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jason humphrey
jason humphrey

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What’s one thing you’re doing for your mental health?

Question to any software engineer in the job market right now:

What’s one thing you’re doing for your mental health?

Comment below and let’s start a conversation.

We need to speak about this publicly until everyone feels that it’s normal, safe, and healthy to talk about mental health.

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Andrew Baisden

I am using mindfulness. Meditation and journaling so that you have a clear defined path for the goals that you are working on. And you can gauge your progress.

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jason humphrey

What type of journaling are you doing?

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Andrew Baisden

At the moment I am doing gratitude journaling as I am trying to increase the positivity in my life. I am also working on doing goal related journaling so at the end of each month. I will do an assessment of the month so I can see what progress has been made. This can include personal growth, career, programming, life etc...