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Wall Street Journal Best-Seller Cait Flanders on Mental Health & Her Latest Book - Podcast Episode #16

Back in October of 2020, I got the chance to sit down with Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Cait Flanders, over Skype to discuss personal struggles, financial lessons, topics surrounding minimalism, mindful consumption, & overall: lessons on how to live life the way that you want, rather than living life on others’ terms. Cait is the author of one of my all-time favorite books, “The Year of Less”, where she talks all about her experience with taking a whole year to buy as little as possible, paying off almost $30,000 in debt because of all the money she’d been able to set-aside, & all that she learned about herself through that life-altering personal experiment-- including a new-found love for minimalism. Her book, “The Year of Less”, since its release in 2018 went on to become one of the most sold nonfiction books on Amazon in July of 2018… and later that same year was even listed on the Staff’s Top 5 of Powell’s City of Books. Cait’s story from the “Year of...
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Mental Illnesses Have Turned Into Fads - A Rant

  I'm just going to start off this blog post by saying that if you're offended by the title, chances are: you're likely the reason mental illness has become a fad. Anyone who is actually affected by mental illness will agree with me and understand what I'm saying. Moving on.
  I feel like I catch myself more times than not scrolling through Instagram and finding people using depression and anxiety as a way to market themselves, and it's ridiculous.
  The fact that mental illnesses have turned into something resembling a fashion statement is absolutely insane. I cannot imagine legitimately choosing to have anxiety or depression to make myself more relatable to the general public. Mental illnesses have been romanticized in our society, plain and simple, and it's stupid. 
  I know this is short and may come off across as preach-y, but to be honest, it needed to be said, in my opinion. In a first-world mindset where everything seems to be "offensive" these days, let it be said: claiming that you struggle with a mental illness for attention is so utterly disgusting. You should feel ashamed of yourself.
  I wouldn't wish having mental illness on my worst enemy, and I'm sorry to anyone else that has to live their day-to-day life with it, in any form.




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