Just keepin' it real for mental health
Do I write about what's going on in my head? Do I write what I think people need to hear? Do I write down what's going on? How I feel? Here's what you and I need to read. Period. There's nothing that goes against my grain, than too many positive quotes coming my way. The…
Folks, this is a biggie. We've heard of the 'quarter-life crisis', especially from articles in circulation that states "Research finds that more than half of millennials are going through a quarter life crisis" (See article here)- but actually feeling like this is happening, is a much larger problem in our society. I'm sharing my story.…
Doubting yourself is part of growth. It depends on what situation I am in, but recently when it has been intimate/ small meetings I tend to seriously doubt why I should even be there. Why lil ol' me? My body language shifts, I try cover up the adrenalin/ nerves/excitement as my body blushes and I'm…
So many of you lovely lot know I run Keep Real® and with that comes a fair few things. Such as responsibility, creativity, management and hmmm I'm gonna say...self care. Yes! I said self care!! Whoa...Did I really just say that? I did. A lot of folk won't state that or *gasp* even mention it as something…
Continue reading ➞ What Is “Self Care?”: A Guide For Trying To Keep It Real
Being the social creatures we are- having connections is something we feel makes a profound difference in our lives to establish meaning and fulfilment. It's super sweet, it makes us do the floss (which I've recently discovered the name of as that funny dance with the hands and the hips...) and it allows us to…
Continue reading ➞ Social Platform Creature: Our Mental Health Impact
Before I begin, I want to say how my personal mental health has changed over the years. It has fluctuated in response to a multitude of events, grown through a variety of focuses and also stayed dormant through different phases. Note that every part of that sentence, is an accumulative of change. This is what…
What's going on Kim, I hear you say? A lot...as always! So a lot of you folk know about Keep Real, I'm so humbled to announce the beginning of mental health workshops for the social enterprise!! The first workshop will be in Sheffield as part of the CIC Golddigger Trust for 'Girls Day' (you can…
Continue reading ➞ SOC-ENT Part 3: Mental Health Workshops begin!
