Sunday Stack: Mental Health and Wellness 3/16/25
Reflections on letting go, managing your attention, and more...
Sunday Stack is a new digest to bring you some of the recent, and important, stories in the mental health and wellness fields. I hope this helps you cut through some of the noise and focus on exploring what feels most important to you. Consider this post an invitation for self-reflection. Below you will find the ideas I’ve been sitting with most recently.
In this issue:
Examining the practice of letting go
Reflecting on the relationship with your parents
Inspiration to refocus your attention
When I work with clients who express a desire to move forward in their lives, one of the questions that often comes up centers around what it means to “let go” of something. That is, can you let go of the pain you’ve experienced at the hands of someone else (or even yourself)? How do you let go of the ideas you’ve had about the future that now haven’t come to fruition?
Letting go is complicated! I think the recent post by
offers up some helpful guidance on what it means to let go and start to move forward while honoring what is real and true for us.
Your attention is your biggest currency, spend it well.
In this day and age we are beholden to technology. In fact, social media sites and apps are created in ways to hijack our attention. And if you’ve spent any meaningful amount of time on the internet lately then you also understand how quickly you can be exposed to traumatic images and videos, and the ubiquitous mean-spiritedness and sensationalism that garners the most views. This post from Mindful Designer
reflects on “digital trance” and how principles of addiction are baked into product and app design.
I think A LOT about relationships in my life, especially as we’re in the midst of a Venus Retrograde until later this month. When I came across this post from
, author of the life-changing book The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, I couldn’t help but think further on my relationship with my parents as she shares a beautiful poem by Khalil Gibran. Take few moments to read the post and join in on the conversation in the comment section, or take a little time to journal on your relationship with your own parents after reading.
I don’t think, on the whole, that we spend enough times with ourselves. The world demands our attention, but we don’t have to listen. I really appreciate this post from
called Joy Spotting is Sacred. It’s a helpful reminder to allow life’s small, but beautiful moments, take up a little more space in your conscious awareness. It’s a great mindfulness practice.
If any of the articles linked in this piece help or heal you, please share with others who might also need these reminders to practice good self-care.