How Are You Coping?

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  🔄 Healthy Coping Methods Help You: Regulate emotions: Practices like breathing exercises, journaling, and prayer help you manage stress before it escalates. Preserve energy: Setting boundaries and practicing self-care prevents burnout. Stay focused: Reducing mental clutter through mindfulness helps you prioritize and make clearer decisions. Maintain resilience: Positive coping builds emotional strength for when life gets overwhelming. 💡 Result: You’re more equipped to navigate daily challenges with calm, clarity, and confidence. ⚠️ Unhealthy Coping Methods Can: Drain your energy: Avoidance, overworking, or substance use may provide short-term relief but create long-term exhaustion. Escalate stress: Bottling up emotions or overloading your schedule increases anxiety. Disrupt relationships: Poor boundaries or lashing out pushes support systems away. Delay healing: Numbing strategies block growth and prolong cycles of struggle. 💡 Result: You’re more l...

Self Discovery & Healing


 

These video clips are glimpses of my beginning stages—when I chose solitude over noise, stillness over distraction. I was separated, yet I was being set apart. It was during this time that I found a home church and started becoming intentional about what I allowed into my spirit. If it didn’t apply—I learned to deny.

We’re all made differently. Just like we don’t share the same blood type, we don’t share the same healing path. I tried therapy and counseling, but it didn’t work for me. What did work was faith. Awareness. Self-care. Self-love. And a deeper relationship with God.

When you take time to know yourself, to sit with yourself, you stop searching for answers in places that can’t sustain you. The real answers are within. Sometimes, the best friend you’re looking for... is you.

Journal Prompt: Embracing Stillness

 What have I learned about myself when I slowed down enough to truly listen?

 

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