All right, guys, welcome back to The Man Talk Show.

I am Connor Beaton.

Today we're going to be talking about a man's guide, your guide to mental health.

And I'm going to be sharing not just how do you get from a bad place to a decent place to a mediocre place, which

is what most social media content is talking about. It's like, how do you stop feeling

sort of anxious? How do you stop feeling depressed? And get back to a baseline of just like

neutral. I'm going to talk about how do you move from wherever you are, right? If mental health is you've got a negative 10

being really bad to a zero, which is neutral, to a plus 10 being absolutely exceptional. How do you

move from wherever you are on that spectrum upwards in the scale, right? We want to move up and to the

right. And what I want to say is,

this is an amalgamation of everything that I've learned in the past decade, everything that

I've implemented in my own life and what I try and implement with clients. And I want you to know

that when I started off on my work, I was probably like a negative eight or nine. You know,

there was moments where my mental health was

abusive towards myself. The way that I talked to myself was absolutely brutal. The way I treated

myself was not good. And I was constantly sabotaging myself. And today, I'm consistently, again,

on that scale, on that spectrum, probably a plus seven, a plus eight,

you know, it fluctuates. Sometimes I'm a plus nine, sometimes I'm a plus five, but it's in a

place where, if you would talk to me 10 or 12 years ago, I'd have been like, man, I don't think

I've ever experienced real mental health. And so I'm going to share with you today is how to move from

one place to the other. Where we're going to start is defining mental health. What actually is

mental health? Well, I love this notion that mental health equals mental flexibility, right?

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