May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Annual Mental Health Wellness Checkup Quiz

May is designated Mental Health Awareness Month.  Mental Health Awareness Month was established in 1949 to increase public awareness of the importance of addressing our mental health needs and to decrease the stigma surrounding the need for help. 

What does this mean for you?  Have you checked in with your mental health status lately?  Would you even know how to do that? 

Take my Annual Mental Health Wellness Checkup Quiz and see how you're doing.  

10 Questions - Covers Mental, Emotional, Physical, & Spiritual Health

1. How are you feeling today, really? How have you been feeling over the last 6 months?  Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. 

2. What’s taking up most of your headspace right now?  What's keeping you up at night?  

3. How are your eating habits?  Are you taking time to eat nutritious meals or living on fast food and junk snacks?  Have you been drinking enough water? 

4. How have you been sleeping?  Is lack of sleep impacting your ability to function? 

5. What have you been doing for exercise?  Recreation?  Relaxation?

6.  Are you holding in a lot of anger, resentment, or unforgiveness?  Carrying grudges?

7.  When's the last time you felt really good about yourself?  Your life?  The future?

8.  Are feeling stuck or overwhelmed by what you need to do on a daily basis?  Or are you invigorated by each new day?

9.  Do you feel loved and supported by those around you or isolated and alone?  How often do you feel lonely?

10.  How confident do feel that you can cope adequately with a sudden reversal or setback that might come up unexpectedly?  This might be financially?  Career wise?  Family?  A sudden loss such as a death?  An unforeseen illness or natural disaster?

If you fall short on any the of questions above, it may be impacting your mental health.  Ask yourself:  What current obstacle is the biggest stumbling block getting in your way?  Prioritize your needs this way.  If you need a tune up or extra help, seek the aid of a professional.  Sometimes short term counseling is all it takes to get your life back on track.

My mission is to assist individuals in overcoming the stigma of seeking mental health services.  My goal is to help you create a healthier, more fulfilling life while navigating life's many challenges and transitions.  If you need to, we can do that together.

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As always, please share your comments and insights.  

Make your mental health a priority today.

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A Memory Write - April 24, 2019

 Crossing the Time Warp!

 Holy Guacamole, Batman!!! The Universe has opened up at light speed moving us into the Cosmic Time Warp of accelerated motion, e-motion, and unconscious downloads. There are Cosmic Portals opening up everywhere, vast internal galaxies opening up for exploration, and astral dream states moving on internal hard drives. Fasten your seat belts!! We're in for one wild ride where distant dreams become eventual realities, and gun-toting Sheriffs become Sugar Plum Fairies. It's time to take it all to the Outer Limits - breaking sound barriers, and joining forces with alignments in parallel Universes. Let your Super Sonic hearing and your Emotional Compass be your guide as we fast forward in time from 1974 and "What-Could-Have-Been-Then", to miracles, and ultimate Yin-Yang pairings in the Mirror Universe of Love.

Just for fun, a memory write from April 24, 2019.   I also write poetry, and dash off creative blurbs and insights, like this, that come out of nowhere.  There's a sci-fi cartoon novella here somewhere.

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The Fear of Becoming - Transformation

Who Am I?  What Do I Believe In?

When you're in the middle of a transformation, it can all seem very confusing.  You are in a state of "becoming"; you don't know who you are anymore, your identity is under going reconstruction.  You only know that who you "were" doesn't work anymore, but who you are becoming or need to be is vastly unclear; especially if you are dealing with a lot of past trauma.  

The age old metaphysical questions of:  "Who am I?  What do I believe in?",  are central in your mind every day.  You are tempted to go back to the "old" you because it is familiar, safe, and something you know.  It is comfortable, even if it's destructive. It's your comfort zone, habitual and easy to slide back into.   But,  somewhere deep inside, you know you are just circling around the same old drain.  Getting the same unfulfilling results and living half a life, stagnating like a pond overgrown with weeds and toxic chemicals.

This is where you must trust that scary, uncomfortable, and living in the unknown is right where you're supposed to be.  Clear the debris from the past, and excavate your unconscious mind so that the unconscious behaviors, emotions, thought patterns, and perceptual filters running your life on autopilot and creating your current illusion are revealed.

The current Narcissistic culture does not support this type of internal focus, reflection and renewal.  It uses distractions of all kinds to keep us "busy", frantic, over stimulated.  It encourages us to look "outward" for validation, when in reality we need to look inward to find the clues we need to be happy and live a purposeful life.

What this means is that we must take down time, spend time alone in contemplation. Solitude.  We have only our intuition to guide us along, which is a good thing.  The still small voice within is given a chance to grow stronger and guide us along.  The beauty of this process in living by intuition is that people will emerge who support you in your "becoming".  People you didn't really know were there.  They offer all manner of support and encouragement, bring you books to help you, talk you through your emotions and confusion; but most importantly, they offer up a space for you to be entirely yourself, without expectations, for you to become who you really are - not what society or other people think you should be.

These are the people who will come forward with you.   They require nothing from you because they "see" you for who you really are and accept you for the space you're in.  And as you pick your way along this unknown path, you become less frightened, you relax, and surrender to this transition because it is inevitable and resisting is only more painful than just plucking your way through this maze of figuring things out.  You come to live and understand that, "To know is, not to know."  And this journey is actually a gift, and an adventure to embrace because you will never live more in the moment than when you are in a state of "becoming". And, as you are being led to "something" in the unknown, the upshot is learning to trust what's going on inside of you, instead of listening to the "noise" of the external world.  Know that you're in a good place, you're open.