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Speaker 1: Tapping a gang. Welcome to Unbreakable Mental Health podcast with

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Speaker 1: Jay Glazer. Before I get to today's mental health check

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Speaker 1: for the day, if you're like many people, you may

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Speaker 1: be surprised to learn that one in five adults in

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Speaker 1: this country experienced mental illness last year. You have far

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Speaker 1: too many failed to receive the support they need. Carolin,

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Speaker 1: behavioral health is doing something about it. They understand that

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Speaker 1: behavioral health is a key part of whole health, delivering

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Speaker 1: compassionate care that treats physical, mental, emotional, and social needs

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Speaker 1: in tandem. Carol in behavioral health raising the quality of

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Speaker 1: life through empathy and action. And today's mental health check

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Speaker 1: in for today is I'd say I'm in the blue

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Speaker 1: today because the messages from yesterday which carried over, and

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Speaker 1: those messages were from a lot of our combat vets

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Speaker 1: now years and years and years ago. We at are

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Speaker 1: a charity that we founded merging vets and players try

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Speaker 1: to shift the narrative with a lot of our vets.

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Speaker 1: On Memorial Day and a very first Memorial Day session

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Speaker 1: we had together where there's a bunch of us in

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Speaker 1: a group together and Los Angeles Sisters of Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: said I'm breakable with my gym and basically it's vets

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Speaker 1: and players together. We work out for about a half

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Speaker 1: hour to give you just that burn again. But after

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Speaker 1: we sit in these wrestling mats and what we call

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Speaker 1: our huddle, and it's basically a mental health chat where

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Speaker 1: it's peer on peer counseling. We lift each other up,

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Speaker 1: we listen to each other. But the very first Memorial

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Speaker 1: Day we had when we first founded this charity, I

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Speaker 1: asked everybody, Hey, what are you guys doing to celebrate

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Speaker 1: this week? And I knew what I was doing, and

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Speaker 1: I know what the response. I was trying to listen,

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Speaker 1: and they all fired back to me and said, what

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Speaker 1: are you talking about. We don't celebrate this weekend. I said,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean? They said, Jay, this is when

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Speaker 1: we lost our brothers and sisters. That said this is

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Speaker 1: about And I said, I know, why aren't you celebrating them? No, huh,

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Speaker 1: I said, celebrate them? I said, listen, when I've passed

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Speaker 1: none of the all us where I'm black, we're all

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Speaker 1: celebrating me. Everybody wearing colorful colors and even to tell

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Speaker 1: stories about me. It celebrate me. Said do you think

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Speaker 1: that your brothers and sisters you lost want this day

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Speaker 1: filled with doom and gloom, or do you think they're

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Speaker 1: sitting up there in the after life hoping that you

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Speaker 1: celebrate them, celebrate the memory, celebrate who they were and

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Speaker 1: who they still remain to be for you. And it

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Speaker 1: was a beautiful shift, and our veterans did just that,

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Speaker 1: and I was really proud of them. We ended up

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Speaker 1: the next year or two years later going to the

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Speaker 1: National Cemetery and I was so proud seeing our veterans

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Speaker 1: actually walk up to other vets saying, who are you

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Speaker 1: here to celebrate? We'd like to celebrate them with you.

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Speaker 1: And it was just a beautiful shift to the narrative.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday I received and throughout last night just names

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Speaker 1: and names and names of people that veterans I'm close

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Speaker 1: with were celebrating. It was a beautiful way to go

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Speaker 1: to sleep last night and it stayed with me this

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Speaker 1: morning to wake up. So and by the way, we

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Speaker 1: don't need one day to just celebrate our loved ones

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Speaker 1: and those who passed. Let's continue to celebrate them because

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Speaker 1: they deserve it. So I'll keep walking this walk together