Sudden changes in life and employment, including suddenly having a lot of unstructured time or working at home in isolation, can have serious effects on your mental health and feelings of efficacy, especially if you’ve never learned tools to help you manage the traps that can have you spiraling downward.
Nurturing your mental health is the heart of your Thriving Guide.
Our lives have changed, and it takes time and compassion to process all the new emotions we are experiencing. Give yourself that space and the grace to accept that this is not a normal situation. What thriving looks like right now isn’t what it might have felt like six months ago for you.
You’re in a period of adjustment, and change is emotionally expensive.
This is a time to take special care of your brain’s chemical balance. Treat your brain both with the delicate patience and warmth you might give a terrified child and the objective care you would use to maintain balance in a complex organic chemistry set.
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Note: this is not intended to replace professional psychiatric help often needed to resolve severe anxiety and clinical depression. Seek professional medical help for these conditions.