{"id":287807,"date":"2023-04-19T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=287807"},"modified":"2023-04-19T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:01:38","slug":"holiday-self-care-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/04\/19\/holiday-self-care-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday &#8216;Self-Care&#8217; Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-287990 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-19-at-3.42.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"453\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 440px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 440\/453;\" \/>Okay, we are here at that point of the year that seems <em>SO<\/em> far away in September.\u00a0 After this break it will only be a short sprint to the Summer break. For Grade 10, &amp; 12, MYP &amp; DP finals are sitting on the other side of the Eid celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The best tip I can give &#8211; to students <em>and<\/em> my colleagues &#8211; is this &#8230; <strong>&#8220;Give your Brain a Break!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Any brain scientist worth their salt<\/em> will tell you that when your brain is resting, it is doing its best work. It is <em>processing, sorting, organizing, consolidating<\/em> &#8230; separating the wheat from the chaff. Just think of it as your pre-game mental prep!<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">As well as eating well, exercising, playing games, reducing screen time, meditation, pursuits of the soul, a crucial part of any good brain break is sleep &#8230; <strong>lots<\/strong> and <strong>lots<\/strong> and <strong>lots<\/strong> of <strong>sleep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If not now, then when?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-13-at-2.28.43-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-288005 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-13-at-2.28.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"274\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 404px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 404\/274;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-19-at-3.47.39-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-287992 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-19-at-3.47.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"306\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-19-at-3.47.39-PM.png 402w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-19-at-3.47.39-PM-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2023-04-19-at-3.47.39-PM-400x384.png 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/306;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we are here at that point of the year that seems SO far away in September.\u00a0 After this break it will only be a short sprint to the Summer break. For Grade 10, &amp; 12, MYP &amp; DP finals are sitting on the other side of the Eid celebrations. The best tip I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":287990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,194,192,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eal","category-dp","category-myp","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}