{"id":25912,"date":"2015-10-21T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=25912"},"modified":"2015-10-19T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T18:06:18","slug":"getting-crafty-at-mental-wellness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/10\/21\/getting-crafty-at-mental-wellness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting crafty at Mental Wellness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"The past few weeks or so have been jam-packed. I\u2019ve had so much work to do that I\u2019ve barely had time to breathe, relax, eat, sleep, and all of those kind of important aspects of being a human. If you\u2019re looking for me, you can probably find me at a campus library, eyes glued to a computer screen, agenda open and full of undone to-do\u2019s. I\u2019ve been pulling a lot of late nights and keeping myself awake artificially through an endless stream of coffee. <\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen you\u2019re stressed out and have a lot of work to do, it\u2019s really tempting to push everything else to the side - your social life, healthy eating, going to the gym, or taking a moment to relax at the end of the day. For me, I often feel like I just don\u2019t have time for all that - all I have time for is moving through assignments, readings, class, and work. <\/span>\r\n\r\nOctober is <\/span>Mental Wellness Month, <\/b>and there has been a lot going on around campus to help students learn more about mental health.<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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October is Mental Wellness Month!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLast week, I checked out Thursday\u2019s <\/span>Get Crafty: Thursdays for Mental Wellness Month. <\/b>I was stressed about taking time out of my day to go to the event, but it wound up being a really fun and relaxing hour. The craft of the day was to make stationery and envelopes to write letters with. <\/span>\r\n\r\nAs you may know if you\u2019ve read my blog posts, I\u2019m a big fan of letter writing - <\/span>check out my post from this summer about the perks of pen pals<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\r\n\r\nI made a ton of lovely stationery that I can\u2019t wait to write letters on and send to friends. Plus, letting my mind actually relax for an hour and letting myself have a little fun and be creative made me feel a lot more invigorated when I sat down to do my assignments later that day. I was able to come back to my work refreshed and got a lot more done that I had the day before.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n
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Some of my favourite things at Get Crafty: infinity decorative tape; beautiful sheet music; tea; underwater photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s a lesson I\u2019ve had to relearn time and time again: it\u2019s actually not productive to work constantly. You may feel like you\u2019re making progress, but as you become more run down and exhausted, your ability to work productively lessens and you become more stressed out. Conversely, if you take some time to relax, you\u2019ll have a clearer head when you return to your work and be able to get more done and feel less anxious.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLooking to take a mental health break? <\/b>Check out the Mental Wellness Month calendar on the Healthy U of T website.<\/a>\u00a0Plus, check out Get Crafty every week at Hart House!\u00a0<\/a><\/b>\r\n\r\nGot tips for mental wellness, or questions? Share them in the comments below or on twitter with the hashtag #BeWellUofT. <\/span><\/i>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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