 Hello, hola, hey you guys, we'll wait a little bit while people are logging on. Good to see you all, hello, hey you guys. If you guys are just logging in, hi Emily, good to see you. Hi, Alphen, hey everybody. We're just gonna wait a few minutes as everyone is logging on to the live stream. It is, it's so good to see you guys. Hi guys. All right, so. Uri, can I speak at the same time? It's okay. Yeah. Melody, can you do this while I'm up? Did you send the link? No, Uri's hopefully got the link now on YouTube or maybe I can search for it. Yes, if you can send it to me, that would be great. Hey you guys, what is up? Hello, yes Melody, who are you? So, yeah, welcome you guys. It's an honor to be here with you guys today. And my name is Uri Choi and I'm a performance coach for entrepreneurs and high chiefers. A lot of you guys already know me, but today we have a special guest here and her name is Melody. Hi guys, I'm Melody. And today what we'll be doing is to really celebrate May as the Mental Health Awareness Month as you guys probably know. And we brought Melody here today so that she can really share some first person experience and really, you know, our intention today was to really share some of our own stories so that to normalize, normalize really talking about mental health issues, you know, that people experience. Hey you guys, so good to see you guys. Thank you for welcoming you guys. So I'm curious, I am curious where you guys are logging in from. I would love to know what country or what state, what city feel free to share because I know typically we have a lot of people from all over the world. Give me a moment you guys, I'm sharing this live with my own audience. Thank you guys. Thank you guys for joining in. Thank you for popping in everyone. It's really nice to meet you. I know I'm a new face. You guys are probably wondering what's that all about. All right you guys. So today what we're here to do is to, as I mentioned, we're here to talk about May being the Mental Health Awareness Month and for those of you guys who are just logging in, I was just wondering where you guys are logging in from. Would love to hear from you guys. Ah, this is amazing. You guys are coming from all over the world. Hello, all over the world. You guys are all over the place. I don't know about you guys, but I've also been watching Psych2Go myself for quite some time. And I'm here because I was invited here, but I'm just like you guys and I was invited here to be a voice for you guys. To the best of my ability, I know that might be kind of weird, but I wanted to tell you guys a little bit about myself and that I also understand what it's like to have mental health. Difficulties. And I'm curious which videos for you guys helped you guys out a lot? Which of the animated videos? Yeah, I know. We're looking at all the chats here. Everything that's coming in. Sorry. Yeah, no. So... Singapore. Singapore, Sweden. So we're actually here in Seoul, Korea, by the way. So some of you guys know this and I happen to meet up with my friend here who's also from California actually. And she gracefully decided that she wants to share some of her stories. And I think a lot of you guys have, listened to some of my stories and I'd be happy to share them again and to really celebrate that this month here to acknowledge that some of these challenges that people experience are actually way more common than what a lot of people think. So today our intention is to let you guys know that none of you guys are alone. None of us are alone and we're actually all connected in that. So super excited to go into some of this with you guys. Okay, I see it. So while she was speaking, I was able to read what you guys were saying. So I see a lot of you are struggling with depression. I saw personality disorder, toxic parents, relationship problems, just so you guys know. I've been here in Korea for almost six months so I understand long distance issues. So I feel you on that stuff. I also have a friend with Dissociative Identity Disorder. So she has 12 personalities. And right now I've been in the process of studying psychology. So I'm also stepping into mental health. I'm trying to step up as a mental health advocate for you guys and for people like you. So you're not alone. And I understand and empathize with you. Borderline personality, I just finished reading up on that. Toxic parents, I understand. I'm half Korean. Okay, I feel like I'm gonna, it's a lot. I wanna read what you guys are saying. Yeah, well, let's take a moment here really quickly. So I'm actually curious, Melody. So I know that we just had an opportunity meet and I'm so grateful that we got to create this space together. Share with me for you. What does mental health awareness mean for you? And what is your, cause I know you're so passionate about this cause. Share with me a little bit, like a little bit about who you are as well as why this is important to you because the reason that we invited Melody here is first of all, she's one of the influencers that had the opportunity to meet while in Korea. And one of the first things that we really decided to talk about in our first meeting was really opening our hearts to talk about some of these real things that's going on in our lives and other people's lives. And we wanted to create the space so that you guys can also hear firsthand from her as well as I'll share some of my stories today as well so that you guys get to start to recognize that we are all going through something or a lot of this we get to normalize. Thank you guys so much for sharing in the comments right now. Yeah. I see the need. That's why I'm stepping into this. Thank you for asking me to introduce myself to give you guys just a background on who I am cause I am trying to come onto this channel a little more often. I'm hoping that I can do either live streams with people that you wouldn't expect to have mental health struggles or I could I might be doing like talks with people you wouldn't expect kind of like if anyone knows the healthy gamer or the happy gamer or if you guys can let me know if you know who that is that the therapist guy who he does like mental health sessions with twist streamers something like that I'd like to bring that here. Okay. Anyways. Sorry. It's like I'm trying to read this. I'm half Korean and I'm half American. So I understand the bi multi-culturalism. I also lost my father to suicide when I was eight years old. And I understand how difficult it can be to grow up under a very strict parent very overprotective. I feel a great need for a lot of things. Okay. For myself growing up having lost someone to mental illness like I'm sure if some of you guys have lost someone to cancer or something like that you wonder right when you're growing up is that gonna happen to me? Is that gonna happen to me too? Am I gonna end up like my parent? Is if you have a friend you've lost to something like that is that gonna happen to me? Like how why couldn't I have helped them? What could I have done? Like why don't I feel like I'm in a better place but I'm trying to uplift all these other people around me, right? And to be honest, I'm still in the process right now and that's what I'm trying to do with you guys. I've actually been really depressed lately and I got off my antidepressants about a month and a half ago so I'm with you guys and I understand and thank you guys for sharing right now with me right here. So the difference is this is what I've been this is what I told Yuri and you know when you see online you see the after photos of somebody and the before they show their before and their after photo, right? And they show you like, hey look at me I got this now and it's so empowering and so motivational to see someone who was once either overweight or underweight and it ends up in a healthy place. But I feel like it's hard to see that sometimes because you don't see the in between process and in the same way like I wanna do it a little differently like I'm in the process of learning how to overcome my own mental illnesses and my own struggles with what is my future gonna be? Like what does it mean me in correlation to my parents? How to do school? Like I've been taking classes too I understand that, you know long distance how do you love someone? How do you fall in love with someone and make a family? Like, you know all these questions I don't know the answers completely but I'm definitely trying my best and I feel like we can go through that together. I'm not here to tell you guys that I'm any better than you and that I know the right answers all the time, you know but I don't want you guys to be alone. Thank you for sharing and you know we're gonna go a little bit deeper into this and I know that so today my intention is to really be with you guys and be with here in Melody. She's being vulnerable and you know typically I'm here really to uplift you guys and which we'll do at the end and today I wanted to take a moment to just really be with you guys whatever is coming up today I just want you guys to just put your hands on your heart and realize that we all go through different things and different ways. And I know how much courage it takes for you to be here with us. I really just appreciate it. I appreciate you guys right now. I see you, you know and I see I know you guys see to the world and I know this is a very sensitive topic and I'm not gonna talk about this much cause it's not my place to say but you've been just right now with what's going on in Palestine and Israel. I know that's very raw right now for a lot of you guys. I don't have the position to speak on that because I don't know much about the history of both countries but I see the children suffering and I know you guys see that and how can you see that and be okay. Same with everything that happened with Asian Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter all that stuff it's really raw it hurts and we've all been in this pandemic together, right? So I feel like there's a huge need for us to be together, be a community, you know? And everything I see right now you guys stepping up right now for each other for me like, you know, it means a lot and if there's a way that, you know I want you guys to interact with me in the future tell me what you guys need, what kind of tips you need tell Psych to go what you need to, you know so we can better learn how to help you so that we can be a community and make this world a better place, you know what I mean? Yeah, so in the chat you guys if there's anything that you've been holding back from sharing or if there's anything that you want to be seen or heard for we wanna hold space for you. Feel free to share and if you see somebody that's going through something similar or just going through something at all and you wanna give a shout out invite you to do like a little hashtag and let them know I see you. And you know, it was interesting because when Melody and I we talked for the first time we had a lot of similarities as far as well we got to go through and why we are here and I don't know if you guys remember some of my story, I think I've shared pieces here and there, for me someone close to me had attempted suicide when I was in my teens it really affected me and since then I was about 17 years old when I almost lost this person really, really close to me and after that I really just started questioning why do people do what they do? What keeps people happy? What keeps people so unhappy and that it takes them to a point of feeling like they have a dead end and for me this became a big question that I started to ask in my younger years. Honestly, it took me a long time to realize that that was a part of my journey that was a part of my purpose of what I get to do in this world and since then I've gone through other things like my dad being diagnosed with cancer I've never done that here my dad being diagnosed with cancer and losing him to cancer after two and a half years of excruciating years I come to realize that we are a lot of people see where I'm at today or just meet me and I'm typically very bright I'm typically positive and I'm here to share with you guys today to let you know that we all go through these journeys and those years I can tell you guys those were years filled with anxiety and deep sadness watching my own father go through this journey of just slowly losing his life in front of my eyes it was a very, very difficult two years and for me I know that without that time I wouldn't be where I'm at today because I just remember seeing my dad being, seeing my dad not be in his body anymore like his physical body was there but his soul wasn't and that was the first time for me that I really realized that there's a separation between our soul and our body and so for me with all of those things happening I mean, those are just pieces of my story that led me here and for me I really did find my purpose and my light through all that darkness and the journey and I would say Melody what I appreciate about your journey so much is that you're like in it it's one thing I will say for me to have gone through those years and talk about like, oh, this is where I'm at and to be real time, like that takes mega courage for you to just say, hey, this is what I'm going through right now, this is what I'm showing up but like there, this is just who I am today and I'm going through this like with you guys and healing through it I think that's so empowering, so powerful it just really, really, thank you yeah, it's so for me that was really touching and the thing that I really appreciate about you Melody is that, I don't know about you guys but when we see people on Instagram or Facebook or certain types of people maybe even this, some of you guys think oh, they are these certain type of people and you guys make all these assumptions and I wanted to give people like Melody to really talk about what you're going through to recognize that everyone is going through this journey of life and there's nothing different and for her to speak about it it just felt really, really good because yeah, to really close that gap between what we think we see on social media versus what's really going on we're just people going through this journey together so I understand like, you guys are probably on social media and you guys compare yourself, right? Yeah, right, what you see online you think that's, you think that some people just have it all, right? Yeah, so we're here with you guys and I know this is a completely different flavor of live and we're just here just being with you guys today and with that said, tell us a little bit about this your passion for the mental health series that we're potentially bringing together for this audience and what is your intention within and what does your heart say about that? Well, okay, when I see what you guys are saying here okay, let me ask you guys I wanna interact a little bit I mean, I do a little lives myself on my social media but not quite as large of a scale but I wanna know from you guys, does it help you when you see someone that you are familiar with talk about what they're going through or like if they have any family members I saw someone said that their brother self harms just knowing that people, let's see, friends ignoring me hello BTS army yes, okay, yes, so oh the unrealistic body images, okay for example, just these days I'm going through a bit of a transformation I'm sure, I don't know if there's girls in here guys if you compare yourself with, okay, body image just in itself, I just opened up on my Instagram which is in the title, it's X Melody about how depression has eaten away at me and I tried posting video of my body showing how my body really looks without any editing right with like the ribs showing and how thin I am and because all you see online is a perfect angle and it's beautifully captured or even artistically captured and it's not realistic it glorifies kind of like an unrealistic standard so that was something that I'm just opened up about and that was taken down twice and I've been very upset about it lately because it took me almost a month to open up about that especially coming from like a model-y influence-ery side and I wanted to be real with you guys people like you to show you guys that it's not always like that sometimes people really struggle and it was taken down two times so that just goes to show social media it can be harmful, it doesn't wanna show you the truth so I'm trying to show you guys the truth, let's see so if it does help you guys with seeing people talk about what they're going through I'm gonna probably invite more people onto this channel and talk with them and ask them about what their experiences are with mental health what helps them, tips on how to help them get through anxiety, depression I know those two are really common the comparison issue social media is stupid, media here sucks I mean, okay, let me ask you guys because I really, I don't know it feels weird for me when I'm talking to you guys but it's like me talking alone like I really, it's hard because of a lot of you but I want it to be more of a conversation so like, and I want to also acknowledge this you know, I see a lot of the things in the comment where it says oh, I'm so sorry and I invite you guys to shift that for a second we know we're not here to, you know we're not here to say like anyone gets to feel sorry and I appreciate the sentiment and this is really to practice into authenticity practice into vulnerability for both of us so that we want to give all of you guys the permission and I say it in quotes because this is a permission you're gonna give yourself, not from us but if in any way we can influence you guys or impact you guys in a way that you also get to start to share your own stories and accept whatever you're going through it's a part of you and it doesn't make you any less beautiful it doesn't, you know so I wanted to really just take a moment to you know, acknowledge that I really appreciate the thought and to recognize that this is about empowering you guys it is, it actually really is we want you guys to know that whatever you're going through is okay and you know, talking about I think we started talking about body image I actually, it took me two years to you know, publish my book that's coming out next month it's called creating your own happiness and in that I talk about all sorts of stuff one of the things, honestly I had a really hard time putting in that book was talking about my short lived it was only like three months but my eating disorder at the time when I was in college and I had a very difficult time admitting that for some reason for a long, long time and to, for me to show up here with you know, millions of people who's gonna potentially see this right, what I feel today is freedom to be able to talk about my truth for her to talk about her truth despite whatever people might perceive us to be because I know you guys only see us through a screen but at the end of the day truth and intention shines through we're not here saying things like you know we're here to tell you uplifting things and that we believe in you that you are gonna get places the place that you want to be in yeah and you know, I saw it in the comment here what are your thoughts on the fear of dying? You know, first of all I will share something with you you know, did you know that most people's number one fear is actually public speaking and number two fear is fear of dying so that's the second highest fear and with that said for me, death was one of the biggest teachers I think that learning your relationship to death is going to be what's gonna inspire to live if you think about it, living and dying it's literally the same thing you guys you go from birth to death and sometimes we call it living and sometimes we call it dying it all depends on how you show up in this world what you get to do in each of those moments so if there's fear of dying, yes it could equally be fear of living, I'm Alan I always wanted death and so for me, fear of others dying I totally get it but notice that the fear of anything is actually coming from a place of love like if you have a fear of losing your mom losing your dad, like losing and trust me that was very, very real for you for me for a long time notice that is not fear it's actually love showing up as fear so whenever that fear comes up whether it's fear for your own life fear for your own death or somebody else that you love just notice that that's actually coming from a deep love for that person or deep love for others and in that can you really be appreciative of whatever is coming through how to overcome suicidal thoughts well you guys, you're here there is no thing that happens in this world in this universe by accident there's a reason that we met there's a reason I'm here right now sharing all the things that we've gone through and there's a reason you're here it's because this is supposed to impact you this is supposed to give you that realization that you are you matter and that you are powerful and that we get to co-create this like without you every single one of you guys right now in the chat or just watching this experience wouldn't be the same so we are so thankful that you're here take this as a sign from the universe that you're supposed to be here and you're supposed to continue to be here and you get to look at the world and really appreciate all these signs that are coming through so we're thankful that you're here so if you're having any of those thoughts just know that we want you here we're so thankful that you're here that you're fighting for you that's what we want so yeah we're trying to read that so I'm so thank you so much for talking because I'm trying to absorb what you guys are saying I'm trying to see what the need is I have a question for you guys if I started a discord and I came on here again and I shared that discord with you guys or if I asked psych to go to share a discord where I'm moderating that would you guys be interested in a discord where we could just talk about mental health stuff and be simps together? are you guys interested in that? because it sounds like there's a need to just share and get things off of your back discord yes? yes? absolutely okay okay I might try to make that on my own maybe I'm not sure about psych to go yet because I still need to figure out how I'm going to bring guests on here so you guys can understand if you guys go over to my Instagram which is xxmelody and you can see on there I'm a mental health advocate now it sounds like oh wow okay you guys are wow I'm so honored you guys yeah amazing you guys I think I'll I'll I've been talking about this with my other live communities that I'm interested in making a discord and I was talking with some of the people in my community they'd be interested in moderating that and I feel like that would help people a lot so then you can also find friends because I feel like it's so it's been so hard okay tell me this tell me I'm right in this pandemic you're not really going to classes in person you can't really go out it's been so hard to make friends right and if some friends have fallen apart and you've lost some friends and you need new ones to just talk about stuff and bring each other up and I would love to make a place for you guys I guess okay I'll work on that if you I'll work on that for you guys thank you guys for sharing I see like it's hard to be public speaking just like she said it's like I'm talking to you guys but I'm trying to read everything you're saying as well so like I'm sorry and let's take a moment here you guys I'm seeing various different kinds of comments 99% of them are very supportive and I just want to really create the space that all of you guys are in a very safe space and thank you so much for you know really creating that space with us right now because that is really important this is a safe space where we get to practice dropping judgment, practice dropping you know anything that doesn't serve you like try that on for this particular live and I'm so happy and grateful that you guys are showing up that way you feel like cry and cry go for it we're here to build space on camera all these random people I'm sorry yeah so I'm curious to hear from you guys right now how are you what are you hearing from us today I'm so grateful for her as we're doing different things here today talking about just real time things that we've either experienced in the past as well as well she's going to right now real time I mean that's powerful and like I said our intention here is to give you guys an opportunity to give yourself permission to be wherever you are and accept yourself and be okay with it and love yourself through it and really you know take a moment to do that for you I have a question for you guys another one another tip just like she's saying have you guys ever given yourself a hug like genuinely because thank you especially being out here in Korea without my boyfriend I don't have sometimes even you guys if you can't if you don't have family you don't have someone to hug have you ever thought about giving yourself a hug because I realized that that's been helping because you know you hear all this stuff about self-love and caring for yourself look at that never right you never think about that but you are your own best friend when you look in the mirror that's the person you're stuck with for the rest of your life when you look in the mirror you know that person has to be like literally I like literally sometimes I know and it's weird because you're at home right you're at home you're on your phone and you're just like I'm sad and then sometimes I'm just you know I need a hug and you know what I just I kind of just pat myself a little bit and I'm just like yeah I need a hug right now so I'm going to hug myself because I'm trying I'm going through this process with you guys I'm trying to learn how to love myself and they say you can't or ever depend on anyone else right and that hurts to hear but at the same time yeah the person in the mirror is the person you're stuck with for the rest of your life and when you talk to your best friend like if I was talking to Yuri am I going to tell her hey you look ugly hey like you suck because you're having all these intrusive thoughts you suck because you're scared of people your failure but would you say that to someone that is your friend you would never say that right you would never say that to your best friend and if you recognize the person in the mirror is your friend too and you wouldn't be saying stuff like that to yourself you know what I mean so I want to take a moment here you guys real time pick a compliment for yourself what is something really powerful and loving that you can say to yourself today right now I invite you to type that in in the chat I want to hear I want to hear you guys own this I want to hear you guys really take a moment take this community right now right here just say something amazing about yourself what can you say great idea I would love I would love to hear from you guys I hear a lot of sad things right but truthful things about yourself but it'd be for like a just a moment a fraction in this time space continuum that we're existing in you guys tell me look at that I love it I'm beautiful I love myself so these are things that you guys are all sending in the chat wow that's really powerful you guys I give myself a grace yes you're pretty you're you're amazing you're unique ah totally do you guys feel that shift right now as you guys are watching this live in the live chat we're literally seeing thousands of people hundreds of people like just owning owning the compliment that they most want to hear and this is where self-empowerment comes from you guys when you can actually give yourself the love give yourself the compliment give yourself the you know care that you are potentially waiting from you know to get from other people can you take a moment to really just own that and say you know what I am freaking worth it I am amazing I am beautiful look at you guys yes hell yes hell yeah okay if you struggle with body image issues tell me something that you like about the way you look I don't want to do something that you don't like something you don't like what do you like about your body today me? oh man see even when I think about not I I put it on the side I instantly think about things I don't like both things I like about myself I I like my eyes ooh I like your eyes because I know they're honest oh yeah and I like the color and I've always liked them how about you I like my teeth today you do have nice thank you but do you see what happens when you own who you are and when you own your compliment when you own what you get to love about yourself the universe the people around you will say yes you do yes you are and they will validate whatever you say oh beautiful I love my skin color that's so beautiful I'm athletic I like my eyebrows what do you mean I would never I saw you you said no one will ever read this and I saw that I see you I love oh oh it's beautiful you guys you guys I was excited to meet you guys to say sorry she was really bad so this is amazing you guys you guys came in with these thoughts that you were like I'm feeling this way I'm feeling that way notice that doesn't define you that's just a part of you that's like this jacket I'm trying on right like that's a piece of you sure and love it I love this jacket you get to love your depression you get to love your anxiety you get to love whatever's coming up and also know that there's other parts of you like right now that you're showing up with so much love so much care and this is also a part of you it's really about like which part of you do you want to give more energy and give more love to you and you can do that by just choosing into it and the way that we just did that is I started asking myself I started asking you guys questions that led you into the state and this is a powerful reminder that you can do this at any time and just that quickly you went from I'm feeling sad I'm feeling depressed which is amazing that's okay and also notice that there's other voices in your head that you can give the microphone to say what else do I got what else can I say about myself and that's also available for you guys at any time and that's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who bring you up because just like what we just did what she did for you like you guys asking you okay tell me something that you like about yourself right and in that instant your mind shifts into something good right so you need to surround yourself with people who will constantly remind you of the good in you so that you're it's constantly giving that voice the microphone to those positive thoughts in your head does that make sense so friends really matter and that's something I've been learning lately and I'm so blessed for the people I've surrounded myself with I'm so blessed to have met Yuri and that's why I yes I do want to make that discord for you guys because look at how wonderful you guys are to each other you know if you could tell someone else that you look beautiful right you would do that in an instant because you know that would make them feel better right if you can give a hug to someone and so yeah I'm gonna say this again you guys can come over to I'm gonna try to make a discord for all of you guys you can go over to my Instagram which is in the in the live title and we can become a community where we can do that for you bring the positive thoughts out be you know be there show up for each other and uplift each other create a positive community no more like no more sadness I mean okay that's not true sadness is true sorry guys it's a little hectic yeah there's a lot of chat happening hey you guys take a moment right now how are you feeling what's shifting for you right now as you listen to this as you guys are here watching this sitting there you guys have cried you guys have felt you guys been here with us you guys are really just here we're feeling oneness here which is one of my vision for the world and we are here in slow time you guys I'm curious like what's coming up for you how are you feeling I'm healing that's really powerful I feel better can I get a hug of course sleepy I love that sleep is hard sometimes we're we're sending lots of hugs I'm happy and tired that's good tired I am inspired are you doctor I read random one so I love that related emotion appreciate yourself and just really quick you guys for those of you guys who's just logging in or who've logged in in the last few minutes you are on psych to go the largest online mental health magazine and YouTube channel in the world we are a community that's growing 5.6 million strong so we are so excited that you guys are here I'm honored for you know, Tai CEO of psych to go as well as his entire team that invited us here today to give us the voice give us an opportunity to talk about some of these really important matters in the world so we just want to take a moment to do that and if you guys, by the way you know, we're starting a movement here we want mental health to be nor or mental, you know states of any sort get to be, you know, normalized we get to validate every single, you know mental challenges or mental state that people are going through to be normalized so we're starting a movement here I invite you guys to share this video share psych to go with people around you as much as possible because we're on a mission to really not only help people, you know become aware but also to create a community as well as to really contribute to the healing of the world also, you guys are more than welcome to follow you know, my YouTube channel which is Yuri1C which is at the top her channel is at the top as well as well as, you know, we both talk about you know, I talk more about actually mindset on my on on my Instagram and she talks about mental health challenges as she's going through real time so feel free to follow us as well and I'll actually, you know we'll go ahead and post it at the bottom but my Instagram is Yuri1C and what's your Instagram? I'm xxmelody and people think that's a little weird I'll explain that xx means kiss, kiss like a sign-off so like, it's like if you're writing, I really like to write letters I don't know if anyone else out there you can write it but if you're at old school and really likes writing letters I like to sign off at the bottom with like, you know, love melody right but I put xx so that's because I write a lot so in my captions I write a lot about exactly what she said what I'm going through real time and I like to sign off at the bottom with a little xx like a, you know, hugs and kisses right so Yeah, so I'm excited to connect with all of you guys and really create this community and this movement even more and besides that you guys how are you doing? So with a mental health awareness month happening right now I saw some of you say you feel validated today you feel seen today you feel acknowledged today you feel like you're with us today and I'm just really grateful that you guys are here just really experiencing this moment with us and we're really excited to have melody here as we will be creating some additional opportunities for other people from different parts of the world different parts, you know different industries to come on and talk about their own mental challenges to bring even more awareness around mental health you know, challenges as well as to really normalize that's what I envision for leaders of the world influencers of the world to really just share authentically what's going on within themselves so yeah, I'm really, really grateful that you guys are all here today To answer the question that I see someone keep repeating the Discord link I haven't made it yet I'm going to make it today I feel really empowered that I need to take that step so if you go to my Instagram I will be making that Discord either today or tomorrow and Yuri's absolutely right about that we're going to keep so for people who keep coming in and out we're going to be inviting more people to talk about and share where they're at mentally and like tips that they really stick to because you know everyone has their own like little stories that help them process things for example I'll share one with you guys right now I read this story I don't know if any of you guys ever read have you ever read the chicken noodle soup for the soul chicken soup for the soul chicken soup for the soul I actually met some of the authors really? yeah, I love that book I have like a 25 year old copy of my book in Korean actually wow yeah beautiful book but that book is amazing because one of the stories stuck so you guys if you guys struggle with the like what difference do I make? what difference do I make? like what I'm a one person what can I do? this is a story that helped me with that there was a man he was walking down the beach and on the beach he saw that there was I guess it was high tide and it washed up all these starfish and then it was low tide and all these starfish were just strewn up on the beach and they're all gonna die because starfish they need water and he's like man that sucks but then he sees another guy walking down the beach and this guy's just walking down the beach picking up one starfish at a time just throwing it back in the ocean and thousands of starfish and the guy the first man he's what are you doing? you can't possibly save them all like you can't possibly save them all what are you doing? and that guy says picks up another one he goes well it mattered to that one just keeps throwing it back because it doesn't matter if you can't save them all if you guys each individually make a difference you keep touching other lives and you keep touching other lives and you make a huge difference to the one person if you make a one person smile in a day you just made that person's day so much better and that within itself just has a ripple effect and that story I don't know why that one stuck in my mind for like 15 years but every time I think why why do I do this? like why am I I'm just one person you know yeah I can't help everyone I can't save everyone as much as I'd love to and I'm sure you guys feel that way but it matters to the one person that you help on a certain day just like right now you guys are here with me right now and I don't know who I can help but I believe that Yuri and I are helping you guys and you guys are helping us in return because we know that we're making a difference and you know that you're seen even if it's just for a moment in time which is today it matters and now whoever listened to that story I just shared you have that story in your head and I hope that stays with you I feel you too I feel you I feel you I feel you I feel you let us know if we made you smile today Starfish story if there was a shift today Patrick stop if you found something different today because of this because that's what we're here to do I remember you know when I started this journey of helping people my only goal was literally if I can help one person smile if I can help just one person or stop one person from thinking about taking their own life and continue to live like that's all I cared about and here I am I get to impact thousands of people on a daily basis and like this is amazing and I'm grateful every day because my mission started with one Starfish one person so whatever you guys think you're doing or not doing just know that just you showing up here right now being with us starting this movement with us thank you for being here supporting us supporting us like to go like you're making a difference Isabella, Isabella, yeah comparing with yourself on there comparison is really hard we're going to talk about that, yeah I invite you to think about that comparison or judgment that comes up you guys whatever you're noticing about other people even like with all the beautiful comments I'm hearing from you guys today I really appreciate it and we are all mirrors to one another I owe you to that yeah, what you see in us is actually a part of you so whatever you said about us that was kind I just want you to know that you're also amazing and that we appreciate you and that you guys are loved like everything that you're saying is also whatever you're noticing about me her, anyone else in the world is actually what you get to know about yourself as well so when it comes to comparison and or judgment it's coming from a place of admiration of another person or judgment of another person notice that that's actually directed at yourself as well and notice that is exactly what you get to tell yourself as well thank you for letting us know that you guys are smiling today and thank you for being on this live stream really feeling with us a lot of you guys cried today a lot of you guys felt today a lot of you guys started to really just be here with us today and really appreciate it I'm really enjoying what you guys are writing right now and just like what she said because I'm hearing her right here everything, no what you guys are saying shows us about where your heart is at because what you see is a reflection of where you are inside or at least in this moment and that's why when people say negative things to you if people ever say negative things to you I know it's gonna hurt for a moment but you have to recognize that's where they are at that's where their mind is it's a reflection of where they're at if they're choosing to see the bad in you that's where they're at and have compassion actually I just saw something about the difference between empathy and compassion empathy is I understand you and I understand you right I feel for you compassion is taking it to the next step where it's I understand you and I'm gonna do something about it like try to make you feel better I can't quite I can't quite word it the same way that I saw it so I'll repost it on my story if you go over thank you California go look it up because the words aren't coming to me right now so yeah I am I am on blast I am public speaking right now so you have to excuse me you're doing amazing and a lot of you guys are sharing with us that you're crying thank you thank you for feeling thank you for feeling whatever is coming up I'm just looking at some of these comments I know you don't want to go and I don't want you to go either stay but go to class be a good student be a good student you're sobbing you're seen thank you thank you for sharing with us exactly what you're feeling we're holding a space for you right now so feel free to be and feel your emotions trust that we understand because we wouldn't be here if we if we didn't yeah we're pretty in our own ways absolutely yes you guys are so beautiful oh wow someone just said you saved my life and if that's true we're thankful that you share we're thankful that you're here with us you're my starfish if that's going to be my little thing if I'm going to start being here with you guys if that's how I'm going to call you guys you guys are my starfish remember that because that story has stuck with me for many years yeah and I hope that you can help other starfish too so I want to hear in the comment you guys what has been powerful for you today we want to know because we did a try on a different format we get to have a beautiful melody here what was impactful for you guys today how are you feeling what was the journey that you guys went through with us today we are your starfish yes man can I just take a moment to like appreciate Yuri so much like holding this down when I met her she grounded me too like I she's met me at a very emotional time in my life so like I'm really grateful and she's holding it down here too great at this thank you mindset lady for real like I need that in my life oh I love the starfish we went from the bubble call to starfish what is the bubble call for those yeah we I did this whole bubble meditation last time yeah it was and they were starting this whole bubbles bubbles starfish you guys it's water themed so you guys know this about me I see you guys queens and kings too oh my gosh thank you so much for showing up with the most amazing self today and take a moment you guys to take a deep inhale in wherever you are maybe take a moment to close your eyes put your hands on your heart take a deep inhale just really really inhaling all the goodness all the good vibes from all over the world that we just cultivated together we're sending you massive love from South Korea and there's love coming from everywhere today there's literally thousands of people who hopped on here who created this together and all of you guys showed up with so much love and exhale hope you're not still holding the breath let's do it one more time take a deep inhale in and exhale out knowing that if you made a difference for one person today which you certainly have for us you made a difference for me today so you definitely did and then I think you're so too so that's too starfish for you and even if that's just yourself today I hope you guys celebrate that I hope you guys celebrate that shift or that change or the love that you started for yourself or others we just really appreciate you guys being here appreciate Melody being here sharing her story whatever comes up know that we're all connected all the emotions that we ever feel everyone has felt them at different times in their life we just go through different journeys at different times so we just want to let you guys know that we're all connected here we're all one my vision for the world is that we get to lead humanity into living with love and that stands for laughter oneness, vulnerability and ease and today I'm really feeling the love oneness and we're all here so I see a lot about anxiety right now yeah so you know please whether in this chat or in the comment actually what are some topics that we can continue to address you know for the future live streams or videos it's like to go and potentially the series that we're going to start so that we can really start to support you guys in different ways feel free to share in the comment also if you guys are on here live stream I also invite you guys to go in the comments and just share with us what was most powerful what was most helpful for you so share it so to revamp that please share it like if you can concisely what you guys need more advice and tips on and what was helpful for you today social anxiety talks with parents again a lot of social anxiety I'm going to take notes thank you so much for all of you guys showing up I know that there's a lot of things going on in the world and you guys are addressing some of it and without going into anything specific today just know that there's a place in every single human's heart that desire connection and harmony and synergy and today I just want to take a moment to really give energy to that place I know there's a lot of things going on in the news in the world right now we see you, we hear you and we're here to make a stand for harmony, oneness and all of that so all of you guys that are here today I really appreciate you just sharing this moment again feel free to let us know how we can potentially support you in the future what kind of topics we're looking to hear from you guys this is a conversation we're having yes I'm taking down notes from you guys so that's why you know thank you for the Yuri because I want, this is helping me understand how I can help you guys, better serve you guys so in the way you guys are helping me right because you're giving me ideas and giving her ideas and then we're going to help you that's a constant back and forth that's how life goes you give and you give give and you see so share with us in the chat before we conclude one thing that you're grateful for today and or one thing that you're grateful for from this live stream today whatever feels good feel free to share would love to hear from you guys let's leave this on a very very beautiful note and come together in this energy of gratitude I would love to hear from you today I really appreciate all of you guys for showing up here it's always an honor to be here with this community this community is very special to my heart and to be able to really have this conversation with you guys from literally all over the world I'm so thankful I'm so thankful for Psych2Go for allowing me to be here with Melody with you guys today and I'm really appreciating every single one of you guys for sharing you guys share so much today and I really just appreciate you guys sharing you are just as equally vulnerable all of you guys in the chat as we were it's not more it's all public and it's it's really really beautiful so thank you so much and you know yeah so let us know how we were able to support you or how we're able to support you moving forward what you are what you are grateful for I see I see okay I'm gonna say this one more time who came in and out also I am going to make a discord for you guys I'm gonna announce it probably on my Instagram so if you guys wanna go over there I'm gonna make a discord so we can be a community for each other outside of this live stream also I also want to say again for Yuri like shout out she has a book coming out about happiness it's called creating your own happiness that will be out same so I will be including that link sometime thank you lost 26 reasons to COVID outbreak thank you and hey you guys I know I know for some of you guys who's hopping on from the other live stream with Tim as well as myself I wanted to thank you guys for all of you guys who chipped into the indias fundraiser for a COVID crisis that we did was safe to go as a collaboration thank you so much I believe we raised almost $10,000 and it's not even that but all the people who came together to really support this thing that's going on in the world like it was yeah it was really heart warming and I really really appreciate it so thank you guys so much again please feel free to share with us what was most helpful for you today what are you grateful for today whether it's about this live stream or just in life and on that note we'll let that chat going for a little bit and we'll conclude this in just a little bit here Yuri Tai says if he wants me to say hi oh come in come in oh so this is introduce yourself hi everyone it's Leonard here thanks so much for having Melody you know part of the wild team and thanks Yuri for hosting this live stream I think it was a huge success hopefully everyone took away something from Yuri and Melody's story and hopefully we can organize more and more things just like this and we want to hear more of your stories and we just want to bring awareness to you know mental health and we want to disarm you know the the the intensity of like the topic is that what that's essentially what we're trying to say how do we follow you on Instagram and it's Leonard Lim it should be in the description yeah we'll include all of ours in the you know in the caption if you guys were here today with me this was my first time being here with Yuri and Leonard so you guys are my starfish I'm going to call you guys that from now on I was I shared a story about why all this time for years like I've thought I know that I make a difference even though I'm just one person so it was a starfish story so now she's the bubbles lady I'm the starfish girl we have our little characters here I like that you guys I appreciate you so so much thanks for crying thanks for laughing thanks for being gratitude with you that I really appreciate all of you sending you so much love and we will see you guys very soon and if you have anything that came up for you during this live stream feel free to share either in the chat we're going to conclude this soon so go ahead and comment below share this video share Psych2Go videos with the world we're creating a movement here to really bring mental health awareness to the world like I said we're 5.6 million subscribers strong and it's because of all of you guys as well as the movement is to heal the world so if you guys are with us please feel free to share let us know how this was helpful for you and other than that sending you guys so much love thank you so much guys thank you for being here with us bye guys well done ladies