How to stay sane during lockdown
Lockdown is coming and being locked in a house with the same people may drive you a little bit bonkers and play games with your mental health so here is an article on how to survive lockdown!
If anxiety is left unchecked, it can roam free and absolutely decimate your happiness. If you want to learn to not only control it, but defeat it, then you have to learn about it, what drives it, why it affects you. But for now, I have my top tips on how to handle it on a day to day.
These are my personal tips that I use day to day, they may not be relevant for everyone but they are what I do and they help me! So if you are a little like me, maybe they can help you too!
Welcome to The Grow Yourself Book Club
This is a safe space for you to breathe and say, you know what, I am not perfect and that is okay, I release the expectation of me and of others and I open myself up to growth and change.
I love to read and I love to read about growth. This is a short list because I learnt this very very important life lesson a long time ago. If you are going to read a book that helps you grow, it is better to read one author, pick them, study there work and implement it. Rather than read 20 books on the subject and do nothing with it.
I live by the sea. Always have. Always will. Although I prefer the land and I don’t actually like surfing or water sports, I have always lived and need to be near the sea. When I wrote this meditation, I had in mind all the amazing people around me who love the sea and are suffering with not being able to control their emotions very well. Its not an easy feat, we all get so caught up in the moment. If you are someone who has a short fuse or you’re young and you’re not sure why you have all these feelings and where they are coming from. I hope this helps you :)
I want to take a moment to chat about my secret weapon to happiness: Gratitude.
I have been having a very and down few weeks, due to me making bad food decisions and not training, I am not good at eating processed food, turns me into a grumble goose. I have been depressed, overly anxious, nit picking at myself, being negative and just being a bit of a bummer to my poor boyfriend whose put up with my questionable mood swings
Jade the introverts adventures through friendship and moving forward to create her dream life!
I want to talk to you about a recently change in my life. This is overtly obvious but I am a massive introvert, give me a book and a cabin and I am happy for years (as long as it was warm). For the past few years I have been pushing out of my shell to make new friends and expand my social circle outside of the ghost of my cat. I was making really good progress (as a traveler, I never made long term friends because they would be gone the next day so to make real connections with people was a big deal).
Hi squad,
I want to talk more about Instagram bullshit and culture and the comparison problems we all have. I try to keep my channel all about personal growth and healing and becoming happy but I still get bombarded with negativity and not from my feeds, I get to watch all of my amazing squad everyday be grateful for things and achieve goals and I love it all. But I also suffer from Instagram anxiety and its because I get Direct Ad targets. I used to love them, the algorithm knows exactly what type of shoes I like so shopping was so easy. But at the moment, I get BOMBARDED with ads saying things like:
Want to be successful? Here is the secret you are missing?
Is a competitive spirit actually hindering our growth? Affecting our self love? Ruining our mental health? Competition has always been good for pushing us to be the best versions of ourselves. Pushes us outside of our comfort zones. But how can it secretly been also ruining our mental health and making us feel unworthy and undervalued?
Does negatively judging someone make you a bad person?
Short answer, no. It doesn’t. As humans, we judge people, we are biologically programmed to do that, it's a survival instinct. Knowing that, I have never tried to be too hard on myself when I find myself judging someone because, we all judge and I know that is what causes a lot of mental health issues like paranoia and anxiety, you judge, therefore, you will judged.