Hi there, welcome to the Mathiaship Archipelago podcast. My name is Mathias, I'm a psychotherapist for National Tennessee and this is podcast about mental health and moving towards what's meaningful, despite hardship.

Well, hello everybody. I'm happy you're here. We're going to be doing an AMA today and ask me anything. I collected questions on various social media channels and we have kind of a whole selection of different questions that we'll be going through today. I hope you enjoy.

Hey, I wanted to let you know about a free webinar I'm doing soon. It's on the topic of trauma and we're going to be talking about specifically why do I feel this way? Why do the emotional wounds from the past, the things that have affected me, you know, long ago actually have impacts on the relationships I'm trying to build in the present, the domains of life I'm trying to connect to in the present, we're going to be talking about that.

So it's totally free. I'm going to be doing it live. You should totally come. Link is in the show notes or on any of my social media channels to sign up, make sure to register and let's do this. Let's dive into a few ads right before we dive into the questions.

So I've been using athletic greens for a while. I really reached out to them to be a sponsor on the podcast because I liked their product. I saw the effect. It was having on me in my mental health. Athletic greens, it's now called AG1. It's this powder that you could mix into like a cup of water,

where you're learning smoothie and it gives you a few different things. So it has 75 high quality vitamins and minerals, whole food sourced superfoods, greens, vegetables and probiotics. And so it's not only nutritious, but the probiotics really help you support something called a healthy microbiome, this gut microbiome that runs all the way through your intestinal tract. It has different kinds of bacteria and organisms in your gut that really support things like, you know, your hormones, your metabolism, your overall mood. And so there's a lot of recent data that's been coming out.

On the importance of our microbiomes effect on our mental health. So having a regular probiotic, it's really healthy and helpful for maintaining positive mental health because of the effect it has on our microbiome and so as well as other things. So I really highly recommend it. It's cheaper than getting like a separate probiotic with all your other supplements. It costs you less than like $3 a day. I think when you break it down. And so if you sign up at athletic greens.com slash barker, you'll get a one year free supply of vitamin D. And for example, if you're going to be able to do a diet, you're going to be able to do a diet.

You're going to be able to do a diet of vitamin D and five free travel packs when you have your first purchase. So I recommend.

I'm really excited to tell you about inside tracker. This is a company that I reached out to in particular because I think they feel a needed gap in the health market.

Like it's not always obvious whether the strategies that you're using to optimize your health are actually working. And so they really address this by looking at your blood work and your DNA and giving you recommendations based off that.

It's not cool because I've done blood work in the past and usually what you get is this big read out of all these vitamins and minerals that you're either doing well or not well in and all these different levels of these different substances.

And so you're kind of left just googling these different substances to figure out what they are. And if you should raise them and then what supplement raises them and you're kind of just on this wild goose chase trying to figure that out.

And so what inside tracker does is they really take care of all that. So you get your results back and then in the app. And then they have a breakdown of the data and make it really simple and easy.

By giving you recommendations on what you can do to optimize your health, you know, given that data. And so things like the right exercise, the right nutrition, the right supplements for what you need in particular.

So if that's interesting for a limited time, you can get 20% off the entire inside tracker store. Just go to inside tracker.com forward slash Matthias.

The average age that a child is exposed to pornography is 11. Can you believe that? Gosh, we should stop that. We should stop that from happening. So let me tell you about canopy.

It's an app for families that uses artificial intelligence to detect and block pornography on your devices so that your kids can use the internet and stay safe from graphic content.

The research is really clear. That graphic content is harmful for developing minds. I can actually disrupt development. I've seen it in my clinical practice. And so I'm really passionate about protecting kids from being traumatized in this way.

And canopy is one of the best softwares out there. It's really inexpensive. It keeps kids safer online. And there's some unique tools too that they offer on top of that. So like being able to detect inappropriate photo sharing, sexting, it really gives you a lot of tools to keep your kids safe.

So give it a look. I really recommend it if you go to canopy.us slash Matthias. You can get 30 days free and 20% off the regular price forever when you use the promo code Matthias at checkout.

What is your definition of happiness? That's a great question. I think we could approach this in a few different ways.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is really what we mean by happiness physiologically or neurologically. Like what is that feeling of happiness that we're all kind of chasing that we all want to experience.

...