Emotional Wellbeing

Why Emotional Wellbeing Improves your Mental Health?

Emotional wellbeing helps you to adapt to life’s changes, coping with stress and managing your emotions in a constructive way. A healthy emotional wellbeing will make you accept and feel good with your own self.

How can we achieve Emotional Wellbeing?

Having a strong support network will help you to build up emotional wellbeing. You should start by making meaningful connections with your closest family and friends You can also find some examples of support as follows:

Natural Support Systems

Natural Support Systems refer to the people that you consider the closest members of your family and your meaningful friends. They care for you and their involvement can help you to improve your communication and social skills. Some significantly life-changing family events may also help you to build up your resilience and your ability to work through problems. Giving some of your time to the people that you care about and especially to the ones that need your support will also give more meaning to your life.

Some other actions that may give you more fulfillment include being willing to offer caring for others you might know, volunteering for a cause that is valuable to you or caring for a pet.

Professional Support

We would be able to work in partnership with a psychotherapist to help you to build strategies you need to cope with stress in a healthy way, to work through problems, and to identify and manage difficult emotions. You can succeed at recognizing your limits and knowing when to look for support. We are able to counsel and help you along this journey.

Self Care

Self-care for emotional wellbeing means self-love, cultivating emotional awareness and nurturing inner emotions and your whole self.

Mental practices like mindfulness, meditation, prayer and gratitude practice, as well as connecting with others to set up boundaries will help you develop your strategy for emotional self-care. Just as we have to look after our physical wellbeing, our mental and emotional self-care also require dedication. Here are some practices that will help you in your path to emotional self-care:

Mindfulness means being present and observing your emotions and how you respond to them. It helps you to embrace the present moment without judgment, recognizing and accepting your emotions. Abundant research proves that mindfulness reduces stress, builds up resilience and can even help with pain management. You can practice daily mindfulness through meditation or breathing exercises, dedicating only 10 minutes of your day. While you practice mindfulness you can also express your gratitude and acknowledge the good things in your life, which helps to further cultivate positive emotions.

Relating and connecting with others means making time for family and friends, something that is fundamental to your emotional stability. Creating connections with others and the world around us fulfills the need for belonging to something greater than ourselves, a need we all have. It is very important that you feel part of a community and make time to build up meaningful friendships.

Coping strategies are very important and they can significantly promote your overall happiness. Firstly, you have to be emotionally aware, to the point where you are able to identify what you are feeling and what may have triggered those feelings.

Coping strategies include physical coping strategies (e.g. exercise, healthy eating), psychological coping strategies (mindfulness and meditation, positive affirmations, cognitive reframing), social coping strategies (seeking support, setting boundaries, active listening and empathy) as well as creativity-focussed coping strategies (drawing and painting, writing, music, reading, crafts etc.).

Resources

What is Emotional Self Care: The 7 Pillars of Emotional Health:

https://www.selfcarebee.com/author/selfcarebee_rlkl8c/

VeryWell Mind:

https://www.verywellmind.com/forty-healthy-coping-skills-4586742

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