Mental Self-Care in the New Year - Four Directions Wellness

Mental Self-Care in the New Year

While emotional self-care, as discussed in my last post, looks similar to mental self-care, it is unique and distinct. This is especially the case regarding how you approach your own mental health, since we are all so different in our experiences, brain chemistry and genes. In this week’s edition, I cover the basics of mental self-care and resources available to …

Emotional Care

Emotional Care in the New Year

Having discussed the importance and ways prioritizing self-care in the new year, I outlined the various areas of your life you can focus on one at a time. Over the next couple months, I will dive a bit deeper into resources available to you for each of these areas of self-care, starting with emotional self-care. Long after new year’s resolutions …

Prioritizing Self-Care in the New Year

Prioritizing Self-Care in the New Year

After the Great Recession, workers around the world were shocked into a hyper state of productivity. While wage rates have stayed mostly the same for the past 20 years, each professional has had to prove their worthiness in the current economy with greater output and working overtime. The national stress levels have been impacted by the economic crisis since 2008 …