Nourishing Toolkit

Parents, guardians, and child-serving professionals want to do their best when caring for their children, but today's world is so intense that these individuals are suffering from stress and burnout. All this pressure makes it difficult to take care of themselves and show up for their children. Lisa Melkonian, M.Ed, RYT 400 writes about her experience as a special education preschool teacher and how the pressures of her career led her to a path of personal development and self-care. Through learning and practicing various health and wellness tips, she became better equipped to support her young students that came from various backgrounds with many different combinations of needs, disabilities, and hardships. "e;Nourishing Toolkit"e; is a self-help book that guides parents and child-serving professionals on how to take better care of themselves and live a life with more grace, patience, and ease. This guidebook provides a self-assessment tool called the Nourishment Check-In to determine areas of unbalance in the reader's life. Broken down into seven sections inspired by the chakra system, a concept rooted by ancient Indian spiritual traditions, this guidebook helps readers determine which areas in their life need the most support, followed by specific strategies on how to heal, transform, and restore their well-being. In Section One, readers will learn how to ground themselves so that they can live in the present moment and think clearly. Section Two shows readers how to feel and process difficult emotions, followed by Section Three, where readers will learn how to improve their self-worth and step into a place of empowerment. Section Four shows readers how to have compassion for themselves and others. In Section Five, readers will learn how to use their voice to speak their truth. Section Six shows readers how to access their intuition and trust their instincts. The final part is Section Seven, where readers will learn how to have faith and trust the process of life.