CANADIAN PHYSIQUE ALLIANCE CPA NOVEMBER ISSUE | Page 50

"Self-care is essential when it comes
to protecting your mental health"
It’s more than stunning In modern America, we focus a lot
photos on Instagram. It’s all on physical health and the various
those unglamorous things illnesses and disorders that affect
we have to do, too. Making it. On the other hand, mental
an appointment for a yearly health problems are often swept
physical, crying your eyes under the rug. We feel
out at therapy, and eating a uncomfortable talking about our
boring bowl of oatmeal for struggles with issues including
breakfast are all self-care depression, anxiety, and
practices. Just as much as substance abuse. Suppressing
buying a cute plant for your mental health issues can have
apartment. Self-care is dangerous, even deadly
essential when it comes to consequences. That’s why it’s so
protecting and supporting important to practice self-care in
your mental health. ways that support your mental
health. 
Self-care isn’t just
a hashtag. It’s an
essential part of
life.