When all you have is nothing.

Ever have one of those days?

I wish I had more for you today. I don’t. Instead, here’s what I have: there are times you just have to let God know where you’re at. Today was one of those days. And I’m going to let you know what I said.

I struggled with whether to share this or not. I’m giving a talk on mental health on Friday, after all, and there’s part of me that thinks, “Who wants to hear that the mental health guy is struggling?”

But then I remembered my calling. I’m called to have radical vulnerability. I don’t think you read this blog because I have all the answers, I think you read it because I’m real and you can relate. At least that’s what I’ve heard.

So I’m going to be real, raw, and vulnerable. Because I think there are a lot of us that have days or weeks like I’m having. I’m not the mental health guy because I’m a therapist or clinician. I’m the mental health guy because I’m just like you. I just have a platform to talk about it.

So that’s what I’m going to do, knowing that the more I talk about it the less power it has over me.

So here it goes…