BUILDING MENTAL FITNESS

Get yourself life-fit!

Get Mentally Fit for Life

Being mentally fit means addressing and dealing with issues that affect you emotionally, physically, financially and socially.

Keys to well-being

It is said that ‘prevention is better than cure.’ Building mental fitness helps prevent mental health problems. Improving our communication skills, mindful awareness, and developing an anti-fragile approach to life goes way beyond resilience, helping us grow through adversity.

It’s good to focus on physical health, going to the gym or carefully selecting foods to help us get fit. But, we often ignore our mental and emotional health until something goes wrong, leaving us feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed.

While I am not an expert in physical or financial fitness, I can help build your mental fitness by improving your emotional and relational fitness, boosting your physical and financial wellness.

To be a fully rounded, mentally fit person: you need to be...

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Emotionally Fit

Developing the skills that help us restore our mental health and get on the path toward mental fitness can help us live a calmer, less stressful life. Learning to manage our emotions by developing mindful awareness is a crucial skill to learn.

Counselling 4 men: Mental Fitness

Socially Fit

Humans are social animals, and we cannot successfully survive alone. We are dependent upon the mutual aid of others. Building effective relationships by improving communication skills is central to our well-being.


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Physically Fit

If anything has come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the need to make sure we look after our bodies. Nutrition, exercise, sleep, and fresh air have become so important for our welfare that they cannot be ignored.

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Financially Fit

Counselling can help you improve your finances. Just think how much we spend each day on our personal collection of addictions; it might be smoking, drugs, alcohol, exercise, shopping, coffee, porn, games,… (and the list goes on).

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Spiritually Fit

Wellness also includes spiritual fitness – finding peace and harmony in our lives – which is the fifth dimension of being well, according to the World Health Organisation

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Be Mindfully Aware

Increased awareness protects us

  • Helps us control racing thoughts
  • Acts as a form of self-regulation
  • Paying attention, not reacting on autopilot

Being curious and accepting relieves the symptoms of anxiety/stress

The action of observing helps change perspectives

We are no longer being controlled or defined by our thoughts…

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Communicate Better

We could all learn to communicate better with our loved ones, friends and work colleagues.

Being mentally fit means listening and speaking mindfully, seeking to understand the other person rather than demanding that the other person understands us.

It also means that we act assertively, not passively or aggressively, respecting ourselves while respecting other people.

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Become Anti-Fragile

When we face life issues, we can break down, bounce back or break through.

We don’t need to deny the stresses in our lives and fight them; being mentally fit means we can use them as a lever to grow as individuals, groups and societies.

 Becoming anti-fragile is essential to building your mental fitness; it helps us move beyond being resilient into living in a constant process of becoming.

How to get started

Step 1: Get in touch

Nothing happens until you reach out and ask for help. This is probably the most challenging step for many men.

Step 2: Let's meet online

I offer a free 30mins conversation to help you explain what is going on and for you to experience my approach to counselling.

Step 3: Let's get to work

If you feel you can work with me, then let’s sort an appointment out and get started.

Give me a call - if not now, when?

Do you want to know more?

Call 07792 799017 and learn more; use the contact form or email info@groundedcounsellor.com.

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