When Sean Block, a fellow podcaster with a heart for mental wellness, shared his journey through the treacherous terrain of post-concussion syndrome and a bipolar diagnosis, it wasn't just a story—it was a lifeline of hope and understanding. Captured live from the energy-charged PodFest Expo in Orlando, our conversation traversed the intricate dance between managing mental health and navigating the world of dating, where Sean opened up about the often invisible burden of seasonal depression and the pivotal role of a strong support network. Let's embark on a transformative path together, as we gather Sean's hard-earned wisdom to foster healthier minds and richer romantic experiences.
This episode is packed with practical takeaways to brighten your spirits and soothe your anxieties. Listen until the end for a funny outtake!
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When Sean Block, a fellow podcaster with a heart for mental wellness, shared his journey through the treacherous terrain of post-concussion syndrome and a bipolar diagnosis, it wasn't just a story—it was a lifeline of hope and understanding. Captured live from the energy-charged PodFest Expo in Orlando, our conversation traversed the intricate dance between managing mental health and navigating the world of dating, where Sean opened up about the often invisible burden of seasonal depression and the pivotal role of a strong support network. Let's embark on a transformative path together, as we gather Sean's hard-earned wisdom to foster healthier minds and richer romantic experiences.
This episode is packed with practical takeaways to brighten your spirits and soothe your anxieties. Listen until the end for a funny outtake!
Sean Bloch;
Website. http://www.bluehalofilms.com/
Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/seanstevebloch/
http://linkedin.com/in/seanbloch5
Podcast: Happy Brain
https://open.spotify.com/show/6yOKIIeTaAadqTsmroRuPS?si=a77862c894e545c8
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/happy-brain/id1555659782
Social Media: LPoP
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In today's episode, mel and I recorded live from PodFest Expo in Orlando, florida. We wanted to capture a moment when we made friends with a fellow podcaster and thought that his expertise and our wit would be a great match for a podcast and talking about mental health and dating. His name is Sean Block. Sean is a podcast host and baseball fan. He has an extensive background in all facets of training, delivery and multimedia content. He's also the host of a mental wellness podcast. Sean produced and directed the award-winning documentary Presenting Lisa A Journey to Authenticity that chronicled one woman's lifelong struggle to live her true right gender identity. When not sharing his passions, you can find him cheering on his baseball team. So, without further ado, here's today's episode. Welcome, this is Last Piece of Pie. I'm Jen, I'm Mel and Mel and I recently went to a PodFest Expo to learn more about this business and be better for you guys, and we met so many amazing humans all over the country, different podcasts and there was one in particular we were really interested talking about, and we have him here today.
Speaker 3:Welcome, Mr Sean. Yes.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy to be here, guys. Thank you. This is incredible. You guys found a room and everything for us.
Speaker 3:We booked it, we paid for it.
Speaker 2:I know it's just for you Room VIP, don't you know this? It's really nice.
Speaker 1:Sean is from Happy Brain Podcast. He makes talking about mental health easy and fun. He wants to make your brain a little bit happier and have this mental health journey more enjoyable.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, Praise God. That sounds like right from my little bio thing it does.
Speaker 3:Wow, we're good stalkers, I know it. Don't tell the men that we're going to try to date.
Speaker 2:Okay, I won't.
Speaker 3:Okay, thanks.
Speaker 2:This is a dating podcast, no Kind of.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Sort of.
Speaker 1:We talk about everything.
Speaker 2:But my mental health and dating, they go together right.
Speaker 3:Very related.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So that's what's wrong with me, then the dating's ruining my mental health.
Speaker 2:I think it could be You're self-diagnosing me. I don't know. I'm not a doctor, by the way. I'm just in a person who has lived experience. I've gone through a lot of mental health issues, but I'm not a doctor, so don't take whatever I say for as a clinical approach, but I have experience.
Speaker 3:Beautiful, I do too. It shit shows.
Speaker 1:Mel's got the hot mess Syndrome Locked down.
Speaker 3:So I want to start with seasonal depression. Is that okay?
Speaker 1:No, I have a question first oh she's bossy.
Speaker 3:Okay, I like it.
Speaker 1:So I want to know, tell us a little bit how you got started talking about mental health and what became a passion for you Well, when I was 19, I was in college, I was a freshman, you know young kid.
Speaker 2:First time away from home, and okay, I'm going to make sure we can hear me. Okay, yes, you're very important, I know. Thank you, these girls are a lot of fun. By the way, you guys are great. It's great meeting you at this podcast convention, thank you.
Speaker 2:But anyway, when I was 19, I was at UCLA, a school out in LA, and I was playing flag football with my new buddies. I was all excited and all of a sudden somebody like tripped me and I hit my head, got knocked unconscious, knocked unconscious, completely unconscious. I don't know what happened. I kind of got to my senses and then they kind of called ambulance and like take me away because I was just like acting really weird. Well, turns out I had amnesia At that time. They're like oh, just go home, just relax, you know you'll be fine. That year it was my first quarter. I was a straight A student, really smart, doing really good. By the end of that semester I started failing out of my classes. By the next quarter I couldn't even study. I couldn't get out of my. I was so depressed I couldn't get out of my room I started calling my parents. I was panicked. Fast forward. I ended up having to drop out of UCLA because I just couldn't function anymore.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:And at the time nobody really knew what was going on, you know, but it was like I had hit my head. I was post-concussion syndrome like PTSD. There was a lot of things going on, but at the time nobody really paid too much attention to it.
Speaker 1:They really didn't under they didn't really understand what happens with post-concussion.
Speaker 2:And I went to this neurologist and my mom took me finally and I go dude, you hurt your brain, dude, we need to take some time off and heal.
Speaker 3:Maybe that's what happened to me. My parents dropped me on my head.
Speaker 2:That could have been, that's it, it's my brain, the easy answer to it.
Speaker 3:It's not my heart, it's my brain. Problem solved.
Speaker 2:So a six-month journey later I was at home depressed they didn't know what to do with me in and out of doctors, finally got on some medication and then the medication blew me up and I got really like, went from depressed to like manic and I started thinking that I was like this special super human and I thought I was going to be like the president of the United States and I told everybody what I was going to do and everybody's like Sean, something's wrong with you, you know. And so I went from like totally depressed to totally high, ended up in a hospital because I was out of control and they finally said Sean, you're bipolar. And yeah, yeah, and, and putting on some medication, I was 19 years old. I'm not 19 years old, 19 anymore, no, I'm just a little over that.
Speaker 2:I've been on medication for a long time, so I've had a lot of ups and downs, but luckily I was. Luckily I had family, friends, medical support, doctors that were able to get me the help that I needed. A lot of people don't have that option, and so, you know, mental health has always been something I really experienced and dealt with. In the last four or five years. I said, you know, I need to share more about this, and so that's when I started like thinking about doing things like a podcast and talking about things, stories like this. And so the last two or three years I've been doing this podcast called Happy Brain and we talk about kind of tips and techniques to make your brain a little happier, things that we can do to kind of build our toolkit and our resilience. So we're not as so we have some things that we can do when we get depressed and we have issues like we all do. So that's kind of kind of been my passion in the last few years.
Speaker 3:That's an amazing, amazing story. Yeah, thank you for being so vulnerable.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, thank you for sharing, and I love that you're passionate about mental health, especially, I think, for men, because men don't talk about mental health as much as women and they don't seek help. I mean, there's people, there's women, who don't either, but I love, as a man, that you're talking about mental health.
Speaker 2:No, I think it's important. I think men, I think everybody these days needs to be more upfront and talk about what's going on, because, you know, we've had some difficult years as a collective the last few years. Covid drove a lot of people to depression rates skyrocketing. I mean, how many commercials now do you hear about like better help and all these different online therapies and things? So people are listening and there's more resources available. We just have to keep encouraging people to get help they need and then build up some like common sense tools that they can use to, like you know, be able to help themselves and help the people they love.
Speaker 1:Right, it's like endating you got to have the tools to deal with dating burnout.
Speaker 2:And I can't tell you some of the tools that come really practical in the whole dating world too. I mean, it's not easy, it's not really good for your mental health sometimes.
Speaker 1:No I quit.
Speaker 3:That's why I quit.
Speaker 2:These dating haves, man, they, they, you know, like on Bumble, they have like a little number. Do you need help? Is this getting? Is this getting too stressful?
Speaker 3:No way.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, you can. I think you talk to a professional or something because they realize how much you know. This could be really detrimental to your health. If you don't, you know, because ghosting and all these different things that happen are so bad for your mental health. You know bad it feels when you text somebody. You're all excited and you just don't hear from them or that, or they don't show up for a date or whatever it's ups and downs.
Speaker 1:Yes so it affects your energy and dating so much, and that's when people start to be like oh, there's no good people out there, like everybody's bad, I never said that Guys suck Like this is hard.
Speaker 3:I never said that either. Well, I that's when you like.
Speaker 1:That's when your energy changes and then you start keeping. You just keep attracting the wrong people and it just puts you in this bad mental cycle.
Speaker 3:Okay, so I was talking about me.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what's also bad.
Speaker 1:I've been through that and like you have to take a break, just like anything else. You got to take a break and change your energy back into positive, like when you get back into dating.
Speaker 2:And I was going to say that you know there's a lot of tick talkers, different shows, and they really talk about their bad dating experience. A lot of women talk about their bad dating more women than men, because men aren't talking about it as much. But man, there's guys on the other end of that. They're like listening to this shit, going oh my God, like wow it's, it's painful. I mean like guys are really suck. You know, like I mean they don't really suck.
Speaker 3:Thank you for acknowledging our feelings.
Speaker 2:They don't all suck, but I mean that's what it feels like when you're a guy listening to these women online like talk about their dates and how bad they're. I mean they can't all be that bad, but it's still. It's painful to listen to. So it's not really great for my mental health when I'm like, oh my gosh, don't even try.
Speaker 1:Thanks all the bad dudes for making us good dudes suffer for the badness out there.
Speaker 2:But do you guys think that's helpful, healthy approach to talk about all the bad dates and things like that online? Do you think these days are the healthy thing for you guys to you know?
Speaker 3:Sean, I call it free therapy.
Speaker 1:Well, I, I don't I guess one of the things that I see and I stopped like looking and just following people who constantly talk about bad dates and they don't talk about like what they've done, to try to either stop those type of bad dates, because then you just get you just kind of get sucked in and like your energy starts matching their energy If all they do is talk about bad dates. So I do think it does affect other people. If all you're doing in your account I know sometimes it's like for, like the views, but if that's all you're doing, then I think it's bad for dating in general.
Speaker 3:You know what Papa De Labios says? There's 8 million people out there. No, he says if you're gonna hang out with coconuts, you're gonna become a coconut. That's what I grew up with. So Papa would say yeah, stop listening to all the coconuts or you'll become a coconut.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd rather say yep, I had this bad day. I mean, we've talked about breakups, but we've also given tips of like how to deal with them and then how to change like your attitude for the next person you meet, because you got to remember, not every person is going to be like the last person you meet.
Speaker 2:Well, I do. I'm one of those guys that probably like sneaks into your. I don't know what your audience is like and how many guys listen to it, but I'm one of those guys that kind of sneaks in and listen to you guys. Thank you, because it's free intel everybody. It's like if you're a guy and you want to learn about these beautiful women and these people, just how they think, this is like a perfect opportunity. So I do kind of listen quietly sometimes and see what you guys are thinking.
Speaker 3:Thank you. All right, so I'm going to be selfish. She had the mic for a minute. I need to talk about seasonal depression because it's winter in Michigan.
Speaker 2:It is so hard, like seasonal affective disorder and things like that. You don't get enough sun in Michigan at this time.
Speaker 1:Correct, it's like gray all the time. So then I just overall it affects your mood and everything.
Speaker 2:It does. It's a worldwide problem, like a lot of the Scandinavian countries they have. You know, they have all sorts of issues with that. But one of the things is, if you can't get sun I mean there are like there are some light boxes. I mean part of seasonal affective disorder is not getting enough sun and the days are too short and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:Hey, I have that happy box. Abby makes fun of it.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do have a happy box. I have a light Okay good. Good, and did you need one? Yes, I mean, you can talk to, you can get them online, you can talk to your doctors about it, whatever.
Speaker 3:I just plug it in when I'm doing my makeup and it like brightens up. It's a great makeup like.
Speaker 1:And I'm getting my fake sun. I look so beautiful and getting sun.
Speaker 2:I mean the idea here everybody is that like you want to try to mimic the normal sun patterns, like like your circadian rhythm gets all messed up when it's like really short days. So it's good in the morning to get as much light as possible. If you can get like 10 minutes of sun, they say to actually just put your even if it's cold, outside, just to like get like 10 minutes of sun, looking with your eyes, no sunglasses, just to get some of that. And it's so good for your mental health that helps establish your sleep patterns and all that. So I definitely would recommend that.
Speaker 2:But if it's dark and you can't get any sun and you just can't get outside, yeah, like a happy box is what you call it, a light box, just to get some sun. Like I don't have a special one, I have like just daylights, daylight light bulbs you can get at the store. They're called just daylight, they're just brighter bulbs. Yep, I've seen like that, right, and natural light, yeah, natural light. I just have one of those, those tall lamps. We three little light bulbs you plug into them and I use that when I get up and it's really, it really helps. Just get some, some of that, but I try to get outside. I'm in California so I have a little bit more opportunity to get outside.
Speaker 3:We wanted to like you. So I love the tip, so your tip is first off in the morning if you can get 10 minutes of sun it will start your day off right, if you can't, in the morning at some point, go find the sun, stare at it?
Speaker 2:I mean, even if it's, even if it's dark, even if it's like not sunny, but you can just get outside. There's some light, there's even cloud cover. That's still good that those rays are good for your eyes.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna do that. My neighbors gonna think I'm weird.
Speaker 1:I mean like those. I mean like the automatic curtains in the morning that just open so that I don't feel like because I keep. I like to keep my room dark. And then, when it's so dark, so early all the time, it just makes me not want to get out of bed.
Speaker 2:What you can get is like you can get these timer lights and they gradually will turn the lights and get them brighter, so it kind of wakes you up.
Speaker 3:She is high maintenance already. Let's not, let's not no okay, I'm getting a light box.
Speaker 1:Now I'm getting an alarm that gradually like lifts up the light in the morning. Shades that open and close because I have automatic shades.
Speaker 2:I had one where my timer was like a like stadium lights. I was going boom and like, all of a sudden I'd be like, oh my God, like it was so bright. So if you can gradually do it, it's probably better.
Speaker 1:Beautiful.
Speaker 3:So, as you know, because you're my best friend, ab and I struggle with anxiety. Ab is my 18 year old. What do you suggest that we do when we are feeling anxious?
Speaker 2:There are a lot of things you can do. One of the simplest things is breathing, and it's like two one breathing, so you breathe in one breath and then you breathe out for two.
Speaker 1:And it in through your nose, out through your mouth.
Speaker 2:It can be either. I usually do out in through my nose, out through my nose too, but Like let's do one together. So it's like breathe in once and then out to, and you can do like two, four, four, eight. It's basically two times the amount of exhales as inhales. On my podcast the most popular episode is called anxiety how to get, how to get rid of it in one minute and it. I had this professional come and talk about that and it was like such a simple, simple, simple tip, but it totally works.
Speaker 1:What was the name of the episode? Again, how to get rid of anxiety one minute. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it's. It's definitely on one of my popular lists.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then didn't you have one too? That said three tips to crush morning anxiety.
Speaker 2:Yes, so a couple things you can do for morning's. I do one, actually. I started doing this recently and it's kind of kind of weird. So you wanted three tips that we can deal with, like for seasonal affective disorder or depression, especially in Michigan, where it's totally dark, right. So one of the things that I do. I just started doing this and you guys, you guys heard of Mel Robbins.
Speaker 3:I love her she's amazing.
Speaker 2:But she has this thing called a five-second rule. She has two things. One's a five-second rule which helps you get out of bed, like when you're totally, totally depressed and you're like laying there and you're not motivated. She has this way of like counting down from five. You go five, four, three, two, one, and just you just get up it, just like, you don't think about it, you just do it. No more snooze. No more snooze, just get up and you do your thing. And she kind of has this newer thing I started doing, which is giving yourself a high five in the morning.
Speaker 3:Oh, in the mirror in the mirror.
Speaker 2:So when you're flossing okay, I know we don't like the floss, right, yeah, but it's so important for yourself, care? But anyway, if you're floss, you that moment why were you looking at me?
Speaker 3:Why you said that?
Speaker 2:I don't know, because your teeth are a little, your teeth are very bright, but you know you. Probably because they're so bright you probably just don't even think you need to floss. But behind the scenes or probably has some need. But anyway my need there could be some meat. That is a different episode. But so I look at myself in the mirror. It's kind of embarrassing and I say, hey, love you buddy. I give myself a high five every morning.
Speaker 1:I don't think that's embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Oh that's a positive affirmation that you should do every day, because you know I don't have a partner right now, and so there's nobody to tell me that they love me, except for my mom. So I, you know, I give myself a little love. It gets my mood better and you know it's a great way to start today. So that's definitely one tip you could do. The next tip I would say is gratitude. And gratitude is like such a simple thing and you hear about it all the time. All it means is is finding something in your body that you or you think about the Europe you appreciate, something that makes you feel good, something that you know appreciate. You know getting up in the morning, appreciate this coffee you had. It can be simple, like I was gonna say does wine count?
Speaker 2:wine counts. Thank you anything that changes your state. And it's amazing what the body can do when you just change the way you think about something. And if you want to add a bonus to that is show gratefulness. To show gratefulness like write a note, this to somebody you love and say, hey, I just want to say just appreciate you, thanks for yesterday, thanks for picking me up, whatever thanks, whatever it is, because that feeling can totally just transform your, your mood for that moment. So know that you can change your mood like that.
Speaker 3:I love that. So I'm old school. Just a fun fact about me, I still hand write thank you notes. They are. I always have a box of thank you notes in my purse and I'm always like drop them in the mail. Even if you gave me a candy bar, I'm like thanks so much for thanking of me.
Speaker 2:Well, that's funny. You say that the last episode I had, or a couple episodes ago, was this guy who wrote helped his kids write the largest Thank you letter ever written the size of a basketball court.
Speaker 1:Oh, my lord teacher.
Speaker 2:He's a teacher as his name's crew and it's a great episode. But basically he was on the Kelly Clark Clarkson show showing this. But they basically the letters they had to write these letters and they they're like literally six feet the letters. To draw them we're like six feet tall. Like the thank you letter was, like you know, so big and they folded it up and they actually figured out a way to mail it. Like they folded it up and the postmaster general of their city came and stamped it. Anyway, it was the largest thank you letter ever. But he talks about Like writing a letter to somebody that in your past, that you know, like I was saying, I have this teacher that changed my life when I was a kid. I don't even know if she's alive, because don't worry about just write the letter. Maybe her parents or kids are still alive or whatever. But get that to her, that feeling, that time and effort it takes to write, hand, write something.
Speaker 1:Is he it just blows.
Speaker 2:It takes gratitude to do it to level. But whatever you can do, if I have a journal and I write three things I'm grateful for every day. Nice and it's just, and then I can just kind of and if you even have a buddy you can actually, you know, do that with like say hey, every day let's just write a little thank you to each other, a good little gratefulness to each other.
Speaker 1:Or like with your partner, if you have a spouse, or your kids like every day, like, let's just say, if three things were grateful for yes. And you teach your kids to get into that habit.
Speaker 2:I think that's great.
Speaker 3:Are you grateful for Kelly Clarkson?
Speaker 2:I love Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3:I know this about you.
Speaker 2:I love you. How do you know about me?
Speaker 1:We heard you don't you know we're women and we're detectives.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh my god listen to our episodes.
Speaker 1:I have a PI sister.
Speaker 3:Oh my god. So we know you love Kelly Clarkson. Hey, Kelly.
Speaker 2:Love Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3:Have Sean on your show please. I love the voice.
Speaker 2:I love all those. That's another bonus tip. When I'm depressed, I listened to clips of the voice and America's got talent, all the singing shows, audition shows because what they do is they package this powerful emotional stuff into these little bite-sized moments and you can listen. And if anybody listens to America's Got Talent, they have these things called the golden buzzer and all this stuff and it just it makes me cry. I don't cry very often, but music is a release for me, so that's a bonus tip. That wasn't on my top three, but I Love that. Hey, she's single Kelly.
Speaker 3:It's done, she's.
Speaker 1:Then he'll been doing great we have manifested a person for him at potfest this week.
Speaker 3:We hope well, just for a fun time. I'll call Kelly tomorrow, so.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love her. And the third tip is journaling. Journaling is probably been the thing that's changed my life the most. I love that, yeah, so there's different ways of journaling. For a long time what I would do is I would do. It's called kind of like a the morning pages, which is basically you write like three pages just stream of consciousness, whatever comes to your mind, just write. And a lot of the time people do it for like who want to be writers, they actually do it to get words on the page so they can write their books and stuff. But for me I would just write like all the shit that's going on in my head, all the things that are difficult or whatever. So that's a great way to do it. But last year I had this guest who kind of convinced me to try something different and I've been doing it and it's made a huge difference. Like, instead of writing all the things that are negative in your life, spend like 10 minutes, set a timer and write like all the things that are going right in your life.
Speaker 3:Oh, I love that.
Speaker 2:All the things that happen that were good or things that are positive, or things you're trying or just getting your mindset out of the negativity and starting your day with some positivity and writing that type of stuff. So, however you do it, some people like to just journal, like just random thoughts or whatever quotes, whatever works for you. Do you, guys, journal at all?
Speaker 3:I do, but you're pretending to journal right now. It doesn't really work on the tablecloth.
Speaker 2:Sean.
Speaker 3:So just fold your hands and sit still, sir, I don't do it consistently.
Speaker 1:I need to get better at doing it consistently and I love that your person on your podcast talked about positive notes in there, because when I went through and did all my life coaching, one thing we talked a lot about is the law of traction and positive energy, and the more positive things you say and do like, the more positive you get back instead of the negative energy that you're writing down.
Speaker 3:I'm stuck in the negative cloud still, but I'm trying to come out of it, I know, but I'm just like I know.
Speaker 2:But you do something which is another bonus tip that I wasn't going to share, but these two women are very. They're good smileers and smiling.
Speaker 3:I'm afraid to smile now. Now you know I don't floss my teeth Right.
Speaker 2:Well, especially after you had that meat for lunch.
Speaker 1:Okay red neck, heel belly. You had chicken for lunch, didn't you?
Speaker 2:today, I think we had to lunch together and you had chicken.
Speaker 1:I just spit in Jenner teeth from her salad.
Speaker 2:If you smile, like even if you don't feel like it, they say that definitely lifts your mood, so smiling, and if you're in a room like we're at a convention, if we're walking around without smiling and kind of being our heads down, nobody's going to want to talk to us, right? I mean, I don't even know how I met you guys probably at some event, or I was at the. We were at a karaoke bar, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and I just said hey, how are you?
Speaker 2:guys doing, or whatever I probably didn't say hey guys, how you doing.
Speaker 1:Do you want a beer? Yeah, I was sitting there smiling with our drinks with our teeth Just doing your thing. Hi, we're Jenner and the hell Happy to be here.
Speaker 3:I do smile a lot, though, so maybe that's why I'm a happy person. Yeah, I'm always smiling. That's weird. See, I'm coming out of my negative cloud.
Speaker 1:What do they say? Fake it till you make it so smiling sometimes and you're not feel like it. You're faking it till you get there, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Got it. I'm going to fake it all the way to the bank, smiling on Monday Even though there's zero dollars.
Speaker 1:I'm still going to make some money.
Speaker 3:I'm going to be, I'm blessed either way.
Speaker 2:And do you guys grant wishes and help your guests manifest things on the show? Is that one of the things you guys do?
Speaker 1:No, but we've talked a lot about it more, just because I think both of us through my journey and the things that I've been doing and just changing our thought patterns because I've learned so much through my life coaching and just trying to teach people more about it because it does like it works, it all of the stuff that I went through that was so negative and where I was at mentally nine years ago it was bad and I had to change a lot of my thought patterns. And when I started doing that like the amazing things that happens, like you don't want to believe them at first but it does it makes a huge difference and it makes a huge difference in your mindset about the things that you can do and accomplish and the people you can meet. When you say you're a lot happier, oh yeah, 100%.
Speaker 3:Her mood's much better. She only yells at me like once a day now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, and you can take times when you know you're getting burned out from work or dating your spouse like you. Just handle them easier. I don't say easier, but you can handle them in a much more emotionally intelligent way.
Speaker 3:So our L-Puppers know that I've been in the hospital and they've been like hugely supportive. It was a rough month for me in January, but I came here manifesting healing because I had to come here, because we scheduled this, we paid for it, and I was so sick and I kept telling Jen I'm coming, I'm going to be healed, I am going to Florida, I'm not coming back until I'm healed. And so, since I've been here, what I've asked like four people to pray over me I walked down the halls. I'm like I'm healed, I'm healed, I am not going back sick, I am healed. And so that's what I've been manifesting the last three days. So stay tuned, l-puppers. I can't wait to show Michigan Ann Arbor Hospital that gel suck at manifesting works.
Speaker 1:Just saying Well, I think your energy too, because you know sharing your story would have been and just people praying over you, like they'll see you in the hall and still like hey, I'm well, I'm praying for your healing and you know health and I think it's really changed your energy this week. I mean you're still, you're still tired, but that's just normal.
Speaker 3:But I feel like Jen's been nice, though Alpapa. She's been walking me home every day and tucking me in for my nap. She's a little grumpy that it takes three hours.
Speaker 1:And she ditched me the first night again, but hey, that's all right, I need sleep. I had a good time. I met two boys. Of course I'm a hermit. I'm gonna get free golf clubs from oh Sweet Jesus, hey, y'all listen.
Speaker 3:When we, when we got here, I told her I have two rules for you no tequila and you're not allowed to walk home, you have to Uber. So far, she's still obeying my rules, she's still alive and she Is still smiling and beautiful. And my best friend, who I love because she drives me nuts and we love that.
Speaker 1:We met Sean and we're so happy that you've come on our show and talked about mental health and dating and we'll help you. We're gonna manifest your partner. We know she's out there.
Speaker 2:She is, I feel it.
Speaker 3:Well, some of our listeners have said that when they have anxiety or they're depressed, they'll listen to our podcast and it cheers them up. So when you go back home, if you're bummed out, yes, listen to us, I will you'll be like. I remember her smiling and seeing that me and her teeth. It will make you laugh.
Speaker 2:I can see it right now.
Speaker 3:All right, I want you to do one thing for me before you leave. Yes, I would love for you to leave our listeners with some love and encourage them Regarding their mental health.
Speaker 2:I absolutely. I just say that actually you were talking about you. I know you had some health issues and I'm Praying for you as well and I I didn't have the same type of health issues, but this December is a tough month, in January is a tough month and winter is a tough month. So I just want to encourage you. I have gone through some really tough times recently and I just try to use some of the tools that we talked about today to try to just help help myself. I have to remind myself constantly that you need a toolkit in your life, a good mental health toolkit, and it's simple things like gratitude, breathing, you know, high fives all these things, all these little things, can make such a difference in your life.
Speaker 1:Okay, sean, and tell our listeners where can they find your podcast, and then how can they connect with you.
Speaker 2:Absolutely the best way. The best place to reach me is happy brain FM, which is an Instagram handle, and my podcast is happy brain with Sean block. There's a couple happy brains out there. Just look for a big yellow brain and you'll. You'll see my podcast. And, yeah, wherever you have a podcast, you can find me.
Speaker 3:We will definitely be listening. Thank you for all your love today and encouraging our L poppers that Mental health is okay and it's okay to talk about it, and if you're struggling, it's okay to be vulnerable and speak up, and I'm glad you found some tools for your tool belt. Thank, you. I'm gonna go home, dust off my light.
Speaker 1:Yes, thank you guys. I hope you enjoy the episode and again you can find Sean at happy bank brain podcast and we'll see you next week. L poppers Peace out. Love you guys.
Speaker 3:Jen, what was your song that you Please, please, please, sing in my ear one more time?
Speaker 1:country song no, I have a terrible singing. No.
Speaker 3:I want to hear it. You're looking for love and all the wrong places.
Speaker 1:Looking for love with too many faces, something I know, whatever hey, sean wanted us to sing a karaoke night, so