Mental Health Is a Daily Practice
Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and throughout it, we shared daily prompts filled with inspiration to support your well-being. These simple, intentional practices were designed to help you maintain strong mental health, boost focus and clarity, and bring more joy and fulfilment into your life. Together, we explored how to truly prioritise mental wellbeing, one small step at a time.
Mental health is not solely focused on avoiding breakdowns, burnout, or emotional overload; rather, it encompasses how we choose to live our lives, moment by moment, choice by choice, decision by decision, and action by action. Whether you're at home in a cozy environment or navigating the hustle and bustle of a busy workplace, it's these small daily actions that can create the most significant shifts and transformations over time.
Here are a few essential mental health priorities and practical strategies to support us in the real world:
1. Regulate Your Nervous System
Why it matters: A regulated nervous system helps you respond, not react, to stress. It supports clarity, energy and emotional resilience.
Daily action:
Practice breathwork (e.g. box breathing: in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4).
Ground yourself by stepping outside, feeling your feet on the earth, or placing a hand on your heart and taking 3 slow breaths.
Practice gratitude.
Schedule 1-2 short “pause breaks” to check in with your body.
2. Balance Thoughts, Feelings & Actions
Why it matters: When thoughts spiral, emotions follow and often so do our behaviours. Building awareness helps us shift patterns and make intentional choices.
Daily action:
Start your day with a ‘thought check’: “What am I telling myself today?”
Use affirmations or “thought shifts” like:
“I can’t do this” → “I’m taking it one step at a time, and that’s enough.”Remember: Action isn’t always doing , sometimes it’s moving your body, changing your environment, or gently shifting your state.
3. Make Self-Care Real (not just beauty treatments and bubbles baths)
Why it matters: True self-care protects your energy, creates space to breathe, and helps you reconnect to what matters.
Daily action:
Say no when you mean it, even if it’s uncomfortable.
Protect your energy with healthy boundaries.
Ask: “What do I actually need right now?” and honour the answer.
4. Connect with Nature, Community & Meaning
Why it matters: We thrive when we feel connected, not just to others, but to ourselves, our purpose, and the natural world.
Daily action:
Take a walk outside, even 10 minutes makes a difference.
Speak to someone you trust. Or be that safe person for someone else.
Contribute in a way that feels right for you, a kind word, a shared moment, a small act of service.
5. Create Micro-Moments of Joy
Why it matters: Mental health isn’t only about managing struggle, it’s also about allowing pleasure, joy and presence into your life, without the guilt.
Daily action:
Light a candle while you work.
Play music that lifts your mood.
Notice one beautiful thing today, and take it in fully.
strength in community
Remember: You don’t need to do it all to take care of your mental health. Just one intentional action a day can begin to shift how you feel.
Whether you’re working from home, leading a team, managing a household or holding space for others, your wellbeing matters. Not just for how you show up for others, but for how you live in alignment with yourself.
If it ever feels too much, reach out, talk it out, walk it out. We’re not meant to do this alone.
Book a free discovery call today to explore how coaching can help you build lasting resilience and self-care habits or support your business with work placement well-being.
Much LOVE as always
Suzi B Love xxx
Remember, the power to shape your life lies within you. Embrace the journey of success, knowing that it unfolds gradually, and let failure be a mere stepping stone in your relentless pursuit of love and ambition.
