Finding our confidence is incredibly important to feeling good about ourselves.

Trust your gut and learn to trust it if you struggle to trust your gut.

This is a great post for those of us that have been and are currently people-pleasers. I wanted to look at this from the POV as a parent and how we can engage in people-pleasing behaviors with our children.

When we use discipline to bring balance to our lives it leads to more happiness than indulging all of our desires.

Every night I post a photo of the Washougal River with a collection of my thoughts from the day. I try to correlate these thoughts to some kind of mental health pursuit.

So here we are, the first week of a brand new year. It’s refreshing, a new year, giving each of us, including you, an opportunity to give yourself a new starting point. We hear a lot about goal setting and vision boards and resolutions and then inevitably somebody like me comes along and tells you that you don’t need all of those things blah blah blah.

Losing weight, weight loss, dieting, and any other eleventy million words, acronyms, or cliches we use to describe dropping pounds can bring anxiety to many of us that have battled weight challenges in our life. Until you’ve looked in the mirror and felt rage, anger, shame, disgust, embarrassment, and sadness at the reflection staring back at you, then you’re probably not qualified to give us an opinion we likely don’t want anyways.

Failure is something I have an intimate relationship with; hell I’d say the thing I’m most successful at is failure. That isn’t necessarily a good thing, because, like many relationships, my love of failure isn’t always healthy. How is your relationship with failure?

Homelessness is an issue that can affect every single one of us in some form or fashion in 2022. Homelessness has become a very hot-button issue for governments and citizens alike as both seek to find some sort of solution to a problem that continues to fester in society.

Once I found Adult Children of Alcoholics I started to gain a sense of self and discover who I really am. This is the beginning of a video series I’m doing on ACOA and having a realistic and open discussion about it’s benefits.

Here are the links for the most recent ManVsMood podcasts 19, 21 and 22.

Olympic Wrestler Kelsey Campbell joins ManVsMood for an discussion on all things mental health and what the future holds for her.

Social media has had a great, albeit overall negative, impact on society. We can't deny how the landscape of the internet and "irl" has changed over the last 10-15 years with the proliferation of social media platforms.

ManVsMood Podcast Ep 14: Point of Disgust

What is the point of disgust you ask? Well, the point of disgust is that moment when you decide to confront your struggles and find positive ways to help begin the process of overcoming them.

Healing wounds from the past is a huge part of overcoming mental health struggles. In this episode of the ManVsMood Podcast, we break down what it feels like to heal wounds from the past.

This is ManVsMood’s year in review episode. 2021 was obviously a crazy year for all of us and in this episode we explore the year and what 2022 has in store for us.

Physical health and mental health go hand in hand. It’s very important that our bodies are healthy in order for our minds to be healthy.

ManVsMood Podcast Episode 8: Enneagram Personality Test

The four of us took the Enneagram personality test and we dug deeply into the results of the test.

ManVsMood Podcast Episode 7: Disappointment

Disappointment affects our mental health so we’ve got to be proactive in how we approach disappointment.

Toxic masculinity is something we hear about all the time but what is it? In this episode we're joined by a woman, Genevieve, to discuss what it is, how it impacts each of our lives and how we can work to make the world a more positive place.