Navigating Mental Wellness
by Chelsea Rodriguez
The Importance of Mental Wellness
Mental wellness provides a balance of our physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health. The state of mental wellness helps us become aware of our own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and knowing how to deal with life stressors that we go through daily. By not focusing on our mental wellness, this can result in negative effects in your life and those around you.
Experiencing stress, anxiety, and depression can impact the way you interact with your loved ones, as well as becoming a distraction towards your work and personal life. By letting your mental wellness become out of control, this can affect your energy levels where it can prevent you from feeling your best throughout your day.
This is why maintaining strong mental wellness can help you live a full and productive life in which you feel good about yourself and the relationships you have with others.
3 Tips for Maintaining Strong Mental Wellness:
1. Establishing Self-Care
As we have busy schedules, we often do not have the free time to ourselves. By making time to do the things that serve as a reminder to you and the value of your needs, this helps you feel good about yourself and how much you matter.
Make sure when planning your schedule, plan some personal time to engage in self-care activities, whether it’d be reading a book, meditating, spending time with your pet, or even taking a relaxing bath.
2. Set Realistic Goals
By setting your goals, it helps you to reach for the goals that you want to accomplish. Goals such as career goals, health and fitness goals, or any other personal goal that you want to achieve can be easily planned in a process that involves commitment on your end.
By writing down a small goal each week in your planner or journal, reward yourself when you reach for that small goal. This helps you feel more accomplished towards the bigger outreach of your goal. By breaking down your ultimate goal into much smaller and easier goals, this can keep you very motivated.
3. Spend more time with your own support system
Spending time with loved ones such as friends and family can make you feel great where it can reduce stress and establish more positive energy. The more positive energy you receive, the more it reduces all of those stressful thoughts and feelings.
As challenges can become difficult in our personal lives, it is never too late to go to professional counseling or engage in support groups for individuals that you identify with. Thus, investing more time in engaging with your own support system can help you flourish in challenging situations you are facing
*Always remember to focus on your mental wellness throughout your everyday routine.*