Tend to your emotional health
Our new everyday brings an array of experiences - and we will have an emotional response to all of these. Staying emotionally healthy means being aware of when any of these are negative. It's often easiest to pick this up on a feeling level when something does not feel quite right. We call this being self aware, being able to attune with a bit more awareness of what's going on in our inside world.
Pause and ask yourself "What's going on right now? What am I feeling?", and "When did it start, what got me going down this path - something I watched, some interaction I had, a work email I just received or a thought I just had?" We call this being able to be self-reflective or reflect upon yourself and the various thoughts, feelings and behaviours going on for you.
This process helps us to identify what triggers us to feel, think or behave a certain way. This in turn helps us to make sense of what we are going through in a moment that feels hard. This acknowledging is so simple but so powerful and takes us a little closer to being a bit more in touch and accepting of ourselves. It also then helps us respond in healthier, flexible ways to what's going on.
Changes to our normalcy have come quicker than our hearts, minds and bodies have been able to adjust to. Without realising it, somewhere inside it can feel like a sense of loss. A loss of life the way it was. A loss of friends and community in vivo, a loss of routine, a loss of job, a loss of plans, wedding, holidays, graduations or those after work drinks at the pub. My biggest advice to all of us in this - don't to shy away from the uncomfortable feeling beneath the surface. Go to them. Acknowledge and hear them. Give yourself permission to feel them. Write them down or share them with them with those who love and care.
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