Hey friends my name is Mike and this is fun therapy where we talk about the

imperfect parts of life but we do it with a smile and a heart filled

with hope.

Because some days you feel small and some days you feel epic. There are days that just click, and there are days where you come

undone. But every moment wants to teach us something about who we are and who we are becoming.

Our losses, our lessons, falling down teaches us to get back up and the struggle shows just how strong we really are. My name is Mike Foster and this is fun therapy. I read this beautiful poem the other day about friendship and I wanted to share it with you before we got started.

By the way I'm going to post this at my website Mike Foster. TV so you can download it there

Maybe share it with somebody you know, but it's this nice poem about friendship and it goes like this

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out just as

they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them.

Keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness kindness blow the rest away.

Isn't that good? I love that poem.

And this is the kind of friend I want us to be to each other, to help others sift and to find what is worth

keeping with great amounts of kindness and compassion to help blow the rest away. I hope you have friends like that who do that for you and I hope that's the kind of friend you are to others.

You know, these conversations that we have on the Fun Therapy podcast

are not coming from a PhD trained therapist.

I'll have to admit because I'm not that. In fact as you know I as I've shared before on

previous broadcasts that I flunked out of college and have no fancy letters after my name.

But I did go to Friendship School and Listening School.

And I've been attending Holding Space School and learning a few things and my hope

always first with this podcast is that you'll see your own story and the stories that are shared, that you find hope when you feel less alone.

But also that you'll see how we can listen to each other, to be a good friend to each other, and to empower people to become

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