Suicide, Healing Anxiety and Cultivating Mental Health with Dr. Shainna Ali

“‘Am I enough?’ is the root to anxiety.”

Notes:

• How discovering what anxiety was in college started Shainna’s journey into understanding mental health (4:30)
• Shainna describes the toughest times of her life regarding mental health (16:30)
• The importance of validating anxiety (20:12)
• Shainna describes the importance of taking suicidality seriously and getting help (24:31)
• How other’s anecdotes of struggle can help us through (28:41)
• The importance of noticing the signs (33:04)
• How the trouble with suicidality is the lack of resources, not the underlying causes (43:02)
• The empowerment of love in mental health (47:21)
• What love is to Shainna (51:23)

Links mentioned in this episode:

• The Self-Love Workbook
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Paths to God - Ram Dass
• Trauma - Elizabeth Jaikaran
• Order Koya's book Let Your Fears Make You Fierce

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