62: Mental Health Check-In...Let's Chat
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Mental health is often left out of the conversation when it comes to health and fitness. However, with as many people as it impacts and the struggles that many people face due to its severity, it’s important that we destigmatize it and normalize the experience. As someone who has struggled with anxiety, Robin is very passionate about supporting both physical and mental health at The Balanced Life.
In this conversation, Robin shares statistics about mental health, the importance of it, and ways we can work to improve our own mental health. She discusses the strategies she uses to regulate her anxiety and tangible tips you can use to support yourself or others who are experiencing it.
Show Highlights:
- Mental and emotional health are intertwined and we have to care for both.
- Statistics about mental health and why it’s important to normalize it.
- Robin shares her experience with anxiety and how therapy has been transformative for her experience.
- How Pilates can help regulate both physical and mental health.
- How the media we consume has an impact on our mental and emotional health.
- Trying our best to give ourselves grace over guilt when it comes to sleep can improve the mental stress of daily life.
- Counseling and therapists are great resources to get on a better path towards overall health.
Links:
Pilates Strong: a FREE 5-Day Pilates Challenge
The Balanced Life on Instagram
Telehealth Counseling Services: BetterHelp
Telehealth Counseling Services: Talkspace
Raising Worry-Free Girls by Sissy Goff
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:13.0 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all |
| 0:22.9 | and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create your own uniquely |
| 0:29.4 | balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi there, and welcome back to the Balance Life podcast. I'm so excited to be checking in |
| 0:41.4 | with you today. We are going to have a conversation about a very important aspect of health and |
| 0:47.8 | well-being. And it's something that we don't always talk about. We're not going to talk about |
| 0:53.3 | exercise. Well, actually we will a little bit, but that's not the main focus of what we're going to talk about. We're not going to talk about exercise. Well, |
| 0:54.3 | actually, we will a little bit, but that's not the main focus of what we're going to talk about. |
| 0:57.6 | We're not going to talk about which foods you should be eating and which foods you shouldn't be |
| 1:01.3 | eating. We're not going to be talking about calorie burn or macros or how many steps you |
| 1:06.4 | should be getting in a day. Instead, we are going to focus on one area of wellness that is extremely |
| 1:12.2 | important, especially based on everything that's happened in the last year and a half in the |
| 1:17.6 | world. Today, we are going to have a little check in on our mental health. So this is something |
| 1:23.8 | that we care a lot about here at the balanced life. We focus on health as a whole |
| 1:28.4 | person. So that means physical health as well as mental health and well-being. And honestly, |
| 1:33.8 | this is something that I think is left out of so many fitness programs and it's not okay. |
| 1:39.8 | And it's something that sometimes we actually can trade or negatively impact our mental health, even in pursuit of physical health. |
| 1:48.8 | And that's not okay. |
| 1:50.0 | And so here at the balanced life, we take a really well-rounded approach. |
| 1:53.3 | And you should know that by now, right? |
| 1:54.6 | We care about how you're feeling on the mat and off of the mat. |
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