Hey, it's Matt, and I'm flying solo this week.

This one's coming out a little bit late on a Tuesday because I'm doing it Tuesday morning.

I'll tell you a little bit more about why that's the case.

Keep Steve in your thoughts.

Steve's got some stuff going on in the family.

Steve is okay.

The family's okay.

Just some long-term things that he has been going through.

And keeping him in your thoughts would be a great thing.

I'm going to talk a little bit about stress and burnout and real life stuff that recovery helps me face.

I am dealing with some pretty significant burnout.

I think that's the best way to describe stuff going on in my life right now.

And much like anybody who has stress and things going on in recovery, it's not that

there was one thing that was causing it, that there was this life crisis event. It's just the

accumulation of a whole bunch of stuff in my life. It's the work stuff. It's the family stuff.

It's the stuff going on outside of that the hobbies i have been in a situation where i haven't been writing

i've been doing the podcast just because i've been in the habit of taping it with steve and then

we got to the point where steve couldn't do it because he's got some stuff going on. And it's like, I'm about to miss a week. And this is not a good thing. And it made me

realize I'm just kind of, I'm burnt. And I needed to talk about it because you likely have your

own stress going on in your life or have been in a burnout situation and it's important that you have the tools

to deal with this type of stuff because without treatment the alternative is that you might do

some drinking so let me give you a breakdown of the events that have been going on that I'm realizing

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