If you're going through a hard time right now, this episode is going to be really helpful.

And you don't necessarily have to be going through some sort of crisis.

Maybe you just feel stuck or maybe you're feeling a bit down or your life is not exactly what you

wanted to be or you just kind of feel like emotional.

I want to share with you the things that I do and the things that I've helped other people do

when I feel out of sorts, when I'm feeling down, when I'm just feeling like life isn't exactly

how I wanted to be. And maybe I feel kind of out of control. You know, I was raised by immigrants.

I'm a first generation American. And part of that mindset, it's generational.

And I also think it's because it's sort of like an immigrant mindset, which is, you know, the glass is half empty.

And it's like this blend of pessimism and realism.

And the intention behind that is really just safety and survival. And so I was raised in a family

that looked at things, you know, on that realism, pessimism spectrum.

And optimism and positivity was not really a big part of my household.

My father was extremely depressed and went up and down with bipolar, sometimes Maddox, sometimes depressed, incredibly

brilliant and smart. And that led him to be more in his head and less in his body. And my mom,

you know, was because of generation and how she was raised, was just a woman

with incredible potential, but didn't really reach all her potential and was married for many

years to my father and it was incredibly abusive. And, you know, she put all her energy into me and my sisters. And so even though she

wasn't depressed, I think that there was, she was kind of suppressed in many ways. And so if you're

someone who wasn't raised in a household that really, where there was a lot of optimism or positivity,

you might find as an adult that you have to fight harder for your happiness.

Or maybe you were even raised in a family where there was that.

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