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This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.

Okay. You're listening to the Friday Fix. Today, however, is a special day. I have a huge announcement, and I wanted to take this episode to explain a big change you're about to see on the Mentally Strong People podcast. I'm partnering with the biggest mental health website in the world.

Together, we're turning the Mentally Strong People podcast into the Very Well Mind podcast.

I'm so excited to make this shift. And while this would be an extraordinary opportunity under any circumstance,

there's a personal reason why this shift means so much to me.

Very well was the first major media outlet to take a chance on me back in the day.

At the time that they gave me my first job,

they had no idea I was in the middle of a personal

struggle.

They gave me my first opportunity as a writer during a time when I needed it the most.

Back then, they were known as about.com.

And I wasn't known at all.

I was a therapist in a small town in Maine.

My 26-year-old husband had passed away not long before,

and my financial situation was pretty tight. And the last thing I wanted to do was move out of the

house that we had once bought together. I wanted to stay right there until I was ready to do

something else. As a therapist at a community mental health center, it really wasn't an option to

work longer hours.

I had to find another way to earn more money.

Freeland's writing seemed to be the best option.

I could write during the evenings and on the weekends, and if I wasn't up for it, I didn't have to work.

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