9. Navigating Mental Wellness and Therapy — For Real This Time

Let’s normalize checking in on your mind the same way you check in on your calendar. If your brain is running a mile a minute, your emotions feel all over the place, or you’ve been putting therapy on the “someday” list, this episode is for you. 

In Episode 9 of Confessions of a Multi-Hyphenate, we’re unpacking what it looks like to care for your mental wellness; intentionally, creatively, and without shame. As multi-hyphenates, our minds are constantly juggling projects, people, and passion. And that means we need tools that support our inner world just as much as our outer hustle.

I’m sharing part of my own therapy journey, the lessons I’ve learned (and re-learned), and how mental wellness is not a one-and-done thing—it’s a lifelong rhythm.

5 Practical Strategies for Supporting Your Mental Wellness:

1. Check-In Like You Mean It – Pause daily to ask: How am I, really? Let honesty lead.
2. Use Movement as Medicine – Walks, stretching, or dance breaks help shift your energy.
3. Normalize Non-Emergency Therapy – You don’t have to be in crisis to go. Therapy is maintenance, not a last resort.
4. Schedule Rest Like You Schedule Work – Put it on your calendar and protect it.
5. Try Digital Detox Moments – Unplug to reconnect with your own thoughts and feelings.

Quote of the Week: “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Multi-Hyphenate Move of the Week: Choose one mental wellness activity to schedule this week. This could be therapy, journaling, a solo walk, rest, or a quiet reset.

Challenge: Don’t cancel it. Don’t move it. Keep that appointment—with yourself.

Your mental health is not a side project—it’s the core of everything you’re building. Give it the same attention you give your next launch, your next gig, or your next idea. Because the real glow-up? Starts in your mind.