September is here and the cooler mornings are bringing a feeling of fall to the air. As we get ready to say farewell to summer and head into my favourite season, I’m delighted to share my August 2022 roundup of awesome blog posts.

This month’s roundup has cleaning tips, plus ideas on dealing with toxic positivity, the pressure to be an overachiever, and more!

This monthly roundup is my way of saying thank you to the blogging community, and featuring some of my favourite bloggers who regularly put out funny, inspiring and informative content.

So find a sunny spot, grab your favourite summer beverage and take a few minutes to read these posts. I hope you’ll love them as much as I did. While you’re at it, explore some of the other content from these bloggers and give them a follow. 

Coming up on Boomer Eco Crusader in September

As we settle back into the post-summer routine, I’m excited about some of my content coming up in September. My weekly Simple Living Sunday posts will look at productivity, encouragement, and dreams. I’ve also got posts coming up on overcoming the Diderot Effect, fun fall activities, and my regular monthly decluttering update.

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August 2022 roundup – 6 awesome blog posts

Grounding techniques: A selection of the best methods – Unwanted Life

Practising grounding techniques can help with a variety of mental health concerns. This post outlines several of the best grounding methods with instructions on how you can put them to use right away.

Grounding techniques are strategies we can deploy to help us reconnect with our immediate reality, which is often stated as grounding you in the present.

Grounding techniques: A selection of the best methods – Unwanted Life

Eight tips for efficient cleaning – Business Rules For Life

Not being a domestic goddess, when I saw the opening words of this post “I hate cleaning”, I knew I had to keep reading. Charlie provides some tips to make this necessary task quicker and easier.

I hate cleaning. It feels like a waste of time because you can never really ‘get ahead’ or build on anything. Things will always get dirty again, and it’s a constant battle against the dust and grime.

Eight tips for efficient cleaning – Business Rules For Life

Tough love – Micro of the Macro

In this insightful post, Lisa provides an urgent call to action regarding climate change. Complacency is killing us! The time to act is now.

Global warming is changing us.  We occasionally recognize it in the form of severe flooding, a killer heat wave, or a hurricane that is amongst the largest, strongest & most devastating we’ve seen.  But we are quickly headed toward a time in which these and other climate-related catastrophes will be the norm.

Tough love – Micro of the Macro

Can empathy be taught? 3 easy ways to practice – The Wellbeing Blogger

Empathy is one of the many things the world could use more of these days. In this informative post, Vanessa explains the three types of empathy and provides practical suggestions on how you can be more empathetic.

Empathy is a very sacred space. It’s where we allow ourselves to understand, share, and care about each other’s experiences. It also requires a great deal of vulnerability and courage from us.

Can empathy be taught? 3 easy ways to practice – The Wellbeing Blogger

And, while you’re visiting Vanessa’s blog, check out this next post…

This is astonishing: 7 life examples of toxic positivity – The Wellbeing Blogger

We all know them—people who insist on constant positivity and refuse to allow any negativity in their lives. In this post, Vanessa provides an important reminder of why we need to feel free to express negative emotions. She also cites seven examples of toxic positivity—and I sheepishly admit to saying all of them at some point.

Despite their importance for well-being, forcing positive emotions is unhealthy. It is a way to silence, deny, or ignore negative emotions. These play a role too in our well-being journey.

This is astonishing: 7 life examples of toxic positivity – The Wellbeing Blogger

Don’t be an overachiever – Buffalo Sauce Everywhere

In a world that constantly tells us to do it all, this may seem like an odd message. However, Renata’s very wise post cautions us on the pitfalls of being an overachiever.

Our society pushes hustle culture and blindly striving to be the best. Do you really want to be the best? It’s important to consider that before giving into the pressure of overachieving.

Don’t be an overachiever – Buffalo Sauce Everywhere

My most popular posts of August

In case you missed them, here are the posts I published in August that had the most views.

• Welcome to the Climate Change Collective
• Simple Living Sunday – Celebrating Never Give Up Day
• Simple Living Sunday – Hello from Toronto

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Thanks for dropping by to check out my August 2022 roundup of summer blog posts. Please take a few minutes to follow these talented bloggers and read their posts. Tell me which of the posts you enjoyed most below.