Be kind to your mind with guided meditations from the Meditation for Women Podcast.

Your mental health benefits from sleeping better, releasing anxiety, and gaining clarity,

all of which are benefits of meditation and since this is mental health

awareness month give yourself the gift of meditations all you have to do is

press play and close your eyes listen to meditation for women on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get

your podcasts.

Adam Linahan grew up middle class in Austin, Texas, with all the opportunities that come with being

middle class. But in his early 20s, his life started to take a turn.

When I was 21, I dropped out of college

and enlisted as a medic in the Army

for a number of reasons that don't really

make sense to me that much anymore but are you willing to say what they are?

Well I mean like I you know I wasn't really doing well in school I didn't really kind of see the point of going to college. I was like

delivering pizzas like I was doing drugs I was drinking a lot I was like just not I

I didn't think that like a degree was going to be able to kind of like

pull me out of the rut that I was in I had developed like way too many bad habits and in

fact when I went to join the army they the

recruiters like hey you want to do this like your analysis test just to see you

know like before we kind of have a serious conversation with you and I pissed hot for everything

on the panel.

And then I went in a few weeks later and I pissed hot for like weed or something like that and then they're like okay well

we'll take a chance on you because like they were really being super flexible with the rules.

...