You have to rebuild your support network, maybe even cut ties to individuals who haven’t been as supportive, so now you might be looking at making other changes in your life. It is always a difficult decision to pivot to a new path, but it’s doable and this support network will be valuable in ensuring that it is successful. Let’s talk about changing majors, transferring colleges, and new career paths.

Technology has allowed us to have access to so much of the world. It has also allowed others to have access to us. Maybe too much access. As we struggle to reconnect with good friends and break up with bad friends, we find there are the people in between that may are in your life where you still want to set up limits to create a healthy relationship. These limits are not walls, they are boundaries and we aren’t really taught how to construct them.

We define bad good friend as a friend who is bad at managing the time between each gathering (physical) but is good at providing social and emotional support. SO what’s a good bad friend? That’s a friend that is good at showing up when invited…aaaannd not much else. Actually a good bad friend might just be toxic friend. They are friends that put you down, gossip about you, flippantly apologizes, makes you feel unsettled, tries to change you, or makes everything about them.

May’s theme will be about difficulties. The fact of the matter is that stress does create a strain on your mental health, and long term stress actually can affect you physically. Once we get to the physical ailments it’s easy to seek treatment the headaches and stomach aches. But to truly avoid getting to that level we need to evaluate and take care of the mental ailments. Sometimes that means nipping certain things that is providing you mental distress in the bud.