selfcare
The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.
Mental Health
Mental health today is perceived as a state of wellbeing where individuals can realize their own potential to cope with normal stresses of life, work productively or successfully and contribute to their community (Beyond Blue, 2019). As an opinion, mental health is linked to wellness as well as illness, with some experts using phrases like “good mental health”, “positive mental health”, “mental well-being” and “subjective wellbeing”, even “happiness” to emphasize a person’s mental state and wellbeing functioning. Whereas, mental illness or poor mental health can be represented on the other end of the mental health spectrum to present mental health conditions or symptoms to affect thoughts, feeling and behaviors on a negative scale (Beyond Blue, 2019).
By Shanie Walker6 years ago in Psyche
5 Wellness Practices for Insanely Busy Bloggers
Blogging is often challenging, but it eventually becomes addictive. I personally don’t believe in the assumption that “blogging is easy; you just have to start.” It is pure art to transmit your thought on paper or into an image and frame thoughts cohesively.
By Victoria Kurichenko6 years ago in Psyche
Dearest
Dearest, How does one start a letter like this? With an apology? No. I’m fairly certain that isn’t what I’m supposed to do. Maybe, in fact, the opposite. Maybe, that’s been the real trouble all along. Taking responsibility for something that wasn’t my doing. And maybe when we spend our energy blaming ourselves for things that weren’t our fault, we miss taking the blame for the things that are.
By Monica Cable6 years ago in Psyche
Living with the Black Dog
I found the description of depression as the Black dog a while ago. It was presented in comic format. It resonated so much with me, that image, and the explanation that I have referred to my reoccurring periods of depression as ' visits from the black dog' ever since.
By Bob Parker6 years ago in Psyche
The Trek of Life
Mental health is a subject I both enjoy and loathe talking about. I’ve found sharing my experiences with others is both incredibly cathartic and uncomfortably vulnerable. Which is why I love fiction writing. It often feels safer to explore tough situations, traumas, grief, and shame through the emotional distance a character can give. But fiction is not a substitute, it is a tool. It is necessary to face real discomfort in order to heal.
By Allison Moore6 years ago in Psyche
How to normalise talk around mental health
"Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed to talk about: they don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they are a failure as a parent/family member; they are embarrassed for their family and want to protect them from shame, but mental health is something you have to talk about!" Anna Wintour
By Things I hear6 years ago in Psyche
Overcoming Depression and Anxiety Through Sharing and Helping
I was, and still can be, a selfish person. I am an only child. I grew up rarely having to share things. I wasn’t given everything I wanted, but I rarely wanted for anything. I believe I was still a loving, compassionate kid, but I know I often put myself and my own desires ahead of anyone else’s. I also got bullied a lot because I didn’t like fighting back. I didn’t like the idea of hurting someone. I don’t know if that’s contradictory or not, but it feels like it was. I have changed and I am still changing.
By Tom Stasio6 years ago in Psyche
Bittersweet Victory
February was good to me. At Vocal, the powers that be approached me for a Black History Month feature and asked me for a story for the FYI community. During my strong start, I got blocked from a famous Vocal Facebook Group, so I created Vocal Creators Saloon; today, the group has grown to 148 members in two weeks. My heart is genuinely full on how many current/new members are willing to take a risk on a new group. With over twenty member requests a day and a flood of direct messages, I felt slightly overwhelmed. Soon after, I realized that the group was consuming my day-to-day responsibilities.
By teisha leshea6 years ago in Psyche
The Individuation Process: Why It's Important!
Quick Facts -Some of us find meaning in disassociating from society and become a whole, authentic individual! -The individuation process often includes meditation, the subjective discovery of who we really are, and the integration of the parts of our personality that are ignored, pushed away, or unnoticed!
By Gabriel Mohr6 years ago in Psyche
