Discussing mental health, education, and coping mechanisms with mental health professional, Meadowlark!

Wake Up With Weslie

Weslie Christensen

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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*TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses suicide and death.

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Meadowlark is a mental health professional who works at MadHappy, which is a clothing company that focuses on mental health education.

In this week's episode, we talk about Meadowlark's upbringing which was punctuated by trauma and death, and then even more trauma and death. In college, she found herself in a psychology class and couldn't get enough, which lead her to become the mental health professional that she is today.

Speaking to her about this subject was so illuminating for me. For instance, before she went into detail about some of the traumas she dealt with around her father's death, she simply asked me if I was emotionally available to hear specifics, or if I would prefer to skip details. Just this act alone changed the way that I will talk about big issues like this with future guests or friends.

It was so simple, so kind, and allowed trust and ease for the conversation to continue on in. And this is why I wanted Meadowlark on the show...she is teaching me, and hopefully, us all, how to have these types of harder conversations in a way that doesn't feel as hard or uncomfortable.

Beyond this, Meadow gives us a detailed list of coping mechanisms that she uses herself when she is triggered or having a rough mental health day.

Instagram: @meadow_af
Youtube: Meadowlark

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Rory. I missed you.
0:03.0	Today's episode touches on suicide and some other mental health topics.
0:09.0	So we and Meadowlark wanted to kind of have this PSA at the beginning.
0:16.8	Meadowlark was really helpful.
0:18.6	She gave us the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
0:22.2	Phone number, which is 1,800, 273, 8255. She also included
0:28.9	the Crisis Text line, which you just text, hello, to 741, 741. So thank you, Metal Arc. That was really cool of you.
0:38.0	Um, yeah, that's all I got. Enjoy Metal Arc.
0:42.0	Oh, and it's a Zoom call, so excuse the audio. This is nearing the end, I promise.
0:48.4	Then we're going to have really good sounding stuff. All right guys welcome to another episode of Wake Up with Wesley. I'm your host
1:06.3	Wesley and I today I'm just this one's a big one for me. I'm with me
1:11.7	Meadowlark you guys metallark for me. I'm with Meadowlark. You guys,
1:13.2	Meadowl for me. It's a big one for me. I was telling her just now. I'm like,
1:18.6	I really sat, I tried to prepare, and then I threw all the
1:22.3	preps out the door, like I'm I don't know let's just chat man you
1:26.4	know how fun it is to watch you saying this because I do hear this all the time I'm
1:30.9	such a listener and I'm like oh we're here we're doing it like this you're doing it we're just
1:37.1	gonna see where this goes we're gonna see what well this is this is exciting for me because
1:41.7	me though first of all I have a problem right before we start I cannot not call you meadow lark. I want to call you meadow lark.
1:48.7	We do. My whole family does please do. Yeah, okay, so this is what's confusing.
1:53.7	It's even the middle name.
1:55.0	It's not even my first name.
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