We want to share all your mental health stories and advice
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“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close.
Hello, Elizabeth here! Welcome to Clear Yo Mind, a publication where people can publish their stories and feelings about mental health and wellbeing, personal growth and development, and general life lessons.
At Clear Yo Mind, we are not looking for perfection. Write, just the way you are. Nobody is perfect, and we do not expect you to be.
It is better if you are a member because your stories qualify for payment, and they are distributed more and for longer. You may sign up here.
We ask that you write about something that relates to mental health, and has clear actionable takeaways for the reader. This article is a good example:
5 Things Neuroscientists Recommend That Will Improve Your Mental Health
The key lies in learning how to keep out unwanted thoughts
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
We know that a lot of publications reject new writers — we welcome you with open arms.
We also know that you may have a story that needs a home but is not necessarily about mental health. We understand that all aspects of life somehow affect our mental health — so if your story can somehow support that angle, we will publish it.
We will continuously give feedback to help you improve your writing for the Medium platform, and increase your chances of getting your stories curated.
You should also check out our newsletter to see how far we have already come! 💛
We Like To Publish
- Mental Health
- Personal Growth and Development
- Life Lessons
- Life
- Bonus: Love and Relationships — because they affect the state of our mental health so strongly.
We welcome personal stories with lessons for the reader. We welcome self-improvement, motivational articles, psychology, mental health, mental illness, mental wellness, hacks for better mental health, life lessons, parenting, dating advice, love, relationships, etc.
Our major ask
The reader should always be able to learn something from your article.
Your writing style can be in the form of advice, personal experience, tips, interview, opinion, review, even listicles (but please still add personal touch/your point of view, so it feels more special).
The most successful tags in our publication are mental health, psychology, mindfulness, self, Clear Yo Mind, and mental health awareness.
Our humble request regarding claps
You are a writer on Medium. So, you know how much effort goes into writing an article you feel is worth publishing. It is very disheartening finding that your article has 10 fans, for example, and it has 10 claps to match.
That would be just one clap per person.
We request that when you clap articles in the publication, please give them the maximum of 50 claps. Please. You do not lose anything.
And if all of us in the publication are giving each other the maximum 50 claps each time we clap, 10 fans would mean 500 claps. Wow! It is a better number than 10 claps.
One thing I can assure you of is at least 50 claps because I am always cheering you on in my loudest virtual voice! 🙂 Keep writing and sharing your stories. Your message is exactly what someone needs at this moment.
We Do Not Publish
Anything that would not pass the Medium rules here.
Become a Clear Yo Mind Publication Writer
There are two ways.
- Comment on this article Please add me and indicate your username e.g. Please add me @ekasujja
- Send an email to clearyomind@gmail.com indicating your name, and a link to your Medium profile e.g. Elizabeth Kasujja, ekasujja.medium.com
You may include the draft link you want us to review for publication.
We will add you within 24 hours. That is the stretch. Most times we add you within an hour or two. 🙂
We encourage you to submit AT LEAST one article per week. The best way to grow your audience and become a better writer is to actually write and put your work out there.
Now That You Are Our Writer, What Next?
If you’ve been accepted as a writer for Clear Yo Mind, your next step is to:
- Hit the three little buttons at the top of your screen.
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- Choose “add to publication” for your post.
- When you do, you’ll see this screen:
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- Choose Clear Yo Mind from the list and hit “Select and continue”
- Click “Submit”
- You will get a page that has your story preview, and shows you where to input tags for your story. Choose four tags that best fit your article. Your fifth tag should be Clear Yo Mind.
- Click “Submit to publication”.
- Voila! We will publish your story and Medium will alert you when the story is live. Congratulations!
Please Introduce Yourself
Here is an example post I made to introduce myself.
The 9 Articles You Should Read If You Want To See My Best Work
Every good book needs a Table of Contents — here is mine (Updated Monthly)
You may adopt the format and update it to have your own details. Or you can create something entirely different — that is up to you.
When you submit that introduction post to the publication, add “About Me” as a tag, and it will automatically also be captured in the About Our Writers tab in the navigation bar.
How Do We Get More Readers To Your Work?
To give your work more publicity after we publish it on Medium, we will also share it with our communities on other platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Website, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. We will also include the link to your article in our weekly newsletter.
Please Take Note Of The Following Key Points
1. We will publish up to 5 new stories a day.
We will publish up to 5 new stories a day so that every story gets a chance to be seen on our homepage, and every story gets the attention it deserves.
2. We will not publish self-promotional material.
It’s OK to include a link to your newsletter at the end of your piece, but the piece must be able to stand alone in the publication. If your story has a self-promotion vibe, we will not be able to include it in the publication.
3. All articles must feature attributed imagery.
We love photos and encourage you to use them in your writing. All stories need to featured image that is fair use with attribution. To properly attribute a photo, you have to make sure you have the rights to a photo.
You can get beautiful copyright-free images from various sites such as Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay. Ensure that you credit them correctly (as shown below)
4. All articles must be proofread, edited, and formatted correctly.
Using readily available free tools like spellcheck and Grammarly, it should be easy to check your work for grammar missteps, spelling mistakes, and typos. We also ask that you use Medium’s style tools to format your piece with web and mobile readers, for example, no excessively long blocks of unbroken text.
5. We think you are special!
That is why we accepted you as a writer for our publication! Stay awesome.
Wecan’t wait to read and publish your next article!
