The corporate standard of beauty has become a collective belief about what is permitted to be represented as beautiful and desirable, to the point where certain individuals become outraged when a woman “dares” to ignore the “rules” and chooses to present herself as sexy and desirable, nonetheless.
This year, it’s harder than ever to tell that you’re dealing with the winter blues because life has been so challenging and most of us are already feeling overwhelmed. That’s why paying attention to the above symptoms can help you determine if what you’re feeling is the same old stress or maybe another layer of mental health concerns.
If we want to be good people and avoid burnout and compassion fatigue, we need to accept the ugly, nasty, shadow parts of ourselves. The more we embrace the shadow and integrate the darkness into ourselves the easier it will be to do the right thing while also taking the best possible care of ourselves.
The pandemic is showing us that businesses need to have effective strategies in place for dealing with the mental health of their employees, before these people end up on disability. Otherwise, businesses risk suffering the consequences of decreased morale, lowered productivity, and a shrinking bottom line.
As we head into another New Year, a lot of people are talking about better ways to deal with overeating and being overweight. I’m glad to see this, but I’ve noticed that they’re talking about everything except what really works. What no-one is talking about is trauma, and how that’s really at the heart of overeating and being overweight.
The pandemic has brought the subject of mental health to the forefront. Millions of people are recognizing the toll COVID-19 has taken on their own mental well-being and that of their loved ones.
In 2022, I hope that more of us decide to become kindness warriors—by this, I mean people who choose to always be kind, even when life is sometimes unkind. Being a kindness warrior has nothing to do with being a people-pleaser. It’s not about trying too hard to be nice. Rather, it’s choosing to be compassionate yet ruthless; always caring about each-other but never tolerating disrespect.
The new Bachelor has been announced. His name is Clayton and I’m not the only one disappointed by the choice. In fact, on the After the Final Rose show for Bachelorette, Michelle, the host—Kaytlin—sat Clayton down and read aloud some of the tweets showing how people were feeling about him.
I’ve been enjoying watching And Just Like That, the latest iteration of the Sex and the City franchise. There’s a lot to think about with this new show, including its fresh—and much-needed—take on gender and race, as well as what it means to be a middle-aged woman trying to live her best life in our misogynistic, ageist society. One of the themes they’ve brought up is Miranda’s problem with alcohol.
I was about to write this article on apathy, but then I couldn’t be bothered… Okay, bad joke. But that’s the thing about apathy. It’s a state of indifference, regardless of what’s going on, and aside from procrastinating on blogging, it can lead to some rather unpleasant consequences. While it’s not good to worry too much about everything, it’s equally problematic to care about nothing. Apathy is not a healthy alternative to being neurotic.
