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584. Self-Advocacy Is Key to Better Mental Health

584. Self-Advocacy Is Key to Better Mental Health

Update: 2025-10-02
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What happens when life forces you to stop, reflect, and rebuild? In this recap, Lesley and Brad unpack their conversation with wellness coach and the Balanced Your Life Podcast host Meghan Pherrill, who transformed her life after battling OCD, depression, and anxiety. They reflect on how Meghan’s journey shows the power of starting small, listening to your intuition, and choosing practices that spark joy. This episode will inspire you to rethink your habits, embrace imperfection, and create a life rooted in balance and authenticity.


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In this episode you will learn about:

  • How Meghan’s breakup became a turning point for self-discovery.
  • Why healing from OCD required both slow shifts and sudden breakthroughs.
  • The importance of starting with one simple habit and sticking with it.
  • How support systems can either hold you back or help you grow.
  • Meghan’s meditation guide for creating lasting calm and balance.


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Episode Transcript:

Lesley Logan 0:00   

We know from how habits are truly created, it has to actually bring joy and dopamine, you have to get dopamine high. If you don't, you're not going to get that habit. If it feels like it's shameful or like you're judging yourself, it's possible that's not your intuition and you're following someone else's. 


Lesley Logan 0:16   

Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. 


Lesley Logan 0:55   

Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co-host in life, Brad, and I are going to dig into the restorative combo I had with Megan Farrell in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to the episode and you are not new here, you know what to do. If you're brand new here, hi, we're gonna talk about something that already happened, and you can listen. If you're like me, you'd listen to this one and then you listen to the other one. Or you can be like, Brad and pause us now. 


Brad Crowell 1:23   

You do that? 


Lesley Logan 1:24   

Of course. I want, when we watch The Crown, do I not look up the historical facts before we finish?


Brad Crowell 1:31   

She does. She always looks up the ending. Yeah, I watch it from start to finish.


Lesley Logan 1:34   

I need, sometimes I get just nervous, and I just need to know how it's going to be, so that I can sit and pay attention. Because sometimes I'm just so nervous for them. They're like, I can't you saw my stress results after watching F1. 


Brad Crowell 1:47   

Yes, I did. 


Lesley Logan 1:48   

So you guys, we saw the F1 movie, and mostly I went for the Brad Pitt part, but my friend said it was just on edge of her seat, and so I looked at my WHOOP and, like, heart rate monitor and you can see from the horror film preview to the end of the movie of the of the F1 you can actually see every time they had a race, because my heart would spike for every race, and I just like, can someone just tell me if he wins this race? So I can just enjoy the race, because I can't enjoy the race right now because I'm so stressed for him. So that's why I like to listen to these kinds of episodes, podcasts, and then I listen to the one.


Brad Crowell 1:48   

Yeah, yeah, okay.


Lesley Logan 1:52   

Today is October 2nd, 2025, in case you didin't know, it is the day before our 10th year wedding anniversary. 


Brad Crowell 2:37   

What? Oh, yeah. 


Lesley Logan 2:39   

But it's also the actual day of International Day of Non-Violence. Today, we celebrate the birthday of a man who helped bring forward the notion of non violence and the tremendous impact this form of social response ha

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584. Self-Advocacy Is Key to Better Mental Health

584. Self-Advocacy Is Key to Better Mental Health

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