Mental Health Matters: Multiple New Series Coming Soon!

What's up, folks? Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Matters. I'm Evan, your resident mental health and addiction therapist. We're live from Sydney, Australia. Got the beautiful beach behind me. It is a beautiful day out there. Let's kick it off. So today I wanted to talk about, obviously, some matters around mental health and addiction. So anyone who comes in, if you have any questions, anything. Questions, comments, anything around that topic or not, feel free to ask. Oh, what's up, Chris?

Speaker one. Yeah, we got the jewels, we got the crew, the ogs. Alec. What's up, sir? Wow. Popping off. I love seeing this with Cadre. Anyways, folks, any question about mental health, addiction, but I want to do something a little bit different and talk about some of the videos that we have already that exist here. Erie, pa. What's up? Wasn't there some show, there's some, like, show growing up, like, I don't. It's like a kid show called Erie, Pennsylvania or something. You know what I'm talking about?

I don't know how long that one ran. Recovery cafe. Man, I love this. We got the crew, but I figured I'd go outside. It's a beautiful day. Got the ocean, we got surfers. It's a good vibe. Good vibe. I'm only here for one more week, and I'm back to Minnesota. Gonna switch up the times, be during the day, be your lunch break, but yeah. So if you have any questions, please put them in. We could have any type of discussion you want next week. I have my official AMA, but I just wanted to talk about some of the videos we already have up.

And we could thank Alec for this one, our tech master where I dropped 24 videos on him at a time, and then he uploads them and deals with all that. But. So the thing is, it's to remember is we have so many videos. Maybe. Alec, do you know how many videos we have uploaded? I mean, it's got to be, I mean, a couple thousand at this point, if I had to guess more, maybe, but, you know, take some time to search through some of the creators, new and old, some folks who were there at the beginning, some folks still with us, but there's some really good content.

But I just wanted to talk about a couple things. Some of the content I already have that you could check out, but also some stuff that will be coming out in the next month that you want to keep your eyes out for because I'm finishing a big old batch of videos. We're going to put Alec to work. Although if he wants. He could already start downloading them. I got a couple finalized videos in, but I'm really excited about them, so I thought I'd share them with you. And again, any questions, throw it out there or updates.

Tell me about your life. Tell me what's going on. We got the. We got the crew. So let's talk about some videos that are out there right now that may be of interest. So I have videos, a series on chronic pain. A series about everything. Addiction. I call it my addiction masterclass. Literally any topic you could think about in addiction. I have it. So if you're interested, you definitely got to check that out. So the addiction masterclass, chronic pain, addiction, managing adult ADHD. I have that one.

Check that one out. Oh, finding another recovery cafe in anoka. So tell me. Tell me more about the cafe. I know we talked about it a while ago. Remind everyone what it is, what you do, because when I get back, I definitely want to check it out. Super cool idea. You're seeing a lot more of that kind of stuff. More recovery focused, specific places people could gather, non alcoholic dance clubs. Yeah. So that's the thing, is so many people kind of secretly suffer with chronic pain. And so I made, like, 15 videos, so see if you could find them.

If not, let me know, and maybe we could give you a link. But I have. I don't know how many. That one was a little bit older. I mean, by older, I mean, like a year and a half or so. I think I was working on that, maybe. Yeah, it was 2022, but all still relevant. Maybe 15 videos or something on that. Managing chronic pain. So you could check that one out. What other series? So many. So many series. So those. Oh, a series on making changes. So the science behind breaking unhealthy habits and forming new, healthy ones.

I have, like, 1015 video series on the best ways of doing that. So whether that's an addiction, something simple, whether it's biting your nails, heroin, it doesn't matter. All these same principles apply. So if that's something you're interested in, check that out. And now let me tease a little bit of the videos that I'm working on now that will be out pretty soon. So I have a couple mini series within the series. What was it? What was the series I did for last quarter? I think I did more, like, mini series in that one.

Neurodiverge. So this. I don't know. It'll come to me. Oh, you. Oh, yeah, yeah. You did the. Yeah, Jules, tell me about that. I'm curious. I was thinking about that the other day. I was curious how. How did that go? Did that. So you started it? Not done yet, but yeah. I want to hear what you come up with at the end. So recovery community organization, which provides a community. Provide a community center for individuals, family members, community members to have healing space, support, resources, events, connection referrals.

Recovery country club. It's so cool. Oh, it's national based out of Seattle. Okay. So it's almost like, maybe not the best way to put it, but like a franchise or something like that. Something related to that in a non profit recovery way or maybe for profit. Who knows? So, yeah, what did I have? All right. Yeah. So today's a day of promotion. So if you have anything else to promote in your world, that's here, too. So what do I have coming up? What do we have? What am I working on? What am I working on?

So we'll see. In the last batch, too, I had a series, a short series on inspirational people. So just kind of highlighting some people that I find to be inspiring. So you could check that out. Just some fun stories about certain people. Then I have. Wow, it's so funny how it all blurs together because I think at this point, I've done over 200 videos. Oh, trauma. That's what. That's what I did last time. Is that what I did last time? But I have a whole trauma series. Is that the last quarter of the quarter before trauma?

Trauma. Nope. That was last series. Yep, that's it. So I did a whole series on healing from trauma. 15 videos. I've never done trauma informed yoga, but people love it, as evidenced by cafe frogs. I know one of my employees is big into it as well, so people really like it. Oh, thanks. I appreciate that. Glad to know people are watching them. I put a lot of work into each one. The research process, writing, filming. That's my least favorite is filming. That's the one that holds me up the most, filming it.

Editing, uploading, all that stuff takes a lot. So I'm glad you appreciate it that it's. They're being watched and that they're doing something. So that's why I wanted to promote them as well. Just so you know what's out there. Trauma series. So this time, here's what we got. I did a series on neurodivergence. So talking about breaking down things like adhd, autism, learning disabilities, other mental health disorders. So a lot of this quarter is focused on strengths. So talking about, you know, the limitations, but some of the strengths of some of those disorders.

Also talking about strengths of people who may have anxiety or depression. So I have some of those, that one, those couple series, I have a series of quick videos, each one with a skill that you could apply right away. And each skill is from a different type of therapy because there's all these modalities. So I thought it'd be cool to introduce a certain modality and then you could, you know, get one skill to kind of capture the essence because each one has a wisdom to it. So checking that out, that will be coming down the pike.

And then what else? What other videos? I did one on severe and persistent mental illness. Kind of going over some of the, some of the most debilitating disorders, breaking those down and some of the treatments and stuff for those. So things like bipolar disorder one, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, those kind of things. So that's a coming. And what else did I do this quarter? I talk about just some fun, quick videos about travel, pets, how all these things impact your mental health on cold and hot therapy, sauna, all that stuff.

So I just found some random topics on this batch too, to throw in there. Some one offs, not just series, to mix it up a little bit. So keep your eye out for that. Maybe I'll post again in the community feed for people to go check out some of those. But I'm excited for those that come out. I'm working on them. Putting, doing a big push for you all to get those. And we'll go from there, folks. Let me know if you have any last final questions. Mental health, addiction. Otherwise I've been blocking the beach.

Sorry, the main star of the show. But otherwise, we will see you next week for my last Sunday evening. Well, actually Sunday, not Sunday evening. I fell ill at my usual time. So I fell ill. So that so far this may has been kind of rough on me. I had Covid and then two weeks later, the flu. So that's cool. So anyway, I had to take a little rest Monday, but I'll be back next Monday. So I'll do another. I'll hop in again in a couple days as well. Videos on self care and wellness. I mean, I think there's like an l in many of my videos.

There's an element on that. But I do have videos that are like about mindfulness, meditation, different therapy skills. I mean, again, I've done over a couple hundred videos, so there's definitely going to be some that you could put in. The self care wellness stuff about boundaries. But actually, you know what? That's a good idea because now I have to start thinking about 24 more videos. And when you've done over 200, you know, you're like, I mean, I've done over 200 for Cadre than I've done God knows how many on my social media, but I still managed to come up with topics.

That's a good thing about mental health and addiction there is endless. And every day, too, when I work, I get inspired. Yeah, keep looking at them. Hopefully something stands out. I mean, you just got to keep scrolling, you know, to see what's out there. But a couple people commenting on. I'll get comments once in a while, and some, like, my first videos on there, my experimental days on Cadre, just trying different things out. It's cool. Cadre gives me a lot of. Cadre gives me a lot of leeway to kind of do what I want and somehow trust me.

So it's been good. And maybe we just take a minute to just listen to the waves crashing. I don't know if you could see the surfers. They're probably little dots. We got some surfers. A lot. A lot of surfers today. It's the middle of the workday. It is Friday here, though. Let's see. Surf's okay. Not great. Good beginner waves. That'd be good waves for me. I haven't done it in a couple months. Not the biggest surfer. It's kind of hard. It's, like, really hard. So it's been a picturesque couple days.

The first couple weeks of May were rough, rainy. Probably should have came home a month earlier, to be honest. But what are you gonna do? It is. Yeah. So it's probably nicer where you're at. But today, though, 65 and sunny. Can't complain when you're in the sun. Feels like 70, 72, but, yeah, it is gorgeous. Got some surfers catching waves, two footers. Not bad, but, yeah, no, I mean. So a lot of cool ideas coming up. I like that with self care. Maybe I'll do a series on that. How would I break up those videos, though?

All one intro to self care. Maybe we do one on boundaries. So I do have some videos, some good videos on boundaries. You could maybe find those hobbies, interests. I like that. Self care. Thank you. I always get good inspiration from y'all. I think that's all I got. Let's take another few minutes. You're horrible about it. Oh, yeah. I mean, given what you said last time about your multiple jobs, needing to do that exercise I recommended. Sounds like you have trouble with work boundaries. Sometimes.

Like, sometimes things like that it's. I've been there, and there's different, like, reasons for it. Sometimes it's just, like, trying to please too many people. Sometimes it's just you just like too many things, you know, or you like. Like, for example, like, I've started a couple little projects, businesses, and had just too many going at once, honestly, and I had to kind of give some up, even though there are elements I liked about it and potential, you know? I have this project to social media.

Within social media. It's like, okay, I could do YouTube videos, Cadre videos, TikToks, Instagram. It's really never ending, you know? And then I have my counseling business, which demands a lot, my housing business. So, yeah, I get it. I've been there, but, yeah. So sometimes it's a labor of love, you know, and it's boundaries with yourself. So there's three types of bound or two main types of boundaries, internal boundaries, and external boundaries. I came up with a little name called frontline.

Oh, wait, no, that's with external boundaries, core boundaries. So internal boundaries, core boundaries. Limits you set for yourself. External external boundaries. What do I call those? Haven't talked about. So internal. Our core external. Oh, our relational, relational boundaries. So limits we set with others. So sometimes with the work thing, it could just be limits and boundaries you set for yourself, and that could be incorporating your goals and all that, values, all those kind of things. So maybe it's a core boundaries issue.

And then there's the relational external boundaries issue as well, for some people, which is setting limits with others being perhaps too giving of your time, you know? And that's where the need for self care pops in. So. And then within the external boundaries, they have two different types. But I do have videos on that. You could check that out. Boundaries. That was from maybe last quarter, the quarter before, for sure. I remember filming that when I was in my office at home. So it could have been very well, could have been last quarter.

Always giving more than I should. I just love helping. Yeah. So it sounds like that's like an internal boundary, right, of managing your time and your. Where your energy goes. And so, you know, sometimes there's the external pressure, and that's where the relational boundaries come in, but sometimes the pressure is just internal, right. I feel like I need to do it, and people aren't really pressuring me to do it, but they. I want to say take advantage, but, you know, it's like you're offering and they accept, and if you set the limits, they'd be okay with it and understanding, sometimes we just project that onto them.

Right? It's like, oh, they're gonna be upset. They're gonna be upset if I set this limit or I don't do this or I don't help them with this. But really, they'd be like, oh, no, I get it. And they totally understand. I find that as well. So again, internal, internal, core, relational, external. All right, folks, they ask, and you can't say no. You feel like you can't say no, but you probably can. That's a, that's the trick. That's the tricky part. Kind of that emotional response. But maybe it's not can't say no, but how to say no.

How to say no in a way that works for you and fits within how you want to be. And some of that, too, is just, again, more that internal work, being okay with it. And sometimes that comes, but it comes when you hit just like any change, when you hit an emotional bottom. It's best not to wait until that happens. Like, why? You know, don't wait till there's a catastrophe. See if you could prevent it. Full fresh air. People are out walking, surfing, sunbathing. Oh, they get upset. Now we, now we're into the realm of relational boundaries.

Yeah, I kind of like, it's like a dog, right? If you give a dog a treat five times a day, then all of a sudden the dog gets unhealthy, they start having knee problems. You go to the vet, and the vet's like, dog's a bit overweight here. Need to do something about it. And then all of a sudden, what do you do? You go and you change the habit, you change the ritual. You stop feeding the dog the treat. And what happens? They lash out because they're used to it. They've gotten used to the treat. So it's about being able to tolerate that discomfort.

And that could be really difficult to not care to the same degree what others think about you can be tough or changing that dynamic. Kind of funny thing, I working on this for years. I don't know if I've mentioned with you all, but I'm writing a book. I've been writing a book. I don't know if I'll ever be done with this book, to be honest. I'm always, I always joke, I'm always 90% done. And then I just, like, think of more, add, more, edit. I go back and read the old stuff I did and think it's absolute trash.

And then I just, like, have to edit the heck out of it. Or rewrite it. So I'm writing a book about communication and it includes all these different things, but a big part about boundaries. Internal, external, especially focus on the external and the different types of external boundaries and tolerating discomfort, tolerating distress, changing. It's all about changing dynamics. Healthy. Creating healthier relationship dynamics. And doing a lot of work too, around stoicism and trying to get back into that.

Should check that out. If you ever get some stoic. Ancient stoic writings are really cool and kind of a lot of therapies are based on them. A lot of like ancient wisdom, you know, things of detaching emotionally, detaching from certain outcomes, from what other people think. You know, how certain things that, you know, all, let's say the negative things people have said behind you, behind your back, don't matter because they don't come to you. Right. It's like, it's kind of like what other people think isn't your business.

I don't know. So there's a lot of, you know, really cool stuff around that I've been trying to get back into. Maybe I'll do a series on that. Ooh, stoicism and mental health. Yep, gotta think of that one. See, this is how I get my ideas. Thing is, you gotta write them down. Otherwise I forget them forever. That's why I always have something to write, man. Hmm. Sound of those waves. Maybe I'll just like, I'll just, I'll just stand over here or sit over here and maybe I just let this go. Like I just don't say anything.

And we just leave this as a bag. And you could like chime in live and just take this in. Kind of have this in the background. I'll just leave this here. I'll take a nap in the grass and just leave this. And you could use this as your background, like a, almost like a screensaver. Here, I'll show you another quick view. Really see? Yeah, you can see the cliffs at the end of this side of the beach. And then if you look all the way across there, you could see a little beach and it's in this kind of alcove.

And then you have cliffs up above it. I mean, it's just absolutely gorgeous. And you got the main beach that wraps around and that whole area is a really cool aquatic reserve. And you have just incredible marine animals and marine life there that you could see all sorts of pretty fish, turtles, cuttlefish, occasional shark, but usually a harmless one. Alright, folks, it's been real. We'll see you next time I'll see you Monday. And then. So see you Monday. Yeah. And then next time I see you, I'll be back in the states.

Not much. I'm in Sydney. So this is Sydney, Australia. This is the northern beaches. So the northern beaches on the other side of the harbor you have like Bondi beach, the famous Bondi beach. This is Manly beach, the other famous beach. So Sydney harbor, it's like this opening. You have two heads and each head is like cliffs and all that, right? And then the harbor openings is about a mile between each. And then you go into the harbor and you keep going in and there's like the Sydney Opera house in downtown.

And then you get to Bondi, all that. But then all the way around here, you could take the ferry, let's say from the opera house, doo doo doo doo, over to this side of the world. Get on. You might look at that, you know the lingo. So, yeah, so I'm over on this side. There's like the Bondi downtown area side, and this side is the northern beaches. And it's like a peninsula that goes all the way up probably about. How far would that be? Probably about 50 km or 40 km or something of just pure beaches.

Just getting more and more remote. So beautiful area. But I gotta get out of here, get back to Minnesota, which is beautiful in its own way and gonna be much nicer heading back into summer. Probably better weather than here, even though it looks incredible. But a little cool. A little cool, but feels good in the sun. All right, folks, good on ya. See ya. See you next time. All right, see you Sunday. Bye.