🌸May is Mental Health Awareness Month! 🌺 Did you know that everyone has mental health, just like physical health? 🌼Our mind and emotions exist just like our bodies. 🌷We have to pay attention to mental health in the same way we pay attention to physical health. When you run a long marathon, you have to rest. 🗣When you have a hard conversation with your partner, you have to rest. When you are navigating body image and politics and economic justice and social expectations, you have to rest. When you are juggling work/friends/family/rent/side projects/concerts/etc, you have to rest.

I’ve been doing my best to give myself grace and forgiveness when I spend weekend mornings in bed or sleep in extra before work. Been working on paying attention to what works for me (sleeping early, essential oils, yoga, following empowering artists on Instagram). 🏅Been setting goals, meeting some of them, and continuing to work on others. 🌱 I hope you know that asking for help or taking a break from things or even just talking about your depressing morning with a friend is not weak or bad. What about you? How do you take care of yourself?