We're all prone to moments of head trash. Sometimes days, weeks, if we really go off the

rails, maybe even years, and this head trash is this proverbial tumbleweed that comes rolling

through town and it's filled with should-ofs and would haves and she said this and

he did that and I lost this money and missed this opportunity and you know how it goes

usually it's completely contrived usually it's only high drama for you when you even try to

share this story with somebody their eyes roll back in their head and they say let's talk about something else

That's usually how our head trash works

Recently our head trash most of us our collective head trash has been based on some real crisis.

A real crisis has been of course this global health pandemic that's just roared

across the globe and in its way it's left a mental health crisis. We have lost a lot of things. The world's been

changed. Industries have been wiped out. We've been stuck in our homes. And what do we do at

times like this when we don't know what's going to happen? Well Well usually we'd go to church, we'd go to

synagogue, we'd go to a bar, we'd go to a restaurant, in my case go to a yoga studio, we'd

socialize, we'd get together, we'd look for support, we'd find

self-care and self-soothing in human contact and that was taken away from us as well.

So my question for you is, how you doing with your head trash? How am I doing?

I guess my answer is, I'm doing okay. I would like to do better. And my guess on this

week's show will hopefully help all of us think about what we've just been through and what comes next and

how we can potentially detoxify our thoughts and this concept is not about

gratitude in journals or smile or die or anything like this is about real

gratitude journals or smile or die or anything like this. It's about real clinical research looking at people of all different walks of life

who have real challenges and rather than trying to compare them away

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