Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything.

I'm all about loving the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.

And I'm Dr. Sarah Valentine of the paleomom.com.

I believe that scientific literacy is the key to improving public health. Welcome back, whole of you listeners.

It is episode 439.

And today is January 11th 2021.

Last episode, we talked about creating new habits and welcoming a new year and then the new year hit the United States right smack

across the face and I mean I laugh because you laugh when you're stressed and uncomfortable.

It has been a rough week for all of us. I mean just I think every single person in the country is you know it is a rough

week so how are you doing Sarah and I just want to point out that before when we were

catching up you said our country and I like I was muted so you

didn't hear me say it because I was drinking my coffee but I was like oh it's our

country because you are an official American so I know it hasn't been the easiest of times, but you still welcome America with

open arms. So for those of you that might be new here, Sarah is recently officially a citizen.

Yeah, so one of the things that I shared with you before we officially started recording is that I've been really

struggling to process the events of last week and the sort of like continuous

iterative unfolding of information so like you know I've I've found it really

hard to concentrate on work I have found it I found it really hard to even just get away from the news alerts and the

learning one more little piece of information or seeing one more incredibly disturbing video.

And I do, you know, I became a citizen because it to me it felt like making

making it official something that already existed was that I had really

fallen in love with this country and really come to identify as American. And it is something that is so hard to put into words the feeling of alarm and

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