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
Finding a reason to get out of bed every day
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Sometimes it can be so hard to get out of bed, and it becomes harder the longer you go without a reason to get up. Today we talk about different ways to find the motivation to get out of bed every day. This motivation should be meaningful to you and encourages you to show up. However, many little factors go into finding your reason like do you need soft or aggressive motivation? Are you motivated by a physical responsibility? By a goal you have? By your job? What about a motivation to see a change in our world? Whatever it is let's find it! Remember that it's common for this reason to change as you go through life and what is meaningful to you changes. If you got out of bed today I am so proud of you. If you're having a hard time today, skip to time stamp 28:26 in this episode as we go through getting up together. The activity this week is to make a list of every reason you get out of bed. If it’s a long list, I’m so happy for you and I hope you keep those great things in your life. If it’s a short list, that’s ok you can start to build it today. Begin to try new things in your life that might motivate you or excite you, until you find your motivation.