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New Worksheet: 3 Things You Can Do Today to Get Back on Track
Hi all! I'm happy to share a brand new Seated 5 worksheet with you. It's easy to think we need to get everything back on track at once. Food. Water. Sleep. Movement. Daylight. That's usually where we get stuck. This worksheet takes a different approach. Instead of trying to change everything, you'll choose one area, make the next step small enough to actually do, and connect it to something that's already part of your day. That's how lasting routines are built. You'll find the worksheet inside the Start Here module in the Classroom. Take your time with it, and come back to it whenever you need a fresh start. Once you've completed it, I'd love to hear what you chose as your one small step. Share it in the comments below so we can encourage each other along the way. /Åsa
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Welcome - Read This First!
Welcome to Seated 5 🌿 I’m glad you’re here. Seated 5 is for adults with mobility limitations who want practical health routines that work in real life. Start with these three steps: 1. Go to the Classroom Open Start Here and begin with the Seated 5 Reset Map. Open Start Here 2. Use the Reset Map The Reset Map helps you look at food, water, sleep, movement and daylight, notice what may be slipping, and choose one health routine to reset this week. You do not need to work on all five areas at once. Choose the one that would make the most useful difference in your life right now. 3. Come back here and introduce yourself Post in Introductions and tell us: - your first name - where you are from - which Seated 5 area you would like to make easier first Choose the level of support that suits you You can stay in the free Standard tier for as long as you like. It includes the Reset Map, community discussions and practical posts about food, water, sleep, movement and daylight. Upgrade to Premium for $7 per month when you want the full self guided monthly reset system, including the guides, planner, worksheets, trackers and practical tools you can use at your own pace. Choose VIP for $27 per month when you also want guided group support, monthly calls, member hot seats and help turning your reset into realistic weekly action. See the Seated 5 plans A limited 1:1 option for 5 people only I also have five introductory 1:1 places available for $97. This includes two private video meetings. In the first meeting, we decide what you want to change and create a practical way forward that fits your real circumstances. Between the meetings, you can contact me by email for support. In the follow up meeting, we review what happened, adjust the plan and decide what comes next. More information will be added to the Classroom shortly. Seated 5 provides general health education and coaching support. It does not provide medical advice, treatment, rehabilitation, physiotherapy or therapy.
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A little more about me, and why I created Seated 5
I thought it was time to introduce myself properly, especially now that some of you have started joining Seated 5. My name is Åsa (Owsa) and I live in the countryside outside Uppsala in Sweden. I am turning 56 soon. I live with my husband, and we have been married for nine years. I also have a 22 year old son from a previous marriage. He is studying at university and still lives at home. I was born with my disability and I am paralyzed from the chest down. I have used a wheelchair full time throughout my life. This means that I know from experience how many ordinary health recommendations become much less ordinary when you have limited mobility. Advice such as drinking more water, moving more, getting outside, sleeping better or eating well can sound simple, but the practical reality can be very different when energy, transfers, assistance, equipment, bathroom routines, accessibility and the time everything takes are part of everyday life. For several years I worked as a hospital social worker at a specialist rehabilitation clinic for people with acquired injuries. During those years I saw the same problem again and again. There was plenty of advice available about health, habits and daily routines, but very little of it was created for people with mobility limitations. My clients were often expected to take ordinary recommendations and somehow make them work in lives that looked completely different from the lives those recommendations had been written for. When that failed, people often thought they had failed. That stayed with me. I knew from my own life that the issue was often much more practical than that. A routine can sound good and still be impossible to follow in real life. It may require more energy than someone has, assume access that does not exist, ignore support needs, or work only on unusually good days. I wanted to create something that starts from our actual lives and helps people find solutions that can genuinely be used, rather than solutions that look good on paper.
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Rest counts even when sleep doesn't happen
Some nights sleep just doesn't show up, pain flares, the heat doesn't let up, your body's on its own schedule regardless of what the clock says. And then there's the extra layer of feeling bad about not sleeping, on top of not sleeping. Worth separating those two things: sleep and rest aren't identical, and on a night sleep isn't happening, rest still is. Lying still, lights low, no pressure to perform sleep, still counts for something, even if it's not the same as eight solid hours. Tonight's version, if you want it: whatever happens with actual sleep, give yourself the rest part without the guilt part attached. What's one thing that makes lying awake feel less like failure and more like just resting?
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The glass that's already poured
Some days the whole "drink more water" thing falls apart before it even starts because getting up for a refill takes real effort, or the bathroom math makes you hesitate before you even pick up the glass. One small swap some people here have found useful: instead of one big goal hanging over the whole day, pour or fill whatever you're drinking from first thing, before you're busy, before you're tired, before the decision has a chance to feel like a chore. It's already there. You're not starting from zero every single time. Doesn't solve the bathroom logistics, nothing here pretends to. But it removes one small barrier between you and the glass. Where's your water sitting right now, close by or somewhere you'd have to get up for?
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