Maintaining your mental health is a lifelong journey but you don’t have to go it alone. In today’s episode, the GroWise Be Well team shares the mental health challenges they’ve overcome and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Early in the episode, Amanda opens up about having Meniere's disease alongside bouts of depression. You’ll hear how powerful speaking to her loved ones and taking her mental health into her own hands has been in healing her life. A common thread in our discussion, we talk about the impact of self-healing and looking beyond what our doctors prescribe us. Later, Lindsay talks about experiencing catastrophic thinking and the tricks that she uses to stop these patterns in their tracks. After touching on how the stigma surrounding getting therapy is disappearing, Paige discusses having automatic negative thoughts and what she’s done to better herself. A key element of mental health, we dive into the importance of treating ourselves with love and respect before Sasha explores why cutting things out of your life is needed to achieve balance. We also touch on the benefits of visualization, focusing on healthy sleep cycles, nutrition, and physical exercise to your mental health. Near the end, the team shares how they sharpen their mental acuity. While mental health seems like a heavy topic, looking after yourself can be as simple as having an awesome tea-set — Kayli’s tea-set helps her focus on positive thinking. Tune in to hear more about mental health from the sage women of GroWise Be Well.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Sarah introduces this episode’s focus on mental health.
• How Kayli’s awesome tea set helps reinforce positive thinking.
• How Amanda overcame her challenges with depression and Meniere's disease.
• The power of self-healing and positive thinking in going beyond western medicine. 
• Hear the trick that Lindsay uses to stop negative and thought patterns.
• Why depression and negative feelings can feel like a spiral.
• Finding clarity while feeling trapped to seek out guidance.
• Normalizing getting help and the diminishing stigma of getting therapy.
• How Paige’s anxiety affected her barrel racing career; now she’s back in the saddle.
• Trying through your struggles instead of doing something about it. 
• Learning from what you do for your kids and treating yourself with love. 
• Developing proper sleep cycles and why too much sleep can be a bad thing.
• Why cutting things from your life can be as impactful as adding things.
• Forgiving yourself and repairing broken bridges; we get to be new people every day. 
• Growing and learning from your challenges and being grateful for these lessons. 
• What you can do to sharpen your mental acuity.
• How reaching out and starting your mental health journey is the most difficult step.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

Uncommon Ware

Chick-fil-A

The Secret

Zoom

Steven Delvo

MCT Oil

The Iliad