Improving your Family’s Health, Wellness, and Connection
Improving your Family’s Health, Wellness, and Connection
How Reflecting on the Year Can Strengthen Your Family
In this newsletter, we provide you with notes on How Reflecting on the Year Can Strengthen Your Family with Vanessa Quigley, an episode of 3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms.
Hosted by Rachel Nielson, the creator of 3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms who seeks to instill in all mamas a love for motherhood while offering tangible, actionable takeaways for growth. Joined by Vanessa Quigley, a renowned memory expert, and mother of seven. She co-founded Chatbooks to make it easier for families to organize and enjoy their family stories through easy-to-make, beautiful photo books.
Read our notes below.
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Reflecting on the Year with Our Families
3 Takeaways on Reflecting from Vanessa Quigley
Reflecting on the Year with Our Families
When we look back on our year, we often want to just think about the highlights. But both the good and the bad are important parts of our stories.
Vanessa Quigley shares that her family has a New Year's Eve tradition in which they ask each other reflective questions and share a few thoughts. Their questions include:
What was the most important lesson you learned this year?
What challenges have you overcome?
What new skills have you learned?
What's your most embarrassing moment from this year?
Or the best movie that you saw or a book that you read?
These reflection questions will help your family think about what progress they have made and what areas they can still improve on.
The new year is a chance to reflect as a family on the goals you have accomplished and the opportunities for becoming even better. Not to mention, it’s also a great time to work on improving your family’s health, wellness, and connection.
By setting family goals, you can check in on both your family’s physical and mental health and decide the best way to maximize it going forward.
3 Takeaways on Reflecting from Vanessa Quigley
Host a "Remember When” celebration. Share questions ahead of time for your family to be thinking of and then come to dinner with 5-7 things written down to share highs and lows and reflect on the past year.
Decide on a family theme for the new year and reflect on the theme from the previous year.
Create a photo book with memories from the year. Fill it with accomplishments, setbacks, highlights, and everyday moments. Looking at photos produces a flood of endorphins to override the exhaustion and end-of-year blues. Plus, the book will be a treasure for years to come. Have your older kids submit photos from their camera roll too!