Caring For Our Mental Health, Together — Grant Trebilco of One Wave

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New Happy Hero Grant Trebilco is the founder of One Wave Is All It Takes, a mental health nonprofit operating at beaches all around the world.

Today, we’re talking about the power of community and how it can support our mental health, how our greatest suffering can be transformed into a gift when we use it to help others, and how to create our own ‘mental health recipes.’

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Key Takeaways

  • We can turn our greatest challenges into a source of meaning and happiness when we use what we learned to help other people

  • It’s essential to find your community of support. A recent Harvard study, that looked at 100,000 people over 10 years, found that the two most protective factors for avoiding depression were 1) the frequency that you confide in others and 2) the frequency you visit with family and friends.

  • Figure out your mental health recipe: the things that you do to take care of yourself. For each of the four pillars (body, mind, heart, and soul) we talked about, what can you do to support your mental health today? If you are working on finding the right therapist or medication, keep going: eventually, you’ll find the right recipe that works for you.

  • Share your story. If you feel comfortable, and with people who make you feel safe, tell them what you are feeling. If you don’t have people who you want to confide in, connect to a One Wave event near you for a safe place to share how you’re doing.

  • Don’t forget to check in with your friends and loved ones. You never know how powerful a quick text or phone call can be. When we support each other, we can nourish our individual and collective mental health.  

Show Notes

  • 2:00 — Grant shares his story of realizing he has bipolar disorder

  • 5:15 — How One Wave started with just one attendee and has grown to over 200 beaches around the world

  • 14:02 — Grant’s Old Happy and New Happy definitions

  • 19:00 — What it is like to attend a Fluro Friday

  • 21:40 — How schools and students are using the One Wave methodology to support mental health

  • 28:55 — How Grant discovered a way of helping our mental health that is grounded not just in the mind, but also in the body, heart, and soul

  • 32:30 — The ‘mask’ that we have to wear in society because of the mental health stigma, and how One Wave gives you the space to take it off

  • 39:14 — How we can unconsciously amplify the mental health stigma and address that by sharing our story

  • 42:20 — Grant’s mental health recipe

  • 48:10 — How to be there for other people and support their mental health

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