Stephanie Harrison

It's something that I have witnessed profoundly changed my life in ways I never would have imagined.

What I talk about in my work is this idea about true happiness coming from being who you are and using it to help other people.

And through showing up for Alex and being able to practice how I could be there for him, I was actually, in fact, able to tap into a level of well-being that I never imagined.

I think that the latest statistics show that one in two Americans will experience difficulties with their mental health in their lifetime.

And that's certainly not generally associated with being a caregiver and all the stresses that are associated with that.

25% of people in the country are suffering right now.

And...

I realized that the more that I gave, whether it was to him or to the work I was doing with my company by that time, that the more joy I was able to experience, even though I was objectively also really suffering at the same time.

40% of people say that they're incredibly lonely and have no one to confide in.

We witness the manifestations of this every day through seeing the division in the country, through the lack of community support that people have, through all of these different manifestations.

And that kind of duality of that experience of going through something that was tremendously difficult and prolonged, while also realizing the fulfillment of love and purpose and

And

I really think it comes down to the way that we conceptualize and understand happiness.

Because if we think fundamentally that our happiness can only be fulfilled by achieving and perfecting and dominating, then we're going to go out and do those things without realizing that they're hurting people and contributing to the problems in our world.

community, it really gave me an appreciation on a whole other level for these concepts and hopefully gives people some level of trust in that I'm not trying to tell you to do something that I wouldn't do myself.

And so in the U.S., many of these forces that lead to old happy are very, very strong, like individualism, for example.

It's something that I have witnessed profoundly changed my life in ways I never would have imagined.

And

that ends up making it sort of a perfect breeding ground for a lot of these beliefs and makes it even harder for us to unwind them here.

I think that the latest statistics show that one in two Americans will experience difficulties with their mental health in their lifetime.