Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Hecock.

I've been feeling a lot of gratitude recently, and I'm also feeling really

renewed and recharged after my time off and doing my first annual high mountain running camp.

And so many of you have been reaching out by email and sending these just really beautiful

and thoughtful comments and stories and suggestions.

And even a few days ago, I got a email from a super fan in Ohio named Iva Reed.

And she actually offered to help me with social media.

She said, Craig, you need an Instagram page.

It would really help the podcast.

So she's going to spearhead that.

So thank you very much, Iva.

In addition to feeling just a lot better since my time off, I've just been so grateful for this most beautiful fall.

This has got to be the most fantastic fall in Colorado in the last few years.

And I've been feeling grateful for my patience and the storytellers and all of you

for listening and being part of this community.

And also at the same time, I've been feeling some really deep sadness this week

because I just found out I had another suicide, a young woman,

still in college, not even launched on her life path. And I think this gets to this core

dialectic of life, of living, and I talked about this at the beginning of season two in my

meditation on life

and loss. At the same time, there's such profound beauty and goodness, and there's also such

terrible pain, and they're both happening at the same time. Like some things are getting so much

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