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Healthy Mind, Healthy You: 2020 Recap
2020 has been all sorts of emotional highs and lows for many of us. We have all had an interesting 2020, eventful in many great and some heartbreaking ways. However, you're still here and that’s what we celebrate.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Staying Home Happily
In the last column, I shared ways we can spend time with our family and friends when we are not able to physically meet. The holidays are usually a time filled with activity or at least travel. This being such a different one, I thought to focus on how we can be home and happy. Staying home will obviously be more advisable just so we stay safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. But ho
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Keeping Connected in a New Normal
Healthy Mind, Healthy You is a weekly column written by Mental Wellness Coach Cynthia M. Each week, she will share insight on how you can be live a healthier life. You can read previous articles from this column here.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Some Good Cheer
When I was a child, I remember the holidays just meant when the decorations go up and you have lots of yummy food and wait for Santa’s surprise under the tree that one day. Just seeing these little bits, we would already feel excited and in the mood for the December holidays. Sadly, as we have gotten older, good cheer is not so easy to spread.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: You vs the Holidays
December is finally here, usually this is when Christmas and other festive decorations go up and westart to feel that cheer in the air. This year, the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have robbed us of thisgood cheer. Aside from the many travel restrictions, if you do get to travel it’s so expensive – not tomention the risk of getting infected. We are grieving from the loss of loved
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Taking the Next Steps
When we are dealing with disappointment, we tend to shy away from thinking of anything outside that space. This all generally stems from the fear we will be feeling: a fear of failure, a fear that what went wrong will happen again, a fear of what others might say or think of us, and plenty more. These fears all come from the place where an expectation has not been met and what
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: How Can You be More Resourceful When Dealing with Disappointments?
Ever heard the expression,“This is a setup for a comeback.” Whether you have been told this or it's something you have said to someone, it's a statement meant to encourage someone who is down on their luck and feeling really defeated. It's about learning that a setback is not the final bit in your story, things can always change. But how do things change when they went so terri
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Having a Strong Character Can Help to Handle Disappointments
Facing our negative emotions is always tough. Just like what I shared in the articles in September, we have to gear up for the fight for our healing and wholeness. This is always worth it in the end when your life starts to look and feel better. This week we focus on the second pillar in dealing with disappointment.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Vulnerability can Help us Deal with Disappointments
Now, we are in November 2020 where we are looking back at the year that was unlike any other year we have lived through. Aside from just the health risks and change in how we do things, COVID-19 affected most, if not all, our plans in one way or the other. Someone moved to a new place but was unable to start the life they hoped for due to COVID restrictions. Maybe you had just
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Self-Care for Resilience
This month, we have looked at so many dimensions of self-care in our personal growth, in our relationships and in the concept of how we can make self-care as lifestyle. As you have learnt how to navigate these different spaces, it’s important to get back to the main reason why self-care is so important.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Self-care for Healthy Relationships
As you have been working on taking care of yourself a lot more from a holistic perspective, it's time we move that out of just your sphere of control into your interpersonal relations. When we take care of ourselves, we are better in how we relate to others, and also because we are consciousness about self-care, we are able to shape these relationships better.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Self-Care for Growth
As women, we have a lot of things that we go through, and sometimes we shrink back and retreat from situations without realising how these experiences could help us grow. Bob Proctor said, “...change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.” This just shows how growth can either be seen as a chosen course of action or as a matter of the natural order of things. In looking
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Self-Care
This week, we mark International Mental Health Day on the 10th of October. This year’s theme is greater investment in mental healthcare, so it can be more accessible to all. This is so true to what is needed in the world today, but I would like to talk about a misconception people often have about what taking care of one’s mental health is all about.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: It’s Time to Drop the Baggage
These are all practical guides to just some of the pointers in this journey, but mental wellness is always a journey one must choose for themselves. I always emphasise that being emotionally unwell only becomes a problem that can be changed if the person who is not well wants to change. This just means unless you want to change the state you are in, you will carry on with the b
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Gearing up for the Fight
As you have now understood, the emotional healing process is no walk in the park. It is more of a battle that you need to prepare for. In our quest for healing and wholeness, it is important to realize that in every good thing you will ever want to do in life, you will face adversity. We don’t always accept this fact, so we don't prepare for it either.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Facing the Pain
It's not going to be easy but one of the best things you will ever do for yourself is facing your pain. I already described how emotional hurts can be similar to physical ones. So I will now describe the process of facing our pain using the process that we use for dealing with a flesh wound.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Our Scars in Disguise
Emotional hurt, unlike physical hurt, has no obvious scarring that we can all physically see and know that something happened and this person got hurt. This is how many people go on for years unaware of hurt that they still carry and still causes damage in their present lives.
Healthy Mind, Healthy You: Are You Emotionally Well?
Healthy Mind, Healthy You is a weekly column written by Mental Wellness Coach Cynthia M. Each week, she will share insight on how you can be live a healthier life.