Tips for Looking After Your Mental Health
Pennsylvania Conference for Women
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It’s no secret that mental health challenges have risen in recent years — but there’s good news. Thanks to women like Selena Gomez , Arianna Huffington , and Naomi Osaka, mental health awareness has also increased.*
Moreover, a growing number of workplaces are beginning to invest in employees’ mental health — and seeing positive returns. For every dollar spent on mental health in the workplace, companies are seeing a $4 return on investment, according to research published last week in?Fortune.
As always, Conferences for Women speakers also have plenty of tips to share on how to look after your mental health. This month, we share insights from best-selling author Glennon Doyle, UK author and mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon, and Peabody Award-winning journalist Mariana Atencio.
Warmly,
Lisa B.
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Tips
“I became bulimic when I was ten years old. I sunk into addiction and didn’t get out until I was 26, and I spent my whole life thinking I was crazy. I’m crazy. My whole life was hospitals and medication. And really what I was, was an extremely sensitive kid and didn’t have the tools she needed to deal with her sensitivity. Right? What I know now is that the sensitivity that led me to addiction is the same sensitivity that makes me a good artist. Everything I thought was a weakness turned out to be placed in me to get my particular work done on this earth. And I believe that is true for everyone when we reject whatever the culture told us we must be and consider who we are and what gifts we have.”?
Listen to the conversation?on?Women Amplified.?
Glennon Doyle is an activist and author of the #1?New York Times?best-sellers?Untamed?and?Love Warrior.
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“Some women are good at helping others at the expense of themselves. That’s a boundary. If it’s exhausting and making you resentful, you must tend to your needs first. But helping others doesn’t have to be a big thing. You don’t have to save someone. It could be just offering to make a cup of coffee, tidying something up at work, or offering to run an errand. It could be asking, ‘How are you really?’ Then that helps you. It puts things in perspective. You realize you’re not the only one struggling.”?Read more.
Bryony Gordon, award-winning journalist, mental health campaigner, and author of five?Sunday Times?best-selling books, including?No Such Thing as Normal.
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?“Do not minimize what makes you different. It is the biggest source of your power. Don't worry about what other people think. Ditch the so-called fear of other people's opinions or FOPO.”?Read more.
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?Mariana Atencio is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, TEDx speaker, and author of the memoir,?Perfectly You.
* Speaking of Selena, Arianna, and Naomi...
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