Comments on: 🌟 7 Super Mental Health Hacks for Writers to De-Stress 🌟 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/ A Blog On Writing Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:16:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Kris https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164240 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:59:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164240 In reply to denise.

Denise,
Reading is a great exercise for informed writng. And it can feel like a guilty pleasure! I love these suggestions - thanks!
Kris

]]> By: Kris https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164239 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:34:27 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164239 In reply to Eldred Bird.

I can just envision the baja journey into the desert. Definitely sounds like the makings of a story, Bob!

]]> By: denise https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164238 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:11:21 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164238 a walk or reading

]]> By: Eldred Bird https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164235 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:47:38 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164235 My way of a tech free zone by hopping in my Jeep and heading out into the hills where there's not cell service!

My other escape to recharge is volunteering at the Musical Instrument Museum here in Phoenix. Being there never fails to make me happy.

]]> By: Kris https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164234 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:33:56 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164234 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Jenny,
You're living proof of tenacity and I can't wait to see your vigilante veteran nun series come to life!

That's a great testiment to breathing techniques. It's worth trying, right? Pretty harmless.

Thanks for sharing that.

]]> By: Kris https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164233 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:31:04 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164233 In reply to Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt.

Hi Alicia,
It sounds like you have had a long struggle and I can appreciate that. That must be difficult.

Writing for me is often therapeutic as well. The satisfaction of finishing a scene can relieve so many things that could be bothering me.

Thank you for sharing an important side to writing. Taking breaks can be detrimental to your writing process.

In the end, its important to know what works best for you and your writing muse.

]]> By: Kris https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164232 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:27:02 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164232 In reply to Anna Chapman.

Oh, and bird duets? Sounds amazing and fun.

I've heard that chickens will sit and keep you comoany while you write too. I've never tried it though...

]]> By: Kris https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164231 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:25:45 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164231 In reply to Anna Chapman.

Anna,
I agree dog and/or cat energy can boost my writing mojo for sure.

Just as long as they don't insist on sitting on the keyboard!

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164230 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:37:20 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164230 That box breathing literally got me through cancer and chemo. Every time I had to do stuff that scared me to the bone, where my low blood pressure would skyrocket to 150/90...box breathing is how I'd keep my sh*t together and keep going forward. It totally works.

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/%f0%9f%8c%9f-7-super-mental-health-hacks-for-writers-to-de-stress-%f0%9f%8c%9f/#comment-164229 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:24:46 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=49662#comment-164229 Writing IS my mental health care, my break from reality, my choice of how to spend MY time.

Not the other way around.

Maybe because, due to longterm chronic illness, being able to leave daily life and obligations (I try to do as much as I can) behind, and just think about writing and follow my slow but productive process IS the thing that keeps me going.

Everything else - those breaks that you talk about - cost me time, irreplaceable energy, and contribute nothing to my legacy writing project. I do them when I have to, but they always set me way back as far as doing what I want to do: currently, finishing LIMBO.

Perspective is everything. Mine is different.

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