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Mind Sweep Benefits: Take Control of Stress FAST! People are feeling an increased level of anxiety and stress once again. There are many uncertainties with the pandemic and the news headlines and adding that on top of the regular challenges that we face in life, it can feel like a lot to handle.

If we’re not careful and intentional, this stress and anxiety can become overwhelming and even lead to bigger mental health challenges like depression. Learning how to relieve stress and anxiety is important.

In this video, mental health speaker and corporate wellness specialist, Mike Veny, shares a simple but effective strategy that he learned about when reading the book Getting Things Done by David Allen. It’s called a Mind Sweep.

Doing a Mind Sweep is simple and something that you can do on a daily basis or when you feel your stress levels building up. In the video, you’ll learn the simple steps to doing a Mind Sweep and the benefits of doing it including how it can help you start to feel like you have some control over the stress in your life. And the best part is, there’s no wrong way to do it so you don’t have the added pressure of trying to figure out something else when you’re already stressed.

If your stress and anxiety have been feeling out of control or making it hard for you to focus on the things that you need to, this is a great strategy to use.

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Getting Things Done by David Allen
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Are you in the cycle of mental health stigma? Learning the cycle of mental health stigma is an important step to mental health awareness.

I’ve struggled since childhood with my mental health because of depression and a few other mental health disorders. Even after discovering that drumming helped me manage my depression and some of my other symptoms, the challenges continued to be there.

I eventually realized that I needed to learn how to address my mental health challenges AND the interior stigma I was wrestling with. Through my research, I learned about the cycle of mental health stigma and the negative impact it was having on my life.

In this video, I share about the three stages of mental health stigma. Understanding how the cycle works can play an important role in your road to recovery.

The cycle of mental health stigma includes:

1. Shame
2. Silence
3. Sabotage

When you start learning to recognize and address the cycle in your life, it’s the first step to breaking the hold that stigma creates.

Now as a keynote mental health speaker and Certified Corporate Wellness Specialist, I work to help others break free from the stigma cycle too.

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There is a unique stigma that surrounds minority mental health. Don’t get me wrong, mental health in general is stigmatized, but there’s a different stigma when it comes to the black community.

We are a culture of honor. We don’t like to be disrespected. And that doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but if we’re not careful, it can become one of the mental health barriers that we face. When we admit that we’re struggling with mental illness or disorders like depression, we can start to feel like we’re disrespecting ourselves.

Mental health stigma awareness is crucial in empowering people to get the help they need.

In this mental health stigma video, I share about this unique stigma in minority cultures and communities. I also talk about the role that the strong black man plays in this stigma. I’ve shared about the perception and idea of the “strong black man” in a previous blog post linked below. As we address the stigma, there’s a need for us to redefine what it means to be healthy, strong, and whole.

There are also a few minority mental health tips I share that I believe are important for change, as well as a few things we can do to improve the situation for black and brown youth and the community as a whole.

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RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:

Blog Post: Depression & the Strong Black Man: https://www.mikeveny.com/blog/depression-black-man-html

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Self-care is a popular buzzword these days, but do you really know what it means? Understanding the self care definition is important for your mental health.

In this video, I give a very specific example of the difference between self-care and escapism from a conference that I was attending as a mental health speaker in the past.

There are several common behaviors that people think qualify as self care but they’re actually escape behaviors. Escapism activities are not the same as self care and do not provide the same benefits for your mental health and personal development as self-care. But lots of people turn to these behaviors as a form of stress relief. This is why understanding the difference between the two is key to helping you learn how to do self-care in a way that works in your life.

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This message is for YOU if you’re dealing with stress, exhaustion, and burnout in the workplace. While it’s really easy to try to ignore these feelings and hope that they’ll eventually go away, doing so is only going to make you feel even more burned out. This is bad for your mental health and emotional wellness.

It’s important that you learn stress management strategies that can help you learn how to recover from burnout. In this video, I share a quick message on two things you can do if you’re feeling exhausted and burnout.

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As a mental health speaker and corporate wellness specialist, I often share my personal experience with mental health challenges in front of live audiences. I wanted to share a small piece of that story with you today.

As a child, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I was admitted to the mental hospital several times and attempted suicide for the first time at a young age.

While I still live with these mental health challenges today, I share in this story what the turning point was for me to learn how to embrace and overcome these challenges.

If you’re living with mental health challenges, I hope my story can encourage you today.

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We are facing a student mental health crisis. Watching your teen struggle with teenage depression and anxiety may have you wondering what you can do as a parent to help.

I was recently asked what I wish my parents would have done differently when I was a teen with depression and mental health challenges. In this video, I share the best piece of parenting teenager advice I have from my experience on the other side and how I think therapy and counseling for you can help. ike

I also share a message that I want every parent of a child with anxiety, deression, or mental illness to hear and remind themselves of constantly.

While the information in this video is quick and simple, it’s the best parenting teenager tip I can think of for how to help a teen with depression. This also includes if you have an emotional teen, angry teen or student struggling with any other mental health challenges.

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Even with many people returning to work, working from home and remote work is here to stay for many people. But as we move to this becoming part of normal life instead of life during a pandemic, it’s important that we learn how to protect our mental health and emotional wellness while working from home.

The strategies that we need to use are a little different than the traditional workplace strategies for mental health. In this video I share three things that can help you remain mentally stable and emotionally well if you work remotely:

Setting boundaries with family members and coworkers – This includes learning how to put lines into relationships to know where your “yes” and “no” are. It’s something many of us were never taught how to do.
Finding creative ways to create space for yourself – You may need to “sneak out” for a few minutes to practice self-care from time to time.
Developing rituals to use at the end of the workday – These can help you signal to your brain that the workday is over while you transition to your personal time and space. I share how I do this from my NYC apartment.

So whether you say you’re “working from home” or “living at work”, these tips can help you find peace and protect your mental health in the process.

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RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:

Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend: https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-When-Take-Control-Your/dp/0310247454

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#workingfromhome, #mentalhealth, #MikeVeny

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Learn how to be proactive with anxiety tools. Anxiety has been a growing problem for people in the workplace and around the world over the past 18 months. How we cope with anxiety and stress makes a big difference for our mental health and emotional wellness.

But unfortunately, overcoming anxiety doesn’t come naturally to most of us. That’s why it’s so important that we learn what anxiety tools and tips for handling anxiety we can use to feel our best.

In this video, I share two ways to cope with anxiety that can help in life and the workplace. My goal is to help you with handling anxiety and stress in a proactive way instead of always dealing with anxiety reactively. These tools will help you learn how to cope with anxiety before it happens and explain why therapy can play such an important role in dealing with stress and anxiety.

Be proactive with anxiety to help find relief.

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