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Holistic Approaches to Mental Well-being: Guide to Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
The state of our mental health and wellbeing can impact every part of our lives. Struggling with your mental health can impact your relationships, daily ability to accomplish tasks, and can even negatively harm your physical health. For example, if you are feeling depressed, you might not engage in self care activities such as exercise. You might neglect to reach out to friends and family for an extended period of time. Your dishes and laundry might begin to pile up.
If you have experienced any of the above, medication might offer some assistance towards improving your mental health. However, pharmaceuticals don’t work for everyone.
None-pharmaceutical mental wellness interventions can be beneficial for many, not just those who can’t access medication. These holistic wellness and self-care strategies can be practiced by almost everybody, and may help improve your life and mental health in more ways than one.
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Additional Holistic Support
Check out my sister company — Lady(ish): A Life Collective — where I blend coaching with four key pillars of wellness, offering holistic services and practical support for every facet of your life.
Reading List
(Because if we work together, you will actually find time to read — FOR FUN!)
These books have a constant place on my shelf. They are the audiobooks you “read” and then immediately buy in hard copy because you can’t bear the idea of not having them around to revisit or pass on to fellow seekers.
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less by Tonya Dalton
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- The Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey
- Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life by Wayne Dyer
- Mind-Made Prison by Mateo Tabatabai
- A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey (an oddity on this list, I know, but I stand firmly by this recommendation; if you can, try the audiobook!)
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- The Power of Writing it Down by Allison Fallon
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Bread Bad Ones by James Clear
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed, Steve Almond
- 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
- What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
- To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
- Yoga Bitch: One Woman’s Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment by Suzanne Morrison
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Meditation and Mindfulness Resources
- 21-Day Meditation Experiences with Deepak Chopra and Oprah
- Periodic, free, guided meditation series (also available for purchase)
- Meditation Timer – App (free)
- Harish Kumar Chauhan
- A timer to help you to focus on meditation for a specific period every day.
- Morning Yoga Movement, Yoga with Kassandra
- YouTube (free)
- 10 Minute Morning Yoga Challenge, 30 days of yoga for 10 minutes
- Insight Timer – App
- Thousands of guided meditations, classes, etc. to help with sleep, anxiety, etc.
- Mostly free, upgraded subscription available.
- IAM Yoga Nidra – App
- Kamini Desai’s app features several Yoga Nidra guided meditation.
- Great for sleep and relaxation. Affordable $3.99 on Apple Store.
- Headspace – App
- Subscription format with 1000s of options for help with anxiety, sleep, etc.
- Liberate Meditation – App
- Meditation app developed to support BIPOC community.