Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. So a lot of

this weekend, some of this month, we're going to be zeroing in on what does mental health mean,

what are some myths or misunderstanding around some of these mental health issues and diagnoses.

Of course, Loveline always has a mental health first perspective. Everything's centered in mental

health. You tend to not really get that anywhere.

But yeah, so later in the show, we're going to be talking about what actually is this mental

health thing that we keep talking about, that we're working towards debunking some

misunderstandings about schizophrenia so as to normalize mental health diversity.

And also getting into online shopping, has it gotten compulsive as you've tried to cope

with all the difficult emotions and feelings that are going on as well as is the relationship

you're in healthy for you but I wanted to just start off the show by talking about what are some

things we can just do immediately what are the simple easy things we can step into and again

I repeat these things always adding and subtracting and changing,

but just kind of always bringing us back to what is it we should be trying to center in our lives.

Because again, and we'll talk about this more in our next segment, but mental health is not

about the absence of mental struggles. That's part of humanity. You will feel depressed. You will

feel anxious. You will struggle with your relationship to food, your body, drugs and alcohol. It's part of the human condition. So it's,

it's really about coming back to what are some mental health tips? What are some ways we can

keep ourselves grounded, emotionally regulated, present in our lives, resilient? Well, first thing is

make sure self-care is your number one goal and

priority. You have to. It's got to be the number one thing. And that means body, mind, and for many

of us, hopefully spirituality. I want to start talking more about that. That is a part of mental health.

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