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Wellness Wheel Downloadable Template
One way to take a snapshot of your life is by using the Wellness Wheel.
The wheel helps you break your life into different categories to evaluate your level of satisfaction in each area.
This exercise can be an enlightening experience, as it highlights areas that may require growth or change. It encourages self-reflection and helps you set goals to improve your overall well-being. By regularly revisiting and updating your Wellness Wheel, you can track your progress and make adjustments as needed to ensure a balanced and fulfilling life.
Create Your Personalized Dopamine Menu
Dopamine: The Brain’s Feel-Good Chemical and How to Boost It
A dopamine menu is a creative and practical way to organize activities that naturally elevate your dopamine levels, boosting happiness and motivation. This concept has gained popularity, especially within the ADHD community, as a tool to combat low motivation and decision fatigue.
Use the button below to download your FREE guide to creating a custom Dopamine Menu!
Zones of Regulation
Using the Zones of Regulation helps bring awareness to emotions.
The framework categorizes emotions into four color-coded zones. Each zone represents a different set of feelings and energy levels, helping to identify and communicate one’s emotional state.
By practicing the Zones of Regulation, you can understand emotional responses and build a toolkit of strategies to navigate ups and downs with greater resilience.
Twelve Printable Executive Function Skills Cards
Understanding and developing your Executive Function Skills can lead to a more organized, productive, and fulfilling life.
Whether you’re a student aiming to improve your academic performance, a professional striving for career advancement, or someone looking to enhance your daily life, investing in these skills is a step toward achieving your goals and reaching your full potential and helping friends, family members, and colleagues do the same.
Use the EF Skills cards to start conversations, support challenges, and celebrate wins in every area of life!
My Executive Function Skills Detectives Notes Template
A way to think curiously about Executive Function Skills is to use an Executive Function Skills Detective (TM) Lens.
Because a detective is curious and looks for clues, you can adopt the same mindset when observing and understanding these essential skills. Imagine putting on your detective hat and examining different scenarios in your daily life, whether it’s managing time, organizing tasks, or regulating emotions.
Moreover, this detective approach encourages a growth mindset. Instead of viewing challenges as insurmountable obstacles, you see them as opportunities to learn and grow.
The Iceberg Model Template For Understanding Events
Using an iceberg model to understand patterns and events can give you a deeper understanding and insight.
You can learn about situations that trigger emotions or actions and take steps to make change for an outcome closer to what you want.
Using the iceberg model not only helps in identifying root causes but also empowers you to create more meaningful and sustainable changes. It encourages a proactive approach, allowing you to anticipate and mitigate issues before they escalate, ultimately leading to more successful and satisfying outcomes in various aspects of life.
My 30 Day Plan For Setting Goals Each Month
Start today! Set goals and practice the steps to achieve them. Build accountability with your friends and family members!
Then download this simple planning and reflection tool each month this year, to continue making Quantum JUMPS to your favorite version of you.
Here’s a link to the blog post that tells more about this 30 day plan! You can use this template and the template to its right to move from unfulfilled to unstoppable. Let’s GO!
Six Pillars Template – Two Days Per Page
Knock-out an all-or-nothing mentality: plan simple activities in the Six Pillars of Wellness using a two day per page template.
When you struggle with working memory, it can be hard to prioritize the things that matter most. Over time your frustration can lead you into an all-or-nothing mindset that causes you to swing back and forth in productivity. I created this two-day per page template to remind me of what matters most, and that I AM doing a great job of taking care of me each day!
Practice mindfulness and self compassion, build growth mindset and trust in yourself, and find joy in prioritizing your personal wellness in simple, effective ways each day!
A Spoon’s Story and Activity
Printout
Read the story of two friends who connect about invisible difficulties.
Then try the activity on your own using this downloaded spoon template!
Connect With Trusted Service Providers
College Expert: Sue Luse and Ryan Luse
College Expert® provides professional, personalized college consulting. Our goal is to help students and their parents make an appropriate college choice. This choice depends on an in-depth knowledge of the student as well as first-hand knowledge of college options.
We are there to help students prepare the best applications and essays possible to enhance their odds of being admitted to the colleges of their choice as well as be eligible for scholarships.
Few choices have as great an impact as the choice of a school or college. Students and their families often find this decision to be overwhelming and struggle to evaluate options and make wise choices.
Educational consultants counsel students and their families in the selection of educational programs, based on the student’s individual needs and talents. Our educational consultants are IEAC certified. Learn more about IECA educational consultants.
Monarch Learning & Attention Center
We believe that psychological assessment is about more than a diagnosis – it is an opportunity to discover one’s strengths, differences, and resiliency. Monarch is a collective of licensed clinical psychologists who provide evaluations for individuals ages 6 and up with concerns in the following areas:
- Learning/Academic Skill Development (including dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia)
- Attention and Concentration (including ADHD)
- Executive Functioning (e.g., planning, organization, time management, task monitoring)
- Social Skills and Communication Styles (including autism spectrum disorder)
- Emotional Functioning (including anxiety and depression)
Through an assessment at Monarch, clients are directed to appropriate services and interventions (e.g., tutoring, coaching, therapy), schools are provided recommendations for the classroom setting (e.g., extra time for test-taking, preferential seating, use of assistive technology) and, when necessary, families are directed to other supportive services (e.g., speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, medical consultation). Our psychologists provide all direct services to clients, and we deliver feedback in a timely manner.
To learn more about our services, please contact our office.
612-562-9007 – admin@monarchassessment.com – monarchassessment.com
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