Yesterday does not have to be today,

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