Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Absolute Mind Podcast, becoming mentally healthy.

Now, before I go into the podcast, quickly reminding you all about the Facebook group that

if you haven't yet joined, please go on over, join the group, become a member of the mentally

healthy group. It is Facebook in its absolute mind becoming mentally healthy group.

So, onto today's podcast and this is to do with a post that I actually put on in the group

just a few days ago and it's all about routine. Now if you don't know, if or if you do know, I broke my leg two weeks ago. And obviously

with a broken leg, there's very minimal things that I can do. I can't do my cleaning. I can't do

the cooking. I can't do the school run. So my routine has completely gone out of the window.

And I've lost it. You know, I've lost my, my normality. And I'm

trying to keep it as much as I possibly can. But it really highlighted to me that actually how

easy it is when we lose routine maybe temporarily because of an accident or because of a certain scenario

or something to change within our life, it's very, very easy to start going down a spiral,

a downward spiral of feeling low, maybe going feeling like stare crazy, cabin fever, you know, I can't get out of the

house as much as I normally would. And it's very, very easy to allow this to happen. And I put a post on

there saying, you know, I've lost my routine. How do you cope when you lose a routine? Do you go

stay crazy? Do you get low? Or do you remind yourself that it's temporary? It won't be long and you'll be back to normal. In times when we've got temporary changes, it can be a slippery slope to feelings of depression, sadness, feeling lost or frustration.

And this is all normal. They're all normal feelings to your circumstances, your situation.

But, and this is a very, very big but, you, you have to catch yourself. You have to stop yourself

before it takes over. You have to stop that fall, that slippery slope.

Acknowledge that your circumstances have changed. You can't do the things that you would usually

like to do. And I've been going through a process of, you know, reminding myself, this isn't

a permanent thing. This is not forever for me. I can adjust to the way that I need to do things.

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