Wondermind is a site full of resources, interviews and articles that can be filtered by feeling, founded by artist Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey.
This panel “Mindfulness over perfection” that is available to watch on Youtube had also the NFL athlete Soloman Thomas and Dr. Corey Yeager, marriage and family therapist. It was moderated by Jessica Stern, psychologist and advisor at Wondermind.
Some ideas that I found useful are the following:
Be aware of the language we use to talk to ourselves. Avoid being punitive and don’t say things you wouldn’t say to a friend. Give yourself grace. (Dr. Corey Yeager).
Soloman Thomas said it’s important to talk openly about suicide, to which he lost his sister, Ella. He thinks instead of saying “committed suicide” the saying should be replaced by “died by suicide” like any other disease. He wants to challenge the notion that a man that talks about his feelings is weak or crazy.
Mandy Teefey talked about the importance of journaling as a self-care practice and a way of finding answers about what you are going through
Selena Gomez said this project comes out of her personal struggles and wanting to help other people. She also talks about the benefits of therapy and especially Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is designed for people who feels emotions very intensely and aims to regulate them.
Depression is defined by Dr. Corey Yeager as rumination about the past, anxiety as excess of future and the present as being here and now, the only way to truly live.
Wondermind is described like an ecosystem, an ecotone full of variety, soon to be an app, and that is open for everyone who needs any kind of help in mental health and that can be visited in: https://www.wondermind.com/.
Paula Gouveia