It's Mental Health May and I am starting off with insane statistics:

ONE BILLION PEOPLE world wide are suffering with a mental health issue!!*
This means 1 in 8 people are suffering. 

800 THOUSAND PEOPLE commit suicide each year.**

Mental health is critical to your over all health and I want to help YOU and those around you learn every day tools to regulate your emotions. We can link arms and help each other in this mental health crisis starting with this episode. 

*This study includes a wide variety of mental health issues. 

**This episode includes topics that some may find sensitive. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health and needs immediate support, help is availabl. Speak with someone today using the # 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.Hours: Available 24 hours. Languages: English, Spanish. 
Dial 988.

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Are apologies really necessary after we hurt someone?

YES!

There IS a right and wrong way to apologize according to our brains. A sincere apology changes brain activity and an insincere apology actually creates more damage!

When we feel emotional hurt, from mean social media comments, to road rage, to relationship abuse, it lights up our brains the same way physical pain would. When we get hurt, or hurt someone else, we judge others on the actions that they took that hurt us, while we judge ourselves on what our intention or meaning was. 

Have you ever caught yourself saying:

Oh, I didn’t mean to do that… 

That’s not what I meant to have happen… 

My intention wasn’t to do…. 

If you’re in a relationship you will most likely get hurt as well as hurt someone… which is why it is so important to understand what our brains do when hurt happens. I have a simple tool that will help you navigate your hurt, apologize “correctly” and move forward together, stronger after HURT. 

Our minds do this ONE thing so quickly and we don’t even realize it. 

Have you ever spent time thinking about a choice or decision you made in the past and your brain flips a switch and thinks about how that single choice impacted your future?

Have you ever thought…

What if?

What could have been?

Things would be so different if I had… 

Etc, etc, etc.

There is a part of your brain that loves to walk down memory lane and also fast forward to the future in a mater of seconds. What this actually does, is rob us of living in the moment and leads to the feelings of regret. 

I am teaching you my 3 F Words to step out of regret and into the present so that you can treasure the moments you have NOW and let go because of the things that DIDN’T happen back then.