In the practical section of this month’s blog, I encouraged you to take some time to consider the following areas of health: emotional health, social health, physical health, spiritual health, intellectual health, environmental health, occupational health and financial health. I hope you were able to identify not only areas that need improvement, but areas in your life where you feel like you are doing well.
Whenever someone comes and sits down in my office we have questions we have to ask, but there are a few that stand out to me when we’re talking about building a foundation for improving mental health. When looking at how to care for your mental wellness in the new year; water is a great place to start.
What do you think of when you think of the word “health?” Do you think about your physical or mental health? These are the first two that come to my mind. However, there are many types of health. Years ago, I spoke with someone who was studying what they called “different types of intelligence.” She talked to me about how someone can be musically intelligent or mathematically intelligent. In a similar way, there are different types of health. A person may have fantastic physical health, but poor financial health. Or vice versa, someone may have solid financial health, but poor physical health. Just as there are different types of intelligence, there are different types of health. For this piece, we will focus on 8 different types of health. They are: emotional health, social health, physical health, spiritual health, intellectual health, environmental health, occupational health and financial health.
Today’s education climate is more polarizing than ever. Educators feel caught in a bind of wanting to support LGBTQ+ students and build an inclusive classroom but fear real pushback from engaging in topics some consider “controversial”.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” This quote comes from Viktor Frankl who survived the Holocaust and wrote Man’s Search for Meaning. It is a good place to start when talking about gratitude.
Something I always come back to emphasizing in the therapeutic alliance is the…
