My journey with therapy! (why I go, when I started, & my best advice)

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Victoria is bringing you a special bonus episode in partnership with Maybelline New York to mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Month. Vic shares her journey in therapy, starting in college when she struggled with performance anxiety in volleyball and societal perceptions of mental health. Victoria highlights major breakthroughs, like understanding her focus on achievement and using therapy tools to manage negative thoughts. She shares how therapy has made her a better wife, friend, and daughter, teaching her acceptance and patience. Additionally, Victoria discusses the BRAVE steps from Maybelline's Brave Talk training for supporting loved ones with their mental health. Tune in to this special episode to hear Victoria’s honest and life-changing therapy journey, reframe the way you think about therapy, and get the encouragement you need to reach out for support. If you or someone you know is facing anxiety or depression, Maybelline New York offers free, confidential support. Text TOGETHER to 741741 or visit maybelline.com/bravetogether to learn more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.0	Welcome to Real Podcast. It's your host Victoria Garrick Brown and this is the
0:08.3	podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.0	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh?
0:13.5	I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.8	Why do I want to be perfect?
0:17.1	There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.3	Every week I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us.
0:26.1	I crave the type of content that you're talking about.
0:28.3	I actually felt insecure.
0:30.1	Oh my God, I'm I gonna cry.
0:31.3	Let me just unload everything.
0:32.8	New episodes every Wednesday leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:58.4	Hello everybody and welcome back to RealPOD. Happy Friday. We're bringing you a special and additional episode this week and by we I mean myself and Maylene it is the end of mental health awareness month which is wild I feel like the month of May was a hundred years but also two days at the same time.
1:05.9	I forget if I said this on last week's episode but it's funny because for mental
1:11.0	health advocates and people who work in the mental health space, the month of
1:16.0	May is actually incredibly busy and stressful and overwhelming, which is like the whole irony of
1:21.7	it because usually people in the mental health space are talking
1:25.2	about self-care and boundaries and balance and all of that is very true but this is the month
1:30.7	where the rest of the world is like, we want to talk about mental health,
1:33.7	which is good that we dedicate time
1:37.4	to focus on it and highlight it.
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