Doug bless you gaping amons. Welcome to the Blind Buy Podcast. This is the first proper podcast of 2022.

I don't think last week counted because we were in the

the pagertery that exists between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

I hope you had an enjoyable New Year's Eve.

What did I do?

I listened to fireworks with a deaf cast, which was enjoyable because he had no fucking clothes that any fireworks were happening.

Because fireworks usually terrify cats, but Silicon Thomas is deaf, so he didn't know.

It wasn't a fireworks display. It was just community fireworks. We'll call it.

So for this week's podcast, what I'd like to do, because it's the first real week of 2022, and a lot of year back at work, your back at your routines, all that shit.

I'm going to do a mental health podcast, a little mental health, a checking in podcast, not only for you, but for myself.

Because I'm not really into, not hugely into New Year's resolutions, but you can't deny that when a New Year comes upon you.

There's a sense of pressure, there's a sense of expectation, there's a healthy sense of expectation.

So I'm just going to check in, going to check in with our collective feelings and how to manage them.

But I've gone over some quite simple and accessible tools that have to do with emotional literacy, emotional regulation, grounding, things like that.

One thing I would like to flag before I get into a mental health podcast is whenever I post a mental health podcast, I guess not a lot of comments usually one or two.

And unfortunately it's usually main, where someone will say, please don't do mental health podcast, can you not do a heart take instead?

No, because like I like to do a mental health podcast once a month if I can because the positive feedback I get far, far outweighs any negative feedback, like far outweighs it, but there's always one or two comments.

And the reason I mentioned it, I don't mind, I don't mind that feedback, it's not a problem, it's just someone saying I prefer the heart takes.

But what I would say to those people is, if me doing a mental health podcast, kind of makes you so uncomfortable that you need to take the extra step to actually tell me, it means you actually have to go on to my Instagram or send me a DM if you're that person.

What I'd say to you is that you've got a wonderful opportunity there for growth, because the thing is right, there would be people out there who are like, I'm just not into the mental health episodes.

And those people generally, they just flick onto another podcast, they go back and listen to another podcast of mine or they go and listen to someone else's podcast and that's it.

But if you're taking that extra step, or you need to actually tell me, you need to DM me and say, or I like the heart takes, but I don't like it when you do mental health podcasts.

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