As we enter 2020, we are all considering what we are willing to do to make our lives better. We usually focus on areas such as our physical and emotional health. I would like to challenge you to add mental wellness and spiritual wellness to your list this year. Our mental and spiritual wellness are important in every season of our lives.

Positive mental health allows people to:

• Realize their full God given potential
• Cope with the stress of life in a way that honors God
• Use your spiritual gifts to work productively
• Make meaningful contributions to your family and community

There are many ways to maintain positive mental health which on include some of the following:

• Getting professional help if you need it
• Connecting with others
• Staying positive
• Getting physically active
• Helping others
• Getting enough sleep
• Developing coping skills

Positive spiritual health involves our values, beliefs and purpose and allows us to improve in the spiritual disciplines such as:

• Prayer
• Study of God’s word
• Worship
• Fasting
• Meditation
• Fellowship
• Stewardship
• Serving

 Ways that we can improve our spiritual health include:

• Exploring our spiritual core
• Become more positively express
• Try yoga
• Take time to meditate
• Learn to enjoy traveling

Let us choice to honor God this year by focusing on both our spiritual health and emotional health.

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own…”1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)

Dr. Brenda Richardson Rowe

Director of Counseling

1/2020