So this week on the show I want to highlight some collaborations that I've been

recently doing with Heather Parry over on the Happy Brain Podcast. Now if you're new to the show

or if you're just not aware we We have a second podcast. It's called

Happy Brain. It's all about mental health. It's focused on interesting, unique,

weird ways to improve your mental health, manage your mental health, and be a little bit happier each day.

And as part of that, Heather and I have been doing a number of collab episodes where we respond to listener questions, we discuss important topics like toxic

masculinity or others, and we just sort of highlight the main differences between our philosophies when it comes to personal improvement and

mental health specifically. So I'm going to hand the baton over to Heather.

She can explain what this episode is going to be about.

But I do want to let you know that if you want to hear more of these,

if you like these collabs, head over to the Happy Brain Podcast. Just search Happy Brain with Heather Parity on your favorite

podcast app or click the link in the description of this episode. So enjoy the episode.

You know what's interesting when looking at happiness and how to stay mentally healthy the question often comes up whether it's from other people or from yourself.

Is this being overly positive?

I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world.

A lot of people who are hurting, maybe it's you.

Where's the line between trying to find things

to be positive about because we know it's good for our mental health versus being

toxically positive? Do you like how I made up the word toxically? You know what I'm trying to say. How can we remain grounded in truth

sensitive to what's going on around us? But still have a happy brain.

Welcome to another episode of happy brain. My name is Heather Parity and thank you for

joining us as we explore the fun side to mental health by digging into the

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