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Welcome to Mindful Mental Health

A publication to explore mindfulness and mental health

Caitlin McColl
Mindful Mental Health
7 min readJan 21, 2022

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Hello and welcome to Mindful Mental Health! A publication on the topics of mindfulness, mental health, and mindfully dealing with mental health.

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Everyone knows how important our physical health and wellbeing are, but many forget that our mental health is just as (or perhaps even more!) important — as our mental health can drastically affect our physical health.

First of all, let’s define what I mean by Mindful Mental Health and break down each part.

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a buzzword that you’ve probably heard a lot of the last few years. And you might equate mindfulness with meditation. And yes, there is such a thing as Mindfulness Meditation.

But what is mindfulness more generally? As defined by meditation teacher and mindfulness practitioner and founder of Mindfulness Based Stress…

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Caitlin McColl
Mindful Mental Health

Writer on mental health, grief & loss, mindfulness, running, life musings (+ fiction and poetry!). ❤️coffee & dogs. Vancouver 🇨🇦