What's up? Hey, welcome to the Shalene show. I am going to experiment with not playing

an intro. I've been listening to a few podcasts where there's no intro and I'm like, yeah,

just get right to it. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to get right to it.

And I'm going to start with a message from Alicia.

Hi, Shalene. I am a recent podcast listener. I subscribe to both your podcasts and I just

wanted to say from experience that I just recently figured out what podcasts were.

I'm in my late 30s. I'm embarrassed to say this, but it just was not part of my daily routine.

I didn't know how they would benefit me and when I found your podcast, I was hooked.

I'm a therapist. So honestly, a lot of times I get great ideas from you and I use a lot of your

ideas with my patients and it just sparks creativity with my therapeutic methods and I just really appreciate you.

Alicia, that was delicious. Thank you so much. I so appreciate that and thank you for doing

what you do, especially in moments like this. I really hope that people understand how incredibly

valuable it is to have a therapist like you, whether you're single and hoping to meet someone,

newly in a relationship, trying to figure out if this is the right person or just trying to survive.

There are days when we all feel like we're on a reality TV show similar to survivor or big brother,

except that we can't leave the house and no one can vote us off. The reason why those reality

TV shows are so fascinating is because they remove all of the distractions, emotions run deeper.

Relationships can feel like they're under a microscope or on fast forward. What happens when we

don't have romantic restaurant date nights when we're no longer going to work? When our sleep

schedules have been disrupted or when we can't escape the person we were dating.

So funny thing at the beginning of all this quarantine like right before everything hit, I met

somebody and we actually started delivering food to shelters for people that were

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