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    Emotionfull: A Guide to Self-Care for Your Mental Health and Emotions (Help With Self-Worth and Self-Esteem, Anxieties & Phobias)
    Emotionfull: A Guide to Self-Care for Your Mental Health and Emotions (Help With Self-Worth and Self-Esteem, Anxieties & Phobias)
    Emotionfull: A Guide to Self-Care for Your Mental Health and Emotions (Help With Self-Worth and Self-Esteem, Anxieties & Phobias)
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    Emotionfull: A Guide to Self-Care for Your Mental Health and Emotions (Help With Self-Worth and Self-Esteem, Anxieties & Phobias)

    By Lauren Woods

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    Experience the Therapeutic Benefits of Emotional Well-Being

    “A practical handbook for handling our honest emotions—the messengers of our inner self”—Soolooka, Author of I Believe in Me 

    Learn to value your own feelings and listen to your inner needs. Emotionfull is a collection of tips, reminders, and advice from a mental illness and low self-esteem survivor. 

    Focus on your emotional well-being. We can get overwhelmed by our own emotions. Though there’s nothing wrong with what we’re feeling, we all struggle with how best to face stress, anxiety, sadness, and even excitement sometimes. Emotionfull helps us process difficult emotions, one by one, and allows us the space to focus on them in a way that’s healthy. Author Lauren Woods, creator of The Positive Page platform, has struggled with mental and emotional health; she writes with experience and kindness to help you overcome the daily challenges these struggles bring.

    Listen to your needs. Being emotionally healthy is just as important as our physical health. Once we accept and process our emotions, we are better able to understand what our inner needs are. Emotionfull is a reminder to look inside and address how we feel, not just how we look. Full of tips, advice, and self-care ideas, it shows us ways to improve self-esteem and prioritize our emotional wellness and mental health. 

    Inside you’ll find:

    • Methods for working through overwhelming feelings
    • Stress-free ways to have difficult conversations about mental health
    • Self-care tips focused on emotional well-being
    • How to recognize self-worth and improve self-confidence

    If you were helped by books like True You, You Can Do All Things or It’s OK to Feel Deeply, then you’ll love Emotionfull.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTMA Press
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781642503579
    Emotionfull: A Guide to Self-Care for Your Mental Health and Emotions (Help With Self-Worth and Self-Esteem, Anxieties & Phobias)
    Author

    Lauren Woods

    Lauren Woods is the creator of The Positive Page platform that provides encouragement and resources for those struggling with mental illness, loneliness, eating disorders, and low self-esteem. She advocates for mental health by speaking about her own struggles with OCD and health anxiety on Instagram. Lauren studied film, photography and media studies at College in West Sussex, UK, where she is still based.

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      Emotionfull - Lauren Woods

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      A Note from Lauren

      Part 1

      Telling Someone

      Chapter 1

      When You’re Struggling to Reach Out

      Chapter 2

      When You’re Confused about Your Mental Health

      Chapter 3

      Getting to Know Your Triggers

      Part 2

      You’re Bigger Than What’s Making You Anxious

      Chapter 4

      Battling Anxieties

      Chapter 5

      When You’re Anxious and Don’t Know Why

      Chapter 6

      When You’re Anxious and Do Know Why

      Chapter 7

      When You’re Going into a Scary Situation

      Chapter 8

      When You’ve Just Had a Panic Attack

      Part 3

      Unraveling Your Stress

      Chapter 9

      When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

      Chapter 10

      When You’re Really Busy

      Chapter 11

      When You’re Stressed about School/Exams

      Chapter 12

      When You’re Stressed about Work

      Part 4

      Riding the Stormy Waves

      Chapter 13

      When You’re Feeling Low

      Chapter 14

      When You’re Feeling Unmotivated

      Chapter 15

      When You’re Feeling Stuck

      Chapter 16

      When You’re Feeling Empty

      Part 5

      Sometimes You Can’t See Your Own Light

      Chapter 17

      When You’re Struggling to Find Self-Confidence

      Chapter 18

      When You Can’t See Your Capabilities

      Chapter 19

      When You’re Feeling Insecure

      Part 6

      It’s Okay to Just Need Rest

      Chapter 20

      When Anxiety Strikes in the Middle of the Night

      Chapter 21

      When You Can’t Sleep Because Your Brain’s Too Awake

      Chapter 22

      When You Haven’t Slept and Have to Function All Day Long

      Part 7

      You Deserve Happiness

      Chapter 23

      When You’re Feeling Excited about the Future

      Chapter 24

      When You’re Having a Really Good Day

      Chapter 25

      When You Feel Good about Yourself

      Chapter 26

      Sharing Some Happiness

      Introduction

      A Note from Lauren

      Hello! I’m Lauren, the creator of The Positive Page, an online mental health support community. I wrote this book because I wanted to create something that could come in handy on days when you’re full of difficult emotions. You may have picked up this book because you’re struggling with your mental health right now, or maybe because you’ve struggled with it long-term—either way, it’s totally valid for you to want help with that! I hope you find this book comforting in times when things feel a little bit intense.

      You don’t have to read it in order. In fact, not all of the sections will be relevant to how you’re feeling, but you can skip to the parts that stand out to you. I hope you find at least one section that resonates with you in a comforting way and provides you with a sense of being understood. Take your time reading and highlight the parts you find helpful, so that you can easily find your favorite quotes or pieces of advice whenever you need them! Fold the pages, or even tear pages out. Use this book in whatever way will help you.

      To me, being emotionfull means that your mind is filled with so many emotions that you feel overwhelmed. These emotions can be positive or negative, and having so many at the same time might mean you need a little help knowing what to do with them. Your feelings are such a powerful part of your everyday life, and if you’re emotionfull, you should take some time to make sure you’re prioritizing your mental health.

      Before you start reading, I wanted to tell you a little bit about myself and why I wanted to make this book for you. I’ve been diagnosed with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and health anxiety (hypochondria). I’m now twenty, but I’ve struggled with my mental health from a much younger age. It wasn’t until I was fourteen that I realized what was happening to me and was able to tell someone. That realization came after years of feeling anxious and not knowing why, and losing sleep because of OCD-related fears and behaviors. I experienced years of struggling to eat, feeling upset, scared, and confused. I feared reaching out because I didn’t know what an anxiety disorder was, let alone OCD. Years went by where I lived without proper support and didn’t even know how to support myself. All of this was because of the lack of education and awareness around mental health. Had I known that my thoughts were not normal and causing my unhealthy behaviors, I would have done something sooner.

      Things changed when I first reached out to my friends, one of which helped me tell my mom that I had been experiencing panic attacks. Opening up to my mom was terrifying. After that, it took another two years to find the right therapy to treat my illnesses, simply because of the lack of available space in mental health services. I did two years of irregular and short-term counseling, and even though it made me feel less alone, it wasn’t what I needed to treat my disorders—even the counselors knew that. It took a long time to get help, but I finally got into child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and started cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and am now under adult mental health services (AMHS), where I receive long-term treatment.

      This is not a unique story—many people who I’ve had the opportunity to connect with through The Positive Page have dealt with mental illness from a young age without proper treatment too. Talking about my mental health was initially really difficult, even terrifying. But a few years after reaching out to my mom and getting support, I realized that I wanted to raise awareness and reach out to those who were also struggling. Talking about my mental health in this way—in an effort to raise awareness online—was just as scary. The first thing I had to process was the fact that I was allowed to talk about my mental health without feeling guilty or stupid. I struggled with that thought because, even though I talked about how difficult my life was, I recognized I am also very lucky. For starters, I am white and live in a safe neighborhood in the UK—those are privileges in and of themselves. I have also grown up in a loving family that is financially stable. These factors make me more fortunate than many other people in the world. You might be feeling this guilt as well. If you are, I want you to know that I understand how you feel.

      Eventually, I realized that I couldn’t spend my whole life feeling guilty and dismissing my anxious feelings simply because of the fortunate circumstances of my life/upbringing. Something that helped change my perspective was understanding the fact that mental illness doesn’t care about the circumstances of your life. Anyone can be mentally ill. You may have things in your life that should make you happy and mentally well, but a mental illness can still affect you regardless of the presence of those things. My mind doesn’t work as well as it should—my thoughts are disordered, and that makes me react in ways I shouldn’t, and think and feel things that distress and terrify me. OCD is a complex mental disorder, and I needed to validate that fact to not feel like I was being whiny or ungrateful in talking about how I felt. I realized that talking about it was good. Talking about it didn’t make me self-centered or spoiled; it was my way of seeking treatment for my illness. This eventually led to my helping others feel like they could do the same.

      Being mentally ill has affected every single part of my life—my education; my work; my physical health, eating habits, and weight; my social life, friends, family, and relationships; even my self-image and ability to do everyday things. Mental illness can knock you down until you’re stuck in a cycle of unhealthy behaviors and constant mental torment. You can feel so exhausted that you don’t know how or where to start trying to help yourself. I once described OCD as having a bully inside your brain, telling lies to make you feel like a bad person and making you too scared to do things. The most reassuring thing I’ve experienced on this journey was finding out that my thoughts had an explanation.

      When I was fourteen, I went online to try and understand what was happening inside my head and found information about OCD. If you are struggling and feel like there may be something happening with your mental health, it’s important to read up and talk to a doctor. You deserve the help, so don’t ignore your feelings!

      I felt like I was going insane, with my mind cultivating this never-ending stream of intrusive thoughts that made me feel guilty, scared, and bad about myself. It felt like everything was a challenge, everything could go wrong, everything would harm me. And it goes without saying that I hated it—I still do. I hated having a mental illness, I hated that it caused problems with everything I did and made everything feel so much more difficult. I hated having panic attacks at the most inconvenient times, and feeling like they inconvenienced the people I was with. I hated that the thoughts were always there, and that I felt like they would always be there. I hated how it affected my family. There were so many days that I sat crying, desperately saying, I just want to be normal. I begged for the thoughts to go away, for me to not have to constantly feel such high levels of anxiety.

      I am very glad to say that, as of writing this, I’m not there anymore. I’ve come far enough

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