Hey y'all. Hi, everyone. Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large. Because who doesn't love a coming out story?

And today we're mixing it up a little bit.

I will preface this by saying that this is a coming out of sorts.

We have decided, Lauren and I, to have a little old mental health check-in, just the two of us, and all of you

who are listening, because chances are you're feeling some of the things we are or some other

things that fit somehow under the same umbrella of we're not okay.

And so we thought it might be a good time to check in.

And it is my personal feeling that whenever we talk very candidly and

about our own mental health, like where we are at right now in this moment

without, you know, sugar-coding it, that it is a coming out of sorts, right? Because it is

that difficult to be honest about these things. It is that difficult to take off that armor

and that mask that we wear every day just to get through things

and to be who we need to be in our work, to our family, to our friends. But here we're we're

taking that off. We're just taken off the armor. We're disarming. and we and we are.

No, we have no arms.

We have no arms, no arms.

No arms. And, um, and we're, we're coming out about some mental health stuff and, um, yeah, Lauren.

Yeah.

No, it just, it felt like a good time to do this.

We do love to, to every once in a while a while, you know, have just the two of us

chit-chat. We've gotten feedback that folks enjoy that. And we have had, you know, we've released

and are still releasing some episodes lately that have been so great and like with stories

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