Building Healthy Routines

Between late-night scrolling, early mornings, and packed schedules, finding balance can feel impossible. Building healthy routines can change everything. Healthy routines can involve improving your sleep schedule, exercising more often, and minimizing your screen time. Being a teenager and building healthy routines will ensure stable physical and mental health. By stabilizing your physical and mental health, stress will be managed, focus will increase, and a sense of control will arise. You will feel in control of all negative emotions that cross your path. You will be unstoppable. These are not the only benefits. It also provides consistency, balance, and good habits.

When it comes to consistency, constantly performing a healthy routine will provide a sense of stability especially during the most needed times of consistency which includes the transition from childhood to adulthood. Feeling balanced with schoolwork, your social life and physical activity make you feel relieved. You feel like you have everything under control. Everything feels peaceful. Now, with good habits, this can be developed through these healthy routines. Taking care of your nutritional health can come into play here. Putting the right food in your body with help energize you for the day. Completing your work will feel so much easier than it ever has. It will provide fuel to the brain and body which will increase a well-balanced mental health.

Most teenagers sleep schedules are all over the place. Late nights at 3:00am. Early mornings at 7:00am. Creating a sleep schedule where you are getting 8-10 hours will provide optimal health and extra focus in class. Not only this, but it will benefit to your development. Lack of sleep can harm this. Screens are the reason why sleep schedules are not aligned. This is why screens should be kept outside the bedroom. They become distractions. These devices are slowly eating at our brains.

Now exercising is a big game changer when healing your mental and physical health. It will build strength and improve your mood. Say goodbye to always feeling tired and say hello to feeling refreshed and energized. Not only does exercising provide these substantial benefits, but they also give you that well needed break from school. From the piles of schoolwork and studying that you have every single day. Being a teenager can be stressful and chaotic, but with a healthy routine guiding you, even the busiest days will begin to feel more peaceful.

-Shaylynn (High School Student)