November 27, 2023 • 16 mins
Picture this - you're a hairstylist juggling clients, dealing with the physical demands of the job, and striving to keep up with the latest trends. But are you remembering to take care of your mental health amidst all the hustle and bustle? This episode of the Smart, Wealthy Stylist podcast promises to empower you with the knowledge and practical tools you need to manage your mental health effectively. With insights from Kristen Fenimore, a seasoned mental health specialist and nurse practitioner, we tackle the stigma attached to mental health in the cosmetology industry. We provide valuable advice on recognizing and dealing with mental health issues, emphasizing the importance of self-care and professional help.
As we navigate the contours of mental well-being, we highlight the significance of deep breathing, regular exercise, and the need to avoid anxiety-inducing substances like alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the smart, wealthy stylist podcast.
I'm your host, emily Cardin.
Over here.
We're dedicated to helpinghairstylists manage their
finances, stay organized,healthy and manage their time
and mental well-being.
We focus on staying healthy inall areas of life and maximizing
productivity.
If you're a hairstylist lookingfor these things, then this is
(00:23):
the podcast for you.
Together, we'll avoid burnoutand step into being the smartest
, wealthiest stylist that we canbe.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Welcome back to the smart, wealthy stylist podcast.
Today I have my friend, kristinFenimore.
She is a mental healthspecialist and nurse
practitioner right Nursepractitioner and school for her
and still almost then it stillcounts.
I'm so excited because sheloves mental health and helping
(00:53):
people deal with that and Ithink there's such a huge stigma
around mental health andespecially in the cosmetology
industry.
I know so many of my friendswho are hairdressers who deal
with a lot of mental healthissues, and not only do we have
our own stuff, but we're walkingsome really hard journeys with
(01:13):
our clients as well.
So, kristin, tell me a littlebit about yourself and how you
ended up in mental health.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hey, thanks so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here today.
So I went to nursing school andgraduated with my nursing
degree in 2012.
So I'm coming up to my 11 yearanniversary as an RN.
I completed my BSN about sevenyears ago and I just absolutely
(01:39):
love being a nurse the mostrewarding career that I could
have imagined and I'm sothankful for being able to do
that.
So I actually went into mentalhealth specifically in 2017.
So been doing that for a numberof years and, to be honest, I
love it so much more than justworking on the med surge unit.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.
So did you have anything inyour life that caused you to
want to do that, or did you justwind up there like by chance,
or how did you even end up there?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, so a combination of both.
I guess I didn't really thinkabout my own personal experience
when I started going into thatas a career choice.
I just knew that I wanted tohelp people.
But looking back, I hadundiagnosed anxiety back in high
school and then depression inhigh school and college.
(02:34):
So I think that influenced myability to have empathy for the
patients that I'm serving.
And as far as my career choice,you know, it just kind of
morphed into mental health.
I had been doing physicalhealth initially and then I just
wanted something to kind ofspice it up.
I got used to just doing thesame things over and over and I
(02:57):
wanted something new andexciting and I ended up in the
psych unit the acute psych unitat the hospital, and it's never
a dull moment.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So probably spicy, huh?
Yeah, definitely.
So whenever someone starts torecognize, like you said, you
started to recognize you hadanxiety back in high school like
undiagnosed, you know, thinkingback on it.
So whenever someone realizeslike I think I'm dealing with
anxiety, or I think I'm dealingwith depression or maybe I'm
(03:27):
bipolar or what you know there'sso many different types of
mental health issues like, whatdo you do when you realize like
I think I have anxiety?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah.
So the most important thing isto vocalize that, I think, to
let somebody know that you arestruggling, because a lot of
people tend to internalize thatand just keep it to themselves,
and the problem can reallycompound and become a lot worse
over time, especially withdepression, if people don't talk
(03:57):
to someone about it.
It can just get worse to thepoint of wanting to self harm,
and so the most important thingis to speak up.
I would recommend ultimatelygetting in to see a healthcare
provider, but initially, youknow if you can just talk to
someone you love and trust, youknow maybe a family member or
(04:19):
friend, that's the first step.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Okay, good, you know I feel like with mental health
there is such a stigma not somuch anymore, but I still think
that there's a lot of people outthere maybe that are older you
know 30s, 40s, 50s that you knowyou used to not be able to talk
about mental health.
It was not something that wasopen, and if you were dealing
(04:42):
with depression, too bad like,and then you ended up in a
mental health facility my momand I were just talking about
this this weekend she was like Iremember a girl in high school
that you know got admitted andeveryone was like, oh my gosh,
she's crazy, stay away from her.
You know, it is so differentnow.
Yeah, so I mean, there's noshame in admitting that you have
a problem.
(05:02):
No, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's no different than having a physical problem
that you might go to see adoctor for or go to the hospital
.
For people, yeah, they getadmitted to the hospital or they
go outpatient, maybe, to see apsychiatrist, and mental health
is no better, no worse, thanphysical health.
Thankfully, over the lastdecade or so, the stigma has
(05:26):
been decreasing due toscientific literacy increasing
among people and just the sheernumber of US citizens who are
dealing with a mental healthissue.
So we come, you know, we comeinto contact with each other
every day and you're right, theyounger generation has been much
more vocal about it.
Thankfully, celebrities, actors, actresses, athletes have
(05:50):
become more vocal about theirpersonal struggles with mental
health and overall, it'sbecoming more and more accepted.
I was reading an article fromPsychology Today and it said the
survey period between 2006 to2018 documented the first
significant, substantialdecrease in stigma for major
(06:12):
depression.
So that's huge.
I'm just so thankful that youknow it's taking a turn in that
direction and becoming moreaccepted.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah absolutely so.
You know, whenever you saidvocalize to someone that you
love or care about, if someonedoesn't have someone like a good
support system, you know,finding a care provider, what?
How would you recommend someonegoing about that?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Um.
So don't procrastinate.
The longer you wait or put itoff, you're going to be dealing
with those problems, which canbecome compounded and lead to
kind of a decreased quality oflife.
So for those who don't have astrong support system or don't
have people locally that theycan lean on, I would recommend
getting in as quickly aspossible for professional help.
(07:01):
Some notes that I would say isif you have insurance, look for
someone that's in network withyour insurance, which will help
lower your financial stress.
Yeah, because financial stresscan also add up and cause your
problems to become worse.
So look for someone in network.
For those with no insurance,there's many mental health
(07:23):
clinics that have a slidingscale for income-based payments.
So here locally we have theOzark Center, and other
communities have their own aswell.
So prevention and earlytreatment is ideal If someone is
experiencing a crisis situationand they're unable to get in to
(07:43):
see a provider.
There are urgent care centersfor behavioral health.
So rather than go to the ER,the recommendation would be go
to behavioral health urgent care.
It saves time and money, soit's good for those situations
when you need to get inimmediately.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I did not even know that there was Urgent cares for
mental health.
Like, yeah, amazing that that'shappening.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, it's relatively new, it's, it's a really cool
thing.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So, when it comes to like medications and counseling,
do you I mean, have you seenthem change people's lives and
like actually work for people?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Absolutely.
There's countless patients.
You know I work in inpatientpsychiatry so you know to see
people come in with a cripplingmental illness, like
debilitating depression orAnxiety, to where they can't do
anything, and they come in andthey get stabilized on
medication.
It makes a profound impact ontheir lives, so amazing.
(08:46):
Yeah, I would definitelyadvocate for medication as well
as therapy, but Definitely ithas a big effect and do you feel
like faith and Having a strongsupport system help as well?
Oh yeah, definitely not only inmy personal life, but also, you
know, science-backed research,and Some articles I took from
(09:08):
include the Stanford news whereit says research has repeatedly
shown that people of faithreport feeling better and
healthier.
Wow, so yeah, it just giveseverybody a sense of connection
and contributing to a valued andgreater whole, and it also
gives people a sense ofbelonging and acceptance.
So faith, religion,spirituality all contributes to
(09:33):
a better mental health.
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I love like seeing Science and and and actually you
know things that are backed.
It just brings it into such aperspective on, you know, with
medication, with faith, withcounseling, whatever it is, do
your own research, you know,look it up and see how you know
you can get help or what mightwork the best for you.
Yeah, so I know a lot of times,like I know people in my
(10:01):
immediate circle who strugglewith panic attacks and, you know
, have overwhelming Anxiety, andso do you know any like daily
coping techniques or anythingthat they could do, like say,
say someone walked in here rightnow having a panic attack, what
, what could you do right now tostart helping with those
(10:22):
symptoms?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, there's a lot of things that you can do
without the help of medicationfor those who find themselves in
a situation where they're justreally anxious.
And the easiest and first onethat you'll hear from just about
every mental health careprovider is the deep breathing.
So it's called diaphragmaticbreathing, but I would just
(10:46):
refer to it as belly breathing,and the best way to do this is
to breathe in through your nose,counting to four, hold your
breath for a moment and thenbreathe out lonely through your
mouth.
So what this does is itstimulates the vagus nerve and
activates the relaxationresponse.
This is in the parasympatheticnervous system.
(11:08):
So the parasympathetic nervoussystem is the part that is known
as rest and digest when yourbody goes into that relaxation
mode, and the deep breathing isessentially to Help bring that
about.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
That's so neat.
So what is something that aperson could do daily to help
with mental health problems liketip as a preventative?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
For preventative, I would absolutely recommend some
daily exercise.
So there's tons of researchshowing that exercise can help
with increasing the amount ofserotonin, the feel-good
hormones and chemical messengersin your brain, and vitamin B6
and B12 are also really greatfor mood stabilization, and the
(11:59):
deep breathing is absolutelysomething you could do every day
.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So many times should you do that, that deep breathing
technique.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Do it whenever you think of it honestly.
It not only helps with anxiety,but it's also good for your
digestion and a number of otherthings because of, like I said,
the vagus nerve.
It just helps with that overallrelaxation, and so that's a
good one.
Avoid substances.
I would say avoid alcohol andany kind of substances which can
(12:30):
worsen anxiety, and also beaware that nicotine and caffeine
can increase anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Hmm, and what about?
You said caffeine.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't know.
I might, I might have to stickwith a little bit of anxiety.
Yeah same.
So is there anything else thatyou would like to note or
anything else that you reallythink needs to be shared about
mental health or around mentalhealth?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think it's great that the awareness has increased
and people are so much morecomfortable with discussing it
and being open about it.
I would say that openness isdefinitely the number one thing.
Talk to your support system or,like we mentioned earlier, if
nobody you know, if you don'thave a strong support system,
(13:22):
you can call the mental healthcrisis line, which is 988.
It's kind of like a substitutefor 911, only for mental health.
That is so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I just love that that it's so much more acceptable
now and it's people can actuallyget the help that they need.
And then there's resources and,like you said that, the mental
health, urgent cares and the 988and that would what it was.
Yeah, that's just life.
This is life changing forpeople.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's awesome that people can finally
get the help that they needwithout having that stigma
attached, without having to beashamed of it.
You know, and get that helpbecause it really will
dramatically improve your life.
Whether you're struggling withanxiety, depression, bipolar
schizophrenia, any of thosemental health issues, you know.
(14:12):
Thankfully there can be a goodending to your story, like when
I had anxiety in high school.
I questioned whether I wouldeven finish high school.
To be honest, yeah, and I gothelp.
Initially, my parents were oldschool, so we went through
counseling and then, once I gotinto college, I made the choice
to go see a psychiatrist and Igot on medication and that
(14:36):
enabled me to be able to succeedthrough nursing school.
Wow, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, I love that and you know, if any of you don't
have a support system, feel freeto reach out to me.
I will be your support system.
I am here, I'm rooting you onand I want you to succeed in
life.
And you know, I think it's soimportant to have somebody who
is unbiased and loves you andwishes the best for you, and so
if you don't have a person inyour life that you know you can
(15:04):
reach out, to reach out to me.
I would be glad to support youand cheer you along, and if you
have any questions, I can alwayssend them on to Kristin.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I think hairdressers are awesome therapists.
I'm just going to throw thatout there.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, you know, I sometimes have thought I should
take a course on mental healthjust to see, like, how to help
people better, because I reallyhave been through like some
crazy stuff with my clients.
And then, you know, in theevening when I should be
relaxing, I'm like praying forthem and thinking of them and
wondering, you know, like we'redoing research, seeing how you
(15:39):
know I could help them.
Yeah, that's awesome, you knowit is.
It takes a toll when you haveyour own family stuff that
you're dealing with and you knowyour own stuff.
And then you have all theseclients too that you're like I
know I almost feel like they'remy responsibility a little bit,
because I care for them, I wantthem to be happy and to be
(16:02):
succeeding in life, and so, yeah, I feel like I kind of take on
a little bit of their burdens aswell as my own.
So, yeah, well, thank you somuch for coming in today and I
appreciate having me.
I really appreciate it.
And, guys, if you have anyquestions, shoot them my way and
I would be glad to ask theexpert for you.
(16:23):
So I hope you all have a greatday and I will talk to you next
week.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
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Welcome to the smart, wealthy stylist podcast.
I'm your host, emily Cardin.
Over here.
We're dedicated to helpinghairstylists manage their
finances, stay organized,healthy and manage their time
and mental well-being.
We focus on staying healthy inall areas of life and maximizing
productivity.
If you're a hairstylist lookingfor these things, then this is
(00:23):
the podcast for you.
Together, we'll avoid burnoutand step into being the smartest
, wealthiest stylist that we canbe.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Welcome back to the smart, wealthy stylist podcast.
Today I have my friend, kristinFenimore.
She is a mental healthspecialist and nurse
practitioner right Nursepractitioner and school for her
and still almost then it stillcounts.
I'm so excited because sheloves mental health and helping
(00:53):
people deal with that and Ithink there's such a huge stigma
around mental health andespecially in the cosmetology
industry.
I know so many of my friendswho are hairdressers who deal
with a lot of mental healthissues, and not only do we have
our own stuff, but we're walkingsome really hard journeys with
(01:13):
our clients as well.
So, kristin, tell me a littlebit about yourself and how you
ended up in mental health.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hey, thanks so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here today.
So I went to nursing school andgraduated with my nursing
degree in 2012.
So I'm coming up to my 11 yearanniversary as an RN.
I completed my BSN about sevenyears ago and I just absolutely
(01:39):
love being a nurse the mostrewarding career that I could
have imagined and I'm sothankful for being able to do
that.
So I actually went into mentalhealth specifically in 2017.
So been doing that for a numberof years and, to be honest, I
love it so much more than justworking on the med surge unit.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.
So did you have anything inyour life that caused you to
want to do that, or did you justwind up there like by chance,
or how did you even end up there?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, so a combination of both.
I guess I didn't really thinkabout my own personal experience
when I started going into thatas a career choice.
I just knew that I wanted tohelp people.
But looking back, I hadundiagnosed anxiety back in high
school and then depression inhigh school and college.
(02:34):
So I think that influenced myability to have empathy for the
patients that I'm serving.
And as far as my career choice,you know, it just kind of
morphed into mental health.
I had been doing physicalhealth initially and then I just
wanted something to kind ofspice it up.
I got used to just doing thesame things over and over and I
(02:57):
wanted something new andexciting and I ended up in the
psych unit the acute psych unitat the hospital, and it's never
a dull moment.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So probably spicy, huh?
Yeah, definitely.
So whenever someone starts torecognize, like you said, you
started to recognize you hadanxiety back in high school like
undiagnosed, you know, thinkingback on it.
So whenever someone realizeslike I think I'm dealing with
anxiety, or I think I'm dealingwith depression or maybe I'm
(03:27):
bipolar or what you know there'sso many different types of
mental health issues like, whatdo you do when you realize like
I think I have anxiety?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah.
So the most important thing isto vocalize that, I think, to
let somebody know that you arestruggling, because a lot of
people tend to internalize thatand just keep it to themselves,
and the problem can reallycompound and become a lot worse
over time, especially withdepression, if people don't talk
(03:57):
to someone about it.
It can just get worse to thepoint of wanting to self harm,
and so the most important thingis to speak up.
I would recommend ultimatelygetting in to see a healthcare
provider, but initially, youknow if you can just talk to
someone you love and trust, youknow maybe a family member or
(04:19):
friend, that's the first step.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Okay, good, you know I feel like with mental health
there is such a stigma not somuch anymore, but I still think
that there's a lot of people outthere maybe that are older you
know 30s, 40s, 50s that you knowyou used to not be able to talk
about mental health.
It was not something that wasopen, and if you were dealing
(04:42):
with depression, too bad like,and then you ended up in a
mental health facility my momand I were just talking about
this this weekend she was like Iremember a girl in high school
that you know got admitted andeveryone was like, oh my gosh,
she's crazy, stay away from her.
You know, it is so differentnow.
Yeah, so I mean, there's noshame in admitting that you have
a problem.
(05:02):
No, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's no different than having a physical problem
that you might go to see adoctor for or go to the hospital
.
For people, yeah, they getadmitted to the hospital or they
go outpatient, maybe, to see apsychiatrist, and mental health
is no better, no worse, thanphysical health.
Thankfully, over the lastdecade or so, the stigma has
(05:26):
been decreasing due toscientific literacy increasing
among people and just the sheernumber of US citizens who are
dealing with a mental healthissue.
So we come, you know, we comeinto contact with each other
every day and you're right, theyounger generation has been much
more vocal about it.
Thankfully, celebrities, actors, actresses, athletes have
(05:50):
become more vocal about theirpersonal struggles with mental
health and overall, it'sbecoming more and more accepted.
I was reading an article fromPsychology Today and it said the
survey period between 2006 to2018 documented the first
significant, substantialdecrease in stigma for major
(06:12):
depression.
So that's huge.
I'm just so thankful that youknow it's taking a turn in that
direction and becoming moreaccepted.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah absolutely so.
You know, whenever you saidvocalize to someone that you
love or care about, if someonedoesn't have someone like a good
support system, you know,finding a care provider, what?
How would you recommend someonegoing about that?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Um.
So don't procrastinate.
The longer you wait or put itoff, you're going to be dealing
with those problems, which canbecome compounded and lead to
kind of a decreased quality oflife.
So for those who don't have astrong support system or don't
have people locally that theycan lean on, I would recommend
getting in as quickly aspossible for professional help.
(07:01):
Some notes that I would say isif you have insurance, look for
someone that's in network withyour insurance, which will help
lower your financial stress.
Yeah, because financial stresscan also add up and cause your
problems to become worse.
So look for someone in network.
For those with no insurance,there's many mental health
(07:23):
clinics that have a slidingscale for income-based payments.
So here locally we have theOzark Center, and other
communities have their own aswell.
So prevention and earlytreatment is ideal If someone is
experiencing a crisis situationand they're unable to get in to
(07:43):
see a provider.
There are urgent care centersfor behavioral health.
So rather than go to the ER,the recommendation would be go
to behavioral health urgent care.
It saves time and money, soit's good for those situations
when you need to get inimmediately.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I did not even know that there was Urgent cares for
mental health.
Like, yeah, amazing that that'shappening.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, it's relatively new, it's, it's a really cool
thing.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So, when it comes to like medications and counseling,
do you I mean, have you seenthem change people's lives and
like actually work for people?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Absolutely.
There's countless patients.
You know I work in inpatientpsychiatry so you know to see
people come in with a cripplingmental illness, like
debilitating depression orAnxiety, to where they can't do
anything, and they come in andthey get stabilized on
medication.
It makes a profound impact ontheir lives, so amazing.
(08:46):
Yeah, I would definitelyadvocate for medication as well
as therapy, but Definitely ithas a big effect and do you feel
like faith and Having a strongsupport system help as well?
Oh yeah, definitely not only inmy personal life, but also, you
know, science-backed research,and Some articles I took from
(09:08):
include the Stanford news whereit says research has repeatedly
shown that people of faithreport feeling better and
healthier.
Wow, so yeah, it just giveseverybody a sense of connection
and contributing to a valued andgreater whole, and it also
gives people a sense ofbelonging and acceptance.
So faith, religion,spirituality all contributes to
(09:33):
a better mental health.
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I love like seeing Science and and and actually you
know things that are backed.
It just brings it into such aperspective on, you know, with
medication, with faith, withcounseling, whatever it is, do
your own research, you know,look it up and see how you know
you can get help or what mightwork the best for you.
Yeah, so I know a lot of times,like I know people in my
(10:01):
immediate circle who strugglewith panic attacks and, you know
, have overwhelming Anxiety, andso do you know any like daily
coping techniques or anythingthat they could do, like say,
say someone walked in here rightnow having a panic attack, what
, what could you do right now tostart helping with those
(10:22):
symptoms?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, there's a lot of things that you can do
without the help of medicationfor those who find themselves in
a situation where they're justreally anxious.
And the easiest and first onethat you'll hear from just about
every mental health careprovider is the deep breathing.
So it's called diaphragmaticbreathing, but I would just
(10:46):
refer to it as belly breathing,and the best way to do this is
to breathe in through your nose,counting to four, hold your
breath for a moment and thenbreathe out lonely through your
mouth.
So what this does is itstimulates the vagus nerve and
activates the relaxationresponse.
This is in the parasympatheticnervous system.
(11:08):
So the parasympathetic nervoussystem is the part that is known
as rest and digest when yourbody goes into that relaxation
mode, and the deep breathing isessentially to Help bring that
about.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
That's so neat.
So what is something that aperson could do daily to help
with mental health problems liketip as a preventative?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
For preventative, I would absolutely recommend some
daily exercise.
So there's tons of researchshowing that exercise can help
with increasing the amount ofserotonin, the feel-good
hormones and chemical messengersin your brain, and vitamin B6
and B12 are also really greatfor mood stabilization, and the
(11:59):
deep breathing is absolutelysomething you could do every day
.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So many times should you do that, that deep breathing
technique.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Do it whenever you think of it honestly.
It not only helps with anxiety,but it's also good for your
digestion and a number of otherthings because of, like I said,
the vagus nerve.
It just helps with that overallrelaxation, and so that's a
good one.
Avoid substances.
I would say avoid alcohol andany kind of substances which can
(12:30):
worsen anxiety, and also beaware that nicotine and caffeine
can increase anxiety.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Hmm, and what about?
You said caffeine.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't know.
I might, I might have to stickwith a little bit of anxiety.
Yeah same.
So is there anything else thatyou would like to note or
anything else that you reallythink needs to be shared about
mental health or around mentalhealth?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think it's great that the awareness has increased
and people are so much morecomfortable with discussing it
and being open about it.
I would say that openness isdefinitely the number one thing.
Talk to your support system or,like we mentioned earlier, if
nobody you know, if you don'thave a strong support system,
(13:22):
you can call the mental healthcrisis line, which is 988.
It's kind of like a substitutefor 911, only for mental health.
That is so cool.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I just love that that it's so much more acceptable
now and it's people can actuallyget the help that they need.
And then there's resources and,like you said that, the mental
health, urgent cares and the 988and that would what it was.
Yeah, that's just life.
This is life changing forpeople.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's awesome that people can finally
get the help that they needwithout having that stigma
attached, without having to beashamed of it.
You know, and get that helpbecause it really will
dramatically improve your life.
Whether you're struggling withanxiety, depression, bipolar
schizophrenia, any of thosemental health issues, you know.
(14:12):
Thankfully there can be a goodending to your story, like when
I had anxiety in high school.
I questioned whether I wouldeven finish high school.
To be honest, yeah, and I gothelp.
Initially, my parents were oldschool, so we went through
counseling and then, once I gotinto college, I made the choice
to go see a psychiatrist and Igot on medication and that
(14:36):
enabled me to be able to succeedthrough nursing school.
Wow, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, I love that and you know, if any of you don't
have a support system, feel freeto reach out to me.
I will be your support system.
I am here, I'm rooting you onand I want you to succeed in
life.
And you know, I think it's soimportant to have somebody who
is unbiased and loves you andwishes the best for you, and so
if you don't have a person inyour life that you know you can
(15:04):
reach out, to reach out to me.
I would be glad to support youand cheer you along, and if you
have any questions, I can alwayssend them on to Kristin.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I think hairdressers are awesome therapists.
I'm just going to throw thatout there.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, you know, I sometimes have thought I should
take a course on mental healthjust to see, like, how to help
people better, because I reallyhave been through like some
crazy stuff with my clients.
And then, you know, in theevening when I should be
relaxing, I'm like praying forthem and thinking of them and
wondering, you know, like we'redoing research, seeing how you
(15:39):
know I could help them.
Yeah, that's awesome, you knowit is.
It takes a toll when you haveyour own family stuff that
you're dealing with and you knowyour own stuff.
And then you have all theseclients too that you're like I
know I almost feel like they'remy responsibility a little bit,
because I care for them, I wantthem to be happy and to be
(16:02):
succeeding in life, and so, yeah, I feel like I kind of take on
a little bit of their burdens aswell as my own.
So, yeah, well, thank you somuch for coming in today and I
appreciate having me.
I really appreciate it.
And, guys, if you have anyquestions, shoot them my way and
I would be glad to ask theexpert for you.
(16:23):
So I hope you all have a greatday and I will talk to you next
week.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you for listening in today.
If you have a burning questionor a topic you want me to cover,
leave a review and ask thequestion in the review.
This is the best way to getyour questions answered.
Just remember you are a smart,wealthy stylist and you are
capable of anything you set yourmind to.
I'll catch you later, Don't bea stranger.
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