Headspace

Let’s say you’re going about your day and oops! You trip over those 15 pairs of shoes by the back door and break your ankle. What do you do? Go about your day and just hope it goes away? Ignore it? Cross your fingers and pray that it magically gets better? Maybe you’re shaking your head at that thought. You should be. That’s ridiculous. If you broke your ankle, you would be at the doctor or Urgent Care getting X-rays trying to determine how to take care of yourself. So why do we go about ignoring our brains when our mental health is suffering? Why do we do this? Honestly, I feel super passionate about this topic and the intro just isn’t enough to get into details about WHY we ignore our mental wellbeing. In today’s episode, I speak with mom Jess Sankal about how a mental break after the death of her older sister forced her to finally step back and seek help in learning how to cope with childhood trauma, the death of her mother and the death of her older sister, Alyssa. (And, just for a warning, today’s story covers physical aggression, death, eating disorders and PTSD. )