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How many times have you committed to a habit (Hello, New Year’s Resolutions) and then given up or not followed through? For Alex, Fall is more of a time to commit to new habits or resolutions versus New Year’s – it’s a fresh start and schedule with kids going back to school. So let’s commit together to new habits.

Neuroplasticity has come up in school for Dany recently - the science of rewiring your brain. We want to understand how to make this happen. Carolina Leaf - “Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess”. Her research says it takes 63 days to make any readjustment, to change your brain’s wiring. Let’s go through the Neural Cycle - how do you use this to create new habits or get through a hard time.

1. Gather - you are probably feeling overwhelmed with the feelings, allow the emotions to go through you. If you try to hinder them you are not moving forward through the neural cycle. No judgement or expectations.
2. Reflection - why are you sad, frustrated, angry about it. Don’t go into problem solving yet.
3. Write - physically write the reflection so you can see the words in front of you.
4. Recheck - it’s the beginning of digesting or realizing things are not as bad or big as you think they are. Create action items rather than letting it grow into a larger problem.
5. Active Reach - what is going to help you move forward, talking to somebody, buffering more time into your day. Not necessarily solving the problem but something that is helping you move forward in a cycle - not forward and backwards.

Learning it’s a cycle not linear is important to recognize, you don’t have to just be over it. You aren’t relapsing or getting worse, it’s a cycle.