Today is Therapeutic Thursday at Aortic Hope and Mental Health Awareness Month.
Here is a very simple concept in Norbu, written by Psychologist Guy Winch in the article titled "7 Ways To Practice Emotional First Aid", he states:
"You put a bandage on a cut or take antibiotics to treat an infection, right? No questions asked. In fact, questions would be asked if you didn’t apply first aid when necessary. So why isn’t the same true of our mental health? We are expected to just “get over” psychological wounds — when as anyone who’s ever ruminated over rejection or agonized over a failure knows only too well, emotional injuries can be just as crippling as physical ones. We need to learn how to practice emotional first aid."
If you would like to learn the 7 ways to practice emotional first aid, click here.