Berge’s Better Tomorrow
Let's talk about life. Your life, my life, everyone's lives, and how we can learn from each other to benefit our own mental and behavioral health. Mental health is just as important as our physical health, yet it is not treated as so. This podcast is hopeful in breaking the stigma around mental health. Not every episode is heavy-hearted (suicide awareness, various mental illnesses, etc.), nor is every episode light-hearted (advice, funny late-night thoughts, etc.), but in every episode, there is something to learn. The content comes from a variety of sources whether clinical research or someone’s very own personal experience. We all go through hard times throughout life, so I want to teach you some ways to make those times a little less hard. Every week there will be a new activity for you to try that could be useful or enjoyable to better your mental health. It can be easy to fall back into the same, destructive pattern but I encourage you to recognize you are not stuck in that way of thinking. Each day you have the opportunity to adjust your way of thinking and what may be helping you could help someone else, so it is important to speak about it. This podcast is set to challenge and expand our way of thinking by allowing us to become more self-aware of ourselves and those around us: you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge, but you can’t acknowledge what you don’t know.
Berge’s Better Tomorrow
Your personal identity and a regret free life
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There is so much to our personal identities and it can be hard to see that we are not kept in any identity we are labeled with today. This episode I talk about how to develop your personal identity in multiple areas of life and what goes into deciding what your ideal life to live is. Being able to live a life that lines up with your true identity is how you can also start living a regret free life. You learn ways to think that lead to a regret free life with a weight lifted off your shoulders because you aren’t having to rethink a decision that has already been made. The reading from this episode about core needs comes from the book The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest. For this week's activity, write down what makes you happy/comfortable and what makes you stressed/anxious. Then try to bring the good more into focus in your daily life and try to distance yourself from stressful and bad things in your life.