Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, episode number 370.

How the hell are you today?

So, Micro Show Monday.

Today I want to talk about judgment.

Now, the reason this thought process has come up is I am

currently doing Movemba and if you've been following my social media it's been a little bit

uncomfortable for me and I don't want to downplay mental health with what

seems like a very insignificant thing for me. Hopefully the stories I'm sharing are

becoming quite inspiring for people and I think they are like

the story I've shared from Dave Kotru this morning just such a simple beautiful

perspective to have on mental health. But anyway, what happens with

exposing yourself in this way? So I initially expose myself on day one to the

judgment of other people, of my opinions and of my emotions and one of the things that happened is that straight away people were really surprised how raw and honest I was about me just shaving off my beard and how I felt. And at no point in that

process should I be afraid to show what my true emotion was. I said that I felt

self-conscious that I felt angry. What is wrong

with sharing that emotion? And one of the things that people struggle with with

sharing that emotion or any emotion is the

judgment of others. Now this is a really important topic. The reason why I bring

this up is judgment stops a lot of people from taking action or I don't

want to join that gym because I'm scared of people judging me or I don't want to say

that thing because I'm scared of people judging me or I can stand up in front of other people because you know I don't want to be judged like that

all and you can think of a billion different ways that you would stop doing something or sorry a billion different

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