There are many mental health benefits of talking to yourself. It allows us to slow our thoughts and encourages us to process how we feel before acting.
Daily Practices to Improve Your Mental Health
While mental health can sometimes consist of a long journey, there are things you can do daily to help positively impact your mental health.
Let’s Get Outside!
Playing outside can help stimulate cognitive functioning, foster resilience, release endorphins, and increase an appreciation for nature.
What Stage of Change Are You In?
Have you ever felt like you’re ready to start thinking about change- whether it be a habit, a relationship, or even your hair- but you’re not exactly ready to take the steps to make the change? Don’t be too hard on yourself. This could be due to the fact that you’re simply not in the stage of change that you aspire to be in just yet.
Time for Change
One of the biggest challenges is recognizing when a change would be helpful. Here are a few things that may prompt you to consider a change.
Thoughts and Habits Worth Changing
Changing these nine thought patterns and associated behaviors that interfere with your well-being could improve your mental health.
Changing Your Cognitive Distortions
In our everyday lives, we experience cognitive distortions. A way to alter your distortions is to practice changing your perspective.
Changing Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
We all have ways of coping or have fallen into bad habits, even addictions. You may have decided you want to change. But most likely you have found that actually changing just is not as easy as making the decision to do so. Change is hard for most of us.
Spring Cleaning
As we approach spring and the yearly urge to clean up, clear out, and purge from winter’s dust and doldrums, it’s helpful to think about the benefits of a Spring cleaning!
Coping with Change
Change can be really hard to accept, especially when we don’t have any choice in the matter. Here are a few tips to make the change feel easier!
