Mental Health > Everything Else

Episode 9 ! Thank-you all for your love and support with the podcast, together we are helping not only to raise awareness, but also helping to remove the negative stigma associated with mental health. This is the last week for Mental Health Awareness month, by supporting one another, and spreading the word, the importance of mental health and dealing with its struggles will receive a bigger focus in our society. This weeks episode is a short solo episode where i dive into the topic of regret & living in the past. All throughout my mental health journey, it has been very prevalent and i wanted to share my stories and insights to help those of you who also deal with it. The last couple of weeks have been quite rough for me mentally, and this was caused by a variety of things which i mention in the episode. I got into that cycle of regret and living in the past, which has not been at all good for my overall mental health. The past is a time that no longer exists and beating ourselves up for the "bone-head" mistakes and decisions we made serves us no purpose other than wasting the time we have here in the present. Life is an experience, regardless of what we encounter, we have to be thankful for those experiences, and allow ourselves to grow & learn from them. Thank-you once again for listening, please share the episode and show with anyone you can, and remember, mental health > everything else !

First off, thank-you for listening and the continued support, it means a great deal to me that you all are helping to increase awareness and remove the stigma that is attached to mental health. Now more than ever we need to all come together as a community and support each other, by doing so we can normalize mental health struggles and enable those suffering to seek the help that they need without fear of judgement. Today's solo episode dives into the topic of anxiety, my experience with it, and some tips on how i manage it. Similar to depression, anxiety is a very relatable subject when it comes to mental health and i wanted to share my story and things that i have learnt which help me combat it to hopefully help those of you who are also dealing with it. It began to be something i dealt with during my university career, but because i knew nothing about it or want to come to terms with the fact that i could have it, i never dealt with it and allowed it to progress with the decisions i made. Eventually after it began to dictate my behaviours, actions, thoughts, relationships, and basically every aspect of my life, i decided i needed to get help to deal with it. I share the things i did to begin this process, and how they helped me to get my anxiety in control to a point where it became manageable. I truly hope that this episode helps those of you that are in a similar situation and can relate deal with your anxiety and get yourself to a point where it is not dictating your life. Thank-you once again for listening, please share the episode and podcast with anyone you can and as always, take care of yourselves !

As always, thank-you to you all for the love and support that you have all shown both me and the podcast. I am extremely grateful, and it means more than you know that each one of you is helping to increase awareness and remove the stigma associated with mental health. May is mental health awareness month, so it's important that we all do our part in helping mental health become normalized and provide support for those who need it. This episode is a solo one where i discuss depression, a serious mental illness that affects many people especially with the current state of the world with the pandemic. I explain my experience with depression, how it began, how it impacted me and my actions, as well as how it caused a great deal of strain on many of the close relationships in my life. I realized after several months that i needed to get help in order to deal with it and get it under control. I dive into the steps i took to get help and the things i did that helped me/still help me currently when i am feeling depressed or feeling down. Depression is a mental illness that many people suffer with in silence and i hope that this episode and me sharing my experience helps those who are dealing with it. Once again thank-you for listening, please share this, the more people it reaches the more we can continue the mission to increase awareness and remove the negative stigma. Take care of yourselves ! 

Episode 6 ! Thank-you all for the love and support that you have been giving me with the podcast and my mission to increase awareness & remove the negative stigma associated with mental health. This mission is particularly important in the month of May because it is mental health awareness month which is a great opportunity to spread the word and put the focus on helping & supporting our community. Today's episode is a special guest episode where i chat with a very good friend of mine about her mental health journey. Jordan is a social worker who not only works in mental health but who also dealt with mental health struggles for quite awhile. She opens up about her issues with substance abuse, how it impacted her, as well as how her support network helped her get through that extremely tough time. We also discuss the pandemic and how it relates to the work she does, the situations that she has to deal with regularly, and the importance of community during this time of isolation. Jordan shares some tips on how to start getting your mental health better when you are struggling, the idea of productivity, and how doing your best is always enough. She mentions the importance of having mental health conversations and how they can be so helpful not only when you are feeling down but also just in general. I hope that you enjoy the episode as much as i enjoyed having the discussion with Jordan, please continue to support the podcast by listening and sharing. For those of you who are interested in supporting me in my fundraiser for CMHA, a link to the page where you can donate will be on my linktree account which you can find on my instagram. Thank-you once again, and as always take care of yourselves !

Episode 5 ! Thank-you for listening and supporting the podcast, by doing so you too are helping raise awareness and reducing the negative stigma that is associated with mental health struggles. It's important that we all do our part in helping to normalize mental health issues, and get the people who need help the help that they need and deserve. Todays episode is a short solo episode where i discuss the topic of health = wealth, i'm sure that you have all heard it before and that's because it's true. When dealing with mental health issues, often we let our health slip through the cracks which is not a good habit at all. Because our mental health is suffering, we let our physical and emotional health take a toll as well, which in turn causes a more negative impact. It's a trickle down effect and it's our responsibility to ensure that we don't allow this to happen, or that we mitigate it as best as we can and make the right choices & decisions for our well being. Taking care of our diet/nutrition, as well as making exercise a part of our daily lives will help to better not only our mental health, but our overall health. I also discuss substance abuse briefly and share a bit of my experience with it during my mental health journey. Substance abuse, like poor diet and lack of physical activity in our lives, is not the answer or solution to our problems. We must have the courage to face those issues we are dealing with, and address them in the right manner that will not further negatively impact our mental health. I hope that you enjoy the episode, please continue to support and share the podcast, the more people it reaches, the better ! Thank-you and as always, take care of yourselves.