Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis
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In this episode, we are sharing highlights from our webinar, ‘Mental Health and Wellbeing’ with Michelle Overton. Michelle is a qualified counsellor and Mental Health First Aid Instructor Trainer. She discusses the impact of life’s challenges on your mental health, coping mechanisms for stress and her top self-care tips.
You can watch the original webinar here. Keep reading for the key episode takeaways.
Topics and Timestamps:01:03 Michelle shares her own mental health journey.
06:05 How does mental health shape your self-esteem and confidence?
08:27 The impact of life's challenges on your mental wellbeing.
11:00 Stress and how it can affect your DNA.
13:53 Shifting from unhealthy to healthy coping mechanisms.
19:14 Michelle’s top self-care tips for improving your mental health.
24:02 The power of listening.
25:46 How you can find ways to improve sleep and mindful practices.
Selected Key Takeaways:Mental health impacts many aspects of life.
07:01 “Confidence can be gauged in new situations [by] learning new skills [or] it could be in a workplace. Self-esteem is how you value yourself on the inside. Our mental health will govern how we feel, how we think, how we behave and how we manage change. It will [also] govern how we make, sustain and end relationships.”
Stress can impact our physical health.
10:35 “After you've been experiencing stress for more than two weeks, your body will start to kick out hormones. Your double helix is your DNA and at the bottom of it, you've got the bottom of your shoelace strings that keep it together at the bottom, when the hormones are being kicked out from the stress, what happens is the shoe lay strings get corroded, and it comes undone. And this is when we start to get rogue DNA going around. And that's why it's been linked to being carcinogenic."
Find what works for you and your mental health.
25:52 “It's finding what's right for you. I find talking has been a really helpful space for me, whether that's in therapy, or whether it's support services. Making sure that you're hydrated as well. Water can be a very simple thing that can really help instantly.”
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