LIFE WELL LIVED
MAY Mental Health Awareness Month
No matter who you are or your circumstances, life can throw you some curve balls. By practicing emotional coping skills and building a support system you trust, you can help boost your resiliency to better navigate these difficult times.
Tips for boosting your resilience
Practice gratitude and mindfulness. These practices can help keep the positive things in your life top of mind and remind you that not everything is bad. 1. Change your perspective. Instead of feeling like bad things always happen to you, or you can never catch a break, try to tell yourself that your current challenge does not have to decide your future. Leaning into hope can help you maintain a positive mindset. 2. Learn from the past. Look at what activities or people helped you through tough times in the past. You may notice a pattern and be able to develop a plan for dealing with difficult situations in the future. 3. Talk to a professional. If you’re having trouble navigating a situation on your own, reach out to a mental health professional to help you create a strategy for moving forward. 4. Care for your body. Eating a nutritious diet, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep all contribute to better mental health and can help reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. When you feel good physically, you have one less barrier to feeling good mentally. 5. Connect with others. Connecting with a group of like-minded people in your community or with empathetic loved ones can help validate your feelings and give you a sense of belonging and purpose. 6. Pursue your goals. Reflect on something you want to accomplish and think about how you can make progress toward that goal each day. 7. Be proactive. If a problem or situation seems particularly overwhelming, make a list of small steps you can take to manage or overcome it and take them on one at a time. 8. #AllBecauseofYou
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