Mental Health-How to keep going when everything goes wrong.

For a long time, I was not only a professional student, but a professional client. And I still work on myself regularly. I work with other facilitators, energy healers, hypnotherapists, and ThetaHealers® because I feel better, because I know what it takes to be well in my mental health and that is not a weakness. I do work on myself because it's is a strength. I know that when I'm well; body, mind, spirit, everything that I do in my life, and everyone in my life is also well.

It's a common outcome, a common denominator. If I'm well, everything's well, if I'm unwell, then it looks like everything around me could be unwell, too.

How are you doing, in your mental health? When's the last time you reached out and talked to somebody about what's really going on? Have you ever reached out and talked to somebody about what's going on?

I have so many experiences of this personally, with myself struggling in the first two and a half decades of my life being mired with all sorts of abuse; sexual, physical, spiritual, emotional, financial, psychological, I can go on and on and on. That led me to think my only choice was to kill myself and get out of this reality.

That's one way to say that my mental health was not so good. In that moment. However, a miracle occurred. I'm still here. I stood in front of a bus, I saw the lights of a bus and the next thing I knew, I was on the sidewalk, and the bus passed me by. Nobody was there.

I dedicated my life to finding solutions for not only myself, but for other people, because there had to be at least one or two other people like myself, that thought their only choice, and we know there's more than one or two, was to check out of this reality and kill themselves. Because things felt so bad, because there was no hope. Because everything got you to the place of being defeated. That choice of defeat can really run you in a dark rabbit hole. Even when you know that there could be something else possible. It gets so dark, like it did for me, that nothing else was possible.

And then a miracle occurred.

I told you what I decided, what are you going to do?

It starts with reaching out and asking for help.

I started reading everything I could get my hands on in the psychological self empowerment field, and then I went back to school. Not that you have to get degrees to do this, but this is just what I did.

I went into the mental health field, counseling degrees, internships, suicide prevention, internship centers, a doctoral degree in psychology, energy healing masters, other hypnotherapy trainings. I tried everything as a client because I was never going to be the practitioner that didn't know what it was like to be the client. I did talk therapy, after talk therapy, after talk therapy and I'm so grateful I did because I remember those first talk therapists that I got, they were so helpful to me. I was really guided and so I am in the mental health profession now for over 25 years.

I have received lots of help from mental health, in Eastern and Western philosophies. Traditional and non traditional. I'm a Firewalker, I'm a puja person, I do everything if my body, my mind and my soul says this looks this is good, go for it. Usually I just ask a question to the universe. I say, I need something else, I need someone else besides this, or I need something regarding this. And then the next day or within the next week, something comes across my computer, someone comes into my life, someone refers me to someone and I have a new person that I'm working with on my mental health. That's just how it's always been. For me.

Now, a lot of people don't know that I was scared to reach out, I didn't trust anybody. In fact, I hated everybody, because I was so defeated by the abuses that I was living with. And then I was so anesthetized by the drugs and alcohol that I was ingesting, that I didn't know my left from my right, my up from my down. I didn't know who was talking through my head. I just knew I was not okay.

Even when I knew I wasn't okay, I reached out. I went to the professionals, not to say that all of them are always okay. I was fortunately guided to so many different things that really changed my trauma, changed my brain chemistry, changed the physical, psychological, energetic and emotional abuse.

I wanted and have been that person for so many after all these years. And it's still the greatest gift and the most sacred act of kindness that I think I do on this planet. Not sure what else I would do here, if I wasn't doing what I'm doing.

Part of my contribution to you is to let you know, I've walked that path, I know what it's like to have no other choice, to literally step in front of a bus and then to have some miraculous divine intervention. I know that doesn't happen all the time.  

I've found that if you ask for help, and if you're willing to lean in just one degree, all change is possible and your mental health will increase. When someone is there just to listen to you, to hear you, to be the sounding board that you've always desired. Always wanted, always needed, but never had, your life changes.

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