So I haven’t been here for a minute... hard to find the motivation throughout this rough 2020 year. My mental health has been so bad this year. It’s really frustrating because I had so much positive progress and growth in 2019 and I was excited to carry that into 2020. With everything that’s happened this year I feel like I got slammed back before i even started my mental health journey and I’ve been spending far too much time curled up in a ball in my bed or on my couch desperately trying to climb outta the dark. I thought the other day, I’m going to just let myself pout, wallow and up the self-care for the next four months till we hit 2021 and then hit the ground running to regain some of the positive progress and growth. Then I got stuck on mental health TikTok, which is really just an endless stream of TikTok videos with therapists and mental health gurus trying to shed some light and encouragement on those of us struggling right now. It motivated me so much that I sat down and copied down some affirmations I wanna start repeating to myself on the daily. I created a schedule to try and follow everyday, brushed up my resume, got the old journal out to start writing down thoughts and keeping track of my mental health journey, ordered some supplies to start painting again, opened a new word document and brainstormed a few story ideas (because i will one day finish a book), did some research on meditating because I’ve been trying to get it down for a long time.... I may not actually accomplish all of these things, but if I can just manage one of these for the rest of the year... that’s better then doing nothing. If I can manage more then one well that’s even better! Either way, it will be a good step towards ending a bad year on a good note and having a better chance of starting the new year on a more positive start towards that growth and progress again. #mentalhealthawareness #followyourdreams #hobbiesareimportant #meditationpractice #positiveenergy #wecangetthroughthis #empath #depressionisreal #anxietyawareness https://www.instagram.com/p/CEleYiWlG_s/?igshid=u5ii8wc9iraf