I consider myself a storyteller. Growing up in theater, you are unknowingly trained in the art of storytelling. The most important lesson I learned from performing is that everyone thinks they are the main character.

Throughout the U.S., there are stigmas about men and addressing their mental health problems. Men are stigmatized as being strong, independent, reasonable, and emotionless.

Let’s talk about self-care for a second. Not the over-simplified, cliché, almost lost in meaning type of self-care that seems to diminish the actual sentiment of the word. Let’s talk about true and real self-care and what it means.