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Hi Besties, welcome back to Try To Take Care.

If you're new here, hello, my name is Ashley, I'm so happy to have you.

I first want to start off this episode by apologizing to all of my Spotify listeners.

I don't know what happened last week, but the episode posted late. It did not post right on time,

so hopefully that's not the case with this episode. If that ever does happen again,

you can always listen on audio boom, and that is always linked on my Instagram,

so I'll have my Instagram and all my socials linked in the description of this episode.

But for this episode and for the month of May, I really want to focus on mental health.

May is mental health awareness month, so every episode this month is going to revolve around

mental health in some way. I am going to link some resources for mental health in the description

of today's episode, so if you need them, if you know someone that needs them, make sure to check

those out. With all that being said, let's get into today's episode. Today I want to talk about

six things that I think can improve your mental health, so let's just get right into it.

So number one, feel your emotions. The absolute worst thing that you can do is suppress your

emotions or ignore your emotions and think that you're going to get better by doing that.

We hold on to our emotions and we let them simmer for so many reasons,

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