So I think the important thing is that you just keep putting one foot in front of the other and doing what you can on a daily basis and stepping back when you can't.

But I think the fact that we have formed this group kind of holds us accountable to continue to do something.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to How to Not Lose Your Shit.

My name is Katie Paris.

I'm the founder of Red Wine and Blue.

And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue. Okay, so I'm super excited today because

we are going to have a woman named Jennifer Clausen, who is a friend of mine that I met at the gym.

Then she became a community leader, still is today,

of one of our local Red, Wine and Blue, Trouble Nation groups. Hers is called Hope in the Heights,

which I love that name. So the evolution of this woman from, you know, gym friend to local community leader.

It's just got me really thinking about the role of going to the gym in my own life

and how it's been a source of really my own mental health.

There's a lot to lose our shit about this week. We are seeing,

you know, ice fans come into communities, more and more masked agents taking kids out of

apartment buildings, troops deployed into American cities. Our communities are under assault

from this government, and we have the government shutdown

continuing in the midst of all of it.

I mean, there's a lot to hold going on in the world, a lot to lose our shit over.

And we have got to dig deep in terms of finding all the sources that we can for strengthen

ourselves and in our communities.

And so this is one really cool way.

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