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The bag of a time reoccurring theme.

When we got into trouble, go through hardships, go through losses, go through winter seasons of life, lean into truth, love, Krishna, Shuma Bhagavataam.

Otherwise, we lean into our usual go-toes, shopping, sex, romance, drugs, beer, cigarettes, binge watching television.

What else do we lean into?

I think you covered it.

Can I go ahead and degraded things?

No, eating, shoving stuff in my mouth.

Well, I'm saying this while Martin's shoving something in her mouth.

Not you, Martin.

You're listening.

But putting things in, sometimes we put things in our mouth just for that quick fix of something

so I don't have to feel something.

Matter of fact, a lot of times we eat, sex, drink, smoke,

for any other reason except hunger or, you know, love, et cetera.

We're doing it, you know, we're sexualizing food.

We're, you know, anything to mask that pain,

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