Hello y’all! In case any of you are like me and forgotten what day of the week it is, today is Wednesday! With all the social distancing and working from home, all the days have blended together into a blur. In a way it’s great; now there’s no such thing as a “bad Monday” anymore! I know there are many other positives we’ve been able to find about our situation. There’s been a lot of blessing to come out of this social distancing life.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and that holds a special place in my hearth. I love the #breakthestigma that is representing the month. Breaking the stigma around mental health is the first step to getting everybody the help they need. That is what I try to do with this blog and with the curriculum I co-own. I want to get everybody talking about their mental health. We need preventative health, emergency, and regular check ups for our mental health just like we do for our physical health.
Our brains are muscles. We work them out by learning, we let them rest through sleeping, and we care for them through stress relief techniques like meditation. There is no difference in how we care for our physical bodies and how we should care for our psychological bodies. Truly, they are one in the same. Some people are born with physical ailments like spina bifida and some people are born with psychological ailments like depression. People get hurt as they get older and put stress on their joints, muscles, and bones. People also get hurt psychologically as they get older as they put stress on themselves through work, relationships, or fear of the future. This can lead to depression and anxiety. What I’m saying is, there’s no difference. We need to take care of our wonderful selves through physical and psychological practices.
There are so many ways we can actively prevent our mental health from deteriorating, just as we do our physical selves. We can learn mental agility and new ways of thinking to help ourselves be more resilient to life’s curve-balls. Thus, being able to defend against depression and anxiety.
So, my challenge to you for the rest of the month is to be aware of your mental health. Do things that make you happy. Take time out of your day to exercise, do yoga, meditate, etc. Also, remember to keep up your gratitude journal through Find the Positive. Right now, stop what you are doing and Find the Positive. Find three things from your day that you are grateful for. Please share them in the comments or write them down in a notebook! Mine are below. 🙂 As always, if you have questions, comments, or just need to chat feel free to email me.
FTP:
- Yesterday, I got to be part of a Zoom meeting with the I Am Resilient teachers and Justin Su’a. It was so cool to have the opportunity to meet Justin and learn from him! I’m so glad our teachers had the chance to visit with him, ask questions, and learn new things for their classrooms.
- The weather was finally nice enough to go out for walks with my dog. We went on a nice long walk and had the chance to play around by a local pond. She loved being outside in the sunshine and playing with the birds at the lake. I enjoyed getting to soak up the sun and watch her enjoying herself.
- I’ve had a productive day so far. I’ve gotten a lot crossed off my list of things to do and had a few productive phone calls. It feels good to have productive days when many days don’t feel that way right now during this strange time.
AT CHOICE 