Hi, guys. Welcome back to Preveillance Podcast. This is Sarah. I've got our favorite matured mental health therapist slash therapist member Whitney with me. Whitney, we have survived this summer, my friend, and is back to school.

We made it. We have made it. We have made it. We made it. Now it is very much, depending on where you

guys is a school system is and starts, either you're fixing the start back school or you're in the

first couple of like meet the teachers first few weeks.

So we thought this episode would be really great to kind of give you guys like a toolbox tip, some coping skills, some just things that we have found helpful in navigating that big transition back.

Or this could be I was a K mom first time last summer.

Whitney's fixing to go through that again.

But maybe you're starting kindergarten.

Maybe your kids going into middle school or maybe it's high school or hey, maybe even

it's like college, but it's a transitional period.

And let's talk about what some things you can actually use.

One thing we want to preference is this.

Don't ever think you have to do this all perfectly.

These tools are here to help things manageable.

But if you're like, this is stressing me out more to think about a tool.

Then take what you can from it and move on.

Exactly.

Whitney, let's talk about our mind because as we know, our minds play so much of this.

Yes.

And the mental load and our thoughts.

So if you're anything like us, you're thinking, okay, I see 15 things on the calendar

in the month of August, September already.

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