What if anticipating mental hiccups could help us move forward?

De-stigmatizing mental health issues is an incredible, worthy goal, and this post is absolutely far from the first to address this. In practice, it can be helpful to remind ourselves that tending and taking care of our mental health can really feel no different than making sure we’ve had enough water or figuring out a way to ensure we’re getting the appropriate amount of physical movement throughout the day.

Yet — for many, and in spite of calls to normalize discussing our individual struggles with mental health, openness and acceptance of our trickier psychological characteristics seems elusive. Instagram tells us…