A 2-minute guided meditation based on the beautiful imagery of Psalm 23.

EnlightenMental is back, with 4 mini cohosts and more real, raw struggles through mental health, motherhood, and neurodiversity. Get a warm drink ☕️ 🫖 and have a listen. ❤️

Trigger warning: briefly mentions su!c!dal thoughts

New beginning EM Gems! Today we talk about the power of gentleness with yourself and surrendering when everything is far too much. Is it a sign of weakness or failure to feel overwhelmed and disconnected? Is there a ways to slowly being to decompress and re-connect?

If you’re having a hard time and are struggling to cope, please tap one of the following links for help:

Samaritans:

Call: 116 123

Text: SHOUT to 85258

Web: https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=onebox

Under 19?

Call: 0800 1111

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/mental-health/find-an-urgent-mental-health-helpline

Call: 111

Or in an emergency, call: 999

No more shying away from the title associated with the talent you have. You’re already doing it, so own it!

The world is ablaze, and though the issue is not new, the attitude towards dealing with it is, for this present time.   

As a black woman, a black MOTHER of young, beautiful black children with bright futures and wife to an amazing, kind, intelligent black man, it tears me to pieces to repeatedly see injustices against people who are no different from me- no different from us.

We are just people trying to live out our dreams, trying to offer the world our talents, trying to LIVE.  

It's time that it was recognised that whatever our skin tone, our humantiy is not in question- it never was.

The world around us is definitely in turmoil, but our inner spaces need not be. Today, we talk about one of many ways to (mentally) survive this C-19 situation- mindfulness!

more about mindfulness:

https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/

Try a mindfulness practice here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZToicYcHIOU

Taking ownership of your healing through self awareness, building a truer image of yourself through getting to know yourself- asking the right questions and being honest in your answers... learning to love what you are, and taking the ownership and the power to remove what you don’t like from yourself. It’s in you to love yourself better, to free yourself from the ideas of others about you, to heal yourself from the bruises caused you by toxic words and opinions, to BE better. I hope you enjoy this off-the-cuff episode of EnlightenMental.

This week we discuss how life is like being in the ocean. Waves come, they wash over you, but what happens when you feel too tired to keep kicking? What happens when you’re struggling to keep your head above the water? What do you do, how do you cope? Listen in, for more. 😊❤️