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
Rotten mothers
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In this Mother's Day episode, I have a special guest and dear friend, Arianna Gomez. We share some stories about what it's like to grow up with some rotten mothers. The issues we discuss include abandonment, invasion of privacy, lying and losing trust, narcissism, examples of gaslighting, and how that can affect your memory. It's hard to realize someone you have always looked up to isn't all you saw them as. Especially when you live with them or don't feel you have a choice in many situations. Listen along as we also talk about how we realized these were issues, what it felt like to live in them, and how we began to move on with the rest of our lives, not letting these narratives shape our future. Being able to build a life after realizing some past traumas can be a hard journey to start but we hope our insights can help you make it a little easier. For those who have gone through something similar and are still looking for that motherly, nurturing care, find it in yourself. It has worked best for Arianna and me to provide ourselves with the things we needed as a kid, now in acts of self-care. This week's activity is to first recognize those things you lacked as a child that you now need. On a separate note, we are very grateful for the wonderful mothers that have come across our lives, showing us good examples of motherly care.