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Mental Health Tips for Moms: How Can a Busy Mom Be Happier and Mentally Healthy

Moms have a tough job. They are not only responsible for their own lives but also for little people who generally need help with everything. Even when kids grow up, they need Mom for a million and one things. Add to that, the fact that Moms are generally responsible for the cooking, cleaning, chores and errands and may often, be managing a fulltime or part-time job as well.

Yes, things can get stressful, challenging and lead to various Types of Mental Health Problems.

Sound mental health is key in helping busy, exhausted moms find the balance they need so that they don’t burn out or fall sick.

Here are effective mental health tips for moms to feel happier and healthier:

Take a Mom’s Mental Health Time Out

Spending some time on your own can be a great way to get away from the busyness, routineness and everyday-ness of life and infusing more balance and harmony into your life. Even something as small as going to the coffee shop on your own and enjoying your latte, undisturbed, can be helpful in reducing your stress levels and giving you the energy of balancing life’s demands.

Speak with your partner and identify at least 4 times during the month when you can head out for some time on your own to foster good mental health.

Re-Ignite a Hobby

Hobbies are therapeutic. They help you use parts of your brain that may otherwise languish. Also, they help you feel better and happier, having spent time on something that wasn’t ‘work’.

Find a hobby that you may have given up since the kids arrived and see if you could take it up again. Maybe reading books while the kids nap or an afternoon spent gardening while the kids play inside or your partner watches them.

Relax and Rejuvenate Your Mental Health Regularly

Vacations, trips to the salon, meditating in the morning, coffee or lunch with friends are all small yet simple ways of rejuvenating your tired body and mind and rejuvenate your mental health.

Sit down with your partner and plan these things each month so that you both get some time away together, separately and as a family too but in a more relaxing settings.

Get Support, Share and Talk

Often moms get extremely stressed because they take on too much on themselves. They try to do and be everything for everyone and that is a surefire recipe for burnout and stress.

Get support when you need it.

Whether it is asking your partner to watch the kids one afternoon a week while you go to the salon or hiring a mother’s helper to just play with the children, do it.

Don’t keep everything bottled up inside you. Talk to your friends, close family and of course, your spouse. Sharing is a great way of getting things out in the open, getting some perspective and also, just feeling better.

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