Hey, Cool Life!

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #minipod about mental health and creativity. Episode 64 is about how to be sober when New York is New Yorking all over you in the best, most exciting and slightly terrifying way.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a minipod from New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 63 is about how to remove the value judgment in people not liking you.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a minipod by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 62 is how friendships change when you get sober and become mindful. And how rehearsing “concern troll” speeches about friends’ character flaws may be a sign for everyone to move on.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 61 is about time. And how unilateral decisions about how long you think things take and how long they actually take merits investigation because lol.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 60 is about the anxiety cycle of knowing that you don’t know and attempting to ignore it. And a note on emotional black holes and energy vampires.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a micropod about mental health and creativity by New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 59 is about the mental toll and physical expense of people pleasing.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 58 is about surrender around your appearance as a person with food addiction and body dysmorphia.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 57 is about how worrying can ramp up when it’s time to rest. And how anxiety can roll over from the day before and that it’s uncomfortable but okay.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 56 is about how not to take rejection personally.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 55 is about what to do on the days you wake up gaslighting yourself into believing that you’re healed/recovered/normal/all better. And the underlying control issues and what they may mean.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by author Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 54 is the depression and self-judgement that accompanies a day where you don’t make something.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 53 is about how punitive we can be to ourselves for our anxiety and depression and how subconsciously searching for culprits to our moods and feelings can be exhausting in end of itself.

Hey, Cool Life is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 52 is about medication, depression, anxiety and intervention. And how mindfulness and gentleness cannot disrupt the really heavy shit when you need outside help.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 51 is about the wellness industrial complex and the zeitgeisting of mental health awareness. And how paying for something doesn’t get you out of doing ANY of the work. Plus, how no amount of money will get you ready to hear what you need to hear when you need to hear it.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 50 is about how meditation strengthens the muscle that resists fuckshit and addictive distractions. And what familiar but nebulous phenomena like “focus” or “intuition” actually feel like.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 49 is about sobriety in recovery for other addictions. And the simplest way to decide whether or not a work opportunity is right for you.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 48 is about how gentleness and surrender around large projects improve overall perspective and quality. And how inviting mindfulness of “fake mini deadlines” within projects can be kinder to your body and mind.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 47 is about self-perception, Karl Lagerfeld and **trigger warning for eating disorders: the most visceral way to know whether or not you may have an ED.

Hey, Cool Life is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 46 is about the futility of rehearsing confrontation and the delusions that compel you rage-quit jobs and people without true closure.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 45 is about acknowledging mistakes as you collect data about yourself. And how repeated mistakes is data unto itself. Especially regarding addiction. Plus, an invitation to use something special that you’re saving for future you as a kindness to now you.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity. Episode 44 is about how to have faith in the process to minimize indecision. And reframing failure as a construct.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 43 is how the same material that fuels your imagination, ingenuity and intelligence also fuels your addiction. And that the shame around your “Thing” goes away if you talk about it.

Hey, Cool Life! is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 42 is about managing big news days, the only things you can control when life gets large and what won’t move the needle on success but what can alter your perception of it.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod on mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 41 is about love and the addict’s brain. Non-transactive love, the love of strangers and how giving love may help you feel it more than receiving it.

Hey, Cool Life! Is a #micropod about mental health and creativity by Mary H.K. Choi. Episode 40 is about living in the past as it relates to large, time-consuming work and the anxiety of living in the future when you must market or publicize it. And forgiving yourself for being imperfect and thereby making imperfect art.