A blog about mental health, nursing, and leadership
Building mental strength is no different than building your physiucal strength. A little cardio, a few pushups or jogging for a mile or two helps build your physical strength. Similar adapting the strategies given here would do the same to build your mental strength. In both cases, consistency is the key!
Life is not always a bed of roses. Bad things happen as a child grows up. Parents separate or divorce. Children get bullied in school. Chronic illness. Death in the family. Natural disasters like the earthquakes, tsunami or even the pandemic. Some traumas destroy a home. Others destroy their sense of safety and well-being for instance; racial violence, community shootings or even substance abuse in the family.
And that is why, to know the basics about trauma informed care becomes even more relevant.
Mental health conditions are not something that happens to an unlucky few. According to National Alliance on Mental Illnesses (NAMI), 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year 1 in 25 U.S....
A traumatic event is one that poses a significant threat to life or mental stability. It can happen not just to the service users but also to the service providers especially those working in...
Charis, I have seen your work and your store on Instagram and the work you do is just amazing. Tell us more about yourself. My name is Charis Chan and I am from Hong...
If there is one thing that I regret to this present day; it was my failure to recognize the signs of early Alzheimer’s. It wasn’t until, one morning he took my brother’s 10-year-old son to the market and came back without him that I began to put the pieces together.
As anyone with a loved one with Alzheimer’s will have experienced, Alzheimer’s affects not just an individual but the entire family as well. For with the diagnosis come the novel challenges of dealing with progressive memory loss, changes in the personality and the huge, sometimes dramatic changes in the family dynamics.
Words matter; and have the power to cause incredible harm. Whether the words are your own or someone else’s; they hurt nevertheless!
Let’s take a look at what body shaming looks like in the real world:
As a nurse, I always thought I had to put the needs of others before my own. But no sooner had I started doing that, I couldn’t help feeling like a rubber band being pulled in every direction- supervisors, colleagues, family and even friends. Being a perfectionist at heart; when I take something on, I like to give it my all, but I’ve found I can’t do that if I spread myself too thin; and then I become no good for anyone; including myself.
Hannah Siller, the owner of Serene Life Consulting which provides life coaching, public speaking services has kindly accepted to beautifully illustrate to us, how the seasonally trauma affects our lives in more ways than...
Everyone feels frightened or afraid when faced with dangerous or life-threatening situations. What is your most secret phobia? Spiders? That is Arachnophobia! Cockroaches? Katsaridaphobia Dark spaces? Nyctophobia Heights? Acrophobia Open spaces? Agoraphobia Or...
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