Mental Health Tips for Moms Struggling with Mental Illness

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If you feel like you’re drowning, this list of mental health tips for moms should help you learn to start caring for your mental health.

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Moms and Mental Health

Let me guess. You always put your mental health on the back burner as a busy mom, right?

I knew it.

I was like that for a very long time until I had a lightbulb moment where I realized that if I wanted to be the mom I wanted to be for my kids that I needed to change something.

And by changing something, I decided it was time to take care of myself because of that old saying “you can’t pour from an empty cup”.

We’ve all heard it a million times but it never stuck until one day I was losing my mind and realized that I could not be a good parent without making sure my own needs are met.

That meant I desperately needed to take care of my mental health.

About six months prior to my realization I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and that was a wild ride. It took a while for my meds to get sorted out and for them to start actually helping me. During that time period, life was a mess. Or more so, I was a mess.

I didn’t have a good therapist at the time so I didn’t know how to help myself. I was also stuck inside of an abusive marriage that I couldn’t find a way out of until March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.

March is when I decided it was time to begin caring for myself for real this time if I wanted to truly be the best parent and person I could be and that involved leaving my kids dad and starting fresh.

I dove into weekly/sometimes twice a week therapy, took my medication seriously, and began a truly transformational personal growth journey.

I became an entirely new person. I didn’t even realize how miserable I was before I started on the journey. My therapist pointed it out in one of our first sessions and before that, I had no clue.

But it hit hard and while I was working on myself and working toward the light on the other side I started to really see just how deep of a pit I was in.

Putting My Mental Health First

Putting my mental health above all else not only made me a better person, but it made me a much better parent. I yell a lot less. I lose my shit a lot less. I know when I need to step away and I DO. I know when I need to refill my cup and I’ve worked it into my everyday life.

Putting my mental health first changed everything for me and I know it will do the same for you too which is why I wanted to compile a list of my best mental health tips for moms inside of one post.

I have many, many posts about mental health on this website but I’ve included what I think would be most helpful for moms struggling with mental illness.

Let’s dive into the mental health tips for moms!

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