Welcome back to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

In today's conversation, Joe and I focus on depression and how it shows up in our thoughts, emotions, and nervous systems.

We talk about how to examine our direct experience to uncover the root causes of our thoughts, emotions, and nervous systems. We talk about how to examine our direct

experience to uncover the root causes of our depression and how to get unstuck by relating

to ourselves in a new way. We also offer tips and stories about how to show up for friends or

loved ones who are feeling depressed. I hope you enjoy it.

All right. Good morning, Joe. Good morning, Brett.

Oh, yeah. I'm tired. I did not get that much sleep this week. We're preparing for a wedding.

There's a lot there. There's a lot work stuff going on. There's a lot that's happening in my family health-wise. A lot of that's not looking really great. So there's definitely

just a lot. And this is my fifth hour on Zoom so far today. But the good news is it's my fifth hour of Zoom with either you or Tara,

which is pretty cool. That's a pretty cool kind of morning. Nice. Yeah, it was a good session this morning.

I enjoyed it. Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot as well. And I've also enjoyed that we've been getting some requests

from, from folks for topics. And something that's come up a lot recently has been requesting

that we talk about depression. Oh, wow. Okay. Great. It's one of my favorite topics to talk

about. So that's wonderful. Yeah, which is bizarre. We've we've

touched on it, but we haven't actually had an episode for it. I think, I think if I recall correctly,

our first episode ever, our first iteration of a first episode was on depression. Oh, that's right. And

it was like three hours and everybody, all of our friends who listened to it were like, dude, you got to make this shorter and this is like, da, da, da, da, you're right. And it was like three hours. And all of our friends who listened to it were like, dude, you got to make this shorter. And this is like, you're wandering. So we just never came back to it. Yeah. So this is perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think we've got our shorter game dialed a little bit. Yeah. Despite that we're continuing to talk about it for a while.

So maybe let's just get right into it.

Okay.

Perfect.

All right.

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