Oh, hi. Welcome to another episode of IWIFTRAMEILA GEMIL. Are you okay?

It's still shit, isn't it? Might be getting shitter. It feels like it's getting shitter.

It's definitely getting better. Things are going to get better. I'm certain of it. There is a vaccine. There are many vaccines.

Biden is coming in. There's another impeachment maybe happening. I feel like hope is on the horizon.

But right now it's okay to just feel shit. We've been through a lot. I'm going to try to continue to bring you as many happy or uplifting or informative episodes as I can.

I'm so glad that you liked last week's episode with Deepak Shopra. She is so excellent. She is a doctor of optimism.

That's a true thing. And she really just blew my mind last week. And I was so thrilled to see your response to it.

And how lovely and warm you are to her. It continues to be one of my favourite things about you as an audience.

It's how communicative you are with my guests after each episode. They really appreciate it. And they often tell me that I have the nicest audience of any podcast they've ever been on.

So thank you for that. Generally with me, I'm a bit stressed. Although I have been sleeping better. I've got myself a weighted blanket. Only took me five years of people swearing that they're amazing for people with anxiety to finally get one.

My one's 40 pounds, which is basically a pop star. So it's like lying with a pop star on top of me. And it feels great.

So do that because it not only helps me go to sleep, but it helps me stay sleeping. So that's good. Other than that, I'm just sort of trying to survive each day.

Definitely taking a break from social media and the news as much as possible because I was having a medical sort of done for work recently. And they were taking my pulse and my blood pressure.

And because I am a pathetic addict, I had to immediately pick up my phone and start looking through because I can't sit still for a second with that doom scrolling.

And they said that my heart rate and blood pressure jumped up as soon as I opened Twitter and looked at the news cycle.

So to see in real time, the physical impact on my stress response, which is vital to my immune system, my happiness, my anxiety, my sanity was mind blowing.

It's so interesting. It's so interesting. Next time you are going for a medical, I really suggest if you can, or if you have a doctor in your household, just do this experiment to see how intense it is because it's really quite shocking.

So I'm going to pull back. I might even just take a full week off just as an experiment. See if my sleep improves. I bet it will. I bet I didn't sleep last year because I spent 13 hours a day on my phone looking into the evil blue light.

Anyway, so this week I managed to get the hilarious and honest and so relatable and refreshing, excellent icon that is Celeste Barber.

You will know her from Instagram. She lovingly takes the piss out of actresses and models and influencers when they are showing off their hugely unrealistic lifestyles.

She shows what a normal person would look like trying to achieve the same sort of faked photoshopped nonsense aesthetic.

So she never does it with a mean spirit and a lot of people in on it and a lot of people even like influencers and models and actresses themselves submit their own pictures to be ridiculed by her because she goes so viral and it's so funny.

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