In honor of National Dance Day today, below is a little treat for you. But before you watch the video, a few fun facts on dancing and mental health: Dancing improves your attitude and mood Dancing releases chemicals in your brain that can ease anxiety and depression Dancing can increase your creativity Dancing can protect your memory especially if you are learning and memorizing new movement…
Most people don’t want to talk about it. Maybe that’s why we should, right? It’s been on my topic list. Plus, the topic keeps coming up with clients, in the books I’m reading, or let’s face it, in life. We’ve all heard about someone passing away recently especially with the pandemic and everything that’s happening in the world.Death is one thing apart from change, that we,…
In the beginning of the year, I wrote about Happiness: 5 proven ways to be happier in 2021, prompted by a reader who like myself sought insight on living happily. (Feel free to go back and read that article.) The premise was that we don't have to wait for something monumental to happen before we experience happiness. Although we are still in this semi-transitional place of…
Summer is here! With the CDC loosening it's guidelines for those who have gotten the Covid vaccine, many of us will be going out more frequently and doing less social distancing. While this is exciting for many, it is anxiety-provoking for others. It can also bring some expectations and assumptions about what life after pandemic will look like. I had a client tell me she felt…
Do you struggle to fall asleep at night? Do you wake up in the middle of the night tossing and turning for hours unable to fall back asleep? Then, when you finally fall asleep, your alarm rings because it’s time to start your day? That’s annoying! It can feel like a waste of your night. You have to wake up and function for the whole day…
Shutting off the brain is difficult especially for anyone trying to accomplish goals, care for others, and maintain healthy relationships. There are always task lists roaming around in our minds. First off, you might want to thank your brain for helping you to constantly problem-solve; it keeps you creative and able to produce a lot of valuable things. However, sometimes we need to tell it to…
Happy Women’s Month ladies!!! Women are just incredible, aren’t they? Our bodies, our emotions, our minds, our ways, our beauty, our being. God made us beautifully.But as women, we frequently struggle with our self-image. We may feel not skinny enough, fit enough, voluptuous enough, tall enough, short enough, smart enough, quiet enough, gentle enough, talkative enough, light-skinned enough, dark enough, pretty enough, the list goes on.…
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: It is easier to say, ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say, ‘My heart is broken.’ —C.S. LewisDepression is marked by sadness, emptiness, and/or irritable mood. You lose the pleasure you once felt in doing things you…
Why do we know so many people, but don't know many people? OR let me put it this way, why do we have many connections but don’t feel connected?We are living in the most connected and the most disconnected times. We are living in an oxymoron. Of course, the pandemic has made it worse, we are more physically separated. But then, it has also reminded us…
I recently asked people the question, “What topics would you like to see addressed on African Mind Healer blog in 2021?” Someone’s response was “living happily,” which made me think “it sounds so simple, but it can be hard for us adults to be happy.” I wish I had a formula to compute what I need to be happy, but I don’t. Nobody does. What makes…