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Upgrade Your Mental Health: How to Build Momentum When You're Stressed · Voices for Voices®

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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hi everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're well on our way to reaching and helping 3 billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you again for joining us.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I just wanted to call out our website, voices4voices.org, is uh being transformed at this current moment.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you'll be seeing uh are seeing uh some of those uh updates, upgrades that are uh occurring on our website.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh we haven't uh uh done that in quite a while, um, but uh wanted to let everybody know that yep, that's the right website, voices for voices.org and the four is spelled out four.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So voices for voices.org because our uh our X account is voices the number four and then voices.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So while we got all that out of the out of the way, uh upgrading is the topic of the show.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh it's uh pretty pretty fitting that we're uh upgrading our website uh and everything uh around the organization is getting uh an upgrade.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so we have a pretty aggressive schedule, and we thank you for your patience and kindness.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're gonna talk about upgrading our mental health.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now, before we can upgrade anything, we have to start with something, and so I'll give, I guess, an analogy, and then I'll step back into the mental health aspect of upgrading.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So a car, a motor vehicle, right, starts out with basic features.
• 2:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe it's power steering, maybe there's air conditioning, maybe uh the windows don't have to be hand rolled down like they used to used to be.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh maybe the seats are cloth.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh maybe there is no sunroof.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's kind of like a basic look, right?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So like the base value.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So whatever a base car without any of the fancy upgrades, uh, what would be.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So let's just call that fifteen thousand dollars.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now, if you or I want that car motor vehicle to have a sunroof, to have 20-inch wheels, uh, to have uh leather seating, to have uh navigation and all these things.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe that takes the price tag up to maybe 21, 22, 23,000.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, this is hypothetical, so don't quote me on prices or specific model of cars.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I have to say that uh just so uh everybody understands that aspect.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now their mental health, right?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We all have mental health, we have a brain, we have uh a lot of us have uh the the ability to make our own decisions to some extent, to most extent.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I feel God is guiding me, us.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so I feel he's given the options of you know free will, uh, but I would think that God would have specific things that He He would be hoping that we do.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But nonetheless, let's let's get in there, right?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it's all about you know having a brain, being able to choose, like, oh this is with everything being equal.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know there's people with maybe different allergies and different things going on, but let's just let's just say that eating that basic eating, you know, bread, milk, water, drink, um, you know, as our basics.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and then we have uh you know, fillet steaks, we have lobster, uh, we have all kinds of different levels, right?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we start with something, and then we can potentially increase that.
• 6:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So with that mental health, we all have it, we all have the brain.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know there's some in in individuals that there are deviations, differences, uh, and so I want to be cognizant of that of everybody.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so being able to you know make our own decisions, you know, hypothetically, we're able to do that, and that we're able to have the ability to do that.
• 6:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm blessed to have two arms, two legs, ten toes, ten fingers, two eyes, two ears.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm very blessed to have that, these uh so we have this that basic set of things.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now when we talk about upgrading, each of us are at different points in time where maybe if somebody's experiencing stress, anxiety, they go to the gym, they do a workout, maybe they have a gym at their house or their uh condominium or apartment complex, or uh but go going to the gym uh two, three, four, or five days a week, maybe doing the workouts at those times and at those cadences, maybe that helps particular individuals handle that stress and anxiety.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I can I can understand where individuals are like just go to the gym, just work out, like that'll that'll make everything better.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not the case for everybody, but there are so there are people like that, um so that's their upgrade.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Another person's upgrade may be getting the say the appropriate amount of sleep each night, rest, and that number, we we've heard all kinds of numbers.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, but whatever that number is for you, for me, around eight hours is usually where I don't say I'm at more of a peak level of energy of being able to process and handle stress the best I can without some of the other upgrades we're gonna get to.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that might be another area that an individual says, oh, it could be I go to the I go work out the gym, I get X amount of hours of sleep each night, and that helps them battle stress and anxiety, and it might not really show up on like a radar screen, like it might be like a stealth, a stealth uh fighter, fighter jet, fighter plane, where the stress and anxiety just don't show up as as often because of those.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now, an injury could change that.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're talking about like the gym aspect.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh one of one of the individuals that's been very kind at the gym to me uh had underwent some form of surgery on his his one arm, and and so he he's only able to lift and work out his one of the two arms.
• 10:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And he said uh it's humbled himself because he knows that there's there's people out there that every single day have to work through those challenges, and he just has a few weeks, and and he'll be able to get back to using both of his arms.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it could be that it could be the working out at the gym and getting the rest, or it could be just getting the rest, uh sleep, I say rest, just I don't know, I just like you know, we're resting overnight.
• 11:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so those are two things that individuals could have their stress and anxiety kind of canceled out.
• 11:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we all have mental health, so we're at that base where we're all in mental health, no matter what.
• 11:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're just at different, we're just at different levels, and so one person could be just the gym, next person could be just getting their proper amount of sleep.
• 12:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And sleep, another level might be the counselor, and that's where we get into these hard, harder areas, you know.
• 12:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're talking about our lives, we're talking about intimate details.
• 12:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and it's hard to talk about, you know.
• 12:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: As an introvert, I thought I was an extrovert.
• 12:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: My uh longtime psychiatrist proved me otherwise that I'm an introvert.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So introverts, we like to keep to ourselves a lot.
• 13:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, what where there's you know, there's times like this where I'm speaking to you, you're watching and listening, and you go, wait a minute, you can't be an introvert.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's what I was I was telling my psychiatrist.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I said, I'm not an introvert.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, we we have the organization, we have the podcast, uh, I teach university, uh, in person, online, created classes, courses.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and he asked me a series of questions, and I was like, Oh yeah, uh I guess I am an introvert.
• 13:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So, an introvert, if you or somebody you know is, it's almost doubly as hard, so twice or three times as hard to talk to somebody about you know what's going on in our lives.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because we're so used to keeping that to ourselves, we're so used to just shutting down and the thought of talking to somebody else in person or even on uh you know audiovisual, you know, conferencing software is like, well, wait a minute, I'm definitely gonna be judged, and then you know, all these things start coming into play, additionally come into play.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: However, if yeah, it's when he's if if question uh if statements, if we're doing the gin thing and if we're doing the sleep thing, and we're still having a tough time, first off, is just noticing it, recognizing it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's hard because we have the stigma of mental health, mental illnesses still to this day, it's still out there.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There um, there just is.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, we talk about politics, we talk about different areas where mental health is still a taboo.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nobody wants to not everybody wants to talk about it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: People will say they want to talk about it, but when it comes down to it, do they really?
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And if somebody needs help or wants to talk to somebody, they should be able to.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They shouldn't have to worry about the cost of it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're talking about people's lives here.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: One day they could be here, one day they could not be here.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're all not promised another day.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And especially when we're talking about mental health and mental illness, some of us we don't have much time left.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not speaking in the first person, I'm just saying in general across the world, uh, you know, veterans from the military.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I think the last count is 22 die by S side, you can kind of put that together every day.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it's heart shattering.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's where that basic level is, and then we work up from the gym to rest, sleep, slash, sleep, to maybe we can talk to somebody.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't feel comfortable about it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I spent so many years trying to handle things on my own.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe you have too.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe nothing's working, or it's not working.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like it's not like if you do the all these things, it it is going to increase everything exponentially.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just gonna take things and inch by inch are gonna help.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So getting the right amount of sleep for you, whatever that is, that's gonna inch you above a little bit.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're able to go to the gym and work out, go for a walk, whatever.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I was told, oh, that's you just do that, and then you'll be fine.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, no, that's just that's just another tool in the tool belt.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we got rest, we got uh we've got rest, we got exercise.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We got maybe talking to somebody.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's three things.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that'd be three inches or three millimeters or three centimeters in the positive, they got positive direction.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You don't have to do all these things, but these are just upgrades.
• 18:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because that's what we're doing.
• 18:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're talking about upgrades, like mental health upgrades.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So let's say we talk to a counselor, and maybe you talk to a counselor, and you're like, we just don't, we just don't say we don't jive, we don't connect, like some counselors, you know, that they want you to do a lot of homework.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, you know, be between now and next visit, I'd like you to do XYZ.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, when somebody, you know, speaking by myself and anybody else out watching, listening, either themselves or know somebody, or may run into somebody down the road.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's just it's just very, very personal connection.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we might go, okay, well, I tried the counselor, but we just didn't get along.
• 20:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's okay.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Call another one, get a referral, talk to talk to a couple different ones.
• 20:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's okay.
• 20:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's you and I taking control as much as we can of that that particular situation.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't let that be something that detracts you or me, and so we just don't do it and go, you know what, like it.
• 20:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not this one, I'm not a person that's like, oh, trust me on this, but there's a lot of counselors out there, there's a lot of need, so there's a lot of jobs out there.
• 20:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Check out the Voices for Voices, Career Center.
• 21:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have jobs for across the gamut, a lot of different industries.
• 21:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But all that being said, is there's people with all kinds of backgrounds, and you and I just have to find that one and go, you know what?
• 21:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They want me to do homework each time.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's just adding additional stress, just thinking about that, and so that's what I like about my council right now.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It doesn't force that on me.
• 21:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We talked, I think it was like a first visit or so.
• 21:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: First or second?
• 21:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Pretty sure it was the first one, but it may have been the second.
• 21:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't quote me on it.
• 21:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, I was ass, you know, you You get what you put in, you know, like as much as you share is going to be how much I'm gonna be able to help you uh or guide you.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh if you want homework, I'll give you homework.
• 22:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you don't want homework, you don't have to have homework.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's okay.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For me, that's what I want.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I I don't want homework.
• 22:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't.
• 22:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: With all the schooling and all different things, I mean there's gonna be times where there will be things that I will have to do homework for, like prepping for shows when we're interviewing guests and like that.
• 22:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I don't mind that because that's what I feel like I'm called to do.
• 22:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I feel like God's called me to do that and to do what we're doing.
• 23:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if one counselor doesn't work out, don't give up.
• 23:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't don't have that be why you give up.
• 23:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean don't have I hope you never ever give up.
• 23:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I was at that point at a time.
• 23:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I think the only reason I know I still I was spared not taken from earth is because God had other plans.
• 23:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um I don't know what all those are.
• 23:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I think voices for voices is part of it.
• 23:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There might be others.
• 23:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There might not be voices for voices, but right now it is.
• 24:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is my way of now we're into kind of a little bit of nuts and bolts of journaling.
• 24:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So journaling can upgrade your mental health.
• 24:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What do I mean by that?
• 24:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't like to write things down, like physically write things down.
• 24:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I still remember I'll do cursive and that, and that's anyways.
• 24:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The show, this podcast that we have going, where we're almost at 600 episodes.
• 24:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is this is a form of my journal.
• 24:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is a journaling, you know, especially solo episodes.
• 24:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a lot of journaling about me and my background, my past, my future, my current state.
• 25:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so journaling can be a way to upgrade your mental health.
• 25:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, you don't have to write it out.
• 25:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some people you can write it out and then you can throw it away.
• 25:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just getting it out of the mind and the head is the the deal.
• 25:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So whether you're speaking it, whether you're writing it, whether you're sign using sign language to have somebody help help you with that, or any other way, that's a way to upgrade your mental health.
• 25:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Another way, and this is if you know if you're able to get a piece of paper, doesn't matter how small, how big, doesn't matter what color, pen, pencil, color, mark, it doesn't matter.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The key is to just make a lowercase l and keep it going all the way to the end of the page, and then start the next line and make L L L L L.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it's as if you're spelling a name, a scene, a place that also gets some stress out of the mind because it might seem very small, but when you're just focusing on that, and then it's just so repetitive, our mind is focusing on that, the L's and the L's and the L L.
• 27:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can do it slow, you can do it fast, you can do it for a half of a line, a full line, five lines, 25 lines.
• 27:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you have a notebook paper, you just get printer copy paper.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Doesn't matter.
• 27:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a way to upgrade your mental health.
• 27:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So all these things that I've been talking about are little increases that on the surface, again, are very small, may seem very small, but when you start adding them together, then they start increasing.
• 27:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a compounding effect.
• 27:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like if you talk to a financial advisor, talk about the compounding of money.
• 28:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're compounding things, choices, the compound, the positives of mental health.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And now for me, at this point, I know the stigma's still out there.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nothing I can do about that.
• 28:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But I'd like to think I've gotten past that because there are so many other things, and I'm not perfect at all.
• 28:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not, but there's a bunch of things they're called coping mechanisms.
• 28:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So those are just a fancy word.
• 28:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I call it upgrading mental health.
• 28:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I've also called it coping mechanisms, whatever you want to call it, you don't have to call it anything.
• 28:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All you have to call it is I'm compounding my mental health positives, so that when I do the next thing it's positive, it compounds and then it increases the amount from where we were to where we are and then to where we're going.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now, what are some things that can impact that traveling, right?
• 29:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if a gym's a going to the gym is a big deal.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Finding a gym that has the same equipment or relatively the same, uh that could be a tough thing.
• 29:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh if you're traveling like flight-wise, different time zones, if you're on a plane for like 8, 10, 12, 15 hours, that can put that that can really affect sleep, the quality of sleep, the quality of rest.
• 30:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so we have to be okay with that for that amount of time.
• 30:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's an area that I wasn't good at before, meaning like 20 years ago.
• 30:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If I was traveling, I had to I had to I had to locate a gym before I went on whatever trip I was going on, because I was so ingrained and I was such a big part of my life at the time that that's what I had to do.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm getting into that point now.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But most hotels, most motels, most places where we would stay have some kind of workout facility.
• 31:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It might not be the exact same thing, but you do the best you can with what what uh tools and resources that you're given and I'm given.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if I'm able to, then I'll work out.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If not, I need to just not let that negativity creep in on that aspect.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For the sleep could be the same thing.
• 31:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe it takes it depending on how many time zones and uh and all you know how much time you're on a plane or a train or uh it could be different quality of sleep.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Sleeping on a bed to sleeping on a cot to sleep on the floor, just all those things.
• 31:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um those could impact.
• 32:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we s I think you're seeing how each individual upgrade to our mental health.
• 32:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I just mentioned it, I'll mention it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Each little element is small on its own, but it grows positive and more positive, more positive.
• 32:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Maybe for two days you're not able to do two things, so it goes down here, and then when you get back, then you get back up here, and then you maybe go a little higher.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The last but not least is so there's counselors that are prescribers, meaning they can prescribe medication if need be.
• 32:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh for me, psychiatrist, uh nurse practitioner, psychiatrist having visits, and if there's medication, they're able to do that.
• 33:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And if there's refills that are needed, they're able to call in and use whatever system on the computer or on their smartwatch on their watch or on their device.
• 33:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Say, oh, Justin has a request for this, and we're gonna approve it because he's got two days supply left.
• 33:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So again, that that would be another that would be another upgrade.
• 34:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because for the most part, a lot of the counselors, they're not prescribers.
• 34:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They may be, but my my experience is a lot of them aren't.
• 34:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's okay.
• 34:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I'm able to see the counselor, but I'm also able to see a nurse, practitioner, psychiatrist that's able to talk about more of the medication route and where we're at, where we're going, where we've been, and then they're able to make recommendations, make changes if need be.
• 34:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I hope you've enjoyed this show just from the mere fact of look, we all have mental health, and I went through multiple ways that we can upgrade our mental health, and this is coming from somebody who has multiple mental illnesses, and that's me.
• 35:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for joining us.
• 35:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're grateful to have you with us.
• 35:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Last but not least, if you can give us a thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, reshare, repost, word of mouth, get that phone out one way or another, reach out to 25, 50, 100 contacts and share the Voices for Voices podcast with them.
• 35:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're so grateful that you joined us today.
• 35:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, check out the voices for voices.org website.
• 35:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're looking for a job, if you're looking to post a job, you can do that on our career center at voicesforvoices.org, and you'll see across the top, uh, career, career center.
• 36:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And you want to get used to checking out our website because we got a lot of uh upgrades to stay with the show's uh topic.
• 36:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh a lot of upgrades that are gonna be coming.
• 36:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh we can't do this without you.
• 36:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you so much for joining us.
• 36:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So until next time, let's celebrate all the voices in the world and let's be a voice for not only ourselves, but somebody else that may need some help sharing their voice.
• 36:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll send our we're sending our love and support to each and every one of you.
• 36:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we will see you on the next episode.
• 36:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Bye bye for now.