 I had this gun and there was one in the chamber and I turned the safety off and put it inside of my mouth What's going on everyone? Welcome to another video. Now we've got you we've got the instafam here on The live chat in front here, but I wanted to show you what I made now check out this I made an omelet here With the follow your heart vegan egg now all I did was follow the directions, which is like add 115 mils of water to 10 grams of this and I just used the whole thing So I just used about a liter or 1200 mils of water and look what I made here Now this is a stack of chocolate pancakes And I put this is just peanut butter powder that I've mixed with water and a little bit of low-calorie chocolate sauce Blueberries bananas now. I want you to try to guess how many calories this is. This is only 690 calories. I'll probably flash up the macros on screen, too If you're training and you want to know that sort of thing, but yeah, macro friendly That's just something that you say when you're lifting weights. I didn't ever know what it means hmm that is Sorry guys, I'll give YouTube a little glimpse of that as well Look at that. That's just an omelet. All I did is literally Followed the instructions chucked a few veggies in a pan Cooked them up and then chuck and then poured this over it well I only poured half of it over it The other half I kept in the In the um bowl right So I poured half into the omelet let that cook Put a little bit of cheese powder on here. I've got this vegan cheese powder I'll go grab it for you so you can see but anyway The other half I left in the bowl. I'll put some stevia and some cocoa powder For the pancakes and I put a little bit of I put actually 70 grams of wholemeal flour just so it come together like a pancake batter fantastic Cheese sauce flavor mix. Have you seen that one before? We're moving on to the beast now. Oh my god Wait till you see this look Oh my god, look everyone Sorry check out the pancake stack OCD and intrusive thoughts mental health OCD and intrusive thoughts when it comes to something specific like that. I Cannot give you specific advice. Um, I don't think it would be responsible for me To talk to you about something that I really don't have anything knowledge on I can help with certain mental health issues that look I can give you some general advice For mental health that will help you but When it comes to something specific and serious intrusive thoughts and OCD You'd need to talk to a proper therapist like a professional and don't be ashamed of that either like I have a therapist and she I love her I Love her so much. She's beautiful. She's a beautiful angel. She helps me a lot and that's because of my crazy past if your mind is is not at rest and There's some thoughts coming in that are really What are they? Just repetitive annoying random a good way to get in control of your mind is to have a very good outlet. So like I mean Really really high intense exercise something that you can do for half an hour. That's just gonna make you go. Oh my god. Oh I'm so sweating in your brain. Just like That's gonna calm everything down. You're gonna be more in control less anxious Also, I know you're gonna hate this because I hate to hear this But meditation and it's not as hard as what you think you might you might you might meditate or you might not But meditation is just like there's an app called headspace. It tells you when to do it. You just ten minutes a day It's guided and then you build just your way up a healthy lifestyle is going to help you have a healthy mind I'm not saying that it's going to treat the underlying cause of your mental health issues but I'm I am definitely saying it's going to help mitigate symptoms and put you in a healthier mental space because your physical space is going to Compliment that so if you're getting lots of sunshine healthy foods fruits vegetables Lots of starches carbohydrates for your mind making sure you're if you've got mental health issues caffeine Get off the caffeine telling you that's not going to help you if you've got anxiety Depression shit like that. Oh depression. Look, I'm gonna say for anxiety. No, I'd say stay away from caffeine So make sure you're getting enough sleep all of these things sleep enough water Really good exercise enough nature is you in a supportive environment or you in a shithole environment So make sure you're in a supportive environment with supportive people Focusing on a purpose every single day. I like to dedicate my life to giving back A life of service so life of service to those who are vulnerable I mean you might want to get into Some type of life of service It's going to give you a sense of purpose and that's going to help you feel fulfilled I'm going to give you a greater sense of well-being All of these things. Are you are you making sure you're looking after all of those things? because Until you are right until you are looking after All of these baseline fundamentals Then you wonder like look if everything's out of balance, of course your brain is going to be out of balance You're going to have a you know when I was on drugs and feta means I used to have repetitive thoughts about I would Fabricate scenarios in my mind through paranoia like I literally was like, you know This is definitely happening and then then I'd be like boom boom boom like it was like ruminating and creating and using my paranoia to to fabricate The scenarios that we're just like as soon as I was sober. I was just like what the hell was I thinking like, you know It's not rational. These things are not rational, but sobriety sleep exercise really clean healthy fruits and you know whole food carbohydrates nature supportive environment really Meditation really those things They're gonna lessen your symptoms a lot and if you get a specific type of therapist who is Really why is that? Study, let's just say they've got 30 looked at 30 years of research and got 30 years worth of experience Treating people with OCD and obsessive thoughts. It will whatever yours is depression anxiety, whatever it might be They're gonna know a lot more than you do They're gonna learn know a lot more than I do and they're gonna know a lot more than your supportive friends are Because supportive friends are supportive friends, but they don't know what they're talking about when it comes to deep-seated Psychological issues therapists do they've done the training. They've gone to school. They've done all all this all of this education and they've got Experience with patient after patient after patient after patient. Okay That's why it's good to see a therapist not because oh my god. I need therapy. I'm crazy No, I think like everyone's got some type of childhood trauma something traumatic that happened to them And they are their day-to-day actions in their life are being subconsciously controlled by the trauma and from their past You know the way that they deal with certain environments and the way they deal with in their relationships And I've can tell you right now. I know I know from experience how much trauma can affect your day-to-day You know relationships and your life and the way that you react to certain situations now I'll make sure that I exercise every single day. I'll get out on the bike now. I go to the gym Wherever when I was on tour. I was making sure I was doing exercise I make sure I'm gonna get in sleep eight hours try to get eight hours six. Okay, seven better eight hours Ideal if I'm going too heavy on the caffeine. I pull back a little bit, but I like having a coffee. I just I like it I'm sorry. I like it if I was getting really major anxiety and flashbacks and ruminating and you know triggers I would lay off the caffeine Get the fundamentals right Okay, and I'm not saying it's gonna cure your your mental. I'm not a doctor. Okay. I'm not a doctor I'm not saying I know that you're particularly I know people have got that severe mental health issues that doing all of those things doesn't help it Oh, well doing all of those things won't cure it. I'm sorry cure it. It will help mitigate the symptoms of it Okay, 100% But you're not gonna cure the root cause of it with lifestyle Changes you're gonna have to do a bunch of lifestyle changes and work you have to do work for mental health and People don't like the idea of having to do work to sort out their mental health issues But you're gonna have to you're going to have to do some therapy supportive environment Supported people around you are you hanging around arseholes because I'm telling you right now That's gonna affect your mental health and that ain't that ain't even you That's just hanging around a bunch of arseholes. What's social media environment like is it toxic? Are you letting things get to you? Are you absorbing all the toxicity like I don't claim to be a super professional at this But all I know is there's some simple things that you could be doing to mitigate the symptoms now Medication when it comes to medication. I'm not an expert there But all I know is I've tried medication and it messed me up more Anti-anxiety anti-depressants. I was on anti-psychotics. I was on it turned me into a zombie You can't get off of them without you know, you have to slowly slowly gradually get off of them over the course of months It may it imbalanced my mental state. Am I saying medication is never an option? Of course not. I'm not a doctor I just think that before you start using medication. You better think very carefully about that and you better Not just take that lightly because that's something that's going to be a part of your life for a long time And it's how they're hard to get off of and they can cause some serious imbalance in your the chemicals in your brain so lifestyle changes first, let's get the fundamentals right and Don't be afraid of doing some work and don't be afraid of talking about it because I'll tell you right now There's a large percentage of people out there that have their own mental health issues So you just nothing to be ashamed of at all don't suffer in silence don't like Be a be afraid to talk or disclose any of this with anyone because you might be surprised Someone might be going through exactly the same thing that you're going through and they can help you they can help you I'm very open about most of my stuff and people go out You know, I couldn't realize that about you. I didn't know that about you And you know, I've got my own struggles or my brother's going through this or my brother was an addict or my brother Mental health issues or my sister's going through this or my mom and my father died of alcoholism You know, everyone's going through their own struggles and their own, you know This world this society is set up to mess people up really like, you know You've got messed up parents raising children and just projecting that their insecurities and their traumas and you know They're stuff onto their kids and then the kids grow up to do it to the next kids And it passes on through generations and they could see something traumatic They could have had an abusive partner or an abusive parent or you know Or they were stuff they suffered abuse themselves and now they're abusive and they don't know why and you know, there's There's multiple different things that go on on this earth because the earth isn't really the nicest place and Humans can be victims of that and also if you eat suffering I believe you become suffering if you eat the products of fear and violence and death if you eat tortured animals that suffered in In a hellhole and you consume that on a day-to-day basis You're consuming their cortisol their fear their anxiety everything they went through, you know This is not going to create a good environment inside of you So if you're eating meat dairy eggs all of those horrific products and you wonder why you got mental health problems You've got anxiety and you're taking in all of this cortisol and this Adrenaline from the blood of animals and you know eating suffering and violence I would say that that would be something that would stop first You are what you eat and you wonder why there's a bunch of you know anxious just Messed up souls out there. I mean look at what they're consuming. It's they're consuming pure horror and violence so I know I've been making a few posts about mental health lately and I had a feeling usually my feelings are Pretty spot-on had a feeling I thought I'll just say this and see if anyone this will resonate with anyone And I made a post yesterday and it was actually last night I was like 12 a.m. Or something and I was just like I can't sleep I'm gonna say this because I felt like giving out some positive energy and Many people are going through some struggles at the moment many people are going through some struggles at the moment and just very varied Struggles and they might have lost a parent. They might have lost, you know, they're their companion animal They might have Broken up with this partner. They might just be really going through some struggles and suicidal and depressed And you know the animals is getting to them or the you know They don't their friends and family aren't listening to their philosophy on veganism They feel isolated alone and heartbroken as many things people go through on a day-to-day basis So do I I don't always voice the things that I'm going through I go through a lot of ups and downs and struggles And I've been open about those but I think like when you make a post like that and say hey if anyone's You know out there about going through something and just just a message of understanding that hey, you know I know what you're going through. I've been through stuff myself and I hope you're okay And just stay strong those type of things they can mean the world to someone and that could be the difference between them like You know doing something silly or feeling isolated alone or feeling like there's a glimmer of hope and someone does understand So I think like we should all be supportive of each other Obviously, we all get caught up doing our own thing I get caught up doing my own thing sometimes. I'm not as emotionally supportive as I could be because I am obviously in activism mode a lot and I You know get to the point where I'm just like Gotta do this gotta do that and I'll get stressed out and I'm like Just post post post debate debate debate and people might comment and I might be a bit blunt because I'm just so overwhelmed with I get attacked all the time every single day and No, no, sometimes I don't stop and go. Hey, I wonder how everyone's going emotionally or you know Let's just stop and smell the roses for a sec And let's just practice a little bit of gratitude for a second here You know, this is a life that we were gifted and Like the odds of us getting this opportunity is just like Slim to none. Like we we've made it. We've made it. We've got this opportunity to Live life on this earth and to sort of share something positive with the earth and help make a difference And I think I'm I get caught up doing activism a lot because that's my purpose and the animals need it But I think sometimes we've got to stop and just go You know, let's just reevaluate things here. How am I feeling? How's everyone else feeling? Are we all okay? You know, we're all on the same sort of boat with each other and but we can all get stuck in our own paths as well I want everyone who follows me follows my work to feel like I'm a down-to-earth person who obviously has had their own struggles and I Can understand if you're going through your own because I've been at the I've been in literal hell before and you know I would tell you a story like I Say this in my speeches a little bit But I used to carry a loaded gun to defend myself and I was paranoid and obviously I was in gangs And this is just what you had to do and I had a loaded gun And I was really in a place where I was just like, you know, I put myself in this court back myself into this like Corner where like I didn't know the way out and I was just like and I had this gun And there was one in the chamber and I turned the safety off and put it inside of my mouth And I was and I held my finger over the trigger and I was just like like sort of Flirting with the idea of just bang because it's a really, you know, that can it's just a really impulsive thing you could do you know and I remember that very vividly and I Also remember falling asleep after that. I didn't I didn't do it But that's how impulsive an action like that can be when you're going through something hard But imagine if I had done that Imagine if I pulled the trigger then I Would never have had this opportunity right now to help animals and help you guys You know what I mean? I can leave a positive mark on her Imagine that imagine if I had blown my brains out on my girlfriend's roof of her bedroom and that would have been the end of me and everyone would have remembered me for everything I've done up to that point and I would never have had a chance to Change my life around this offered golden opportunity and now like if I if I died right now touch wood I mean, I don't think that's going to happen. But if I died right now People would remember me for everything. I've done it up you know, since I've been sober which would be amazing and I'd leave a positive legacy behind and Pit pit my videos would be up for the world to see forever. You know the message I want people to see, you know, and so It's all about holding on when you're doing it hard if you hold on You'd never know what's around the corner. You really don't you don't know what's around the corner You know, you could be going through the dip right now And you know, you got to hold on and then boom something comes around the corner and everything's wow wow I'm so glad I held on right there. I mean it might feel like you just you want to let go you want to give up But I'm telling you right now if I had to let go and given up that would have been it that would have been it I would never have had this amazing opportunity now And that's why like I I constantly kiss the ground because I'm like I'm so grateful like I could have been I could have been killed I could have been killed many times before I've been I've had guns in my face. I've been run over literally run over, you know, 30 miles an hour to boom like Near-death experiences. I've you know, I've been bashed and you know, just put myself in the firing line so much And my mom always said there's someone watching over you Joey There's someone watching over you and it's like I feel like maybe You know, so we can get a little bit like, you know, like someone up there Had bigger plans for me, you know, like because otherwise I could have just been another junkie that shot himself in the head or another junkie that got killed in You know some type of gang violence or you know Or just boom throw away the key throw away the key chuckleman jar, but something happened and I've got another chance Okay, and I held on and it's time to capitalize on that and every single day. I kissed the ground in gratitude So thank you. Thank you whoever Whatever because I cannot believe what I pulled myself out of that hole that literal hell that mental illness That voices in my head and the negativity and the demons in my sleep and the nightmares and You know in the the violent people and the environment of deception and no one you can trust no one and always With a pistol or a hammer thinking someone's gonna get me. I'm thinking I'm going to prison or Addiction can't can't live without drugs and drinking alcohol to Quite in the anxiety and all of this stuff like it was so dark. It was so dark, right? Now I pulled myself out of it and I I spread the light It's like I I didn't have room for light to thrive inside of my heart And now there is and all that wants to come out is you know light and I'm not saying that I'm completely Okay from what happened in my past. I mean it's a journey and every day. I'm you know slowly slowly getting better I mean there's obviously some demons inside of me that I'm trying to work through but From where I was You from where I was I've come so far and the reason I'm saying that to everyone is because You can you can come really far as well Okay, if I can that you know I've done a complete 180 in my life if I can get to where I've got with in terms of my mental health in terms of You know what I do for My purpose every single day the amount of people that I've inspired the amount of animals that I've helped and you know All of these all of this positive stuff that I put out there now. I mean not always positive. Sometimes I'm a bit Extreme militant vegan activist But like in terms of like coming from somewhere where you might consider like oh my god This is the end for me. I've got no way out. My life is messed up. That's only your your circumstance now That doesn't mean that's gonna be your circumstance Two years from now. Look at me. I was sitting in a bloody prison cell Sitting in a prison cell like oh my god, and then you know a year later I'm riding around in my push bike in Thailand. You know like as a vegan thinking about how I'm gonna change the world That's how quickly things can turn around so I Guess I want to leave you with a message of hope just remember like no matter how hard you're doing it right now That does not mean that in a year from now you're going to be doing it as hard as you are right now That that is that temporary that is temporary nothing lasts forever even the really bad stuff and even the really good stuff Okay, we're constantly going through peaks and valleys. It's about holding on through those dips and just waiting for things to get better Make sure you're in a supportive environment look after the fundamentals. So sleep sleep exercise Really healthy whole foods cut back on the caffeine get enough sleep Meditation speak to a therapist or a professional if you have to make sure you're surrounding yourself with supportive people Make sure you have a purpose day-to-day driving you So you've got something to wake up for and it shouldn't be about you It should be about giving to others and that's going to give back to you that's going to give you a sense of well-being and make you feel like well I've got some real purpose and you're valued and all of those things You're gonna be you're gonna do just fine All right guys, thank you for tuning in. I love you all peace