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Self Kindness is important. As a mental health speaker, I spend a lot of time sharing with others how to protect their mental health and emotional wellness. Learning how to be kind to yourself is an important part of mental health and self-care. But as someone who can easily switch into “perfectionism mode”, I'm not always kind to myself.

There are two simple things that you can do to start practicing self kindness right away:

Forgive yourself.
Stick to the “good enough” rule

In this video, I share specific examples of what these self kindness tips look like in my own life.

If you’re struggling with stress, perfectionism, anxiety, or other mental or emotional health challenges, these two simple tips can help you be kind to yourself today.

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How to beat burnout and exhaustion with a mental health day off work.

Whether you are working from home or back in the office, the past year and half is one that has been full of uncertain situations and stress for many. If you’re feeling stressed, tired, burnout and dealing with exhaustion, this video is for you.

October is focused on mental health awareness with October 10th being World Mental Health Day 2021 and Mental Illness Awareness Week happening right now. I wanted to take a minute to answer some questions about taking a mental health day off work.

In this video I share:

👉🏽 Signs you need to take a mental health day from work
👉🏽 How to recover from burnout
👉🏽 3 questions you can ask yourself on a daily basis to improve mental health and emotional health
👉🏽 How to take a mental health day without feeling guilty
👉🏽 Tips on what to do before taking a mental health day
👉🏽 What is a mental health day
👉🏽 What mental health day activities and mental health day ideas can help you recover from burnout

If you’re struggling and have been wanting to take a mental health day off work but weren’t sure how to do it or if you should, watch this first!

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Are you wondering how to protect yourself while supporting others?

It can be easy when trying to help others to end up hurting yourself along the way. You may give your time and resources that you really don’t have to spare. And you may find that you’re being impacted by negative energy from the situation.

Learning how to be mindful of your own emotions and energy by setting personal boundaries is important when supporting others when they struggle. One way to do this is by learning how to say no to people and most importantly, how to say no without feeling guilty.

In this video, I explain how to stop being affected by others by setting healthy boundaries.

This can feel overwhelming at first, especially if you’re worried about hurting the relationship, but it’s OK to say no to people to protect yourself emotionally and to protect your own mental health and wellness. In the long run, this will help you learn how to support others in a healthier way.

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Shielding your body from stress.

Having a morning routine for stress or morning routine for depression can be a really effective strategy for coping with stress.

There are a lot of stressful things that can come up in a day. If you just allow yourself to go through the day, you may start to feel the impact of stress in your life and on your body. Feeling stressed out or anxious, can leave you with all kinds of mental health and physical health challenges. This is why it’s important to put a morning plan in place.

In this video, I give a brief example of how my morning routine helps me shield myself from the stress of the day.

A morning plan allows you to know exactly how you’re going to start your day no matter what else happens to pop up at the moment. It helps you learn how to deal with anxiety and can change the stress reaction that you have throughout the day. A morning routine is part of a healthy lifestyle.

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There are 3 emotions that have been wreaking havoc on the world since the pandemic began—fear, grief, and anger.

These three emotions are often referred to as “difficult emotions” or “negative emotions”. An important part of mental health awareness and being emotionally well is learning how to recognize your emotions and process them in a healthy way.

As someone who has lived with mental health challenges for my entire life, these are three emotions that I am very familiar with. Anger management was a struggle for me. Fear was an issue in my life along with how to manage grief. And while I used to think that they were bad emotions, I've since learned that they are important emotions that we need for success.

In this video, I'm going to share a few ways to reframe how you think about the difficult emotions like fear, grief, or anger you're experiencing in life right now.

By learning to sit with your emotions and process them, you can turn them into powerful tools in your life.

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Mind Sweep Benefits: Take Control of Stress FAST! People are feeling an increased level of anxiety and stress once again. There are many uncertainties with the pandemic and the news headlines and adding that on top of the regular challenges that we face in life, it can feel like a lot to handle.

If we’re not careful and intentional, this stress and anxiety can become overwhelming and even lead to bigger mental health challenges like depression. Learning how to relieve stress and anxiety is important.

In this video, mental health speaker and corporate wellness specialist, Mike Veny, shares a simple but effective strategy that he learned about when reading the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. It’s called a Mind Sweep.

Doing a Mind Sweep is simple and something that you can do on a daily basis or when you feel your stress levels building up. In the video, you’ll learn the simple steps to doing a Mind Sweep and the benefits of doing it including how it can help you start to feel like you have some control over the stress in your life. And the best part is, there’s no wrong way to do it so you don’t have the added pressure of trying to figure out something else when you’re already stressed.

If your stress and anxiety have been feeling out of control or making it hard for you to focus on the things that you need to, this is a great strategy to use.

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Are you in the cycle of mental health stigma? Learning the cycle of mental health stigma is an important step to mental health awareness.

I’ve struggled since childhood with my mental health because of depression and a few other mental health disorders. Even after discovering that drumming helped me manage my depression and some of my other symptoms, the challenges continued to be there.

I eventually realized that I needed to learn how to address my mental health challenges AND the interior stigma I was wrestling with. Through my research, I learned about the cycle of mental health stigma and the negative impact it was having on my life.

In this video, I share about the three stages of mental health stigma. Understanding how the cycle works can play an important role in your road to recovery.

The cycle of mental health stigma includes:

1. Shame
2. Silence
3. Sabotage

When you start learning to recognize and address the cycle in your life, it’s the first step to breaking the hold that stigma creates.

Now as a keynote mental health speaker and Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist, I work to help others break free from the stigma cycle too.

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There is a unique stigma that surrounds minority mental health. Don’t get me wrong, mental health in general is stigmatized, but there’s a different stigma when it comes to the black community.

We are a culture of honor. We don’t like to be disrespected. And that doesn't sound like a bad thing, but if we're not careful, it can become one of the mental health barriers that we face. When we admit that we’re struggling with mental illness or disorders like depression, we can start to feel like we’re disrespecting ourselves.

Mental health stigma awareness is crucial in empowering people to get the help they need.

In this mental health stigma video, I share about this unique stigma in minority cultures and communities. I also talk about the role that the strong black man plays in this stigma. I’ve shared about the perception and idea of the “strong black man” in a previous blog post linked below. As we address the stigma, there’s a need for us to redefine what it means to be healthy, strong, and whole.

There are also a few minority mental health tips I share that I believe are important for change, as well as a few things we can do to improve the situation for black and brown youth and the community as a whole.

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