Phalicitations! This is Felicitations! This is my podcast called Phalicitations because it's a word that

resembles my name and I thought that was kind of clever.

Hey, it was and, and continues to be.

Thank you for listening.

So guess what, you guys?

I was reminded by Zazolbe,

um, one of the people on my discord channel, if you're not on the discord, discord.

G. slash Felicia Day is where you get there. It is a chat program where you could

chat in all sorts of categories. Anyway, it is the year anniversary of the podcast.

Congratulations to us. What is the first year anniversary? Is that paper? Is it, maybe just a

tweet? I don't know. But it's been a year, a year of podcasts.

Wow, what a difference a year makes.

So I have to be honest with you, you guys have accompanied me on the journey of what I think is the

the hardest year of my life and I don't say that lightly because I've been through

some tough times I mean and I've been had a pretty easy life compared to some people so I'm very grateful

But I think that the year before I wrote my book well okay we have to if you read my book. Well, okay, we have to, if you read my book, you know that probably 2013,

2013 was probably the hardest year of my life. And that was when I had that whole nervous breakdown thing, you know, because of overwork and stress and stuff.

But I do have to say that this last year, from this time last year to this time now, has been extremely difficult and that is because I think of

sleep deprivation and hormonal problems with being a lady, a mom. So I've recently kind of discovered that the last six months especially, I have

had some deep depression issues and about a lot of anxiety and insomnia issues, which I have talked

about copiously, and I've been doing some

I've been doing some research in preparing for getting more help with it and I

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