Ramblr Project: Mental Health Uncensored

Our new segment on Mind Sweep, Quick Thoughts! in 20 minutes or less we talk about varying topics in the mental health realm that include personal stories.
In this episode, Dan Pelosini and Matt Davidge talk about Matt's past year that started with the thoughts of suicide and ended with finding himself and creating happiness.

Being addicted to helping and serving others it is often common to forget about yourself. Hailey comes on the podcast to share her experience with burning out and neglecting herself. She shares how it's so easy to get caught up and forget about yourself in the midst of giving your energy to others. after stepping away from serving she focused on herself and faced her jobs moving forward with a whole new perspective. Hailey works for a great organization called Causeway, where her role is to help individuals with mental illness and other challenges find meaningful employment!

Katie joins the Mind Sweep podcast to share her powerful story. A journey that includes the depths of addiction, as well as the victories of recovery. She helps provide a motivational outlook that listeners will find magnetic. Katie has several tips in this episode that she has used to help recover including building a new relationship with her past and becoming a mentor herself. Katie is now also a public speaker and owner of Delasol Yoga Studios located in Hamilton.

From birth, Brian was told that he would never be able to walk. From the get-go, he had a spark inside of him. he had something to prove. Brian doesn't let his disability dictate who he is, in fact, he continues to push the boundaries on accomplishing what he's been told he could never do. Brian joins the podcast to share the trials and tribulations, along with his amazing accomplishments, such as becoming an advocate and setting a bench press record.

Dan and Matt take a break of interviewing others and turn the mics upon themselves.

Dan shares a darker journal entry he wrote two months ago, to display some of his struggles of that day, and to reiterate that people still suffer even if it seems like everything is ok.

He talks about what led up to his breaking point, and all the red flags he missed along the way.
The pair talk about what they do to maintain that even keel and the importance of checking in on yourself before your ‘code red’ is set off.