Hello my friends, how are you doing today? Hope that you're doing well, that you're feeling

good, and I want to thank you for all of the feedback that you all have been giving me

over these shorter episodes. I've heard from so many of you saying how much you enjoy

and how much you're getting out of these episodes, and that's what's really important to me.

So thank you all for taking the time to share that with me, and also I really appreciate

you all rating the show, wherever you listen, whether that be iTunes, Spotify, wherever

may be. It's really helpful to keep the shows life growing and continuously flowing throughout

the podcast universe. A challenging thing to square mentally sometimes is being able

to release attachment to something. At the same time, understand that that doesn't

mean that you don't not care. That seemingly contradictory way of thinking is something

that a lot of people struggle with. Whenever we go about our lives and become attached

to relationships, and that can be relationships as a whole, or also the aspects of relationships.

That's another big part of it. The patterns and habituations that exist inside of a relationship

itself are also things that we get attached to because they make us feel comfortable in

some way. But just because something makes us feel comfortable doesn't mean that that

is something that's going to help us thrive, or something that's going to make us happy,

or something that we even want to be engaged with. Also, we can get attached to those type

of things in our life. Different behaviors, ways of thinking, opinions, the points of view

that we're known for, and also our identity as well, and all of these attachments over

time as we continue to gain more and more of them, they often become suffocating in some

way. Because as you continue to become more established as a person, and you think to

yourself, yes, this is who I am. I am the result of the story of my memories. I am the crowdsourced

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