Bell Let’s Talk Day: When is enough, enough?
I’ve seen a few posts now about mastery, and the assumption that when you’re doing something that you don’t think resembles mastery, that it is then mediocrity. In the spirit of Bell Let’s Talk Say coming up on January 22nd, I thought I’d put a mental health twist to this. So when is enough, enough? As someone who has struggled with mental health for a long time, I’ve sought out help from therapists and social workers. Doing the work is hard, it is draining, and it is also very rewarding. However, I’ve found through the course of therapy that sometimes I get in this cycle of not good enough. I’m not good enough yet, I still have more work to do. It shouldn’t be like that. Sometimes we need to step away and say to ourselves that we are good enough as we are right now. Acknowledge that there is more work to be done, there always is,...