Opening Up So You Can Too: Let’s Talk Mental Health

it's not a buzzword, but the foundation of everything

You're not alone if you’ve ever felt numb, empty, or lost in the dark.

I’ve been there. I know how it feels… or doesn’t feel. Mental health challenges can steal your sense of self, purpose, and safety.

I’m here to tell you: there’s a way out—and through.

Every Monday for Mental Health Awareness Month, I share my story with a series focused on Mind-Body-Soul healing. The theme? Discover meaning and why purpose matters. Often, a loss of meaning manifests at the root of emotional suffering.

You’ll gain from this series:

• My story of healing from depression and psychosis & what it is (plus 6 months in and out of the mental clinic)

• A holistic toolkit that helped me move from survival to thriving as seeds for your transformation

• An understanding about mental health: not as an illness, but an imbalance that we can rebalance

• Powerful mindset shifts to reclaim your thoughts, energy, and identity

The transformation you’ll experience:

• How to reconnect for greater clarity on your mental health: creativity as medicine

• Feel empowered, seen, heard, and understood: feelings need expression

• Why opening up is essential: how to do it safely

• You are not broken: you are becoming

Every month, we focus on something because what we focus on grows.

Let's grow understanding, compassion, and a toolbox for lasting inner peace:

Join us in 2 weeks for a transformational weekend for our first online summit with speakers to heal your heart and have confidence, including some people from our community on Substack!

Here’s the schedule for a jam-packed weekend of lessons, laughter, and self-love:

May your mind settle like a quiet pond
May your body move with grace and sensation
May your spirit root itself in meaning this May and always…

Register here.

Join

Aneta

and I as always, for our live Mindful Monday live at 5.30 PM CET today.

The next three weeks, we will also be going live with some of our speakers to get to know them and what they will be teaching us!

15.05:

Rachel Aichler, FNP@SelfCare4U

@ 6 pm CET

13.05:

Matt DiGeronimo

@ 5 pm CET

20.05:

Cheryl

@ 6 pm CET

Join us for a transformational month! Take your first step forward to healing and meaning.

Let's rewind to understand the mind:

Four years ago, I was redefining myself after psychosis and depression.

After half a year of being in and out of the mental clinic, I was scattered.

Being the victim of this constant criticism in your mind is tiring…

It was late spring. I was in nature, not in triumph, but in quiet confusion.

I wasn’t “better.” I was just... outside.

Some days I felt like a rock in bed, with no energy to move.

Other days, I woke up feeling inspired and ready to write my story to help others and coach others (I still don’t know how I successfully coached 3 ladies at the time when just coming out of the clinic!).

Every day, I was showing myself more grace and forgiveness.

Every day, I felt like I was ending the battle in my head and finding hope in my heart.

One step at a time.

I remember sitting on this bench and reflecting on how many layers are in the journey of discovery and growth.

On how far I had come, although I felt I had taken many steps back in suffering and being in the mental clinic during Corona (worst time ever, but somehow made it soothing for me with no FOMO when knowing everyone else was cooped up too)….

Trickles of gratitude returned. I looked around and felt whole. As I always do in nature.

Although my thoughts were loud, still echoing hospital walls, diagnoses, fragments of who I had been, nature didn’t care.

It didn’t rush me to feel better. It didn’t remind me I wasn’t who I used to be.

I felt ease, not happiness, not clarity… just a pause from the war inside.

It wasn’t a turning point. It was a beginning.

A place where I could stop performing and start remembering:

I am alive. I am becoming. And that’s enough.

This is me on Friday, 1st May, excited about the beautiful yellow field: in the same fields four years later: this time heartbroken, but breaking through, this time with no mental health issues, but a firm foundation in faith, desire, and love.

MIND: Understanding & Reclaiming Your Mental Space

My baseline optimistic self was still alive.

I stepped back into coaching people soon after my time at the clinic... so surreal.

I saw I could help others in my lowest part of life, but that was the issue...

So, guess what brought me back to a healthy mental, physical and spiritual state (because it's all about the three in action together, if you didn't know yet)?

When you pay to become a subscriber, you invest in reclaiming your power:

You pay attention to what you pay for.

My story is worth it,

I lived through it, to share it.

I see you and I care: now make space to become more aware.