So I figured, we could all use some help and support in improving our mental health and well- being. And what better way to do this, than to offer you tried and tested tips from people who have been there, suffering themselves. Below are 34 links to fellow mental health bloggers who write on how they have personally overcome or are on their journey to improving their own mental health by implementing and incorporating tips, advice and guidance into their lives. I’ve put them into sections so you can see which ones might be useful for you. Feel free to bookmark the page and refer back to it whenever you need to. Here goes…

Anxiety and Stress- General Anxiety Order (GAD) affects 1 in every 25 people in the UK alone.* These are feelings we ALL experience at some point in our lives, and some people don’t even recognize it as it can come out in other ways, for instance physical symptoms like stomach issues or headaches. Here are some posts to help reduce, address and deal with anxiety and stress:

 

1/ 10 Proven Ways To Cope With Anxiety

2/ Overcoming Anxiety With God 

3/ 39 Calming Things to Do When Stressed

4/ 20 Encouraging Bible Verses for Anxiety And Stress

5/ How Journal Writing For Stress Relief Helps Me Manage 

6/ The Best Food for Calming Anxiety

7/ The 10 Best Natural Remedies for Anxiety

8/ How To Live Stress Free With 12 Months Of Activities

9/ Cast Away Worries on A Worry Boat

 

 

 

Mum’s (and Dad’s!) – As a parent, we all experience feelings of doubt, failure, exhaustion…the list goes on. So here are some posts of encouragement and advice to help with those difficult times and emotions: 

10/ 7 Words Of Encouragement To Overcome Feelings Of Failure

11/ The Perfect Self- Care Morning Routine For Working Moms + Printable Checklist

12/ Are You a Stressed Mom? 7 Easy Ways To Find Relief

13/ How to Reduce the Mental Workload of Moms With One Simple Trick

14/ For the Mom Who Doesn’t Think She’s Doing Enough

 

 

 

Peace and Mindfulness and Meditation- Now be honest, you could do with more peace in your life, right? What if i said you can get it whenever you want it? Here are some posts explaining just that and how to go about finding it:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

15/ 4 Ways To Instantly Decrease Fear And Help Bring Peace

16/ 5 Verses For Meditation: Peace

17/ Origami And Mindfulness

18/ 7 Soul Cleansing Ways To Be Genuinely Happy

19/ How to Meditate, Why, and the Benefit’s

Illness and Emotions- We all get ill once in a while, sometimes it’s a cough or a cold which could bring you down for weeks or months. Others (myself included) suffer with long term illnesses known as ‘chronic illness’ where there’s not much treatment, if any and no cure. This can not only have an affect on us physically, but emotionally too. Feelings of frustration, sadness and basically being completely fed up can creep in from time to time and even for long periods and even turn into depression. Below are a few posts that could help to deal with these times:

20/ How To Remove Extra Stress When You Have A Chronic Illness

21/ How to Stay Strong When You Feel Weak

22/ Covid- 19, Illness, Anxiety & the Bible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contentment, peace and Joy- These are important within life as it’s what can keep us going. Finding and keeping these is key, even throughout life’s storms, we can experience these. How though? The posts below should help to do just that:

 23/ Discover The 5 Ways To Succeed In Life And Thrive 

24/ How to Develop a Gratitude Practice for a Happier, Healthier Life

25/ Changing Focus- Psalm 4

26/ How to Stop Comparing Yourself and Start Being Content

 

 

Feelings, insecurity and exhaustion- Something we all experience every once in a while, some more than others. Either way, these are things that we may need a little help with. Here’s some posts addressing these:                                                    

27/ Exploring Feelings In Different Places

28/ How To Fight & Conquer Body Insecurities (It’s a Journey)

29/ Emotionally Drained – 10 Tried & True Tricks To Stop Emotional Burnout

30/ Be Kind To Your Mind

 

 

 

Positive behaviours’–  How we behave towards ourselves can impact on our emotional state. Changing these to more positive behaviours’ can influence and improve our overall well- being. For example, self- care. You hear so much of this going about, especially in these unprecedented times. It’s important we take care of ourselves. It’s so easy to put others first, and well, we should. Especially when you have little ones, spouses  or parents to take care of. But, you know what? Your not going to be able to do this if you don’t take care of yourself! Sounds a bit close to home? Then try these:

31/ A Workaholics Guide To Slow Living: Adding Mindfulness to your Morning And Evening Routine

32/ Social Media Detox: How to Do It and Why It’s Vital

33/ 9 Tips for Self- Care

34/ 79 Life- Changing Inspirational Quotes For Christian Women

Okay, so phew, that’s a lot of info! I hope you got a few useful tips from this lovely lot. Let us know which ones were useful for you or if u have any others then feel free to add them to the comments below. And if you want to hear more from us don’t forget to subscribe HERE. If you do you will also get a FREE download/ print of for ‘ How to practice Christian Meditation.’ But for now, Blessings. xxx