#Annie kate reeder pro
#Annie kate reeder professional

There is no greater gift than the power of sitting alone in your thoughts and sitting with your pain and your trauma and all the fucking mess, just sitting with it and saying, ‘I'm gonna find my way out of this. It's the single greatest gift you'll ever give yourself. “The greatest gift you'll ever give to yourself is to learn to be alone. Mona also shares about why she incorporates her trauma into her act, the challenges of being a woman in comedy, what needs to change about the American approach to mental health and how 15 years of therapy saved her life. Right? ’Cause I chose to take all that shit and turn it into gold. I am super grateful to my mom, to my dad for bringing us to America, for giving us good education, even all the fucked-upness they gave us. They did the best they could with all their issues and all their traumas. “As you get older, there's a turning point where you're like, my parents are just fucking people who did the best they could.

Today, Mona joins me for a wild conversation about the funny side of life (being catfished by a fake Indian finance bro in LA who turned out to be lying about his identity for reasons you won’t believe) and the not so funny (Mona’s childhood abuse, her brothers’ battle with polio and her rocky relationship with her parents). But others, like comedian Mona Shaikh, seem to use it as a source of strength – not to mention laughs. For some people, it’s a lifelong source of pain. Through The Good Human Factory, Cooper has helped thousands of Australian students and teachers practice mindfulness and gratitude, and increase their mental strength and resilience.Ĭhildhood trauma shapes us in different ways.

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(06:27) Cooper’s youth surfing career and winning a national title at 14 (9:50) The pressure of early success and how he got into mental health (12:30) Cooper’s “lightbulb moment” (16:00) The sports psychology approach (18:43) Transitioning from a sports career to a career in mental health, and starting The Good Human Factory (22:17) A typical Good Human Factory workshop (31:47) The mental health spectrum (40:12) Competing against your own success (47:55) Making gratitude a habitįormer pro surfer Cooper Chapman started The Good Human Factory after seeing how mental illness and suicide affected his father and close family friends. We're all walking against it, just at different paces. And I'm trying to give people the skills to be able to walk against it at a faster pace so that when life does speed up and throw some of these really difficult times at us, you can walk back against it.” And what I'm trying to do is, I like to think of it like, life is almost like a treadmill that's dragging us from good mental health to mental illness. And we're all moving up and down it from time to time. “We are all on a spectrum of mental health to mental illness. And that was this light bulb moment that completely changed my life.”Ĭooper also shares his take on the vast mental health spectrum, the importance of making gratitude a daily habit and why everyone should have the tools to help themselves when their mental health needs a little help. I want you to base your life on how well you live to your values.

He said, I want you to take this forward in your life and it's gonna change the way you think. And he's like, man … so many people base their self worth and their overall well being on their achievements and their successes. And then I went and spoke to my sports psychologist about how I was feeling and what was going on. I felt a bit of shame, like being around people at my local community when I wasn't succeeding as often. “I started to struggle a little bit with my identity.

In today’s episode, Cooper talks about his mental health organization, The Good Human Factory, the pressure of success in pro surfing at 14, and his own struggle with mental health that started when he began basing his self-worth on his surfing achievements.

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Many professional athletes go on to second careers in Hollywood or politics – but former pro surfer Cooper Chapman’s dreams are a little different.Īfter seeing firsthand how depression affected his father, and losing two family friends to suicide – not to mention his own anxiety and stress Cooper developed a passion for mental health that has sparked a new career.