The Mayfair Group

You know it's a good event when you forget to take pictures. 📸 Last night was our first free monthly group therapy session of the year and I am still relishing in the day-after feelings of learning, support, community, and healing. Meadowlark Monaghan and I co-hosted a discussion on all things new year intentions, letting go of perfectionism, and self compassion over self critique. We then opened the floor to questions, feedback, discussions, and commiserations (if that wasn't already a word, it now is!). Just a few take aways from the evening: 💡 If you are grasping to identify your "why" and feeling a lot of pressure around finding the perfect intention or resolution, it's possible that the discovery process itself may be the intention this year. Give yourself that room and space to experiment and discover. 💡 If scrolling social media is leading to peak anxiety, try setting some boundaries around when you do and do not browse, or try setting up a finsta account that is curated to give you learning, inspiration, connection, and creativity, without as much of the pressure, social anxiety, or comparison. 💡 Try to plant at least one small moment of magic in your day. This might be a warm shower, your favorite item for breakfast, a conversation with a friend who encourages you, or re-reading a loving text or looking at a photo of a memory that makes you smile. Especially during more challenging periods, focus on this moment. 💡 If a goal or intention is more intimidating than you can begin today, break it down into as small of steps as possible to make the starting step possible. You cannot go zero to 100 on something you've never done before or don't have the tools, knowledge, or training for. The bricks will stack over time. 💡 Tell your community how to support you. If you are working on resting more without guilt, ask your friends to celebrate you when they see you resting. If you are working on saying no, ask your partner to celebrate you when you politely decline. To gain the full highlights, journal prompts, and resources that you can lean on throughout the month to continue your healing and growth, sign up for MyWellbeing and The Mayfair Group 's free email newsletters. Our next session will be Feb 12 on Love and Loneliness, RSVP for Feb and Mar today and stay tuned for Apr - Dec announcements in the coming weeks ✨ Thank you Sam Abrahart and the Mayfair team for sponsoring these incredible sessions. Meadowlark Monaghan, you are a dream co-host. Your unique lens of joy, playfulness, and creativity in the world of healing is rare and so, so needed. https://lnkd.in/ewdx8_d5 #mentalhealth #grouptherapy #therapy

When people ask me what I’m most proud of at Mayfair - this will be the top of my list 🖤 today on World Mental Health Day 2023, we are proud to announce we are expanding our therapy fund. The Mayfair Group in partnership with MyWellbeing will be sponsoring free therapist led group sessions all of 2024 for our community. These Mayfair mental health sessions will be our way of giving the community greater safe spaces and accessibility to mental health care. Younger me is smiling so big today knowing that there was a time in my life when I didn’t know where to turn. After the struggle of finding the right mental health care (which was an emotional and hard process in itself) I was finally able to start processing and healing alongside the depression I navigated. Im still healing and learning that although this mental illness will always be a small part of me, it will never define me. It was through my care that I was able to have this breakthrough as well as learn the tools to equip myself in moments of darkness. Today is a proud day for me. I’ve always wanted to be able to use what Mayfair does to give back more in these spaces. This is what lights my fire. Creating safe places for people to feel less alone 🖤 I know there is so much work to be done and this is just a small small step in the right direction but small steps create big change. Thank you to our partners at MyWellbeing for helping pull these sessions and therapists together so that we can offer this. Thank you to my Mayfair team for having the upmost passion and fire to make these things happen. And thank you to our Mayfair community. We will ALWAYS give back to you 🖤 Sign up for FREE group therapy at the link below. See session information and breakdown as well. Thursday, January 11th at 7pm EST NEW YEAR, SAME ME Monday, February 12th at 7pm EST LOVE & LONELINESS Friday, March 15th at 1pm EST HOW TO LOVE SOMEONE NAVIGATING MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES https://lnkd.in/ewdx8_d5 MyWellbeing The Mayfair Group