How do people like us become mentally healthy in a world where it feels like mental health challenges are around every corner?

Stress compounding every day, life feels erratic and we're being distracted by our techie lives that we lead.

So how do we become mentally healthy in this world?

This podcast aims to find that answer.

My name's Paula and I've been on this mission since 2014 and I want you to come and join me.

Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Absolent Mind podcast, becoming mentally healthy.

I hope you're all doing

amazingly well. We've got a beautiful Friday here in the UK and I've had the day with my daughter

just having a little bit of fun. Now this morning in the UK, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson

he announced that he was going to tackle obesity.

And one of the ways in which he was going to do this was by limiting or reducing advertising

of junk food at certain times. And this got me into a spiral. This is what has made me do this podcast today. I thought, right, okay,

we shall do a podcast talking all about cause and effect and hopefully I can help some of you

guys out there. So like I said, Boris announced that he was going to limit or reduce

advertising of junk food. And while this seems like common sense, it seems like a good

method, because, you know, we all know that advertising really does have an impact upon us.

There are, there's underlying messages within this that I think humans need to wake up here and we need to take action against it.

So the message, you know, that underlying message, the message for me that I want to ask is

who is really in control?

Do we allow all external forces and influences to direct and dictate our lives?

Should we be able to know what's right for us?

Make those right decisions and lead happier, healthier lives?

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