My Mental Health Journey: BPD & OCD, The Steps I’m Taking To Heal

Pursuit of Wellness

Mari Llewellyn & Pursuit Network

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ep. 142 In today’s solo episode, I share my personal journey, revealing the ups and downs I’ve faced, including my BPD diagnosis, my early experiences with therapy, and the challenges I encountered during college that shaped my understanding of mental health. I’ll offer valuable tips, tricks, and tools that have empowered me to regain control over my life and well-being. I also discuss the routines and habits that help me maintain a positive mental state and reflect on the important lessons I've learned along the way. Leave Me a Message - click here! For Mari’s Instagram click here! For Pursuit of Wellness Podcast’s Instagram click here! For Mari’s Newsletter click here! For POW Brand Promo Codes click here! Show Links: Superhuman App - 14 Day (completely free trial). Head to activations.com/pow to get over 60% off your membership. This offer is only available through their website, not the App Store. Brain Lock Book Sponsored By: Go to boncharge.com and use coupon code PURSUIT to save 15%. That’s boncharge.com and use coupon code PURSUIT to save 15%. Unlock your brain’s full potential FREE for 30 days by going to brain.fm/POW. That’s brain.fm/POW for 30 days free. It's time you own your health. To join Function Health, go to functionhealth.com/pow and use code POW100 to skip the waitlist. Available up to 1,000 listeners. So, if you want to take the next step in improving your health, go to lumen.me/POW to get 15% off your Lumen. That is lumen.me/POW or 15% off your purchase. Topics Discussed 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:36 - Mari’s upbringing and childhood 00:04:31 - Starting therapy young 00:06:13 - Starting college 00:07:36 - BPD Diagnosis 00:12:01 - BPD and mental health updates 00:15:14 - Mari’s struggles and symptoms 00:17:16 - Starting treatment 00:20:01 - Current mental health challenges 00:25:46 - Mental health tools 00:29:25 - Superhuman app 00:34:05 - Message for anyone going through it

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0:00.0	This is the Pursuit of Wellness Podcast and I'm your host Mari Llewellyn.
0:08.8	Hi guys, welcome back to another solo episode. I'm so excited to have you here today.
0:16.0	We are talking all things mental health. I am giving you some tips, tricks, tools,
0:38.0	things I've used throughout my journey with mental health that have really, really helped me and gotten to a place where I truly feel like my mental health is no longer dictating my day, my relationships, the way I feel. I've really like honed in on certain routines and habits that ensure that I am in my best possible
0:45.8	mental state. Just having been through periods of time in my life where I
0:50.2	really felt like mental health was kind of running everything that I was doing.
0:56.7	And you guys know if you've listened to my journey before how sort of detrimental my mental health has been in the past and how much I've struggled
1:05.8	with it.
1:06.8	So I've really done a lot of, I've tried a lot of different things to get to where I am now. If you're watching this episode on video, I am wearing a hat and I don't have
1:17.4	makeup on today because I got microneedling done, which is a part of my acne scarring journey.
1:24.0	So my skin looks a little bit crazy.
1:26.2	So if you're watching on camera, hi.
1:28.7	But I wanted to make sure I showed up for you guys today.
1:31.1	I would never skip an episode. So we are and we're going to talk all
1:35.2	things mental health. I feel like I'll give a little bit of context for people who don't know my history
1:40.7	with mental health. Kind of to just start from all the way at the beginning without, you know, I never really go into too much detail on my family or childhood and things like that because it's like a you know private other
1:55.3	people involved type of thing but I was born in London moved to Switzerland
2:00.9	moved back to England moved to New York moved to New York, I've lived in Philly, I've lived in
2:04.9	Colorado, I've lived in LA, I've moved around a ton my whole life and that was kind of the childhood I had.
2:10.6	I was also really lucky in the fact that we got to travel a ton. I was exposed to a lot of different cultures,
2:16.0	but my dad worked for the United Nations, which meant we were constantly hopping around,
2:21.0	and I think that definitely contributed to this feeling of like
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