Stressful Tag

Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/Getty Images September is Self-Care Awareness Month. To watch it, every week we’re speaking with experts in mental health and wellness to supply actionable ways to practice self-care that prioritize emotional wellbeing. I’m sure we’ve all been guilty of it. You get up within the morning and the very first thing you do is pick up your phone. Perhaps it starts as a method to check the time, to ensure you haven’t overslept, but then it slowly devolves into you responding to a message, peeking at your emails, checking in with the goings on of social media and the day’s breaking news. Before you understand it, whatever energy comes from those spaces impacts your mood. Your day either gets off to a...