Explore how wellness is impacted by the masks we wear. Join me as I provide a simple tool to help differentiate our authentic selves from the masks we wear.
Cadre family back with another video on the series of transforming wellness. Often we try to project a part of ourselves that we assume others want us to see. True wellness is found exactly who you are, where you are right now. Look forward to seeing you next week.
Hey, Cadre family back here this week with another video on the series of transforming wellness. If this is your first time here or you're returning, I'm Eric. I'm a clinical mental health counselor, and I'm here to provide people effective tools and information about their mental health and change. And so today, here with a short video. And to start this video, I'm going to encourage you to hold up your hand. And this hand here is going to represent a mask. And one thing that's important about the mask is masks we wear is that often we try to project a part of ourselves that we assume others want us to see, and somehow that contained our journey of wellness.
So if you hold up this mask here, what I want you to do is think about on the outside, what's the mask you try to show others? What's the way in which you present to the world in hopes that you'll be accepted. And then what's the reality of who's here, who's on the inside of that mask? And why doesn't that person get much space to exist? Along this journey of wellness, we often trick ourselves into thinking that part of wellness is this nonstop pursuit of improvement, that I need to change, change or be better than who I am here and now in order for wellness to exist in my life.
The reality is that wellness, true wellness, is found exactly who you are, where you are right now. What does it look like to allow that person on the inside of the mask to exist? And how would that change your relationships? Look forward to seeing you next week.
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