Sleep plays a vital role in achieving and maintaining mental health. The effects of inadequate sleep can influence our mood, emotional reactivity, and cognitive function. But, why? And, how important is sleep to our overall mental health, really? Let's find out in this next installment in our blog series, "Cultivating Mental Health".

Providing your body and mind with the nutrients needed to work properly, can plant a seed for positive mental health, mood and well-being. Find out the effects unhealthy foods have on your brain, and what foods you can eat to improve your mental health.

Over the next several weeks, our blog series “Cultivating Mental Health”, will explore key factors that significantly impact mental health. We will examine the effects of food, sleep, exercise, social media use, and social relationships to your mental health. It is our hope, by sharing this information that you will be inspired to plant self-care practices into your daily life, which will root positive mental health and propagate emotional well-being and happiness throughout your life.