Rachel’s Room🛋️: It’s Ok To Be Ok

Happy Wednesday, Cadre. I had a moment where I was like, there's gonna be a countdown, so I can, like, clear my mouth. Happy Wednesday, everyone. I am so happy to be spending a little bit of time with you today. It is a cloudy day in Seattle. We had a little bit of sunshine earlier, so I had a chance to walk Milo, which is really nice. If you're new here. Welcome. I'm so glad you're here. My name is Rachel Havocost. I am a writer and mental health advocate. I've been in therapy for about 19 years for my own mental health and also have a master's degree in psychology.

And everything I do online is aimed at destigmatizing mental health and helping one person feel less alone. So today I wanted to talk about this idea of it's okay to be okay. And I think we've done a very good job in the last couple years of emphasizing this concept of it's okay to not to be okay, which I think is absolutely beneficial and true. I think we need to allow ourselves room and opportunities to experience and feel feelings that don't feel good to feel. So sorrow, anxiety, grief, anger, rage, insecurity, loneliness.

You know, historically, these have been. Have been emotions that we've been taught not to feel, not to express. And so we stuff them in. We bottle them up. They become things that we think of as negative parts of ourselves or bad parts of ourselves, and we might find ways to cope with them that aren't effective or healthy because we don't feel safe to reach out to people. So. Oh, Rachel. Rachel says I'm freezing again. Shoot. Okay. I don't know why this is happening, because my Internet has good speed.

Let me try one.