Changes to The Magic of Mental Wellbeing

A safe space to explore the triumphs of mental wellness and resilience

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I created The Magic of Mental Wellbeing to be a safe space but also a sacred practice. I named it that because I see mental wellness as a state of being and tapping into it, at times, can truly feel like magic. When I do, I want more.

I try to keep it at the center of my all my work as a coach, speaker, and writer, and it is something I strive for every single day. Admittedly, I don’t always succeed but what I’ve found is that it’s the journey itself that matters the most. The pending changes support the fact that we never travel alone.

Mental health and mental wellness are distinctly different, and yet, we often lump them together and use them interchangeably in today’s world. In my lived experience with mental illness, I see mental health as including a diagnosis, and involving discussions of medications, doctors, and therapy.

Mental wellness, on the other hand, is an active lifelong process that helps us to build resilience and to grow. A person does not need to have a mental health struggle to strive for mental wellness. For some, it may include eating right, exercising, or getting enough sleep. But it’s so much more than that for me. It’s a complete awareness of our thoughts and a true alignment of the body and mind.

But it’s not always easy to do and requires practice. My own journey began in my early 20s with clinical depression and culminated several years later with a series of devastating mental health crisis during a three-year period, each one worse than the other, that included moments of hitchhiking in my pajamas on a busy interstate.

I was so ashamed.

I didn’t know it then, but the self-stigma and feelings of low self-worth would stay with me, even decades into mental health recovery. Until finally, through my own personal development journey, I learned how to set it free.

The words and stories in The Magic of Mental Wellbeing share the collective triumph of overcoming. Every one of us has a different struggle in our life, and in the end, the struggle isn’t nearly as important as the joy of overcoming. My intention of writing is to celebrate the process.

Every Wednesday, I try to pose a new question that challenged or inspired healing and share from my lived experience in mental illness how discovering the answer led to mental wellness. I also share strategies from decades of my personal practices, coaching certifications, client successes, and difficult lessons that have had a direct impact on my life. But now I also want to share live interactive videos and start to engage the subscriber chat to inspire deeper connection and community.

This space is not a monologue; it is a dialogue. It is an opportunity to share our resilience and cheer each other on. That is how we heal and grow.

I can’t wait to share more with you.

Be Well,

Michele

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