How are you doing?

I know that times right now are hard. We’ve been in survival mode for 2 years now and we are all tired and burning out. Sometimes it might even feel like all hope is lost, but we just keep pushing through and moving forward. Our mental health is still very important, and I want to take the time to talk with you about what you are doing for you! It’s really easy to focus on everyone around you and making sure that they are okay and have everything that they need, but do you ever stop and look after you? Or look after what you need? January 26th is Bell Let’s Talk Day. Let’s normalize mental health and bring it into the forefront of our daily lives.

Stress can affect you both emotionally and physically and no two people respond to the same stressful event in the same way, and that’s okay. It’s important to recognize signs of stress and to learn how to cope with them in a healthy way. There are different things that you can do to help look after yourself in these stressful times. The pandemic is scary and for some, it is a driving force for their stress, here are some things you can do to help!

1. Make sure that any information you listen to is from a credible source.

2. Look after you, eat healthy, exercise, and make sure that you sleep.

3. Talk to others about your concerns- you are not alone in this, and we are here to help.

4. And finally, focus on what you can control, not on what you can’t.