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Hello and happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

We talked about self-help books this week.

We did. Listen, I love a little self-help book. You want to teach me how to make a great chart to do something. I'm in it.

Yeah. I like Ben Franklin's method. I'm going to adapt it for my own use in 2026. Okay. My virtues will not be the same.

Yeah. I have similar conflicted feelings to what you talked about in the introduction, because there

have been times in my life where I was 100% manufacturing my own misery.

And my own decisions and my own choices were at the root of that.

And then there have been other times in my life where what I needed was medication.

Yeah.

And then a third level of times in my life where maybe I didn't need medication, but maybe

the circumstances that were

happening were so big and consuming that like no amount of positivity can really counteract

all of that. Right. And so there for sure been times that like various self-help advice

really could help me, but also times where

if somebody had tried to tell me any of that, not only would it have not helped, it would have

just made me feel worse.

Yeah, 100%.

You know, the people in my life were not understanding that what I was dealing with was not

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