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How to Help Your Child with Mental Health Problems

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Nobody likes to think that their teenage children are struggling with depression and anxiety. Unfortunately, though, these are things that, as a parent, you will need to be mindful of. Depression and anxiety are very commonplace, but when it comes to you noticing it in teenagers, it can be difficult. Kids will rarely have a...Keep Reading

How to Address Mental Health Without Shame

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Mental health is an important aspect of overall health. So, we’ll show you that you should have zero shame when addressing your mental health! Many seem to suggest that the world is getting worse and worse due to the current political climate and the potential toxicity of social media. However, to think that everything is...Keep Reading

How To Take Your Mental Well-Being Into Your Hands

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Improving your mental health can often feel more difficult than improving your physical health. Problems with your body are often easily noticed and explained by doctors or other medical professionals. However, this isn’t always the case when it comes to the mind. Let’s talk about how you could take your mental well-being into your own...Keep Reading
Benefits of Using Weighted Blankets

Benefits of Using Weighted Blankets

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin Weighted Blankets are becoming all the range. These trendy blankets recreate the sensation of a loved one hugging you during the night. This creates a warm calming effect and a feeling of being cradled in your mother's arms again. Especially if you believe in Freudian theories. Regardless of whether you...Keep Reading
How Going Offline for 10 Days Healed My Anxiety

How Going Offline for 10 Days Healed My Anxiety

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The first thought before going to bed is to check social media networks and news websites. This is the very first thought in the morning. Does it sound familiar? Hectic life in combination with toxic feelings (sadness, anger, fear) that we consume from the online world leads to the feelings of total confusion, stress, and...Keep Reading

March Bullet Journal Feature | Mire of @mutant_bujo

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This month we are featuring the amazing Mire of @mutant_bujos!! If you haven’t checked Mire out, she is a wonderful example of the amazing work bullet journaling can do for mental health AND productivity. The bullet journal is the perfect tool for everyone, Mire is going to tell us exactly why! Meet Mire of @mutant_bujo...Keep Reading

Top 5 Outdoor Activities for Improving Your Mental Health

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Being physically active has numerous benefits for your physical and mental health. It's a great thing for your body and mind to spend some time doing outside activities in the fresh air, letting the steam out, depressurizing and improve your fitness. If you need ideas on what great outdoor activities you could do, here are...Keep Reading

How Travel Can Benefit Our Mental Health

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Health is associated with many things. To maintain good health, one must eat good nutritious food, exercise daily, sleep for 8 hours, and most importantly manage your stress. Although every idea is important to maintain good health, mental health is the key to live happy and healthy; you can only gain from a healthy mind....Keep Reading

Bullet Journal Layouts to Help Manage Your Mental Health

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As you know, I am a huge proponent of self-care and mental health topics. I think that being aware and knowing how to take care of our mental health is hugely linked to other forms of well-being; however, are not taken as seriously as other forms of health. This post is an inspirational list of...Keep Reading

Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Mental Health

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The quality of your sleep and your mental health are very closely connected. Most people believe that sleep deprivation only affects our physical health. But the fact is that it also severely affects our psychological state and mental health. Studies even show that those suffering from mental health issues are more likely to experience insomnia...Keep Reading

Improve Your Well-Being With These 4 Home Hacks

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Our home is a place that is always there. We come back to it at the end of each day, and we spend years raising our children in it. But, it is quite often a place we take for granted, and we shouldn’t. You might not be aware of it, but your home can actually...Keep Reading

Self-Care Fundamentals You Can Enjoy Every Day

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Self-care has become one of the most defining terms of the past five years. As more and more people have sought to reclaim their busy lives and center in on their health and well-being, self-care has risen to prominence in a way that has never been seen before. Here are some self-care fundamentals you can...Keep Reading

Embracing Self-Care Even When It’s Hard

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There are many times in life when suddenly your ability to care for yourself goes out the window. In a flash, all of your learned habits become extremely difficult to uphold, and before you know it, you are letting yourself get behind with your own self-care. When this happens, however, it is best not to...Keep Reading

Mental Health, Physical Health, and Your Home

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We all know the importance of looking after ourselves both physically and mentally. When we are stressed, not eating well, and overworked we end up in a productivity slump. Feelings of sadness and generally feeling overwhelmed which is not a great way to live. It makes sense that the place we retreat to each day...Keep Reading

5 Self-Care Tools To Amplify Your Self-Care Regimen

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Self-care is a big deal and should be taken seriously. If you are not going to invest in yourself and your happiness and fulfillment, then what will you invest in? The following products are great investments to help amplify your regular self-care regimen. Massage Tools Most people don’t have the money nor the time to...Keep Reading

30 Days of Yoga for Self-Love Challenge

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One of my goals for 2018 was to do yoga regularly. Regularly can be defined as almost every day and consistent. I have not been doing a great job at keeping up with this. I chose yoga because I enjoy it, I can do it at home, and it is so good for physical and...Keep Reading

How to Create the Most Relaxing Bathroom

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Creating a relaxing bathroom design is essential if you enjoy unwinding in the tub after a long day at work. The last thing you want is a bathing space that is not fit for relaxation. This post will provide a few hints and tips for the most relaxing bathroom. Improved Bathroom Lighting Most people find...Keep Reading

A People-Helping Career Can Improve Fulfillment

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When it comes to your job, are you fulfilled? If you aren’t, a career helping others is sure to increase your fulfillment. Positions within the health and social care industry allow you to make a genuine difference in the lives of others. This is because you are helping them when they’re at their weakest and...Keep Reading

The Benefits of Anxiety Journaling & Why You Need It

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Since my move to North Carolina, I have been seeing a counselor on a monthly basis. Counseling is super valuable and I have learned a lot from it, including a lot about myself. One practice that I have taken from counseling is to track my anxiety. In my second session with my new counselor, she...Keep Reading

Dealing with Loneliness: Living By Yourself Far Away From Home, Family, and Friends

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Everyone gets lonely, especially when you are in a new town far away from those you know and love. It’s hard, very hard. And sometimes it’s even emotionally draining. Here are some tips to help you manage loneliness when living by yourself far away from home, family, and friends. Go Out Often (AKA Don’t Pout...Keep Reading

Factor Your Feelings After A Long-Distance Move

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Moving long distance, while life-affirming, can be terrifying. To some degree, it’s obvious before you’ve even embarked on the journey. No one could undertake a move like this without an overfill of feelings or at least a fluttering in your stomach. It’s simply not possible. This post gives a brief rundown of some feelings you...Keep Reading

12-Day Gratitude Challenge

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This week on Jihi Elephant I have been planning an Instagram challenge and I want to share it with you amazing people! The goal of this challenge is to express gratefulness publicly with the hope that it inspires gratitude in those around us. Being grateful is so so so important and wonderful, which I have...Keep Reading

Seeing the World from Another Angle: Developmental Disabilities

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I have worked in the mental health field for a decade. My favorite part of that work was the last half of it, working with kids from ages 3-21 with developmental disabilities and delays. I had absolutely zero experience with this population before then but I left with a lot of experience and a totally...Keep Reading

Self-Love Challenge | 30 Days of Loving Yourself

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Are you up for a challenge!? Awesome! I challenge you to 30 days of self-love! For the next 30 days, pamper yourself! Self-love is so important, I cannot stress it enough! This challenge calls you to spend 30 days pampering and taking care of yourself, working on loving yourself. Self-love is more than just loving your...Keep Reading

How to Set Up the Perfect Bath for Relaxation

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You’ve come home from a stressful day at work or school. How do you de-stress? A Bath! Setting up a nice relaxing bath is a science. It requires not only a relaxing bath but a relaxing bath environment. I am here to tell you exactly how to set up the perfect relaxation bath. This article contains...Keep Reading