mental health matters

Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: 5 Ways you Can Improve your Self-Esteem
This is my first post for May and we are celebrating Mental Health Awareness all month long! Mental Health is a very important and wide-range topic to talk on because there is so much that leads up to mental illnesses and various of disorders worldwide. I’m not going to get too much in detail to […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: Tuning out Negativity
Negativity is like a disease that spreads all over the world and people spread it to others without thinking about it first. The one thing about negativity is, it can’t be cured unless its being covered by a gratitude of positivity. Easy to believe? Nope! I’m with you on that one because as easy as it is to spread negativity, it is much harder to spread positivity. Why is that? some of you may wonder. A lot of people enjoy seeing others suffer in their own problems, trauma, and struggles without a care in the world to uplift them with encouragement and speaking positivity in their situations. There is more bad than good; at least that’s what I see on the evening news. We are all sick and tired of living in a world filled with hate, violence, and negativity.
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: The 3 Different Types of Stress
Do you often find yourself stressed that it’s starting to become a regular pattern? This month is Stress Awareness Month where I wanted to highlight the three different types of stress. Acute stress can be caused by a car accident, loosing a loved one, witnessing/being a victim of an attack or even being diagnosed with […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: 10 Ways to Boost Your Mental Health
A lot of people don’t realize how important your mental health is. It’s always in constant rotation and a reminder that you need to slow it down a bit. For instance, if you deal with a mental illness and have certain things that may trigger you, try to diffuse the situation or get out of […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: When to Let Go
Have you ever experienced some things in your life that was traumatizing and you just couldn’t let go of it? How did you handle the situation? Or was it handled at all? Letting go sometimes is very hard and can be mentally/emotionally draining if it is something that may acquire more time. I can think […]
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Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl: Spring Forward to a New Season, a New Beginning
Spring is officially in the air and as the new season changes, it’s also time for new beginnings as well. The one thing I hate about Spring is the smell of the flowers and pollen that comes on it. Who else can agree to that? While the pollen is only a distraction in this new […]
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Self-Check One Two One Two!
Welcome to Mind Talks with That Riverz Gurl and I want to say thank you for stopping by to my column where I will be talking about everything mental health, self-care and more! Let’s talk about self-care because I feel like self-care is very much needed in today’s society. I want to ask a question […]
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