If we just let go of that and say, you know, I'm not going to expect anything.

I'm just going to give love to the best of my ability.

Automatically you're going to be projected into this best version of yourself to a really great degree. Let it out.

Let it out.

Let it out. I'm Katie Dalebout. I'm so happy you're here. Thank you so much, first of all, to everyone who listened to last week's episode. It was our year-in-review clips episode about heartbreak and break breakups and it just meant so much to me.

So if you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and listen to it, send it to someone

who might need it or it just might be useful or entertaining to them. It's not a downer.

It sounds like a downer, but it's actually not a

downer. And I really appreciate all the feedback that I've been getting on, not only that,

but also the Sooth Kit, which is a eight-day email zine that's delivered to your inbox

with a theme and a journaling prompt and an action every single day

and soft stories, stories of vulnerability to make you feel less alone. And I hope that you

check it out or send it to someone who it might be useful for. You can send it as a gift,

which might be really nice. Also, happy holidays, you guys.

This is the season finale. I won't be back until January 16th. So make sure you're subscribed

and on the Let It Out letter list so I can keep in touch with you guys. This week's episode was

recorded at the Farity store live. So you'll hear some live questions at the end,

which I think we're really valuable. But it's with an anxiety researcher. This is Dr. Tracy,

who is a friend of mine, and she's the co-executive director at the Hunter College Center for

Health and Technology. And her research is fascinating. And you'll hear about some of that in this

episode, but we also talk about stress versus anxiety and the overuse of the word anxiety. We talk

about change, mental health in general. We talk about fear and clinical depression and strategies

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