🌱 Using ai for therapy (and self-awareness)

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes to make connections with ideas, people, and yourself.

🎙️ Context Is King

The look on my therapist’s face when I asked:

“Mind if I record this on my phone?”

We meet in person, but I’ve started recording our sessions to feed into my AI project folders.

Why?

Because here’s the realization I had:

For most of history, media was 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭.

You’d read a book or hear a story and if it resonated, you had to figure out how to apply it to your life.

But now, AI brings it 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭.

It pulls insights directly into your world. It’s kind of magical.

Last week, I uploaded a book PDF into ChatGPT.

Within minutes, it pulled out insights—using real examples from my life. 

Personal, specific, and actionable. 

Wild. 

Here's the thing...The more context I give it, the 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 powerful it becomes.

So I’m giving it more.

Right now I’m using Hedy AI (I got a lifetime deal on AppSumo w/ unlimited meetings/recordings).

I might get one of those AI pendants eventually, but for now, my phone works great.

I still use Granola for Zoom transcriptions, but Hedy’s been great for in-person convos—and for long walks when I want to talk out loud (yep, to myself). Then I run it through AI for analysis (or mainly just to have context for future). 

Is it a little extreme? Maybe.
Is it a lotta awesome? Absolutely.

🪞 GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out

In accounting, GIGO stands for “garbage in, garbage out.”

Same idea with AI.

It’s not a crystal ball—it’s a mirror.

If your inputs are vague, so are the outputs.

Clear context = clear insights.

That’s why I’m not just capturing meetings and conversations, I’m also capturing how I feel (usually by talking to my phone while walking).

Even if I never revisit the them, the act itself is valuable.

Like journaling, it helps me process.

And as a bonus, my future prompts get better… because my AI knows me better.

🤔 Awareness vs. Courage

Awareness is waking up.
Courage is getting out of bed.

On awareness:

On courage:

AI can help with the awareness.

But courage?

That part’s still on us.

Salud,
Mitchell