Mental Health Isn’t About Comfort—It’s About Capacity: Learn how to build the cognitive range to handle life on all levels, even when it’s hard.

🎙️ Episode 38: Cognitive Range-Being Able to Cope with Life on All Levels
Podcast: The Trigger and The Truth
Host: Tina White
Series: Mental Health Matters
📝 Episode Summary:
Somewhere along the way, the movement to destigmatize mental health got… distorted.
We didn’t just normalize therapy — we turned it into a personality trait.
We didn’t just encourage self-awareness — we started diagnosing every feeling.
And now? Everything is a trigger. Everything is trauma. Instead of using mental health tools to build strength, some of us are using mental health language as a shield — justifying avoidance, self-sabotage, and emotional fragility in the name of “protection.”
But real mental health isn’t about staying comfortable. It’s about capacity.
It’s the ability to handle life as it comes — the good, the bad, and the messy — without falling apart every time something feels uncomfortable. That’s what I call cognitive range.
In this episode, I’m breaking down:
• What cognitive range really means and why it matters.
• How the mental health conversation got twisted along the way.
• The 5-question mental strength diagnostic to see where you might be hiding from growth.
• Why good mental health should be challenged, not coddled.
• How to shift from comfort to capacity in your mental health journey.
If your mental health work isn’t making you stronger, it’s time to ask why.
🎧 Listen now and let’s get back to what the mental health movement was meant to do help us heal, grow, and show up for life on all levels.
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