My name is Alana Cates, and I’ve had a journey to recover my mental health that was far too slow, long, and expensive. As someone who is retired from helping businesses become faster, better, cheaper, I can identify quite a lot of opportunity for improvement.
To be clear, I am not a health professional. If you or anyone you know is currently struggling, I strongly urge you to get in contact with a professional. Your friends might not know how to react – mine didn’t. Your family might feel responsible – mine did. Seek a professional who makes you feel safe and heard.
Many of the professionals I sought were on YouTube, or they wrote books available at the library. The point is to root out the thought that is wrong, the one causing you pain, and you need a different perspective to liberate you, to point it out.
For instance, I thought I was a failure for not finding a husband, never having been proposed to, no one ever wanted me. Boo hoo. Instead, I listened to all these women who can tell me that marriage is a farce for women. Phew, dodged that bullet! I wasn’t unwanted – I had a bar so high that no one could meet it.
Snap. A flipped perspective, and instead of crying, I am laughing. That’s all it takes, and so I share my trials and successes to try to flip your perspectives, work through your baggage and join me in heaven.
