Jason’s Mental Health Tips
Splitting is the inability to see circumstances, relationships and situations as having both good and bad qualities. This polarized view of looking at the world can take a toll - when in reality, the good and the bad can, and often do, exist together.
Song: Portland Maine by Donovan Woods
If we look hard enough, there are things in each of our lives that we can be thankful for. By incorporating the practice of thanksgiving or gratitude, we can influence our lifestyle and benefit emotionally, mentally, physically and relationally from it.
Song: Next to You - John Vincent III
You are unique and have individual gifts. Those giftings, or strengths, form your identity and can enhance the world around you. However, those strengths can also become overbearing when left to go to the extreme. This month Jason is putting out a call for mindfulness, for awareness towards tendencies, and for health.
'You should do this...'.
The language we use communicates our perspective. While offering advice can provide the appearance of being helpful, it can also be subtly undermining an individual's ability to make decisions that they must ultimately live with.
Do you often tell people what they should do without them asking for it? What does your choice of language ultimately communicate to those around you?
With Covid-19 restrictions changing, the horrors of the traumas of residential schools through the discovery of buried children, and the forest fires plaguing British Columbia, it is perfectly acceptable to have mixed and many emotions.
Jason wants to encourage you to feel your emotions; you can start to process them in doing so.
Join us in this Vlog as Jason outlines the importance of listening! In order to be a good communicator and an effective supporter of those around us, we must not neglect the power of listening. It is often in the listening that people feel validated and seen. When we find ourselves always responding to concerns with phrases such as; "it's not that bad", and "I've been there", we risk making those around us feel invalidated in their experience.
