WE BEGIN, WITH PEOPLE

People tend to fear things they don’t understand.

When it comes to mental health, if people don’t know how to become more healthy or even start on the road—they tend to not move into that fog. Unfortunately, what that means is, they are limiting themselves. They are thinking that they can’t learn how to have better mental/emotional health, or maybe that some people just know intuitively how to be healthy—they were born that way—and they think they weren’t born with that understanding.

The reality is, learning requires a journey. And without the journey it’s going to be difficult to learn how to become your best self. This is one of the reasons why your families and even the college system—as far as it relates to health and wellness—fail us. It’s not necessarily the fault of the family or the university, it’s the fault of the timing of the student. When you are 6, 8, 18, 19 years old, you just don’t understand why you would need to know this information and so, you tend to forget about it. Maybe your “institutions” didn’t take a stab at trying to teach this, not for fault of their own, they probably weren’t taught either. We don’t know, what we don’t know.

Once you enter into adulthood, and try to deal with that anxiety, anger, hopelessness, or shame by yourself . . . through self-help books or podcasts. Maybe you even took a stab at talk therapy and found a dud therapist and so it was of no help, suddenly all that information you learned from families or school . . . or not . . . becomes important. That is why Healthy Minds exists. We exists to help you create a “prompting event”—to help you become your best self—who you were meant to become.

I wonder how many people have not self-actualized or become their best self because people didn’t want to enter into a fog. They didn’t know what they didn’t know, so they didn’t begin. With not beginning your internal journey, I wonder then how many businesses haven’t been started, or how many careers have not been activated or how many leaders are just limping along . . . because they didn’t want to enter into the fog. Well, the mental health journey is no different because you don’t exactly know how to do it or exactly know what’s going to come up doesn’t mean that you aren’t capable of thinking through your emotions and solving the actual problems (instead of trying to solve the emotions that happen because if the problems) as they happen. You are. We are here for you, and with you along that journey. Yes, it may be messy, but taking a messy journey to a place you want to go is a lot better than staying in a place where you are not satisfied. Life is too short for that.

The point of healthy minds is that the way you lead yourself by making decisions, needs a philosophy. You need a Northstar, your own personal mission engraved in your mind. When you can convert your decision-making process, toward what’s actually good for you (healthy) and good for others, you move toward self-actualization - being internally integrated.