Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show.

Hope you guys starting your day off well or your evening or your weekend, depending on when you're listening.

Remember, we are centering mental health. So ask a few people that you care about that you really do mean this.

How's your mental health? Because again, it's how we communicate to people.

Hey, I'm actually

a resource and someone who you can talk to about these things. Because the familiar,

how are you? We all know that's a pleasantry. I think we all know that doesn't actually mean,

hey, sit and tell me what's on your mind. Tell me your struggles. So we want to use it in

meaningful ways. And tons of self-care, right? Build

in some joy, some leisure and some pleasure every single day. And if you can't, your life is

out of balance. It shouldn't just be labor and work and depletion every day. It is our right to seek

pleasure. It's such a loaded, triggering, pathologized term for

someone to say, doing it just for the joy of it. It's really wild. And I've talked about this on the show.

I see to myself all the time, internalized capitalism, the sense that my worth or the worth of

anything, my time, my energy, myself is rooted in whether or not I'm working or producing something.

And that's so problematic. We're allowed to just lay on the couch for a few hours of the

entire day. And we don't have to defend it by saying, oh, I'm taking a lazy day. You know,

I had a really busy. It doesn't matter what you had. You're allowed to take that time. You're allowed to rest. And you're allowed to bring in joy, whether it's a cookie or some eroticism or the purchase of something. Things have worth and meaning just because they

put a smile on your face. Doesn't have to have any meaning worth beyond that. That is inherently

mental health-centered. We'll talk more about it.

It's part of the work I'm always doing with my clients,

just chiseling away at that phobia of pleasure and leisure.

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