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Okay, I'm going to just, there are some little healthy tips and tricks along the way that have been helpful for a lot of people.

Instead of like trying to delve in each one, I'm going to rifle through them.

And then at the end, I would like you to ask questions or bring stuff up that you want to talk about.

But this is not going to be giving any of them their due treatment, but I want to just file them in your brain and then let you decide what you want to talk about.

It is absolutely unavoidable that if you have a crisis of faith, you're probably going to feel some anger or resentment or you're going to grieve the garden of Eden that you were once in.

And I would just say that grieving is not only okay, it's healthy.

And that anger is also probably unavoidable and probably healthy and even justified.

But it's also good to try and then figure out how to move beyond the anger once you can.

Go slowly is some fantastic advice that I first learned on the New Order Mormon website.

There's no hurry as you're working through this journey.

Don't do an alpachino scar face, you know, take everyone down with you, burn the bridges and, you know, there's no need for any of that.

Write your letter to everyone and mail it to them and their children.

And you know, you may decide that you want to get to that point at place at some point, but there's no rush.

So take everything slowly, find meaning in the journey.

There's a lot of beauty.

I mean, just the fact, just the friends that I've made and many of those friends are here, just the friends that I've made through this journey.

If I died today, I would feel like I was the luckiest man on earth.

And that's just the friends that I've made, let alone all the other good things that have happened.

And when you meet someone who's been through a crisis like you have, you almost sometimes have a friend for life in deep ways that you could have never arrived at through 40 years of lunches at a, you know, at a lunch sandwich shop.

So they're all sorts of beautiful parts of this journey, if you're willing to see it.

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