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8. Not Showing Up For You Daily & What Comes With It
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This episode I talk about things I'm going through and why these things are happening. Staying on top of your game and showing up for you daily is super inportant, it's when you take your foot off the gas that old patterns and old ways make their way back into your life.
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Why Start a Podcast?
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Welcome back to another episode of Yours Truly, Adam Pike. I was very excited to do this episode because for the last couple weeks, I've just been feeling a type of way and I've been waiting for this episode to kind of talk about it. And the reason why I even started this podcast is because I've gone through a lot in my life and I feel like I've done a lot of work on myself
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and I was able to come out on top.
The Instagram Illusion: Real vs. Online Challenges
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Now, why I'm talking about this is because you guys watch my Instagram, you see the type of stuff that I'm posting, I'm working on it all the time, I'm doing these fitness challenges, I'm doing all this motivational speaking, and I give out a lot of high energy, happy vibes on Instagram.
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But I am human. And there is times where my energy is not always as high as what you guys see on Instagram, right? Most people just post
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their highlights on Instagram. You don't see when people are having bad days or they're kind of overthinking or they're not fully confident in themselves, right? So that's why I wanted to talk about how I've been feeling on this episode. So
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I talk about a lot of personal life experiences because I know that there's many, many people out there that can relate to what I'm saying and maybe they're going through the same things and they just don't really know how to change.
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Let's just jump right into it.
LSD Flow and Mental Communication Enhancement
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But before, hold up, before I jump into it, I want to talk about the LSD flow. It's a product from Microcybin.
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And it's something that I normally do before I start a podcast or before I have something to work on. If I'm talking a lot or if I'm recording a video, I find that it really helps me communicate.
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have that flow state of mind where whatever's on my mind, I can just talk about it and it's just coming out without any issues, you know what I mean? And I mean, I could do that anyways, but I do find that when I take the LSD flow, today I took a 0.75 milliliters and it's just a little droplet you put underneath your tongue. And I would take that about
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Half hour like 30 minutes ago before starting the the podcast and I really do find that it helps with just Getting everything out and talking about it the way I want to talk about it if that makes any sense at all But if you are interested in this you can check this product out on The micro side and website there's a ton of information on there So yeah, if you're interested check that out so um
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Like I told you before in one of my past episodes, I stopped the microcybin protocols.
Seasonal Changes and Stopping Microdosing
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Now, when I stopped this, it was kind of like the same time when the days start getting shorter. And here in Newfoundland right now, by 4.30, it's pitch black. The days are very, very short. And I know that that has a lot to do with people's mental health. Because when it's just dark all the time, you're not getting a lot of sunlight.
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It's shitty. It's really shitty. So I kind of stopped the micro dosing protocols around the same time when, you know, days were getting short. And when I stopped, I was like, okay, like, I feel like I've done enough work now on myself where I can go without using these, you know, this the micro dosing, and everything's gonna be good.
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And it has been good. Some things would kind of come back into my life. Maybe I would do a little bit of overthinking, but I was very aware of it. And instead of letting that take over, I was just processing that in my mind and dealing with it differently than what I would normally deal with it.
Experiencing a Sikh Wedding in Toronto
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So then it came to about a week before my Toronto trip. So I just got back from Toronto.
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Beautiful beautiful wedding. It was a Sikh wedding. I'm pretty sure I just pronounced that right But the wedding was the most beautiful amazing like breathtaking wedding that I've ever been to in my entire life is very very cool experience to like be part of their culture for a couple days and You know the grand finale was just absolutely
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I, I, words can't describe. Like there was one point we're in the dance floor and this like massive transformer robot comes out with these like shooting guns and lasers just like it was, it was nuts. Like it was nuts. But anyways.
75 Hard Challenge: Energy Boost and Consequences
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About a week before I went to Toronto, I was doing 75 hard, right? And when I was doing 75 hard, my energy was high. I was having intense workouts. I was doing the cold plunges, reading every day, meditate. I was doing all these things that I normally do every day to stay on top of my game, like keep my mind fresh and
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When I do those things, I feel pretty fucking good about myself. But a week before that, I was like, am I really going to go to this wedding and be around people that have never been around before and trying to do two workouts a day, like reading and meditating? I was like, you know what? I'll just stop. I'll take a little break and we'll get back at it when I come back.
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And that's totally fine, right? You have to live your life, people get married, you gotta go on vacations, that's all fine and dandy, okay? But like I said, I was already feeling a little bit of low energy before I decided to stop this.
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Right? So when I stopped at 75 hard, you know, I started having a lot of sugar because I was like, well, geez, the last 47 days I've been eating pretty clean. So now I'm just kind of eating like shit again, eating a lot of takeout, you know, sleep in Toronto.
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It was not good. Let's say that I drank a lot and we partied a lot and like my sleep was not good. I had a lot of fun there because when you're in the moment and you're drinking and yeah, like everything is fucking great. Obviously, everything's so much fun. But then when I came back home, right? And all that fun and all that was not happening. That's when my energy just became even lower.
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And, you know, with this no sleep, like for the last, let's, I think it was eight days, eight or nine days, I added alcohol back into my life again. Sleep, not so great. Food, not so great. I stopped reading. I journaled maybe once in eight or nine days. Stopped meditating, stopped doing cold punches. I went like a week without working out.
Post-Wedding Low Energy: Causes and Effects
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Because I stopped doing all these things, you know, these last couple days being home, I've really been given out shit energy. Like just kind of in my head about things, not trusting in myself like I normally would.
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It's like I was second-guessing myself with what I'm currently doing in my life. I left my job like four months ago. I've been doing online training. I've been really trying to work hard with microsibin and pushing this message of microdosing. Everything has been working out perfect. Everything is just fine.
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But my point here is when I'm on top of everything and I'm doing all these tasks every single day that's going to better my life and keep my mind fresh, my energy is high and it really shows, right? Even online when I'm posting the videos, I'm very creative, I motivate myself a lot. But when I took all these things out of my life,
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and then added drinking on top of that and your lack of sleep and eating like shit. That's when my energy system became really low. And I've been really in my head these last couple days about everything, but there's really no reason to be in my head.
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Now, I am very aware of everything that's going on right now and I have even been thinking about like the videos that I post on Instagram, right? Like you go on my page now, there's all these motivational quotes, a lot of like motivational little short videos of just, you know, me preaching about like just trusting the universe
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and believe in yourself and just put the work in. You know what I mean? For those of you who pay attention to my Instagram, you know what I'm talking about. But here I am, I was actually stood up in the kitchen before I started this podcast thinking about how I am currently feeling and how everything that I'm preaching online I'm not currently doing right now in my life.
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And that's a problem. That's a problem. But it's okay to feel this way. I am human and I am going to feel these feelings that I'm feeling right now. There's going to be times where I'm down to myself and I don't believe in myself and I don't have the motivation.
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There's got to be a point where you're like, fuck this, Adam. This is not you. The energy that you're giving off right now is rubbing off to the people that you're surrounded with. I feel like this last week, I've just kind of created some shit in my life. And I sat there today, and there's a guy that works with Microsoft,
00:11:14
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One of the quotes that I took off of him, I think he said, the energy, how does that go?
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Um, something about the energy that you, he had, he has a way of saying it, but the energy you put out, like that's exactly what you're attracting in your life. Right. So this last week I've just been low energy, low vibes, and I'm putting that out there. And then like a couple of things were happening in my life. And then I sat there today and I was, I was thinking, I was like, I am literally attracting all of this shit in my life.
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And three weeks ago, when I was feeling great and I was on 75 hard and everything was perfect and I was flowing and I was just being very creative with my online and whatnot, everything just seemed to be working out perfectly. So,
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I just really wanted to talk about how staying on top of everything every single day is very very important and people that struggle with mental health and you know being on top of your mental state
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You know, most people will just not do anything about it because they don't really know how to help that, right?
Fitness: A Pillar for Mental Health
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Now, if I were to just, if I never already done this work on myself and, you know, be more aware of my mind, my thoughts, my emotions, the way that I was feeling today, yesterday, the day before, I would be feeling the same way today.
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and tomorrow and the next day and like I would just be digging myself a deeper deeper deeper hole and I feel like eventually I would probably be depressed so I know it's easier said than done I feel like
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There's a lot of people that are going through a lot of shit, a lot harder things in their life. And some people just deal with anxiety and stress and depression better than others, right? So I'm just speaking from my personal experiences when I do all these things like working out. Working out itself, it's not just about
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muscles and looking good. Working out
Top Podcasts for Mental Health and Growth
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is for your mental state. You need to make this known. If I didn't have fitness in my life, I don't know where the fuck I would be. So fitness alone is really good for your mental state.
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you know, reading books and, you know, podcasts. There's so many, like I listen, one of my, some of my favorite podcasts to listen to is Jay Shetty and the School of Greatness. I love Joe Rogan, but like when I'm like looking for like mental health things or motivational kind of podcasts, those are the two that I listen to.
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There's so much that they talk about, relationships, and trauma, and stress, and depression, and you can learn a lot from listening to podcasts, and you can figure out a lot about yourself and relate to things that people are talking about. And even if you're reading books, there's definitely been some books in my life that I have read, and it's really shook me up and was like, holy fuck, Adam.
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You need to get your life together. You know what I mean?
Meditation as Emotional Therapy
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Meditating, right? When I'm doing that all the time and I'm like, I'm doing that in the mornings, I find that it really, really helps me. Like the last time I had like an hour meditating session, um,
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I cried. I cried. And that's after happening a few times. And I feel like when that happens, that is from me just holding on to a lot of things and just kind of like
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putting it out in my insides and talking it away, leaving it there. But then when I have these long guided meditations and I'm listening to them speak, it's almost like I get this big release and it just makes me want to cry, but it's not sad. It's like I'm just releasing something. I don't know.
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It's totally okay to cry. Trust me, I do it time to time. I find the only time I really do it is when I am meditating or watching a sad movie. What else?
The Toll of Sleep Deprivation
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Sleep. Sleep is super fucking important. In Toronto, there was like two nights where we were up really late. We had to get up really early. I might have slept like an hour and a half one night. I don't even think I got any sleep the next night.
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And coming home, like we've been sick the last couple of days. And it's just like not getting that sleep. It makes your immune system kind of shit, right? So you're more like prone to like get the flu and whatnot.
Cold Plunges: The Icy Health Boost
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Cold plunges for me. I find that when I'm doing the cold plunges in the morning it's I find that it just you start your day out with this like shock to the body and they say that Cold plunging is actually really good for your immune system as well. I don't know the whole science behind that but That's another thing that I do eating right so the last
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Probably two weeks. I have just been eating takeout again. I'm not gonna lie a lot of sugars I've been drinking and when I was doing 75 hard I
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I was doing one of the rules, you have to take progress pictures. One of the last photos that I took, I was pretty caught. My ads were showing. The V-cut was there. It's only two weeks later and just because of those two weeks of eating shitty foods,
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and not getting proper sleep, I found that there's a lot of extra fat on my stomach. And even when I took my shirt off at the gym today, I was looking at myself, I was like, Holy shit, like what a fucking change in just two weeks from eating shitty and not working out. So you can only imagine if I just continued to
00:18:05
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eat shitty and not work out and get shitty sleep and drink. I would say in six months I would have a beer gun, right? So it's very, very easy to get off track, stay off track, put on weight that you don't want to put on, start feeling like garbage, start getting in your head about things. Your mental state's not right. It's very, very easy to slide off
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of your health path and just let that take over because it's all just easy.
Falling into Unhealthy Habits: A Mental Struggle
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It's all easy. It's easy to just drive down the road and say, I don't feel like cooking so I'm just going to go grab some deep fried food. And this tastes great. But like when you keep eating that every day, you're going to feel like shit.
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and you're not getting the proper nutrition that your body needs and you're just going to continue to feel like shit. Another thing I stopped doing was fasting. When I was fasting, I remember I just felt amazing. I get up every morning and I was feeling great. I never had that starving feeling and the last two weeks,
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I was eating like pasta, I wasn't doing the fasting, eating it within the eight hours and I was having like candy at night and sugars and I'm not kidding, the next morning I would wake up and I just had this starving feeling inside of me and I fucking hate that. And another thing too, even when you have that starving feeling, you wake up and you eat and then you're hungry again, like really, really fast.
Fasting for Mental Clarity
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But with fasting, I find you get up, you're very on the go, you're not thinking about food, you go on about your day, and 12, 1 o'clock, you're having your first meal, and it's like a really good meal and you feel really good, and then you just go on about your day and you're like, I'm not even hungry again. I do eat my supper, but...
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Fasting for me. It's it's that like that is good for my mental health, right because I'm eating the proper foods I'm not overeating. I'm not eating shit that I don't need to eat right. I'm not just giving in when I'm Out in the belt and I just have this little hunger feeling and just grab bullshit on the road, right? I'm like, I'm making sure that I'm eating the proper foods. So
00:20:32
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When I'm doing all these things that is when I'm giving off really good energy I'm really happy. I'm really motivated and things are just firing on all cylinders but I'm really glad that I've actually been going through this little area of my life in the last two weeks where I haven't been feeling good because
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I know that it's so easy to just get in this rut by not doing all those things.
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A cycle that has been happening in my life is when I'm feeling great, I'm on top and I'm doing all the things.
Recurring Cycles of Neglecting Health
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It's like I slowly start, like I know that I stopped 75 hard and everything just stopped at once. But normally, if I was feeling great, maybe I wouldn't read one day. And I know I'd go on and do all the other things. Maybe I would stop journaling as much.
00:21:36
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And it's like I'm telling myself, well, oh, I feel great. Everything's fine. I don't I don't need to do these things. And then I just kind of fall off the map. And that's when, you know, things start like seeping back into my life, like old patterns and old ways of thinking and all this fucking bullshit that are just it's just going to take over your mind. And it's just it's just not good. You know what I mean? So, um,
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One thing I actually wanted to add is when I got home from Toronto, I was like two days of me just sitting around doing nothing, nothing.
Inspired by David Goggins: Regaining Discipline
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And I started listening to David Goggins on Joe Rogan. It's a new episode and you got to fucking listen to it.
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Now I was five minutes into this fucking thing, and I was like, Adam, stop being a little bitch and get back on board with everything that you were doing. Enough is enough. You've been sulking around the fucking house, sailing, oh my, what am I gonna do? You know what I mean? Like, that's not who I am. That's not who I am.
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And one thing that he said, most people in life will have this goal that they want to accomplish, like me and 75 Heart. They would finish it, and then they would go, I don't need to work hard anymore. I just did this crazy challenge. And they take the foot off the gas, and they start doing everything that I've just done. And that's when all the fucking shit comes back into your life.
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David goggles don't take no fucking breaks. He is pedal to the metal every single day. And he does it for himself because he knows that he's been down the path. Like if you know this, this man's story, he, I think he got up to like 320 pounds twice in his life and like lost all the weight and like he used to be the victim and all this, but anyways,
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Basically what he was saying is don't take your foot off the gas and that's exactly what I've done. Obviously you can go on a vacation and you can have fun and you can do your thing but just don't let that
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Just be your life. Don't let that party just be your life constantly, right? Because when the party's not there and it's just you and yourself, nine chances at 10 you're going to be feeling like shit. So then what are you going to do next? Oh, I got to party again. I got to go on vacation again. I got to feel, you know what I mean? So anyways, guys, I really, really hope that you took something from this video and just know
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totally totally okay to it's totally okay to not be okay and just know that everybody out here is going through something
00:24:47
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Everybody right you may look like like I said, you may look at me online and just you know See me preaching fucking positivity and you know, just Grinding and workouts and all this shit, but everybody is going through something So just be nice to people man. Like I don't understand When there's people that are just so angry and they just treat you like shit
00:25:16
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From what? Listen, if you got nothing good to say, don't say anything good at all because you don't know what the person you're saying things to is going through, right? So if you are going through a tough time and you are dealing with some mental health problems,
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Start doing the things that are is going to better
Never Stop Improving: The Continuous Journey
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your life. Don't just sit around. Don't say why me. Why is this happening me? Why am I feeling this way?
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Do some fucking research. Start discovering yourself, discovering why you are feeling this way. Start doing the work on yourself. And when you do the work on yourself and you do feel fine and you are at a better place in your life, don't stop. Just keep trying to evolve.
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And I have found that I want to bring up microcybin
Microdosing: A Catalyst for Self-Awareness
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again. I know I said I was going to stop, but I just started thinking about this. I have found that when I was micro dosing every single day and I was working on myself, it was like I, I just got to where I wanted to be really fucking fast. And
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It just really helped me be aware of everything that was happening in my life and why everything was happening in my life and why I was feeling this way. And it just made me discover who the fuck Adam Pike is.
00:26:59
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And I never, I never knew who Adam Pike was and I never knew why all these things was happening and why I kept getting relationships and breaking up and why all these things just kept being like, well, it's just stuck in a cycle, right? And I feel like if I wasn't micro dosing, I would still be trying to discover Adam Pike out.
00:27:23
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But because I listened to the guys from Michael Simon, I followed the protocols, I listened to what they had to say, and I really just sat with myself for quite some time and figured out, discovered who the fuck Adam Pike was.
00:27:43
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And when I got there, man, it was such a good feeling. I don't know if you've noticed, but like every single video that I've been doing recently is like me saying, well, I used to be that way and I used to do this, but like I'm not like that anymore because I've been microdosing almost like the last 50 videos is like me talking about some sort of topic and
00:28:11
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bringing in there somehow, how I've gone through this, and because I've been microdosing, and since I've been microdosing, I don't do this anymore. This is how I am, right? It really did change my life, and I'm actually considering going back on the protocols. I don't know if I stopped it too soon, but I do know that I did discover a lot about myself in that short time of microdosing, and I know
00:28:39
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that these medicines do work and I almost want to commit to like another six months because it just helps you evolve as a person.
Transforming Social Media for Positivity
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I know, you guys, I'm laughing because it's quite interesting how my Instagram page has changed over the last year. If you go back like a year, you're going to see a lot of silly little TikToks, which were funny, and I had a lot of fun doing it.
00:29:15
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A lot of little silly TikToks, you're going to see a lot of funny little videos, me and my cat, a lot of shit like me making fun of me and my mental health and all this nonsense. Trust me, it was fun. I had fun doing that shit, but now if you come to my page to the last 50-something videos,
00:29:36
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you're gonna just see a big change in my page. And it's just like motivational shit. And like me talking about things that I've gone through and, you know, ways I've changed my life and all like all this good stuff, right? Trust me, I'm still a silly little fucking nuisance. But it's just wild that
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me microdosing like for those six months like how much I've changed as a person but then also like all my social medias have kind of changed as well with it you know what I mean it's kind of it's crazy to think about but anyways I hope you guys took something from this video and hope you can relate don't be afraid to talk to somebody don't be afraid to reach out don't be afraid to you know tell somebody you're not doing okay
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because there's a lot of times that I'm not okay and there's a lot going through my mind, right? But I do the things that are gonna help me get over those feelings and emotions and thoughts, right? So have a good day. I love you and thanks for stopping by.