Hi team! Sorry that this one came out a little later than normal; I had the wrong day set in the scheduler 😝 Also seems like some of the footage at the end got a little mucked around, but hopefully you still found these ideas useful! 🥳💜
I’ve also added a monthly shower tracker- to make sure I take full body showers enough within the month since I’m chronically I’ll and that takes a lot of energy! I have to plan it out.
I really like "not over- or under-feeding yourself"...it feels very neutral and care based instead of like a self-control/moral statement about "overeating" in particular
I am always so impressed not only with the number and variety of ideas that you present in these videos, but also with the level of care and detail you put into creating and presenting them. It is so helpful to see examples of how spreads look when they are filled in, but often in example videos the spreads are presented blank. I am really appreciative of the extra time and work you put into filling them out with example data. Thank you!
As someone with chronic condition, I have two page spread which is my time line for the condition, when particularly changes happened, when drugs were added, tests done ect. As I move around having the overview is very useful to bring new medics up to speed. Its also helpful to have a record.
I would love some ideas on how you are setting yours up. I'm completely overwhelmed with my own chronic illness and now the sole caretaker for my elderly mother. I'm so afraid of dropping the ball on something.
This is going to be very helpful. Thank you, Jashii! To combat chronic pain and reinjury, I have a set of PT stretches and walks I need to do from my chiropractor. I started to get lazy as we elongated the time between appointments. After watching the video, I think a sleep tracker and exercise log of some form will help. I'm thinking of dividing them up by location (bed or floor mat), stretches, how many I do, and time. I found it's really hard to be accountable for yourself when you finish school. Now that it's getting colder on this side of the hemisphere, any temperature that is lower than 20C I start to shiver, get a chill, and clench my muscles, and I automatically rush for blankets. It's worse than last year. I currently track temperature and pain level and found that there was a correlation. I'm a visual person so seeing all the types of trackers helped me to pick the best one! I'm very thankful for your logical and maths brain and teacher experience to pull off controlled pretend experiments to data like these!
Thank you , this is a help. As soon as I stop procrastinating. I lack Energy, I think about what I want to do, & that is as far as it goes. When I get a burst of energy I clean until my hips hurt, then I push past the point that I should be sitting with my feet up. I love charts. I use to be good at charts. Now my diet has changed, the want to eat is less. The want to do anything is alot less because of pain, & the urge to just sleep. I will try to do this.
Martha, I completely understand. I am in the same situation. Let us both send each other healing energy to move beyond procreating and doing. I often find that using stickers to show pain levels or symptoms can take off the pressure to draw out everything. I love Jess’s work, but sometimes it feels to hard to do.
Jess! These spreads are all so amazing and helpful! I'm going to be using a separate journal next year for all things health related, and will be incorporating several of these in it. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
I was just looking at some of these and going gahhhhhh I wish I had room to add some...........then remembered the video I just watched before this one, how to add tip ins by Jashii Corrin! lol Saved my life once again, thanks Jess! ;)
I'm a trans guy. I really appreciate "period pals" is my favorite gender neutral way I have ever heard of to describe periods. Made me feel very seen and respected. I just wanted to thank you for that.
Found your channel a week or so ago and I love it! So many ideas as I'm trying get back into journaling after a couple years away. Trying to focus the rest of this year on overall health and fitness. Thanks for this video! 💖🐝
This video was so incredibly helpful, and it really helps to see them on a page as you talk through them. I am sure there is a tracker there for everyone. Also I love all your inclusive language in your videos. You are amazing, as for QOTD definitely emotionally/tired/socially eating! So I am going to steal your tracker for that and create something for November!
Thank you jashii this is extremely helpful I just started my new stalogy planner in October 2021 and I'm struggling with eating and exercise and my boyfriend has high blood pressure so these will help 📒💓
So many helpful tips! Where to begin?? I feel like I need to track everything but my sticktuitiveness has not been great so I need to narrow it down to what's most important. I just found you but I'm now a huge fan!
Tip for an incase of emergency pages keep the back side blank and fold a seam (and cut slightly if needed) so in a scary emergency when trying to remember everything is hard you can easily pull the page out and simply hand it to Dr or paramedic
I've been thinking of doing a combined period/symptom tracker for a bit now, I have absolutely awful periods and also a chronic pain issue so seeing if they correlate or if there are other patterns going on might be helpful
I tracked my debilitating migraines and aura migraines for years, until I found a correlation between them and my period. When my GYN and I tested out stopping my period, I went from over 13 days a month to maybe 3 days every 4 or so months. I also found my period bloating amped up my chronic pain, because it was pressing on an old injury in my back near my hip. I highly recommend making a tracker to get your quality of life back and alleviate the worry and unknown. I really hope it helps you, cuz I've been there
I second what Ai's saying. I've been tracking my different symptoms (and what I have for dinner) for years. It's SUPER helpful when you've got a question about something and can go back and look for patterns.
As soon as I clicked on the video an add popped up and was talking about health lol anways I need this could you do a step by step video on your spreads on a videos
I'm curious how people track sleep - I tried it for a week and found that the mental process of trying to track sleep hours was keeping me awake XD Went back to turning my computer off two hours before my latest allowed bedtime and not worrying about the details. Also a bit perplexed at the prevalence of month-by-month period trackers when the length of a month isn't consistent. Looping it every four weeks is a bit of a pain in the neck to set up but for most periods I'd imagine much more informative.
Honestly never had a problem marking it on a standard monthly calendar in 30 years of doing it. Four weeks isn't really helpful either as they aren't exactly that either. In junior high mine were 21 days on the dot, every time for several years. Got older and they don't really care about being 28 either they can be a week past that. So a standard month is easier to use when trying to find the correct month and day rather than trying to sort through and find where the next month starts. (And yes even with birth control the period can start a week after while back on normal pills, so still not the most reliable timer.) The easiest sleep tracking for my was sleeping with my phone on the bed with Migraine Buddy app. It was the last time I moved the phone for several hours so it estimated the time. Just need to go in and accept the times or adjust if you lie awake for a while. Then when I got the fitbit, it does it even better. No effort on my part to even accept the time like the migraine app did.
@@selbarton Ah yeah it's not so much that they theoretically would be 28 as the consistency - like if a week were 8 days 4 weeks would still be better than a month for consistency. But if months are working for most people that explains why they've not tried more consistent timeframes XD I suspected phones and smart watches might come into the sleep thing - I wonder if most of the people doing that are using theirs.
My biggest struggle is sleeping. My honey says I'm a vampire. I tend to stay up overnight when I'm off work the following day. He has a 6 am to 3 pm schedule. My work schedule changes daily. It leaves me dragging all day.
I don't understand why people are obsessed with hydration/water intake. It is no problem for most people. On the other hand, alcohol intake is for many people. Why not track that? 🍷
Different strokes I suppose! 😄 I know I struggle with water intake (working in a lab where you can't drink doesn't help) but alcohol for me is more of a social thing, so I only drink with friends 😋
I'd disagree that it's no problem for most people. Studies show that 75% of the population is chronically dehydrated. It's just that most people don't know what the signs of dehydration are, and they think their headache, or their "afternoon slump", or their muscle aches, are just normal body irritations from a stressful day, or from their age, or even writing it off as sleeping wrong. Also, many of us take medications whose side effects are dehydration, so we have to make extra sure we regularly drink water.
