Vanessa is a Vision Board Mentor and trained life coach, who specialises in helping people reconnect with how they want their life to be, if they’ve become overwhelmed or lost.

She was a successful business owner for 25 years and raised two children whilst experiencing grief, loss and serious illness.

With all of these factors at play, she began to feel stuck, so Vanessa tried vision boards and managed to make changes to her life that improved her wellbeing.

She believes vision boards can help with a multitude of issues, including finding a new direction in your life, and gaining motivation, focus and clarity.

Vanessa is now the founder of Vision Boards for All and believes there’s a vision board for everyone’s needs, and wants to explain the benefits to using them.

This episode explores:

-What vision boards are and how they can help our practical life, emotions and mental health.

-How vision boards helped Vanessa with her own life stresses.

-The theory and statistics behind vision boards.

-The benefits to using vision boards to increase motivation, positive outlooks and life goals.

-What our inner compass is, why we need to find it and how vision boards help us to do this.

-How vision boards can help you to reflect on your life and gain self-awareness of your current needs.

-The ways sports people use vision boards to help their mindset when competing.

-The types of vision boards that can be used and which work best for each type of issue, including holistic, digital and paper boards.

-How vision boards can be useful for Autism and/or ADHD in areas such as impulsivity, decision paralysis and burnout.

-Ways you can use vision boards with children for their wellbeing and difficulties they might be experiencing.

-Tips for creating vision boards, including life wheels.

-Ways to use the board effectively, including questions to ask yourself when looking at it, how it can motivate you to achieve goals, and using journaling and meditating alongside it as a tool.

-Using boards over long periods of time to assess how far you have come, or to notice changes you’ve made when you assume you’re still stuck.

ACTIVITY

I’m going to attempt a vision board and might try to get my son to do one, so if you feel inspired by this episode, let me know on the socials how you got on, and tag Mind Vox on any you share!

*Trigger Warning*

Contains conversation about Grief, anxiety, ADHD, Autism, Burnout, Depression, Divorce, Children’s mental health and trauma.

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Your host, Claire, can be found on Instagram, TikTok and via her website Single Parent Pessimist.

Vanessa can be found at her website Vision Boards For All, and also Instagram and Facebook.

Free Life Wheel resource from NHS.