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Never Fully Heard #13 - Mental Illness & Journalling Your Tears
The 5-minute mental health newsletter.
Nick Horton
October 30, 2022
The 5-minute mental health newsletter.
Never Fully Heard is a space for men to listen to and engage in open, vulnerable & uncomfortable conversations to help improve their mental health being.
In today's edition:
Self-reflection question of the week: What always brings tears to your eyes?
Article of the week: Mental health in startups - James, Founder of Sanctus
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It's Sunday, let's go!
Before reading I want you to do four box breaths.
Exhale to a count of four, holding your lungs empty for a four-count, inhaling at the same pace, and holding air in your lungs for a count of four before exhaling.
Repeat 4 times.
Link to podcast here
James Ski is the Founder of Sales Confidence. Elevating Sales as a profession and helping all salespeople at each stage of their career, with their growth mindset, well-being and constant never-ending performance improvement.
In this episode you can expect to learn what it was like for James losing a friend to suicide, being diagnosed with Bipolar & never giving up in the face of continued adversity.
It's so inspiring to see men talk so openly about their toughest moments, I hope that by continuing to share these stories we can start to create more spaces for men to be heard.
James's Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesski/
Sales Confidence website: https://salesconfidence.co/home
âť“Self-reflection question âť“
What always brings tears to your eyes?
"Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Thank you, then, for your tears." Paulo Coelho
Passage was taken from Aleph by Paulo Cohelo. Book here
The challenge this week is to understand what events bring tears to your eyes in both a positive & negative manner.
Set aside some time this week to really go deep on this, feeling your emotions in their depths is one of life's miracles. Be sure to embrace it.
đź“ťArticle of the week
Snippet from the article:
"In September 2012, I dropped out of University to start my first company. Over the course of three and a half years the team and I went onto two accelerator programs, raised $1m, whilst building a product used by 130 websites reaching 50m users every month.
I can only compare starting a company to falling in love. You are totally and utterly consumed by your startup, you put everything into it, it’s your life and everything moves extremely quickly. You can invest so heavily into it that you inadvertently block out the other things in your life too. This could be your friends, family, relationships, social life, health or wellbeing. Your company means that much to you.
You’re under immense pressure, from the outside and from the inside. Externally, you’re under pressure from shareholders, employees, customers, and the friends and family who don’t understand what you’re doing. Then internally, you put huge pressure on yourself to succeed. You compare yourself to the rockstar CEOs in TechCrunch articles. You feel like you’re not shipping code fast enough, you’re not working hard enough or you’re not growing quickly enough."
Link to full article here
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