Mental Note — Blog — Mental Note By Imani Tawfiq

Lovely Day

I sit and think of how mentally and emotionally strong our ancestors had to be to endure such a time (OMG, I am becoming emotional). I think about how much strength they passed on in spirit. I also think about how as a society we now have the power to shift our culture and the narrative to normalize seeking help, support and resources that we need.

Self-Care Sunday

After much reflection, I was reminded that in order to live a healthy, full, productive, long-lasting and balanced life we must feed ourselves from and to our mind, body and spirit. That matters!

Death By Suicide

I’ve been around my share of men who are overly expressive, very assertive and take their healing seriously. But I’ve also been around men who drown themselves in sex, drugs, alcohol, video games, materialistic things, activities, and everything under the sun to avoid dealing with the reality that they are not okay.