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ES 🍝 067: Uplifting News, Expert Picks & A Pro Golfer's Take On Mental Health
PLUS: Minaa B.'s Tips for Building Healthy Relationships
Thomas Drew
April 19, 2024
🍝 In Today’s Extra Sauce…
Good news…you know the vibes! 😁
More 1AND1 picks, plus a new hands-on protein powder review. 💪
A note from Minaa about the work that it takes to maintain a healthy relationship. ❤️
An Off the Cuff episode about the mental game of professional golf with Andrew Jensen. 🏌️♀️
This week, our experts picked and reviewed two awesome flavors of Black Magic Protein Powder (hands-on review and YouTube video), a dual-zone air fryer, and a superfood x matcha supplement!
Discover the power of self-care and community care with Minaa B., 1AND1's Chief Behavioral Officer and licensed therapist, as she shares actionable tips in "Minaa's Minute" each week — check it out below! ⬇️
Healthy relationships require work. They won’t just magically happen because of how much you like someone. So spend this week focusing on one of these domains in your relationship: sex, finances, quality time, and work-life, and assess with your partner deposits that are being made in this area that is helping grow the relationship and withdrawals taking place in this area that is causing the relationship to suffer. Then, use this date to come together and create solutions on what the relationship needs and what needs to change for the relationship to thrive.
In "Off The Cuff" Season 2, Episode 13, host Danny LoPriore sits down with former professional golfer Andrew Jensen, who shares his journey as an athlete, his struggles with mental health, and how he became a mental health advocate and YouTuber.
Andrew opens up about his suicide attempts at 16 and in his mid-twenties, and how the emotional pain he experienced led him to seek a quick end to his suffering.
"It was like trying to make it quick and painless as opposed to something that consciously hurt, I think, because if I look back, I really dive into it. It was much more the emotional pain that I wanted to continue to inflict, and have the physical be quick and make all of the pain end as opposed to some people who cut … want the physical pain to kind of take away from the mental pain. Whereas I was hurting myself so much internally that I just wanted to stop hurting period." (30:30)
He also discusses how his identity as a professional golfer and the pressure to achieve his goals contributed to his mental health challenges, and how he has learned to cope with the feeling of being a "failed professional golfer."
"I think that's where it's like all those years of being a professional golfer and associating that identity now and like on YouTube. And if I have to stop at \[that\], you know, my knee jerk to that is like, f*ck I failed. 'Cause I didn't achieve my goal. 'Cause that was my need. That's how I felt. I feel as a golfer, I still feel like I'm a failed professional golfer, but whatever. And people on the internet love to tell me that too, but I don't f**king care anymore." (1:00:09)
Through his YouTube channel, Andrew now uses his platform not only to help other golf enthusiasts with their game but also to continue working through his own mental health challenges and raise awareness about the importance of mental well-being in sports and beyond.
Tune in to this powerful episode to learn more about Andrew's inspiring journey and the lessons he's learned about mental health, identity, and the power of sharing one's story.
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