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We Are All Going Through Something Jasmine Badge

We live longer now not because we do not get sick, but because we have learned to manage our illness. To those who are fighting illness, and those who are caring for them, may you not lose hope! Reminder: Strength isn’t always putting on a brave face and pretending everything is fine. Strength is sometimes a face full of tears and considering giving up but choose NOT to. ~ JB
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Behind Every Peaceful Life , There Are So Many Sacrifice Jasmine Badge

I used to shift my values to fit in with people. Now, I’ll happily shift people to fit my values. I hope you are brave enough to choose yourself, because you deserve to be prioritised, you deserve to be loved, you deserve to feel worthy. You deserve it all. Even if you’ve been made to believe otherwise, you deserve it and this is what makes your self-respect so important … I don’t see how anyone can respect themselves if they constantly look in the faces and eyes of others for thier worth. Repeat after me: I now know, situations that require me to abandon who I am are not for me. Nothing is worth losing myself, it is not even a choice! ~ JB
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Stop Wasting Life Jasmine Badge

Never negotiate your worth. Walk away when a promise turns into a sorry. Pushing our boundaries can be exhausting. When we grow and evolve, we become different people at every stage. This can be challenging, since growth means seeing and appreciating things that have elude us in the past, or that we have historically avoided. Reminder: A child that is treated with respect won’t have to spend their adulthood learning they are worthy of it. ~ JB
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LET GO or LET IT BE Jasmine Badge

You may have no idea what lies ahead. But you also have no idea just how resilient you are. The days you are at your weakest and yet you survive … are the days you are your strongest self. Maybe it is time to make peace with whatever and whoever you had been at war with, at some point you just have to LET GO or LET IT BE without closure for the sake of your own sanity. Quesiotn: And you? When will you begin that lovely journey into yourself? ~ JB
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Burnout is complex! Jasmine Badge

Burnout is complex! Preventing burnout requires a shift from a symptoms-only approach to a causes-also approach. The self-help world tends to oversimplify burnout by focusing on the main symptom of it, exhaustion and suggesting individual-based fixes such as yoga, short holidays and meditation. You can do yoga, go for a nice staycation and meditate to get a handle on certain types of stress, but you can’t yoga or meditate your way out of burnout. Why? Because burnout is caused by factors that yoga, short break and meditation can’t fix, and most only address the symptoms, not the causes of burnout. Even though burnout is complex, the tools and frameworks individuals, teams and leaders need to prevent it are not. Most of them are tiny noticeable things. It needs to be acknowledged and must be practiced. They may even require tweaks to the way you live, work, lead, think or what you prioritize. But the payoff in terms of burnout prevention is significant. ~ JB
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4 things to remember during moments of inner turbulence and tough emotion:- Jasmine Badge

Once we start approaching our emotions with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts. Messing up isn’t just a part of growing up. It’s actually a big part of being alive. It’s how we handle our messes that matter most – YOU Mess up. YOU Apologise. YOU Make it right. YOU Move on. Repeat. That’s life and that’s what our children need to see us living. 4 things to remember during moments of inner turbulence and tough emotion:- 1. Dot not hide from what you are feeling (Acknowledge) 2. This current discomfort is not permanent (Pause & Breathe) 3. Rest is an important way to the mind (Let it be & Walk Away) 4. Struggle can be a space for deep growth (Write it down) ~ JB
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Destigmatisation beings with you. Jasmine Badge

Destigmatisation beings with you. Address it when someone says ‘I feel suicidal’, ‘my boss is so bipolar’, ‘I am very OCD about this stuff’ etc. flippantly. Have a real, honest conversation with your loved ones. Explain how their casual stigma harms people around them. Talk about the pain of being shamed, especially on mental health. Don’t engage in gossip about mental health distress of others, empathise with it. Go to therapy yourself. Let’s do this together, gather our voice and act on it. Make a choice to not let the conversation be reduced or dismissed and sustain it. Note to Self: Destigmatize mental health by you going to therapy for yourself, not by asking others to. ~ JB
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You can be kind and still say, like’ I am not ok with this’ Jasmine Badge

If you don’t say YES authentically, you will say YES resentfully. And that creates far more problem than if you said NO in the first place. We need stop associating being a good person with how much we’re willing to suffer in silence for others … You can be a kind and still say no, like’ I don’t have the time/energy to help you with that’. You can be a kind and still say, like’ I disagree and here’s why” You can be kind and still say, like’ I am not ok with this’. Being kind is about treating people with kindness and respect, not about being the human equivalent of a doormat. ~ JB
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In essence … I am human first, therapist second Jasmine Badge

What is my role as a psychotherapist on social media? I definitely not a container for your emotional distress because emotional work needs attentive presence which I can’t remotely offer it. I am not going to half-hearted glance over your words and presumed I understand your pain or even validate or challenge your thought process, it isn’t what you deserve. I am on social media with the intention of raising awareness of mental well being. Many are disappointed and even upset for my uncommunicativeness; I must say, I am not sorry. I can’t always respond because I have limited emotional and cognitive energy to offer my readers or virtual individual after a long day at work. I can’t engage in lengthy conversations about mental health because such essential talk better with a cup of coffee and a slice of cheese cake. In essence … I am human first, therapist second. ~ JB
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THE FIRST STEP IS RECOGNIZING THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM. Jasmine Badge

Your abusive partner doesn’t have a problem with his anger, he has a problem with your anger. One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him. No matter how badly he treats you, he believes that you voice shouldn’t rise and your blood shouldn’t boil. The privilege of rage is reserved for him alone. When your anger does jump out of you (it will happen to anyone from time to time), he is likely to try to jam it back down your throat as quickly as he can. Then he uses your anger against you to prove what an horrible and irrational person you are. Abuse can make you feel straightjacketed. You may develop physical or emotional reactions to swallowing your anger, such as depression, nightmares, emotional numbing or eating and sleeping problems, which your partner may use as na excuse to belittle you further or make your feel ‘crazy’. THE FIRST STEP IS RECOGNIZING THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM. Repeat after me: Just because it’s explainable, doesn’t mean it’s excusable! ~ JB
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