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Hey guys, welcome back to We Men It Act Me. I'm so excited for the episode we have for you today

with Danielle Bernstein, the founder of We Were What. It's so awesome. And before we get into it,

and I share that with you, I'm going to answer a few of your questions that you submitted via

Instagram. Someone asked, pandemic and mental health, how are you staying busy and do you have any

routines? This is a perfectly topical question because it's actually mental health awareness month,

which is what, you know, May is. And I have been wanting to talk about mental health for a while.

I think it's such an important muscle to work on and to improve on. Like anyone who thinks that

they have zero issues whatsoever and they're totally perfect. Probably, you know, has the most

of all. And I think the more self-aware we can be about our mental health and are about like

things like anxiety and, you know, the better we can improve on it and just like get better. And

again, like work on yourself, like I see a therapist and I still see her virtually. And it's so nice

to be able to talk to her and tell her, you know, how I'm dealing with the pandemic and what I'm

going through and things that have come up as I've gone through this. I mean, we've all gone through

this. So it's almost impossible for things not to come up when you're kind of stuck in your home.

And for me, a lot of that, and I talk about this on an upcoming episode, is just like feeling this

need to control my environment and not even like not with food, thank God, but really with like

control everyone else as if like I'm the puppeteer and everyone is like needs to do things for me.

So I'm with my family and with my boyfriend. And like I want to make sure we're eating at this time.

And like we are, you know, watching this movie that night. And when the sandwiches are ready,

we're going to pick them up at this time. And like it's just like little things that I've become so

neurotic about in my quarantine life that I just need to like relinquish control and just be more

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