Continuing on from last week's blog post.. I decided to create a post about mental health... again lol.
As I was looking at my schedule for the next couple of weeks and talking to one of my friends about it, I realized that if I was going to be able to work all of those hours, I needed to make time for myself somewhere. Luckily, most of the shifts occur at night and over the break I will have time to sleep in. However, I usually go volunteer on Tuesday Thursday mornings which requires me to get up at 7:30 am. I know that doesn't seem that early, but I also get up at 8 am on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays and at 7 am on Saturday Sundays for my other job. Basically, if I continued to volunteer for the next couple of weeks, I wasn't going to sleep in for like two weeks straight.
In honor of keeping up with my mental and foreshadowing what my next couple of weeks are going to look at, I decided that something needed to be taken out of my busy schedule. Of course, work and school were not going to be sacrificed. So I decided to take a break from volunteering while I am working and dealing with finals over the next two weeks. It is not something that I wanted to give up because I love going, it's kind of like a therapy for me because I get two uninterrupted hours twice a week to myself while also helping out somewhere. However, I knew that if I kept up with the incredibly busy schedule that I was going to have, I was going to lost. I am already very stressed with the end of the semester coming up and the 60+ hours I'm going to work and adding those extra few hours to it wasn't going to help me any.
I have been very blessed with a kind of mental awareness that most people don't have. I am very aware of things that are going on in my life, things that are going to happen and things that I can see that are not going to be good for my mental health. If you've seen my Instagram stories, you know that I am always posting mental health awareness posts and things that help me get through the rough days. As I was looking at my schedule for the next two weeks I was becoming increasingly aware of how stressed everything was going to make me and adjust accordingly. I think it's so important to take care of yourself mentally over anything because our brains are powerful things and can take us places that we don't need to go.
In the future, if you can see that something is going to happen that is going to overwhelm you or stress you out, try to adjust as best you can to keep that stress to a minimum. It will improve your mental health going into that time immensely. I know I can already tell a difference in how I feel about the upcoming weeks because I know I won't have to worry about getting up on those Tuesday Thursdays.
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