Hello, welcome to her welcome back to turn out to care. If you're new here, my name is Ashley. I upload every single Monday and I now upload on YouTube and I'm not going to give you that whole spiel because every episode since I've been scolding you guys and kind of bullying you into watching on YouTube and I'm not going to do that today. But you did stumble upon my birthday episode. If you're listening to this when it drops my birthdays this week, my birthday is April 4th.

I'm an Ares. And I am the epitome of an Ares. I'm impulsive. I am fiery. I am hot. I'm hot-headed.

Yeah, I did a birthday episode two years ago and I called it Hot Girls Cry on their Birthday.

And that episode was really hard for me to record, but I'm

really glad I did because I've always, or at least as an adult, I've always struggled

with my birthday. I've always felt very alone on my birthday. And I have always been surrounded by

people who love their birthday and everyone celebrates their

birthday. So I felt very alone in the fact that I felt alone. So when I uploaded that episode

and I got so much positive feedback, so many of you saying that you relate to the episode,

it made me feel so understood, so heard. You're so welcome to go back and listen to the

episode. It was from like 2023, I think. But I kind of want to revisit that topic today because it's still

relevant. And it's something that I still struggle with. So today I just want to talk about

feeling lonely on your birthday, having the

birthday blues, and like why you feel so sad on such a special day. I've heard so many people

talk about having the birthday blues and how they cry every year in their birthday and they just

have a hard time every single year, but they don't understand why because, you know, your birthday

is supposed to be like this

fun day, this special day, and you're supposed to look forward to it. And they're like, why am I

having such a hard time? Why do I hate my birthday when everyone else loves their birthday? But that is

exactly why you have the birthday blues, or at least one of the reasons. There is so much pressure when it comes to

your birthday. There's this like societal view of like your birthday and how it's supposed to be.

When we think about birthdays, we think about big celebrations, we think about being surrounded

...