Brighter Dawn Mental Health

12/10/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Sleeping is vital to managing emotions, having motivation to complete to do lists, and having strong, healthy relationships. Some additional things to try are stretching, no scrolling on your phone an hour before bed, and reading before bed. What helps you sleep?

💚If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📩email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

12/08/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Trying Something New

This one is fairly easy and completely open to your interpretation. You could try a new food, a new genre of book, a new genre of music, or taking a different route to work or home. It is easy to add novelty into your daily life. It can help you look at things differently or find something you didn't know you liked! One of my favorite things is to ask people what they are listening to. I have learned about a lot of amazing artists by asking what music people listen to. 🎧🎼 If you can't tell, music is a huge part of my life!

💚If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📩email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

12/05/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Let's play! 💚

Playing is very important for both adults and youth. While there is depth in the research of why play is important to youth, there is a gap in the research of how play is important to adults as well. One of the obstacles lies in how to define "play." What is play to you? Is it playing a board game, hide and seek, playing a video game either solo or with friends? How do you play? What is your favorite way to play?

💚If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📩email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

12/03/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Sensory Self-Soothing: Proprioception

Proprioception is part of our sensory system, and is often referred to as our "sixth sense." This system provides the brain information regarding the body's position, movement, and coordination within an environment. One of my favorite proprioception exercises include stretching and barre work out classes. There are some other ideas listed in the graphic. Which one did you try?

💚 If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📨 email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

12/01/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Meditate for 10 Minutes

Meditation has many great benefits for our bodies 💪and brains 🧠. Some benefits include:
💚 Lowering resting blood pressure
💚 Bringing awareness to the present
💚 Better sleep
💚 Reduced tension in the body
Some of my favorite places to listen to guided meditations: YouTube, Insight Timer (phone app, can use free), and Relax Melodies (app, can use free, but has paid portions, and computer). *we are not sponsored by any of these apps nor do we get any reimbursement from them.*

💚 If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📨 email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

11/28/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Unclench your jaw. And if you're feeling silly, stick out your tongue too. 🤪 Your nervous system will thank you!

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11/27/2025

🦃 Gratitude is good for the soul.
This Thanksgiving, take a moment to breathe, reflect, and appreciate the little things — connection, kindness, and peace of mind.

Gratitude isn’t just a feeling; it’s self-care. 💛

11/26/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Make yourself 10% more comfortable. Change your shirt, sit in a different way, take a drink of water, or take a big sigh. Sometimes making yourself completely comfortable is not possible, but 10% is possible.

How can you make yourself 10% more comfortable than you are right now?

💚 If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📨 email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

11/25/2025

11/24/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

Take a break. Breaks are good, and breaks are needed.

💚 If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📨 email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

11/21/2025

✨ Mental Health Wellness ✨

This is just one example of sensory grounding. I like this example because it can be done any place and at any time. Sometimes the best coping strategies are the ones that can be done any where regardless of location.

💚 If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📨 email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com

11/19/2025

✨Mental Health Wellness ✨

Self-care is more than pampering and bubble baths. While those might be self-care to some, self-care can also include exercising, paying bills, cleaning your living spaces, and sitting in your favorite space. What is self-care to you? What does it include? Post your ideas below to give others inspiration!

💚 If you would like to schedule with Kailey or Kaitlin, please 📲 call 785-491-7342 or 📨 email brighterdawnmh@bdmh.sprucecare.com