Brain asks Hart, how are you feeling today? Heart responds, happy, grateful, miserable, angry,

scared, awesome, insecure, gassy, guilty, a little nostalgic, confused, and content.

Brain says, that's normal. Emotions are complicated, especially when you're aware of them.

Heart smiles warmly and says, add, unders's normal. Emotions are complicated, especially when you're aware of them. Heart smiles warmly and says, add understood. Here's another one. Brain says, you're wrong and I can prove it

with facts. Heart says, you're wrong and I can prove it with loudness. Those are two of many comics by the cartoonist Nick Selik from the series Heart and Brain,

which is sort of about cute little bodily organs that talk,

but more broadly about the relationship between the rational, the brain, and the emotional, the heart.

That dialogue, that tension, that interplay between rational and emotional,

that thing that we all experience. Nick has been making comic strips about heart and brain for

years, retiring from his corporate graphic design job some years back to concentrate on his comics

full time. I noticed a lot of these heart and brain strips popping up on the Preschies group on Facebook,

people sharing them, people recognizing themselves in heart or brain or heart and brain,

and having a laugh, feeling connected, feeling understood.

Prechies is a Facebook group that was started by our show, and there is discussion

about episodes of the show happening there, but it's also filled with a lot of people just

sharing their mental health experiences, offering ideas and support to each other. And our show,

this show, by the way, it's to Presch Mode. I'm John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

Music.

Music.

So these Heart and Brain comics were popping up a lot in theushy's group because they resonated with the members there.

When you talk about mental health, I think that tension, that balance or quest for balance between the rational and the emotional, is a big part of mental health because it's a big part of just living life.

Nick includes other body parts in the comics, too.

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