Hey, it's Avery.

Welcome to Cheers.

I've been seeing so many people in my comments be like, oh my God, the old Avery's back.

And I kind of want to talk about that because I feel like I was definitely not myself for a very long time.

Because for me, when I'm struggling

mentally, I just can't fake it.

It's not an option for me.

And the last year was really hard, especially when your job, the job that provides for

your family is you share your life online and you

record yourself, it's really hard for me to fake being happy and being myself. I've never really

struggled with my mental health, to be honest with you, until this last year when I turned 30.

And it's interesting because mental health runs very heavily

in my family.

And I always thought that it maybe just skipped over me or I got lucky or I was just the strong

one, which I do feel like I've always kind of been the backbone of my family.

David always says that.

David always says that I am always the person that everyone confides in and leans on because

I'm, you know, the quote, strong one.

And so I feel like this last year when I realized that I was not okay, it was really, really difficult for me to admit that

because for me it was almost like a sign of weakness. And the way I was raised was to not admit that. I feel very privileged with the life that I was raised in. We didn't have

everything in the world. We didn't, you know, come from a lot of money, but we

grew up in a safe household. We have a roof over our head. My mom cooked every meal. We were able

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