5 Ways To Honor Your Mental Health

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month and so I wanted to support you by sharing ways that I've been able to honor and be mindful of my mental health.

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0:00.0	So every time like I would drink, when I was like in my 20s, and yeah, yeah, I
0:06.6	would say through my 20s, possibly early 30s, but I don't think so because by
0:10.8	that point I had a kid. So I would say just like in my early to mid 20s, I was
0:16.0	like, I would drink specifically to get drunk, specifically to evade or avoid my
0:24.4	responsibilities, avoid what was happening in my life, avoid past traumas, avoid
0:30.0	current traumas. And so I had to, I had to get curious about that because had
0:38.8	I allowed it to go unchecked, you know, again, we're talking about mental health
0:44.4	and our well-being and resilience here. Things could have really gotten bad. Hey,
0:55.2	hey, what's going on? Welcome back to the Brown Girl Self-Care podcast. My name is
1:00.0	Bri. I am the host of the show. I am the founder of Brown Girl Self-Care. I'm a
1:04.5	black woman and I believe that we deserve to practice self-care every damn day.
1:12.5	I was smooth with that when y'all, the job, the job here, how I just set that
1:17.0	with conviction and confidence, self-sistering. Yes, I did call you
1:22.0	sister and I'm aging myself. I know. Don't, don't, don't write me. Today, I'm
1:27.8	going to talk about mental health. I want to talk about mental health, you know,
1:32.2	or in case you didn't know, May is, it's mental health awareness month. And so I'm
1:41.0	like, what better time to talk about mental health than the month of May? I
1:46.2	think it's very important to have these kind of conversations. So that's what
1:50.3	we are going to be discussing. I'm saying we, when it's really me talking and you
1:57.2	listening, but hopefully you are engaged in this conversation I'm kind of
2:03.8	having with you. One thing that I noticed kind of off topic and when I looked at
2:09.6	the reviews on iTunes, I think someone or maybe a few people said that it was
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