What do you want to be when you grow up? Ever since we could remember, we’ve always wondered about how our life would unravel in the future. As university applications come around the corner, we wanted to discuss our thoughts on post-secondary life. At a young age, the idea of post-secondary was always perpetuated by our friends and family; usually guiding us towards the “right” path that would either make lots of money or have respectable titles and careers. However, the high expectations of our families sometimes brought excessive pressure or anxiety upon us. This week, we brought on our very good friend, Sydney Hughes, to share her thoughts on this topic as well. We believe that bringing on another perspective can hopefully allow our listeners to gain some more insight in our discussions!

Continuing off our discussion about the struggles with fitting in and popularity, in this second part, we share the thoughts and personal experiences from our followers on Instagram (@_girlsknowbest_). Each week, we ask our followers for their perspectives or personal experiences surrounding a topic of discussion within each episode. Due to the happily overwhelming amount of responses we received this week, we decided to break this episode into two parts; this allowed us to engage with our followers’ responses more thoroughly, hopefully allowing our listeners to understand various points of views from others. By sharing our followers’ inputs, we hope to further demonstrate that everyone goes through similar struggles, however, just in different ways.

In this episode, we share our personal experiences and felt emotions when we first realized the importance of our mental health. Although we’re still young, we want to express the importance of not devaluing mental health issues; despite the age of an individual. We also address our current triggers that may negatively impact our mental health, and include the inputs of our Instagram followers on their opinions on the topic of mental health!