Happy Wednesday, everybody. How's your day going? How's your night going? How's the week been?

How about the month? Tough question, loaded question. I know. But again, remember, we're normalizing

mental health. We're feeling a full range of feelings, right? Mental health is us being able to just

say, I'm not doing good. I'm sad. I'm depressed. I'm anxious. Mental health is feeling a full

range of feelings. There's no positive emotions or negative ones.

We've got to get away from that.

There's just emotions.

Some feel better and are more motivating.

Others are harder.

None of them are bad.

They're all part of being a human.

We have to learn how to sit, feel, and be a part of and experience all of them.

Mental health is also sitting deeply in them. Right. So mental health is a full range and then being able to go

deeply into them. We want to get away from toxic positivity, the idea that find the bright side,

smile, always try to be happy. I had a group reach out recently that wanted me to be a part of some

program where it's all about the power of positivity. No, babes. It's about the power of truth and

authenticity. It's okay to feel depression and anxiety. We don't want to keep shaming and pathologizing

that because we will always feel those things and we don't need to complicate feeling those things

by socially making it unacceptable, right? And again, we're normalizing doing this work by asking

people, not, hey, how are you? But by saying, how's your mental health? And again, that's how we normalize, hearing about it, talking about it, asking about it,

and it lets people know, I'm someone you can go to.

So that's a question, like, how's your mental health?

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