May is mental health awareness month.

If you are struggling mentally, please reach out to someone.

I wish I would have taken my own advice to reach out for help way sooner in my life.

Today, I do my best to be the person to help you, or someone else take action to get help sooner.

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This morning I released a 3 minute solo podcast episode that introduces the concept of turning my pain into purpose.

Listen on Apple Podcasts Here

Listen on Spotify Here

On Thursday I will release a longer conversation I had with my wife Erin about how she has turned pain into purpose, and how others can use tragedies in life as fuel to LIVE in the moment, and make the most out of every day.

I know both of these episodes can be helpful to people.

When I look back on my life, I wish I had spoken up sooner about the struggles I had both mentally and physically.

All the Sauna content, Ice baths, Fitness, sober social gatherings you see on my pages, they aren't for nothing. They literally saved me from my own damn self.

It took me decades to fully open up.

And if you listen to this short episode, you will sense that I am still new at talking about the mental/emotional side of the pain I have been through.

If you are a male reading this, you know the struggle I am having.

Physical pain is one that is normalized and talked about all the time.

But the mental side, as men, it can be an extreme struggle to open up about our insecurities, fears, and worries that cloud our minds.

Running the miles, lifting the weight, that shit is easy.

Telling you that I used to get nervous about exams, not because I was afraid to fail, but because I was so anxious about the fact that I might have a stomach issue while taking the test... (picture me basically shitting myself during an exam... it has happened before).

Opening up about my anxiety and neurotic tendencies....

way harder than the most amount of weight I have ever lifted.

My mind was filled with fears and anxiety for so long, I now look back at myself as "that was literally a different lifetime, a different me, an entirely different human being."

Who was that guy?!?

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This question is what I want to help other Men and Women get to the point of asking themselves.

I want to help people turn their tragedies and traumas into fuel for a better life for themselves.

Because I know that if they learn to do this, they will inspire and encourage everyone around them to do the same.

And if we are all on the journey together...

this world will become a better place.

We all will be THRIVING ON LIFE.

#thriveon

CJ

p.s. I am grateful for the physical and mental pain I have had to endure over my lifetime. It has guided me to asking myself the hard questions that will ultimately lead me to living my best life.