Blasting the "blahs" + finding joy again

Hello and welcome back to another episode!

Why are we talking about the blahs? 

Let us paint you a picture. 

You feel different. Tired. 
You’re not exactly sad or distressed, but you couldn’t describe yourself as thriving either. 

Anhedonia refers to the reduced ability to experience pleasure, it’s not burnout, still had energy. Its not depression. We just felt blah.

You have all of the things that you want and you’re doing all the things you “should” do but you just don’t get to experience joy. 

 We are talking about the middle ground or the grey area of mental health today – rather than the two opposite swings of the pendulum – happiness and depression – we are talking about the blahs and languishing - when you feel lackluster or disconnected, but you’re not in notable distress because that is the reality of where a lot of us are at the moment! 

Our mission is always to invite people to understand normal psychological experiences and I think anhedonia or a case of the blah’s or mehs is something a lot of us experience but maybe don’t necessarily understand. 

Blasting the Blahs
People get bored of talking about mindfulness and nature and self-care because we know it and hear it so often, but these are the mitigating factors in the reward pathway that are so effective at blasting the blahs!!

 
We hope you enjoy!
Aimee, Kat + Maddie

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