What’s Your Mental Forecast?

I remember listening to a podcast and the host mentioned that “mental health is super taboo even in this day and age of self-care, people are scared to say hey I’m not doing good”. And when I thought about it I couldn’t agree with it more, I think that people don’t talk about their mental health because it stops them from being “perfect”. It shifts the way that people view them so they mask it because who doesn’t want to be “perfect”?

So, we spend so much time masking or hiding our feelings that when it is time to show up we don’t know how to show out because everything is covered and we can’t efficiently express ourselves. 

That’s what ignited this “Mental Forecast”, I used to ask my girlfriend in college how they felt but in terms of weather as a conversation started to honestly and wholeheartedly express the things that are hard to say out loud. 

In truth it was more for me than anybody else, I have such a hard time with expressing how I feel and I keep so much bottled up so I thought that if I could break it down into something everybody can identify with than it’s easier. Let’s face it, everybody knows weather forecast they have experience rain, sleet, or snow (if you’re lucky) and it makes the hard stuff easier to talk about. 

 Literally you could take something so heavy and put it into the perspective of something so simple and start the conversation of healing and understanding yourself mentally and spiritually. So, while you have a moment by yourself or an intimate moment with a close group of friends take a second to really resonate with where you are mentally and while you have that find something that would help or keep it afloat.

I hope it helps!