System overload means excessive system activity leading to the degradation of performance or failure.

Maintain a healthy balance and give yourself the time that you need to be at your best. Don’t overload yourself.

Positive Body image

“Body image describes the perception that a person has of his or her physical appearance. Body image can be influenced by a complex interaction of factors ranging between a person's individual thoughts.”

What we think about ourselves matters. What we say about ourselves matter. It’s your body, love it and speak life over it. Why fit in when you can stand out.

“When a person has a positive body image, they understand that their sense of self-worth does not depend on their appearance. Having a positive body image includes accepting and appreciating the whole of one's body, including how it looks and what it can do. having a broad concept of beauty.”

You have the power to create change.

The job of a parent is never done. Learning to be the best parent for our children is so hard. Never stop learning and growing. Join me this week as we discuss ways to sharpen our parenting skills and tools.

Working on your mental health is important for living an emotionally healthy life. Join Mental Health Professional Crystal Gee, LPCC/ life coach on Mrs Gee Talk every Monday. Each episode contains powerful information, to help you grow while on your mental health journey.  Are you ready to create change? It’s Gee time ya'll. It’s time to get up, get active and get it together!

In this episode I'm talking about having emotional intelligence titled - False

Stress aint for play play yall.

Stress is real. I am a natural go getter and I have so many things that I want to do and want to share, but the reality is that all of the things that I want to do can’t be done in one week. I must manage and balance things in order to function.

I shared on FB something from our vacation last week.

Enjoying the scenery of just being away. The best part is how secluded and quiet the area is. The kids not having WiFi for 4 days and having to play board games and go outside to the recreation room was my favorite. I value our peace. The past few weeks I had been experiencing some major stress symptoms and it really scared me. I've been there before and I'm still recovering from the life changing results of what stress can do. I promised myself that I would never let it get that bad again and yet it happens. BALANCE is the key.

Even on vacation I felt like a chicken with my head cut off trying to manage so many things. As we were driving and taking in the view, I started becoming emotional because I began to remember all of the painful, hard and sad moments that I had due to stress.

Stress tips www.therapistaid.com

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2022/march-2022-survival-mode

I AM!

Have you ever been called something other than your name or your title? How did it make you feel?

Don’t be afraid to speak up and advocate for yourself and tell people who you are. Who you are is important. What you do is important. Stand up and be proud of yourself. Happy Women’s history month. I am a woman! Worthy, optimistic, magnanimous, ambitious and nimble.

Invalid Expectations will get us in trouble. Expectations are a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future and a belief that someone will or should achieve something. We often anticipation in expectation of what would happen without clarifying with others whether they agreed to that expectation of them. A person's expectations are strong beliefs which they have about the proper way someone should behave or something should happen which can lead us into frustrating experiences because how someone “SHOULD or SHOULDN’T” do something can be up to interpretation unless it is a law or a written rule to follow and they agreed to it. We can reduce or difficult emotions by clarifying expectations and expecting exactly what people show us.

If love is patient and love is kind, why are we so impatient and unkind to ourselves?

The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset is what patience is.

It’s okay to not love where you are and to want to be in another place, but don’t forget to be kind and patient with yourself along the way. Know that where you want to be and what you want out of live you have the power to get there and create the changes that you want to see, but you need patience and kindness with yourself. Self-love is love. We can’t beat ourselves up and have unrealistic expectations. I have no better sense than to know that I won’t stay here. A little patience goes a long way.

Welcome

Happy Monday

Thank you for joining me this Monday for Mondays with MrsGee

In honor of this love month today I want to talk about love languages

Love languages are the ways people show and receive love.

Use love languages to explore the ways people express their love, and how those messages are received.

What are the five love languages?

1. Acts of service

2. Gifts

3. Quality time

4. Physical touch

5. Words of Affirmation

Each of us differs in the ways that we receive love. By learning to give love in the ways that our partner can best receive it, and by asking our partner to give us love in the ways that we can receive it, we can create stronger relationships.

Relationship Gratitude Tips

Show interest

Give compliments

Surprise them

Help them relax

Go above and beyond with chores

Say thank you ( mind you manner)

Be present/ be mindful of your body language

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Last week we talked about building new habits. One of the habits that I am working on building this year is my response to things. I want to not be so quick to react to things. Yes, even me and the professional that I am, can be quick to react and slow to respond. I’m working on switching those things around trust me. I had to take a real hard look at myself throughout the last year and ask myself why I was so quick to react to certain things.

I am big on self-reflection; I think it is important for us to be able to self-reflect.

Self-reflection is defined as “meditation or serious thought about one’s character, actions, and motives.” It’s about taking a step back and reflecting on your life, behavior and beliefs.  That is a whole other episode in itself, I like to look back on my actions and character and reflect on the good, bad and the ugly. I need to know what was good so that I can do more of it, I need to know what was bad so that I can work on it and I need to know what was ugly so that I can turn from it.