Celebrate #MentalHealthWeek with EENet

Celebrate #MentalHealthWeek with EENet

User profile image Emma Firsten-Kaufman - EENet Super Ninja

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Starting today, this week marks Mental Health Week 2021, led by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

This year's theme is #GetReal about how you feel. CMHA is encouraging people to name it, don't numb it -- "Because heavy feelings lighten when you put them into words."

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Add a reply below to let us know what you are doing for Mental Health Week.

You can also follow @EENet_news on Twitter! This week we're featuring one of our staff members each day, to show how we're mobilizing knowledge to build a better mental health and addiction system.


User profile image Emma Firsten-Kaufman - EENet Super Ninja

[@mention:366389314722672528] I liked that article and appreciated that it ended with some practical tips for dealing with the feeling of languishing, like  “give yourself some uninterrupted time” and “focus on a small goal.”

Even more than that, I liked the personal response from Austin Kleon (an artist and also another New York Time's author) to the article and its implication that we should all be trying to flourish:

I’m not languishing, I’m dormant.

Like a plant. Or a volcano.

I am waiting to be activated.

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User profile image Bill - EENet Yoda Master

[@mention:337383271028434279] for mental health week, I'm still trying to understand the vision of care reform, this interview  Dr. Kwame McKenzie of the Wellesley Institute, https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/ helped.

Good medicine, a balm, for those of us who experienced a languishing of our mental health system before, Covid as well.

flattening mh

See the Video: https://www.tvo.org/video/flat...8J_pGZuxGv9sjlK176n0


Reference document, McKenzie encouraged us to read:

mental health social contract

See here: http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/mh2030/



Keep on washin everybody.

Bill

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