This Week
Thoughts on Positivity & Mental Health
Jan 30-Feb 8
I want to lead this week with Aimee Gramblin’s post about preparing for difficult mental health days. In this article, she gives a great gift to anyone who has “good” and “bad” mental health days. I used to cycle through periods of depression much more than I do now, and if I had this safety net in place, I might have weathered some of those storms more easily.
As we slide toward the middle of my least favorite month of the year, I am feeling surprisingly well. I’m starting the second in a series of courses on Coursera on Positive Psychology.* I’m learning a lot, and I think the interventions are helping me stay more upbeat this winter than I would normally be. I’ll be writing more based on Positive Psychology research in the coming weeks. This is the first of those:
Clearly, it’s an issue for me because last year I wrote a more clinical piece on the topic:
My book selections are hitting themes of light and shadow, too. I’m reading the first in Anne Bishop’s Ephemera Series, Sebastian. It has taken me a bit of persistence to get into it, but now I’m hooked.
In more mundane self-help topics, these were published this week:
*If you are interested in getting a 50% discount on Coursera, email me at marie.jones@messydeskconsulting.com This isn’t a ploy to get you on my mailing list. It’s an attempt to get a discount for myself!
