We all feel different emotions depending on the circumstances we face every day. In this episode, Kelli Hansen shares her expertise on mental health. She founded the BCC Evolution, a mental health and suicide awareness nonprofit, in 2018 after losing her middle sister to a completed suicide in 2017. She wanted to break the stigma of associating mental health with negative and degrading things. We all need to focus on our mental health. How can we practice positive thinking in our daily lives? It all comes down to conditioning and practicing your mind for positivity. Stay tuned and find out more and maintain good mental health!
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Maintaining Good Mental Health And Conditioning Your Brain For Positivity With Kelli Hansen
We're going to talk about mental health. I know I talk about mental health quite a bit but I think it's a topic that deserves a lot of discussion because it's integral to a lot of different aspects of our lives and a very important component of our life's outcome. It's an umbrella term that encompasses many different situations, fears, tragedies as well as states of mind.

One of the things that are interesting is as we become more aware of mental health, its presence and its importance to our life's outcomes, more and more people are taking on mental health as their cause and idea of what they want to do with their lives. My guest Kelli Hansen is the Founder of a mental health organization called BCC Evolution.
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Kelli, welcome to the program.

Thank you so much, Steven. I appreciate you having me here.

I appreciate you coming on and taking the time to join us in the show. The first thing I want to do is get our audience oriented to BCC Evolution. What is your approach to mental health? What aspect of the mental health challenge because it's so broad that you are solving? What inspired you to get started on it?

It’s absolutely my favorite subject. I founded BCC Evolution in 2018 after I lost my middle sister to a completed suicide in 2017. I knew that I didn't want to sit around and do nothing. At that time, I was working with another organization that focused on the adolescent aspect. I was hyper-focused on suicide prevention.

Over the years, as I've gained more knowledge and had more collaborations, I've found that mental health is the root cause of what leads people to the complete act of suicide whether it be a moment or a lifetime of some mental health challenge is why people complete the act. If we can get to that root cause, start doing the education, bring more awareness, start having these hard conversations like you and I are having and breaking down that stigma, that's how we're going to start saving lives.

BCC Evolution fits in the pre-crisis space, more of the education, learning how to identify signs, knowing the symptoms. How do we talk to somebody when they come to me and they're like, "I'm suicidal. I'm having this mental health challenge." Instead of locking up like a deer in headlights, you have some tangible ways that you can talk or communicate, ultimately and potentially save their lives. That's what BCC Evolution is all about. It’s the awareness, the conversation and the education.

One thing I love about it is that suicide hotlines at the moment of crisis prevention have been around for a while. I know it was 2017 when the rapper, Logic, wrote that song with the title of the suicide prevention hotline number but with education and with tackling these underlying longer-term issues. Not only it seems like at least to me, do you have a chance to save the person's life but you also have a chance to make that person's life better because it's not that we kept you alive but we're also addressing this underlying root problem that's deeper within.

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