Your Mental Health Journey

Your mental health might not be top of mind right now. Maybe you already have the tools and healthy habits to deal with whatever life may throw at you. Or it’s possible that you won’t think about “mental health” until you find yourself in a difficult situation and realize you need to start taking better care of yourself.

Through regular self-care and mental health self check-ins to assess how you’re doing, you may be able to prevent challenges from turning into crises. Now is the time to reimagine how you think about and take care of your mental health.

• Understanding the Mental Health Spectrum
• Checking In With Yourself – Take Action for Your Family’s Mental Health

Maybe something recently happened that made you realize your mental health is not as strong as you thought. Or you’re feeling stressed out, anxious or depressed. It’s time to reimagine what your life could look like if you took action.

You might be feeling like you’re not quite ready to make changes to your lifestyle or to seek professional support. Know that you’re not alone — lots of people are uncertain at the beginning but end up glad they made a change. Regular self-care, social support and therapy can all make a big difference in your level of mental health and help you feel better.

• When Is It Time to Seek Support for Your Mental Health?
• Reaching Out for Support – Take Action for Your Family’s Mental Health

You’ve decided you want to make changes in your life to improve your mental health. So now it’s time to figure out where to start and what steps to take to achieve your reimagined mental health.

Explore the many options for ways to boost your well-being — regular self-care practices, getting support from people you care about, seeking peer or community support, professional therapy, or other methods. And then set a realistic goal for what you want to achieve.

• What Might Work for You? Mental Health Support Options
• Reimagine Your Mental Health: A Goal-Setting Worksheet
• 10 Ways to Take Action for Mental Health

You’ve reimagined your mental health, set a goal, and now you’re ready to go! Start by taking a pledge committing to how you will care for your mental well-being, and let others know how they can support you. A pledge has been proven to help you stick with new changes.

Think through what the potential barriers to success might be. And then make a plan for how you will deal with each of them if they come up. You’ve got this!

• Take Action Pledge
• Your Mental Wellness Plan

Good for you! You reimagined your mental health and have been following through with real action. You’ve probably seen how much of a difference taking care of yourself can make in your overall well-being. Reflect on what’s working and track how you’re doing. Use your successes to help motivate you to continue.

You can use your mental health momentum to help others as well. Check in on how the people around you are doing, and support them in taking action too.

• My Mental Health Mini-Journal 
• Recharging Your Personal Battery: Mental Health Self-Care Tips
• Check-In Chats: Supporting The People You Care About

Your heart is in the right place, but it can be hard to be consistent in sticking with the mental health actions you want to be doing. Life just gets in the way sometimes.

When you find yourself losing motivation or having a hard time following through, it’s time to revisit your goals and methods to see what needs to be tweaked. Maybe changing things up with different types of self-care activities, getting support from people you know, or switching to a therapist that uses a different approach would help. Check out some of the other points on the path to get ideas for reimagining your mental health journey. You can do it!

• Reimagine Your Mental Health: A Goal-Setting Worksheet
• Stay Connected to Friends and Family
• Recipes for Wellness and Self-Care