Did you brush your teeth?
Did you shower?
Did you work on your Emotional Hygiene?
No?
Emotional Hygiene is creating small daily habits of addressing our emotional issues.
Some of the things we can do to keep our Emotional Hygiene clean are:
- Pay attention to emotional pain - If you had physical pain lasting more than a few days, you would probably go to the doctor. Treating emotional pain is just as important. You may want to treat it with self help exercises or get help from a Therapist.
- Protect Your Self Esteem - Our Self Esteem is like and emotional immune system. When we are feeling down about ourselves, we don't cope as well as we would like. When we are feeling better about ourselves, we tend to cope with the stress of life better. There are many techniques to use for this or you can get professional help from a local Counselor. Stay posted for some of these techniques in upcoming Blogs.
We should put as much effort towards strengthening our minds as we do our teeth. Emotional Hygiene assists us in that daily process.
Written by: Charity M. Loring, LMSW, Clinical Therapist
Loring Therapy, LLC
Adapted from - G. Winch, Steps to Emotional Hygiene
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