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. We are here to tell you today about a very

special announcement that we have. You have to endure, as always, a little bit of us catching up

about what's going on in our life. But then we're really thrilled to bring to you a new piece of

news about a book that's coming out. Ours, it's called Reconnect. And we're really thrilled to bring to you a new piece of news about a book

that's coming out. Ours. It's called Reconnect, and we're looking forward to telling you all about it. We're going to drive you today to MaritotherapyRadio.com. There's a lot going on over there. We have the book announcement. We have our Patreon page. There's some new information about the workshop that I'm going to be teaching in the fall. But there's a lot going on. We've got a lot of cool

updates coming down the pike. We're There's some new information about the workshop that I'm going to be teaching in the fall, but there's a lot going on.

We've got a lot of cool updates coming down the pike.

We're excited to roll out this book, which releases on September the 10th.

Our back to school sort of behind the scenes, Patreon efforts began as soon as we hit September, so there's still time to do that.

And there are a couple other opportunities

for you as we kind of land the summer and lean into the fall. For now, I want to thank you again

for listening to Merrick Therapy Radio. This is a very cool conversation. Stick around.

What are you drinking? I'm so glad you asked. Doesn't this look enticing? First of all, what is? It looks super

sketchy. So it's 8 a.m. in the morning on a Sunday. Thank you, by the way, for waking up.

What time did you wake up? Was I accurate? 7.55. Shut up. No. No. Why would I wake up in earlier?

It takes me five minutes to walk out of my. Because don't you feel like your brain needs like a solid hour to wake up? No. Don't you have to like put something in your body in order for your brain to work properly? No. In fact, I'm going to go back. I'm going back to sleep after this. Yeah. I don't know how I feel about that because I set my alarm and I was like, okay, I got to wake up at 6.30 if I want to be on point for this 8 a.m. podcast. Oh, that's so sweet. Yeah. Okay. Well, gosh, lucky you for being just so on point, five minutes out of rolling out of bed. That is just really fantastic. I might have gotten up at like 7.53 or two.

Did you see my text where I said, hey, if you need an extra hour, that's fine. I know. That's sweet.

And then, um, and then I pulled myself together because I was like, I might need an extra 45 minutes for my brain to wake up.

So hold on. You asked me what I was drinking. Yeah. It looks like muddy water.

It does kind of look like muddy water.

So I spent, this is going to be a little bit of a longer story.

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