Notes to My Younger Self with Hayley Kiyoko - Variety

‪@American_Heart‬ presents, “Notes to My Younger Self” in collaboration with Variety Content Studio. Hayley Kiyoko discusses her mental health during childhood and how her father’s health scare led to prioritizing heart health.
Hayley Kiyoko shares how she deals with anxiety and stress throughout her career and her personal life. “It’s really important to raise awareness for mental health and heart health because stress really impacts our hearts,” she says.
From how she coped with things that “severely impacted” her childhood to how heart health affected her father and family, the singer discusses her “wild journey” with chronic stress in a video interview with Variety.
Her willingness to share her mental health struggles is in support of the American Heart Association’s initiative to raise awareness about the impact that chronic stress can have on overall physical health.
“Living my truth and being myself has been the most freeing thing I could have done,” she says. “I think for any human being, the world is very hard to navigate. It can be very dark. It’s unrealistic to say you just can have no stress in your life, but what is realistic is to be able to identify the triggers that cause stress and to be able to combat that with things that alleviate stress.”
Kiyoko adds, “It’s really important to raise awareness for mental health and heart health because stress really impacts our hearts - and our hearts are the beating pulse of everything.”
❤️❤️ Stress can come in all shapes and sizes. While everyone experiences stress to varying degrees, constant or chronic stress can lead to unhealthy habits like overeating, lower levels of physical activity, smoking and not taking medications as prescribed, all things that are linked to an increased risk for heart attack and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.
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