Mental Health Awareness Week 2016 #MHAW16

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (16-22 May) andthis year’s theme is relationships.

Relationships are fundamental to our well-being. The qualityof our relationships, how we are socially connecting to our family, friends andcommunity, is instrumental to the quality of our physical and mental health. Themore we are connected to others in healthy relationships, the more healthier andhappier we are and the less we suffer from mental health issues.

It is through our relationships that we develop and evolveour own sense of self/identity, our belonging in communities and be able to healthilymeet our own and other people’s needs of us.

Every day during Mental Health Awareness Week #MHAW16 I will be bloggingabout different aspect of relationships, including our understanding of thedifference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, understanding our ownrelationship/ attachment patterns, how to improve and build betterrelationships, and not to forget ourselves, how we can have a healthier and kinderrelationship to our own self.

So keep an eye out for my Mental Health Awareness Week blogsevery day this week, to learn more about building better and healthier relationships. http://www.myirakhancounselling.co.uk/blog