Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. I hope you're having a great week. Let's do a little bit of a check-in. How are we doing today? How's our mental health? What might we need? Do we need to rest more? Can we take a walk? Can we be finished with work for the day? Can we take a bath, close the door, lay in our bed, play some music, turn the

lights down, light some candles? What can we do that is going to kind of soothe us and ground

us? The answer is usually we have to back off of all of our responsibilities. Do we need to add

maybe some joy or pleasure into our day? Can we go get that ice cream cone, go get that candy

bar? Can we maybe binge watch that TV show and just zone out. Can we go get that ice cream cone, go get that candy bar? Can we maybe binge watch that

TV show and just zone out? Can we lay there and read or listen to music? Again, we were trying

to do something restful. We want to do something rooted in joy and pleasure. Is there a leisure

activity we need to put a little more time and energy and effort into? Go play some ball, go hiking,

go work out. Maybe it's time to be done for the day.

But nonetheless, check in on yourselves. Ask yourselves what you need. Midweek check-in.

I wanted to open the show by talking about different types of intimacy. I like this.

The reason why is it gives us a couple foundational keystones so that we can assess,

is there a form of intimacy lacking from our lives, from our relationships?

And when I say relationships, I mean platonic, familial, social, romantic, erotic, all of them.

And it also helps us assess maybe our partner, what they might need more of, what our relationship, what we might.

We're going to maybe realize that one domain of intimacy is void completely from our lives.

We need to find a friend that can, you know, really bring that in and meet us on that level.

Or maybe it would be a missing level that we want to enhance or build in.

So we have a closer partnership with someone.

So again, we're just checking in on ourselves first and on our different relationships.

The beauty is that I'm always calling for more time with friends, meaning being your primary

relationship, that partner cannot help you meet every level of intimacy nor do they need to.

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