Dr. Paul Conti

Because I'm trying to build a healthy self in body and mind.

That's how I have the best

life.

So what I'm advocating for is a paradigm shift from the what's wrong with you version of mental health that just provides no insight, tells us to polish the hood when there is something going on in the engine, right?

If we look at ourselves from the perspective of there's a lot going right in me, way more

going right in me than is not going right if I'm just here and I'm paying attention.

I'll get myself out of bed each day and I'm doing what needs to be done and I'm trying to think about my life.

Way more is going right.

I want to understand myself well.

It's not a Pollyanna, let's just look at what's going right.

No, what's going right is telling us the truth about ourselves and it's through that lens we can look at what needs to be different so that we understand ourselves, bring change, and build good mental health for our futures.

I think it is in how we define it.

How we treat it will come from how we define it, right?

And if we define it in a way that just makes no sense, right?

That good mental health is something that you don't think about, right?

That's a nothing thing.

What we're interested in is when there are problems.

Now there's something wrong and you're broken, right?

Imagine if we looked at physical health that way and we'd say, well, the only people who are in good physical health are people who are in perfect physical health.

We know we have no one, right?