These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Wow. Thanks for joining. I forget how to start the show. It's been a while. I actually pre-recorded a few episodes before my wife and I went on

vacation for a couple weeks to visit family and watch somebody graduate high school and start her

life for college and beyond. So that was a nice trip in the last two or three episodes I had to pre-record to

get that done. So it's neither here nor there. It doesn't really matter to you probably,

but I'm trying to get my bearings straight coming back after not recording for so long.

And I'm just going to tell you what we're here to do today.

I'm going to read you a message and then I have some comments on it.

There were some there's some realizations in myself.

I mean, I read this message and I realized, wow, this is really mirroring my life.

There are things going on in my this is really mirroring my life.

There are things going on in my life or have gone on my life in the last 15, 20 years that mirror events that have occurred.

And normally on most episodes, almost all my episodes, I'm very practical.

I look at things in a very practical

and pragmatic way. Those terms probably mean the same thing. And I look at things in a way that's

very logical, analytical. But I do it with emotional intelligence. I look at things in a way

that affects us emotionally. It affects me emotionally,

affects you in an emotional way. We all have different ways of responding and reacting to things.

And I like to include emotion even in my analysis of things because emotions are the things that help us make decisions

they are what help us feel good and feel bad they are a part of us so this heart and mind and

body and soul and this holistic being that we are, it's all a part of us.

I mean, I've met people who've said that I prefer to be more Vulcan, Star Trek reference,

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