Thank you for joining us for episode 364 of Live Happy Now. May is Mental Health Awareness Month,

and we're using this time to take on some of the tough topics around mental health.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and throughout the month of May, we're focusing on tools for better

mental health. This week, I'm talking with

Maddie Cummins, a counselor, brain coach, and CEO of Cerebrations, which provides counseling

and coaching for people with anxiety, chronic pain, neurodiversity, and other life transitions.

Her mission is to empower people to tap into their own inner strength, beauty, and experiences to calm their mental chaos.

And she's here today to talk us through how to do that.

Maddie, welcome to live happy now.

I am so excited to be here.

Thanks for having me today.

This is an exciting topic to be able to talk to you about when I first learned about your work.

I immediately knew that I wanted you on the show and then it seemed like such a perfect fit because we're talking about mental health all month long.

And I love the fact that you're taking on the topic of calming the chaos within.

You know, I've read so much and heard so much about what the lockdowns, the pandemic,

have done to create this anxiety and fear.

So small question, how do we start working back forward normalcy in all this anxiety and

fear that's going on?

That is a small question.

That's a big one. But, you know, I think it's, I think one of the

things I try to remind people whenever we go through these kinds of situations is I don't know

that we have to change the way we think about normalcy. Because whenever you go through these

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