Hey, everyone. Emily Abadi here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. This episode comes out the day after World Mental Health Day. And I feel as though it's important. And I did a little bit of this in the weekly Hurtle newsletter as well. So make sure you're subscribed to that. Comes out every single Friday and it's

absolutely free. I feel like it's important to talk about mental health. For me, I certainly

have had what feels like a roller coaster a few years learning about my own mental health.

I would be remiss if I didn't say that I

certainly went through what I know now to be perhaps bouts of depression in college and perhaps

my teenage years. But at that time, I really just thought it was par for the course. But at the

beginning of 2022, I believe it was, I really just thought it was par for the course. But at the beginning of 2022, I believe it was,

I experienced what I now know was a debilitating bout of depression. I felt as though so many

of the things that I would do throughout my day to day that once brought me joy

didn't have the same effect anymore. Something like running that makes me so, so happy. I know this to be

true. I was doing it because I identified as a runner, but I didn't feel anything in the act. I would sit down at my

desk for a day of work and hours would go by and I wouldn't be able to tell you what I did

during that time. I was really, really struggling. And there was an event that happened one night where I went to get a pan from

a cabinet in my kitchen and I pulled it out and a bunch of other pans fell out onto the floor

around my feet. And then I fell onto the floor as well. And I remember in that moment that I knew that I needed to

take action, that I knew that I needed to make a change that I didn't want to feel numb to my

own life. And so through both speaking with a physician, going on medication, and also choosing to work proactively with a therapist and a life coach,

I was able to make some really great progress and get back to a place where I felt at home

in my body. Now, years later, I have so much more education, understanding, and

transparently awareness of what it's like to struggle with my mental health. And it doesn't mean

that I don't have days where I'm not struggling with my mental health.

It just means that now I have a really great toolbox that I can lean into, a really great,

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