15. A Real Talk on Mental Health
Mamaste with Tanika Ray
English - February 08, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBSociety & Culture Health & Fitness motherhood kids raising kids moderndaymoms wellness selfcare parenting children parenthood mom Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Content warning: this episode of Mamaste with Tanika Ray contains discussion of self-harm and death.
“The grass is greener on the other side.” It’s a phrase we’ve heard countless times, and most of us probably ignore it or roll our eyes when it’s said. But have you ever stopped yourself to think about how true it is? How many times have you coveted the fame and fortune of that gorgeous actress or the beauty and self-confidence of that incredible supermodel? The truth is, you’re probably doing it without even knowing it—maybe even the majority of people are. But what most of us fail to remember is that those people are all human beings and just the very condition of being human means that everyone has struggles.
Today, I’m having a real chat about mental health and the toll our focus on success and wealth takes on us. The truth is, no matter how much they try to convince us that things and titles and homes and cars are the greatest goal, we keep seeing people who seemingly have it all destroy everything that is supposed to be success.
Tune in and listen to episode fifteen of Mamaste with Tanika Ray. I’m breaking down misconceptions around the glamor of television reporting and getting honest about my battles with depression, alcohol, and being taken for granted by my superiors while I worked on TV. I also talk about how I was brought up not to value labels and brand names, but to put emphasis on culture and experience and why I’m so lucky to have been conditioned not to value things.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
So often in motherhood, your response to a negative trigger is completely autopilot (02:18)CW As outsiders looking in, it’s often so confusing how people who seemingly ‘have it all’ can harm themselves (04:48)Working as a reporter at a TV entertainment magazine was an incredibly difficult, trying job (06:24)I believe what saved me from working a job that exhausted me and pushed me into hysterics was my natural sense of rebellion (13:53)The fact that people of color are in the projects and have less opportunity is not by accident (20:14)This is a call to action to figure out what your tools are in order to navigate your way out of the darkness (22:47)Mental Health Resources:
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