How To Maintain Your Mental Health Entering The New Year

Managing your mental health can only be determined by what you want the outcome to be. Entering the new year can either be a repeat of last year or a changed attitude. You can only get ahead by leaving past mistakes behind. It’s okay to make mistakes, but only if you learn from them.

There is no cheat code, blueprint, or playback that tells you how to maintain your mental health. There are coping skills and triggers that you know to stay away from, but ultimately, everything begins and ends with you.

Here are some suggestions that can get your wheels turning, but you are the driver who determines how you will sustain your mental health and stay in a healthy space entering the new year.

Self-care doesn’t have to be expensive; in fact, you don’t even have to leave the house. Self-care simply means you are taking care of yourself and putting yourself first. This could look like taking a hot bath or shower, staying hydrated, getting enough rest, or taking an exercise class. When you focus on yourself and pour love back into yourself, it reflects in everything you do.

People need people, but those people must be good for you. Your support system is a representation of everything you are. They are essentially your village, and should be the people you turn to when in need of support, advice, a pick-me-up, a simple laugh, and most of all love. If you truly love yourself, the people in your support system should represent what love means to you.

Honoring yourself means you won’t stand for anything or anyone that makes you feel less than what you are. If you’re in a situation that doesn’t feel good, leave. If you’re around people who don’t have good intentions for you, don’t keep them around. Your core morals and values revolve around how you treat yourself, because they are the foundation of how you will allow others to treat you. 

Say no without an explanation or guilt behind it. Practice saying it in the mirror– NO! And mean it. Your mental health will depend on your decisions, your well-being, your peace, and your spirit. Saying yes when you want to say no will disrupt your mood, your feelings, and your life. There is power in saying no, knowing what you want, what you will deal with, and how you choose to be handled.