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If you’ve been struggling with your mental health as of late, it’s essential for you to speak to your Doctor. However, often, they will also recommend a few lifestyle changes or efforts to help you feel your most stable, emotionally together, and physically healthy. This can have a positive effect. For instance, they might ask for you to keep a regular bedtime, to exercise good sleep hygiene, and to exercise if you can.
While you shouldn’t take anything in this post as direct mental health advice, it’s also worthwhile to consider how our home environments can have an effect on our mental wellbeing. Many of us struggle to work and feel organized if our office desk is in disarray, and the same principle can be applied to our home situation. Of course, if you have children it can be hard to keep everything in perfect order, but luckily, absolute dedication to being pristine isn’t how a home can be conducive to and restorative of your best mental health.
In fact, there are many efforts you can take to ensuring your home feels safe, secure, and as if somewhere you can relax within and spend time healing. Let’s consider what those efforts may be:
Comfort & Safety
It’s nice to feel safe and comfortable. Simply knowing that your locks are secure and your home is protected by willing and observant neighbors, a worthwhile alarm system, and a yapping dog can be a good place to start. But in addition to safety, it can be nice to feel comfortable. From purchasing blankets, throws, footrests, candles, colored lampshades for ambiance, and implementing speakers to listen to calming music, your front room or bedroom might become a place where you can take a load off your stress and heal. This kind of indulgence helps us take a break from the increasingly chaotic outside world – having a refuge, it seems, is a wise approach.
Hobbies & Interests
Having a place where you can retire to and feel creative or intrigued by a hobby of yours can be thoroughly restorative to your mindset. It might be that you make a small workshop with a desk and tools in your garage, as this can help you spend time woodworking if that interests you. It might be that curating a beautiful book corner with a well-organized bookshelf and comfortable armchair helps you escape into engaging literature, learning more about the world in a safe and comfortable context. Having a place to unashamedly enjoy your interests helps you take a break from time to time, and that may be a little more engaging than simply watching Netflix day after day.
Your Green Space
Using the best landscaping companies to curate your garden, particularly as the warm months start rolling in, can help you retire to nature and feel restored by it when necessary. Listening to the birds with a cup of coffee in the morning, or getting your green thumb out and working on your vegetable garden can feel very relaxing. Companies like this can also curate the best aesthetic for your living environment, and that can feel both wonderful and worthwhile to enjoy.
With this advice, we hope you can more easily curate your home to nourish your mental health over time – however, you define that, and no matter what helps you heal.
