Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is Kayla, your host and welcome to the show.

Today we are going to get into non-monogamy. We're going to talk about polyamory and we're going to talk about solo polyamory.

I'm very excited to introduce you all to today's guest and before we get started, just want to do a little check-in.

So how are you really doing?

How are you feeling? Have you been taking care of yourself?

Are you doing the best that you can?

How are you practicing self-compassion?

What experience of pleasure have you given yourself today?

I hope you can take a second to sit with some of those questions and check in with yourself.

And as always, come into listening to this podcast with Open Ears and Open Heart and Open Mind.

And we can do that best when we are taking care of ourselves. We do that best when we are showing up for ourselves so that we can then show up better for our community, to expand our minds, to connect with others.

And hopefully you can feel a sense of connection listening to this podcast.

As a brief check-in here for myself, I have not been doing my best.

I have been taking care of myself in the best way that I can, while also really not doing very well.

As some of you know, there's a lot of things going on with the house and I'll share more on that when I can.

There are so many things happening and I am working to remind myself every day that I'm doing the best that I can.

I am only one person and I've made all the decisions that I've made up until now with the information that I had at the time and all I can do is move forward.

So I hope that you are giving yourself some grace and allowing self-compassion, being kind to yourself.

I am working very hard to be kind on myself these days.

And I definitely didn't have a lot of spoons going into this interview, but I'm very happy that we still did it because we were able to have really great conversation.

And one of the things that I do super appreciate is a lot of the conversations that I want to have on Instagram aren't super accessible or they're just related to the space for it on there.

So being able to actually have these conversations here on the podcast feel like a great way, which is also the reason why I started the podcast in the first place, so that I would have an outlet for this kind of stuff.

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