selfcare
The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.
Breathe
This year has been a lot. 2020 has taken on us on the wildest rides of our lives. We can't see friends or family. We're in a pandemic, there is civil unrest in the country, unemployment is skyrocketing, people are dying, we have lost really meaningful public figures, and on top of that it is an election year. Overwhelming, right? Yeah, I am there with you. Also, we are seven months into the quarantine, so the novelty has worn off. We are no longer making banana bread or whipped coffee and some of us just feel stuck.
By Joanna E. Butler5 years ago in Psyche
The Power of Control
Everyday I await your call. To check up on me & see how I am doing. The only one that gets me up when I don’t feel like getting out in the world. My reconnection help build to something deep & close & all we do is talk. Nowadays it seems like more of those I love are disappearing & I’m left with me & my thoughts.
By The Kind Quill5 years ago in Psyche
The Importance of Staying Positive
“What is down in the well comes up in the bucket. Fill yourself with positive things.” – Tony Dungy. Wise words from a man who has faced his own share of personal hardships, from the inherent stress involved with coaching professional football teams to the suicide of his eldest son. Life is not a straight path forward - it takes unexpected detours and turns, and obstacles both trivial and monumental make the journey treacherous at times. Positive thinking allows you to keep putting one foot in front of the other on life’s path, has numerous health benefits, and can even redefine your perception of yourself.
By Stephanie Nielsen5 years ago in Psyche
Mindful Strides
Mindfulness, the phenomenon of truly being conscious and aware, too often lingers in the shadows of our perceived realities like a ghost. It lets you know its there through that in-explainable urge to choose one path over the other with the confidence of an omniscient being. It even lets you see it at those moments when you realize you’re truly happy, so happy that it feels as though your heart is smiling and your entire body may literally burst with joy.
By Lana Marie5 years ago in Psyche
"LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!"
Like so many of us today, I have a constant fight with depression. We’ve all had those terrible experiences in our lives which have affected us for the rest of our lives. But rather than dwell on the negative, I want to FOCUS on the POSITIVE.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff5 years ago in Psyche
Self-Care
One of the things that really helps me cope with the woes of depression is making sure that I can recognize myself in the mirror. It is so easy to go deep into that rabbit hole of weariness where you don't brush your hair, you might skip a shower or two and you haven't washed the three day old makeup off your face. One thing for me is that I would go days without making my bed. I would literally sleep on a bare mattress with my down comforter and felt fine with that. I just didn't have the energy to straighten up my room even if it was to just make my bed. As of Monday, I went almost a month without making my bed. My mom would beg me to stop living like that and I was like "my mattress is clean." Looking back two days later, in my extended moment of melancholy, sleeping on a bare mattress because you can't muster up the energy to carry out day to day activities is not ok and that's why it is so important to remember to embrace SELF-CARE.
By Dishanta Lopez6 years ago in Psyche
Something new and something blue
For once the reason I stopped writing for a while was a positive one, I’ve been so wrapped up with making changes in my life. I needed one of those spring cleans but for my mind instead, instead of the empty water bottles on the side cabinet it was negative thoughts and doubt lingering in the air. You could say it was just a mess.
By The Soul Whisperer6 years ago in Psyche
Stress is killing me.
“Engaging with the self, starting to treat ourselves as if we were a living, learning surprise, worthy of existence despite our constant fears, enables us to engage in a real way with others, to see others as possible surprises and even gifts.”
By Ashley Beeby6 years ago in Psyche
