April 7th is World Health Day, a global health awareness day celebrated every year under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.
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Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror
I do not know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way in 2024 I stopped seeing myself in the woman in the mirror. The About Me section on the blog, which I wrote in August 2018 before launching Lwile the Leo on the last day of Leo season, reads: In very many ways … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror
Mental Health Monday: I Am Fine
Raise your hand if you have ever been asked how you are and you responded with “fine” even though you were anything but. Yeah. Me too. I started writing today's post on January 24th at 3 a.m. as I could not sleep. Normally that would not be something to write home about— after all, in … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: I Am Fine
Mental Health Monday: Why Am I Grasping, But Not Latching, On To Happiness?
March 20th is International Day of Happiness and on that day in 2019 I put up a post titled Find Your Happy. In it I wrote about how, for the first time in my life, I identified as happy. I have spent most of my life pursuing happiness. My second tattoo, which I got in … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: Why Am I Grasping, But Not Latching, On To Happiness?
Mental Health Monday: The Unmothered Club
For 30 years I had a mother. Now I do not. I am unmothered. I have been meaning to start a Mental Health Monday (MHM) segment on the blog for almost a year now because mental health is something I am deeply passionate about. If my mum were still alive, she would be turning 62 … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Unmothered Club
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