How do you protect your emotional health?

The insecurity of living through a global pandemic might makes us feel like the world is closing down on us. Added to this as a natural way of life we are approaching this beautiful season of decline in our own unique way.

What keeps us strong and happy is different for individuals .To be able to keep normality in our lives we turn to a variety of coping mechanisms.

What would be yours?

Here are a few examples to get you thinking of your own.

WORK
Work can be an escape from our emotional lives if it is overdone so better keep on eye on that ‘work-life balance’

ROUTINE
Routine is a secure framework that we can still control and let it control us but it’s depends on how much control do you actually need in your daily life or you might be a person who likes to be impulsive rather than plan everything

SELF-REFLECTION
This is something very few people view it as a daily activity unless they are trained to do for their professions or they are actually writing their own autobiography. Not surprisingly self-disclosing posts or images on social media is a kind of a twisted , distorted versions of people’s personality . It is of course not a new phenomena , people use social media exactly for that reason. Namely to project an idealistic concept of their lifestyle to the world gives some people a false sense of confidence.

But that is not self-reflection. Self reflection works only if it is brutally honest and private the same time. It is only for us to see the connections, patterns , repetitions , the useful and not so useful decisions we made during that time and make peace with it so we can move on.

TALKING TO A THERAPIST/COUNSELLOR
This activity is a kind of self-reflection only that a professional listener is involved. This preventative activity provides a higher level of support that often we are not capable of giving ourselves. To admit the need for this support is a brave step and certainly not easy.