I don’t know what to talk about other than the obvious. mental health. however I am shifting my focus from mental health to mental wellness. I am finding that I have been looking at things with a narrow perspective and instead I need to look at life with a wider more characterized perspective.
The current mental health crisis is not something that is simply going to go away by making it okay to talk about it. Instead we also need to talk about the next steps, like what do we do after we have identified our triggers, our causes and influences. What next steps are crucial to growing both as a person but in loving yourself as much as the people in your life love you.
Loving myself is one of the hardest things I am having to learn. But I will learn to love my unique, quirky, spontaneous, feisty and caring self.
After deciding that I want to shift my focus from mental health to mental wellness, I also decided to shift my focus from external influences to internal influences, deciding to take the initiative and practice self-care.
I will 100% be honest, I am terrible at self-care. whether thats eating 3 meals a day, drinking water, taking vitamins, I am plain terrible at all of it. However I am pushing myself to be better at it everyday.
I tend to put a wall up with everyone in my life, this wall is very tall and tough. There are only a few people that I have shared my struggles with and they have helped me get through some of my hardest days. My wall is what keeps me from reaching my full potential and from staying in one place long enough for people to get a glimpse of the bright side of me.
I have a very cheerful, and uplifting personality that many have the opportunity to see, I also have a deep/low side of me that tends to feel more emotional and “outta-wack” is how I like to say it. Practicing self-care has helped me tremendously through these low periods.
Being a young adult is tough. Being a young adult is also a HUGE GROWING AND LEARNING experience. You have to start somewhere to get someplace.
You know that feeling when you turn on that one song, and you instantly go from being your current age to being kid again? for me thats Miley Cyrus “Party In The U.S.A”. The feeling of no-stress, laughter, fun, innocence is something I feel every time I listen to the song. this is the feeling I have to remind myself of during moments of question, or anxiousness.
As long as there is a good song to turn a bad day into a good one, and great friends to have spontaneous overnights with and people that love and support me in everything I do then I have nothing to worry about and know I will get through this “Young-Adult” period.
Thank you everyone for all your support in my blogs and I hope y’all are staying healthy during these trying times.
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