10/10/2024
Posted • .co 🧠 🌏 It’s World Mental Health Day 🌏 🧠 This year’s theme focuses on prioritising mental health in the workplace. Whether you’re self-employed, managing a team, or in a 9-to-5, it’s essential to look after your mental well-being.
With EWYK, my mission is to make conversations around mental health as natural and essential as sharing a meal.
Personally, my own mental health has been pretty rough over the last few years. I'm self-employed and it's hard for so many reasons. Working alone alot has been isolating, and the on-going burnout has come back in a very real way. Once again, I recognised the warning signs like fatigue, panic attacks, and anxiety. I've learned to lean more on friends, family, and my awesome psychologist. Learning tools for self-regulation has also been an absolute game changer, and I’ve realised that most of the work has to be done by myself, for myself, day in and day out until it becomes second nature.
To be honest it all feels like a never-ending journey that is finally starting to go in the right direction. I also now accept that life isn't linear and everyone has their battles, triumphs and losses.
I say all this solely to ‘walk the talk’ while I build this brand – I think that’s really important and touches on so many of the values of Eat What You Kill.
There's a ever-growing space here for these conversations, and I know they won’t happen overnight, but I’m determined to make it just as common as discussing how big the kingi you slayed on the weekend was! (though that is also worth chatting about) 🐟
I'd love to know how you look after your mental health, especially in regards to work? – I believe it’s one of the central influences on our wellbeing. If you're an employer, how do you support your staff? – leave a comment below.
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Cheers,
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