Hey, everybody, welcome. And thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio.

My name is Zach Brittle. I'm here with Laura Heck. Finally, Laura's been traveling for a little while. I missed her, but she's back.

And we spend a fair bit of time in this episode catching up, just trying to see how we are each doing while we stumble onto a topic that I think is interesting, really about

how to take time to slow down long enough to do the work that's important. Sometimes that's in

our mental health, sometimes that's in our bodies, sometimes that's in our relationships. Regardless,

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Hi, I missed you. I was going to say this on the podcast for like just for so everybody could know that you've been gone for two and a half weeks and I was, I got kind of sad.

You, when you text me that, there was something in your text. I don't know what it was. By the way, were you annoyed that I was texting you while I was on vacation?

I was annoyed for you and for Ryan that you were asking me work questions from Europe.

Was I?

Yeah, you were like, did you do this? Did you do that? And I was like, I hope you're having a great trip.

I felt your annoyance. Yeah. Have you done the da-da-da? And I was like, how's Europe?

Right. Stop talking to me. The problem is that I was jet lag for the first three days and I would be

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