Dr. Nicole - Mental Wellness 4U: Moms Matter Too!

You can’t pour from an empty cup. We are continuing with our self-care series speaking with different professional women in the community about self-care.

Talking with professional women about an important topic and subject “Self-Care” where you’ll hear what this term means to them and how they are managing their lives

Self-Care is essential to maintaining mental and emotional wellness. Here is the first episode in a series of self-care interviews with professional women

Introduces the topic of self-care and importance of addressing your needs first. This is the first in a series Self-Care interviews with other women. Stay tuned to additional interviews of women and mothers.

It’s important to learn how to accept yourself. To recognize your positive and negative attributes without being hard on yourself.

Asking for help doesn’t make you less THAN it makes you HuMAN. We all need help at some point and it’s important to be able to ask for help and receive support when needed.

Remorse and regret keep you locked in the pain of your past and prevent you from moving forward and enjoying life

There are positive benefits with attending therapy. It’s not a bad thing and it doesn’t make you “crazy” if you need to seek professional help. Asking for help doesn’t make you less-Than...it makes you HU-MAN!

Having patience is a skill that can be very challenging and difficult for most people. Yet, being patient helps us to have mental wellness.

Anger is a normal emotion that everyone feels at some point. Anger isn’t the problem, it’s what you when you are angry that becomes the issue. The episode provides strategies to effectively manage your anger

It is pivotal to be able to effectively communicate your thoughts and feelings to others. We engage with others on a daily consistent basis and effective communicate is key.

It is so important to have healthy friendships with others. To have someone who you can laugh with, share things with, and be yourself with helps your mental wellness

It is the suppression of our feelings that causes the most anguish. It’s not healthy to ignore or deny our feelings. We need to acknowledge our feelings in order to have mental wellness.

Learning how to forgive someone is very important because forgiveness is for you and not the other person. When you choose to forgive it releases you from the hurt, anger, disappointment or any other intense emotions you’ve held onto.