Hey everyone, it's Colleen Gallagher here from the Colleen Gallagher Podcast. I'm super excited. I am so pumped to be here, Episode 74. And we are streaming on YouTube, as you guys know, every Monday morning usually at 9am PST, but I had a radio show today at 9am. So I had to push it back an hour. Every single Monday for 52 weeks, I'm going live. I think this is week number three, I'm pretty sure it is week number three. So we're at week number three, every single Monday morning, tune in on Apple podcasts on YouTube wherever you want. But I'm going to be live and it's going to be exciting, it's going to be epic. And so today I have a really special topic that I was actually really inspired to talk about from the podcast sorry, from the radio show I just did with Brian Sebastian, that will go live this week, and also from an audio just listening to and also for manifestations that just occurred in my life. 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So this week what I want to dive into is all around mental health mental wellness, it's kind of been a trending topic. I think it was last month like mental health awareness month I probably should have done an episode then but whatever I didn't so now I'm doing it and I wrote about it in a few articles. So mental health I have very conflicting like internal conflicting views on this because as a PhD in psychology that I'm receiving that what we focus on right what we absorb what we allow to come inside of us ends up manifesting right? So if we're obviously always hearing like mental health issues, mental health, mental health, like we're always gonna think there's something wrong with us and instead I like thinking like what is right with us like, okay, so we have depression we get sad we focus on the past too much or we get anxiety, we focus on the future too much. Um, we were obsessive about how our environment is like, instead of looking at these, like bad negative things, I like to see how these things are normal, like, how they're part of the average creative and that these these issues, mental health issues are actually meant to be inspiring you into action into creation into expressing through an outlet what's happening inside of you. And sometimes that expression is dark. Sometimes it's getting like black paint, or sometimes it's like destroying your whole room, I don't know are going on punching something like, I think for so long, we've like trapped these emotions inside of us. Like, these are the things I'm feeling and it can't be talked about, it can't be shared, I mean, just lay here on my bed or be anxious breathing here by myself. And we, then that becomes a mental issue. Because we're trapping ourselves alone in our emotion where we're we're feeling isolated, we're feeling alone, we're feeling like no one understands, we feel like we have no one to call, no one to talk to. And so in that mental chemical imbalance that's happening within us, which all of us go through chemical imbalances multiple times today. Um, we don't feel like we can call anyone for support or help. And that would be where we have a mental health issue instead of becoming a mental wellness opportunity. So what I want to just land in this podcast, or in this episode, and I think it's a really good place, just to start, is anytime you feel like your thoughts are out of control, you feel like you're losing control, you feel like, you feel alone in this experience, put your hand on your heart. And you can notice that if I'm feeling depressed, I can't get out of bed. Actually, this is a great story, I'll share I haven't shared this publicly. So this was maybe a couple of weeks ago, it was October 4, I remember the day. I won't say why I remember the day. But I remember the day it was October 4 of this year, and I woke up you guys, and I've never really had thoughts like this or if I did it, but it hasn't been for a really, really long time. But I woke up and I had these thoughts inside my head of I just don't want to be here, the world's better off without me like just these really dark, dark, negative thoughts that were coming through me. And I remember I heard them I'm like, these thoughts aren't mine, I'm putting my hand on my heart. I'm like, breathe calling. I'm like, I love myself. Like back my vision. I'm here and then like a voice would come and be like, I don't want to be here. I don't matter I on this. This was literally I'm in my bed. And this, this contrast of reality was happening within a matter of microseconds. So I'm sitting in my bed, and I'm just holding myself and like, I love myself, just part of the process. Please cleanse me. I love myself. I just like being to breathe and I will close my eyes. I would relax into my pillow and I would feel my shoulders, relax and go back. I just felt this state of peace. I felt this state of calm, I felt this state of the state of like, wow, this could be really a mental health issue where I would like check myself into somewhere where like something is wrong with me, or this is really just the part where I'm going. These thoughts aren't mine. These thoughts are coming through me. Something's happening within humanity, or someone that's very close to me, and I'm picking up their thoughts. And then I just read that and relax. And luckily, I have a really good friend who ended up coming over and he brought me flowers. And he had no idea what was going on. He just felt like something was going on. And you know, we just kind of laid there and I felt better. But it was like I had this really dark reality. And so I just want you to know that every moment, right? It can be mental illness, or it can be mental wellness. And that's your choice, your opportunity to alchemize what's happening within you. And only you can do that. I can't do it for you. I can tell you and tell you my experience, but I was in it and I battled it on October 4 And the story revealed itself to me why that October 4 date was so profound. I had a really big heartbreak that happened 12 months to the day 12 months to the day. There was something that occurred on October 4 of 2020 that would lead to one of the biggest betrayals in my life. And this year, I wake up 12 months to this date of one of the biggest betrayal like that day and action was done, that a betrayal happened from that day. So October, November, January, February, October 4, there was an action done. And from that beautiful experience three months after that, to the day, the betrayal occurred. And so it was like I woke up 12 months after this beautiful experience three months before the betrayal with these thoughts inside of me. And so it kind of all made sense of like, wow, and I didn't pick this up right, then it took me two days, like from these thoughts of me wanting to not be here and kill myself or whatever. Like it took me two days to realize that it was 12 months exactly to the day of this event happening, where massive betrayal happened three months after this event. And so it was just this thing of I started to realize how powerful our thoughts are and how everything is guiding us to heal. Like that was still in me because it needed to release. So those thoughts of mental illness right maybe came up because it wanted to release out of me wanted to me have more forgiveness, more compassion, more. Just maybe attention to the whole experience that I was naive and trust or naive with my heart, or I don't know, like I I should have maybe been more honest with myself and with the other person like I don't know, like about how I really felt or maybe it was just there for me just to love myself more and see how far I've come. But it was it was definitely like a something that I'd never experienced before. And so anyway, back to mental health and mental health, how my mental health, right? I didn't sit there and take that as my problems or there was an issue in go check myself on our season. Like I just knew it was a message, I knew it was a sign. And then within two days, I realized it wasn't my thoughts. It wasn't my thinking. And then from there, I just made the decision that I'm going to love myself, I'm going to care for myself. And I just took it into wellness, I took it into creation, I took it into beauty, I took it into my relationships, I'm now taking it here to this podcast, maybe help those of you here who have experienced that to make more sense of why you had those thoughts when it wasn't normally like you or what's the deeper meaning and how do you move forward with it. But see how everything I take something happens I make it into creation, I make it into a sharing so that it can help more people to know that I wasn't alone in that feeling. You are not alone in that feeling. And that mental health is just a choice. mental wellness is the alignment. Don't let this world tell you you're unhealthy because of your mental thoughts. Instead, you are well because you have the courage to face the demons in the darkness within and still take action forward. That was really powerful. And so anyway, that's what I wanted this podcast to be on mental health, mental wellness, I want you to know you're not alone in your thoughts. You're not alone in this world, the thoughts you think are real. And it's your choice to always bring them back into wellness. And so with that, what I would recommend if you listen to this and you really need support and shifting into a mentally well stay are healing. I recommend my luxury healer inner circle. I'll leave the link in the comments. We have two calls every month one's a sound healing and one's a q&a with me. Honestly, it's absolutely incredible. I guide you with any healing anything with wholeness anything with unwellness it's honestly my one of my favorite circles that I have. So it's $111 a month, you can go to my website at the top to join on the homepage. Or what I recommend is my anxiety relief report workshop which is on my website and I'll leave the link in the show notes. But that's honestly really amazing if you're suffering from anxiety to help you make a better understanding of how anxiety is actually a spiritual gift guiding you into the right direction. So anyway, I love you. I hope this serves please share this with your friends please reach out and let me know how it was. And I'd really appreciate it if you can leave a review so more people know that this is the podcast for them. And if you have any requests have reached out to me let me know what you want me to talk about what you want me to rift on. I love hearing from you guys what things you like. And I just love you mental health, mental wellness. It's normal. You are amazing. You did everything right. There's nothing wrong with you