Self-Care is essential for maintaining overall health. Yet, so many people struggle with prioritizing self-care into their regular routine. This is a 3 part video series that I had made for the Orange County Hispanic Youth Chamber of Commerce for their Self-Care virtual program, providing my expertise about self-care from a mental health perspective.
Helping Professional, these are the people that have made a career that revolves around helping others’ nurture and maintain their physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional and/or spiritual well-being. Although we have signed up for this path of serving others many find that this is the same path that can destroy our own physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional and/or spiritual well-being if we are not careful.
Expectations is something we all have and automatically start forming when doing things and meeting people. We have expectations on our health, on our relationships, on our finances, on our careers, on people, and on our experiences. However, many of us SUCK at forming REALISTIC expectations and as a result it severely impacts our mental and emotional health. Let’s explore how we can stop killing our own happiness and start forming more realistic and healthier expectations.
Millennials, you either hate them or you love them. Being a late millennial myself I learn towards the latter of the two options. Yes avocado toast and bottomless mimosas are pretty amazing but that is just the tip of the iceberg for what millennials bring to the table. We bring change, especially in the world of mental health.