Physical habits like sleep hygiene, movement, and nutrition are foundational for effective mental health management.

“all of the changes that you can make to your physical habits to taking care of your nervous system the things that I do I don't lay in bed in the morning I get right out of bed I make my bed I get outside and see bright light right away”

Mental fitness is a better term than mental health, as it emphasizes that human emotions like sadness, joy, and doubt are part of the normal human experience.

“being a human, you are 100% mentally fit if you have sadness and have if you have joy and if you have doubt and uncertainty and insecurity. That that's what it is to be human. like your body sometimes has pain. There's nothing wrong with your body.”

Intrusive thoughts can be managed by proactively tricking the brain through performing absurd physical actions to mentally discard the thought.

“so what you have to do is outsmart your brain by doing something extremely stupid but I've tested this and I've tested this on other people and it works don't question it I realize that you kind of have to trick yourself sometimes even if it doesn't make any sense”

Taking care of one's soul is a necessary practice that an individual must initiate and maintain for themselves.

“I realized that you really have to take care of your soul. Like like you have to take care of your soul. So this philosophy of soul care really came from all of these understandings and all of these realizings that no one's going to do it for me.”

Negative self-talk functions as a self-imposed prison that restricts possibility, but individuals can escape it by practicing mindfulness and shifting to a heart-centered mode.

“what you just said fundamentally addresses the issue of how people create a prison for themselves by this negative selft talk every time they make a negative statement it's as if they're laying down a brick and the walls get higher and it gets darker”

Individuals are responsible for processing their own pain and healing rather than projecting that pain onto others as a defense mechanism.

“but if we were to be a little more self-aware and when someone is mean or negative to us instead of us being combative back if we were just like why are you hurting or just even like okay and just took it instead of having your ego involved”

Reality television shows serve a positive function by providing employment and financial support for many families, contrary to the perception that they are purely negative.

“Each person that goes on that reality TV show, they has an assistant, they have a a security, they have a driver, they have a it's feeding so much people. So I see the positive in the reality show as opposed to negative now.”

Mental wellness for trans people cannot be separated from addressing systemic structures of domination like white supremacy, cisnormativity, and patriarchy.

“So, wellness for me and and mental health cannot be divorced from structures of domination like like white supremacy and cisnormativity and patriarchy.”