Hello to you and welcome to the Mark Grove's podcast. I was sitting earlier today and I was

thinking to myself, how am I? How are you? How's your heart? You know, sometimes Kylie asked me that, how's your heart?

In a way, at first, I feel a bit defensive sometimes. Fine, you know? I don't want to answer that right now.

And I know if I often don't want to answer it or I don't want to explore it, then there's something I don't want to touch in there.

And we often do that, right?

We don't take the time to ask ourselves. So I want to ask you, how are you? How is your heart?

How are you doing? I had someone to ask me a little while ago, how do you always stay so positive?

I'm like, I don't.

That's how I actually keep some level of regulated mental health is I don't try to stay

positive.

I don't try to negate my feelings that might be coded as negative.

You know, when we check in with ourselves and we give ourselves this moment

to just, how am I? It can be rare. It might be rare for you right now. It might be uncomfortable.

And that's okay to breathe into that. Why don't I want to answer? What is in there? When's the last

time I took a moment to ask myself that, to check

in on myself in? And then just notice feelings that come up even asking that because there

might be grief that you have it, that you might miss yourself. That's a weird feeling, isn't it?

That I miss me, but I'm always here.

But we're not always here.

We're not always in our bodies.

We're not always here.

Because being here in your heart, in your body right now,

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