Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from five-star app meditation studio.

I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of meditation studio and your host on Untangle, along with

my co-host every other week, Ariel Garten, co-founder of Muse, the brain-sensing headband.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors,

experts, and thought leaders who share their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices

have the power to change our lives. Today we have two pretty amazing guests. You'll meet

Catherine Celery and Annalise Richmond. These two women are trying to shake up the current mental health crisis we're experiencing in this country.

Catherine is a parenting coach and has trained thousands over the years in conscious and

effective parenting.

Annalise designs and facilitates mindfulness and meditation-based programs for wellness and

personal development.

She's also the founder of the Sky Campus Happiness Program, where she's worked with

MIT, Yale, Google, and many others. They share why mental health awareness and well-being

tools are so important for our kids, college students, and adults.

And the reasons are pretty darn compelling.

You'll hear how staggering the depression, anxiety, and suicide statistics are in this country.

They're creating the inaugural Mental Health and Fitness Summit,

hoping to disrupt America's mental health crisis by bringing together innovative health, education, policy,

and business leaders to share in this discussion. The summit is in Denver, July 23rd, and 24th,

and you can pick up tickets at summit.americameditates.org. I agree with them. It's going to take

all of us working collaboratively to help people optimize their

mental health and live their lives more fully and more happily. Again, check out their website

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