Self-care

Acceptance of a hard situation, season, or even loving ourself can be really hard. This photo reminded me that every season looks different and to be thankful for all of them.
What does the photo make you think of? What about in terms of loving yourself?
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What a month April has been! Let's check in and reflect on our mood tracking experience. 🌸

What were some trends or patterns you saw come up? Have you learned anything new, reassuring, or interesting about yourself in the process of mood tracking this month? Is there anything you would like to improve or work on moving forward?

💡 Bonus: Feel free to also comment the color(s) that best represents your mood today as well. 🎖️

💜 Purple: Happy, excited, grateful
🟢 Green: Open-minded, creative, reflective
🟦 Blue: Calm, relaxed, confident
🖤 Black: Angry, annoyed, frustrated
🧡 Orange: Stressed, overwhelmed
🔴 Red: Anxious, alert, concerned, worried
🟨 Yellow: Depressed, stuck, melancholy
🤎 Brown: Tired, exhausted, drained
🤍 White: Not sure if I can put my mood into words.
🌈 Rainbow: Other (share in the comments!)

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Let’s practice reframing a thought today, Mighty friends!

When you reframe or shift a thought, you’re simply changing your perspective in order to understand something in a new and different way.

Let's try it using these steps with an anxious thought:

1️⃣ Write down one thing your anxiety tells you.

2️⃣ Now, write down the opposite.

Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks reframed this thought:

1️⃣ I'm not doing a good enough job.

2️⃣ I'm doing my best and that's more than enough.

Reframe your own thought in the comments below! ⬇️

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This week we have been focusing on affirmations, and how they are helpful for our brain because they help us grow self compassion and self love, which decrease emotional distress.
How can you show up for yourself today? Share with us in the comments below 👇
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Self love, affirmations and positive reframes are all powerful tools that can help us handle strong emotions, mental health struggles and hard days. Even if you can't believe this (yet), it's true.
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This is a very hard lesson, I know. But so often, our thoughts rule us and make our mental health worse. Learning how to let go negative emotions is SO hard but SO worth it.

One simply way to start would be to "catch" or write down all of your negative thoughts for 24 hours. See where the patterns are, and which thoughts cause the most emotional pain.

Than you can try to stop them when you're thinking them and re frame it.

Let us know if you're willing to try this- or if it's something you've been working on!
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Sometimes the reason we are able to see something more clearly or understand ourselves in a different way is because of something someone else told us in a time of need. So we’re curious, what’s a piece of advice you were given that changed your perspective for the better?

Mighty staffer @sparklywartanks says that she’s gotten a lot of great advice from others over the years. The best advice, however, was when her therapist pointed out that she doesn’t have to do things that make her uncomfortable, especially if it’s making her lose sleep.

Her therapist shared that @sparklywartanks can simply create a boundary that protects her mental health instead of always trying to figure out how to navigate that troubling situation.

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Your brain is incredible. It has the power to relearn, reset and make different choices. It takes SO much energy to overthink (coming from a chronic over thinker) ...
What is, instead, you decided to overthink the best case scenario? Could you try it out today? Let us know in the comments what happens!
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Young Adults virtual support group is for people aged 18 to 30 living with mental illness or any mental health challenge, regardless of diagnosis. Develop coping skills, share common experiences, gain self-advocacy skills, and find community.

💻 If you'd like more information or would like to join, you can find the link here. Virtual groups are every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6 to 7:30 pm. Closed captioning is available:
naminycmetro.org/programs/young-adults

If you have any questions, feel free to comment below!

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New week, new theme, but same Mightiness, friends!

This week we’re digging into reframing thoughts, which is a common skill taught in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The technique essentially boils down to taking negative thoughts and replacing them with more helpful ones — it’s not a cure-all, but it can be helpful for those of us that get frequently stuck in thought spirals or rumination.

But first, bringing awareness to our behaviors is a solid first step when learning how to reframe and shift our thoughts and mindset. Do you find that you overthink when you feel worried, anxious, or stressed?

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