The importance of mental wellness: 7 tips every woman should know
Once you learn the importance of mental wellness, you will be more cautious of how you navigate personally and professionally. These are the best mental health tips and essentials women can use to incorporate into their everyday lives.
Prioritizing your mental health can be challenging. We do not think about it as our days, weeks, and months pass us by. I was a person that did not take into consideration my mental health. It was not until I noticed the more I nourished and prioritized certain areas in my life that it helped me to process my mood, thoughts, and actions better than I did before.
After learning these tips and essentials, you will have a new way of moving through your daily life with your renewed thoughts, habits, routines, and behavior.
This post is all about the importance of mental wellness and why women should prioritize it more.
Top Important Tips for Mental Wellness
1. Rest
Taking time to rest, disconnect, and recharge is essential for your mental health. As you go through your daily routine, you can get caught up with having your life on auto-pilot, doing the same thing repeatedly. You must know when it is time to rest and reset. Resting allows you to fill your cup back up. Recharge for the upcoming tasks ahead of you.
Rest can look like staying at home to do nothing. Rest can look like going to a park to sit and be one with yourself and thoughts amongst beautiful scenery. However, you decide to rest, know the goal is to give your mind and body a break.
2. Mind the company you keep
This needs to be discussed more, but the people you engage with can impact your mood, behavior responses, and possibly how you feel about yourself. The people in your circle should bring you joy; if not, the bare minimum should be you feel well and safe around them. You should feel comfortable being your true, authentic self. When you are not around the right person, it can impact you mentally and emotionally. Listen to how they speak to you. Pay attention to see if certain things they do trigger you. Even pay attention to the things they say. Are they negative talkers? Do they complain? Do they talk down on you? The company you keep matters. As you learn to prioritize your mental wellness, you will also learn how to prioritize the people you let in your space.
3. Know when to take a break
Is not resting and taking a break the same thing? Well, sort of, but significantly different. Rest is when you intentionally have a day or a set time where you are disconnecting to relax your mind and physical body. Taking a break is when you choose to step away from a particular task(s) for a while. You have identified that this situation or duty may be weighing you down or burning you out.
Example 1: "I will take a break from (Fill in the blank) this weekend and go to the spa and rest."
Example 2: "I will take a break from (Fill in the blank) this week when I get off work; instead, I will go home and rest.
Knowing which tasks to take a break from can help your mental health and avoid burnout.
4. Know when to ask for help
You cannot do it all yourself. When it requires more hands, minds, and willpower than yours alone, you must get out of your own way and surrender. Surrender to those who you know are willing to help you. If you struggle with this, do not look at it as if you are asking for help, but instead, look at it as getting someone else involved so you can pivot in the direction you are trying to go (or what you are trying to do).
Remember, the goal is to prioritize your mental wellness. Letting go and releasing is an open door to freedom. Free yourself and ask for help when needed, especially when you know it will pivot you forward.
5. Speak to someone of wise counsel (Go to therapy)
Talking with someone always helps to release what is inside and helps clear your mind. I am a big advocate for therapy. A therapist is someone who has studied psychology; they do not know you, and they have no reason to be biased. This person gives you the unfiltered truth with no dog in the fight. Therapy helps with what needs to be released and puts a Mirror on you and your problems.
However, if you are not entirely sold on therapy yet, for your mental sake, find someone you trust and you have deemed to be of wise counsel. Talk with them when things arise. Make sure this person has no reason to be biased but also someone of wisdom and experience on the subject matter. Whoever you go to, so you release your verbal thoughts, make sure they have your best interest in mind.
If you are looking for a therapist, virtually or in your area. Try Psychologytoday. You get the opportunity to find the right person for you.
6. Mind your mind (Activities)
Mind your mind! Feed your mind with new fun activities. Get involved with an activity that replenishes your mind, body, and soul. Besides fun and leisure activities, be mindful of your thoughts and what you say to yourself. Mind your mind! Prioritizing your mental wellness is taking control of your mind. Feed yourself positive thoughts and do fun activities to feed you something new!
7. Stay connected to the Source
Stay connected to a higher source. Life is challenging. However, staying connected with God and his word will get you through. Meditate on scriptures that feed your mind and mental state. Staying close and connected to God gives you peace that surpasses all understanding. As you prioritize your Mental wellness, you must have God with you on the journey. He is the ultimate perfect peace; he is your refuge when needed.
If you are new at reading the word or want better understanding when reading the bible. The NLT Life Application Study Bible is an excellent recommendation.
This post was all about the importance of mental wellness and how women can prioritize it more by incorporating tips and essentials in their everyday lives.
