Brain Health Matters

Hello good morning friends!

I wanted to send something out earlier but I like to feel inspired or called to speak about something before I just throw it out there. And yesterday was a powerful day--so my writing juices and thoughts are FLOWING today.

First of all, I just wanted to send out my gratitude and love to each and every one of you. For who you are. For being here. Not only in reading this email, but in general.

I had some powerful conversations yesterday, as well as listened to some powerful podcasts recommended to me. The past couple months, I've been part of a women in wellness community meet up group. We've been coming together one time per month, discussing various topics, sharing goals and dreams, and all the normal life shit that comes up. We all are at this point in life where we know we want to be apart of the wellness community in some way, helping support women in some sort of way.

It fills my cup to be around them.

We also talk a lot about mental health.

Or how I now like to see it as

"Brain Health"

I listened to a podcast episode (recommended by a girl in the group), and a man in the podcast talked about this. That sometimes "mental" health can have a negative connotation to it--that you aren't right. That something is wrong with you. When in reality it's a matter of brain health, just like the health of any other part of our body. And has to do with us living life as human beings living the human experience. Which can be tough sometimes.

Little Trigger warning-I won't go in depth, but this man was speaking about the fact that he tried to take his own life and didn't succeed. And now, he speaks about his journey and his thoughts and it was an intense but powerful story to listen to.

He talked a lot about human kindness and how in those hard times, all he really needed was human kindness-in. that. moment.

The holidays can be a tough time for a lot of people.

I thought that instead of talking about how you can create healthier habits or move your body more or whatever I normally chat about, I'd take this time to say this:

Be kind to people.

If you see a person in public in distress, ask them if they're okay.

Check in with your loved ones.

Lead with compassion.

And most of all, just be KIND.

You never know what people are dealing with, holding in or struggling to manage.

I am sending lots and lots of love to everyone who reads this.

I am here for you if you EVER need to talk to someone, I don't care if we've talked once, never or thousands of times.

I'm here.

Sending love during this time...

XO,

Mikayla