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On the surface, this episode is about mental health and how childhood abuse can lead to destructive and unhealthy anger, anxiety, depression, and even attempted suicide. While it sounds heavy, and this is your trigger warning just in case visiting these subjects is too difficult for you, I want to emphasize that this episode is uplifting - Robin Land, host of the View from the Carnival podcast, doesn’t shy away from talking about who he once was and how he got to his happy life today.

Below the surface, this episode is all about the journey and embracing the good and bad that got you to where you are today. It’s about dealing with the tough circumstances and emotions to learn and grow and paying attention to those relationships and seeds of encouragement that help along your path. It’s about self awareness, reflection, and finding healthy coping mechanisms. It’s about gratitude, healing, and recovery.

Robin takes us through engaging details about how anger used to manifest in his life versus how it manifests now, a year-long psychiatric hospital stay that hurt more than helped back in the 90s, and the ah-ha moment that was the ground-zero point for recovery.

And even though Robin thinks it’s important to talk about who you are and acknowledge how you got to where you are today, he thinks listening is a gift you can give others while they tell their stories. He gives his best advice for planting the seed that may help someone turn their life around, like the gift that was given to him.

Not only is Robin a great example of harnessing difficult life circumstances to choose a positive path going forward, but his personality shines through - listening to him is a blast. You feel like you’re right there in the memories with him.