5 in 5 Part 1, Connect with other people

Good relationships are important for your mental wellbeing. They can:

• help you to build a sense of belonging and self-worth
• give you an opportunity to share positive experiences
• provide emotional support and allow you to support others

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Carl, what is going on?
Normally, we have our episodeson Tuesdays. While we're doing a
new series on the drunk norm,it's called the Five and five,
we're going to be releasing fiveepisodes in five days. And this

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is going to be a series ofepisodes that will tie in with
each other. So the topic thatwe're going to be talking about
during these episodes, is we'regoing to be talking about five
steps to mental well being.
Evidence suggests that there arefive steps that we can take to
improve our mental health andwell being trying these things

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can help us feel more positive,it can get us out of our
mindsets, and we can get themost out of life. So the first
topic we're going to be talkingabout for this episode, and this
is what this one episode is it'sgoing to be a short episode. But
we are going to be connectingwith other people, good

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relationships, guys are soimportant for our mental well
being. Right, they can have usbuild a sense of belonging and a
sense of self worth, it can giveus an opportunity to share
positive experiences with eachother. And it can also provide
that emotional support that welook for, and allow us to

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support other people. So youknow, maybe you belong to an
organization already, and you'reable to fulfill some of these
things that I just mentioned.
But maybe with the virus andeverything else that's been
happening in our lives, it'sgoing to be good for us to start
getting back out into thecommunity, and keeping safety

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measures in mind, right. So ifit's possible, take time each
day to be with your family. Taketime each day to be with your
family go out to eat, spend timewith each other, arrange a day
out with friends that youhaven't seen in a while, you

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know, my we I just got Six Flagstickets. And I'm going to be
going with friends out to SixFlags in marine world. And it's
outdoors. And yes, it's a littlebit scary to think about getting
back involved in crowds andeverything. But I think it's
going to be a good time. Tryswitching off the television, we

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are so linked to our devices.
And this is a whole notheraddiction that really kind of
plagues people is our devices,right? But take time, turn the
TV off, play a game, dosomething outside with your
children, do something outsidewith your friends, barbecue, and

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have the whole family comeoutside, you know, we're coming
into summertime. And this isgoing to be barbecue season, I
can feel it. You know. Soinstead of having everybody
inside on their devices, whileyou're out there grilling, why
don't you invite the family outthere to sit out there you guys
can talk gets get to know eachother again, you know, maybe

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swim in the pool once it startsto warm up a little bit.
Another really good idea is taketime from work and go and have
lunch, get yourself out of theoffice. That's really important
because, you know, like myself,I even sit in my office. Most
days I eat lunch at my desk. Andyou know, it's kind of the same

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grind day in and day out. But ifwe can take ourselves out of
that environment, if it's onlyfor 30 minutes, or maybe an hour
if you're able to take that muchtime for lunch. But getting
outside of that environment andchanging the scenery is
important for our mental wellbeing. Visit a friend or family
who needs support in ourcommunity too is such another

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valuable thing that we can do.
Seek those who are needing oursupport that we know. I
mentioned volunteer work beforemaybe belonging to a group where
you can volunteer. So you know,there's lots of community groups
out there that are looking forpeople to come out there to help
them out and to volunteer. Soyou know, check your websites,

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maybe you can volunteer if yougo to church at but find
something that you can do tohelp the community. So last
thing I want to talk about ismaking the most of technology
you know, we need to stay intouch with our friends and our
family. So If it's hard for usto get out, and it's hard for us
to see people, or maybe they'refurther away, and we don't have

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the time to travel, you know,use the video apps, like Skype,
Facetime. And these are souseful to make those
connections. I know it isn't thein person connection that we are
accustomed to. But thesetechnologies have come so far in

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the past two years, that it isnow so much easier for us to
stay connected with friends andfamily. And you know, like my
parents say, they get togetherwith their friends on Skype
calls. And there's like eight ornine of them sometimes on these
calls. And they'll be talkingwith each other. And they'll

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spend 45 minutes on there. Andit's like all of them are
getting together. But they'redoing it using technology. It's
keeping them safe. And it'seasier, because a lot of them
have now kind of spread out overthe Northern California area. So
really good idea to start usingsome of the technology. But

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please do not rely on thetechnology or social media alone
to build relationships. It'seasy for us to get into the
habit of only ever texting,messaging or emailing people. So
do not rely on these solely tocommunicate. And I can't tell
you how many times I receivetexts from somebody and the you

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know, it gets screwed up becauseI'm taking things out of context
or I'm not understanding the waythat they're trying to deliver
the message, you know, and we'veall heard horror stories of
relationships going badfriendships going bad over text
messaging, so please, doyourself a favor. Get out there

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today. Get involved. Go visitsome friends, take a walk, but
do something for your own mentalwell being