Hey, good evening everybody. How you doing? How are your weekend? Hopefully super, super restful.

Mine wasn't. Pretty much worked all week, all weekend, uh, hitting the ground running. I took

about two weeks off for vacation. I'm trying to do that about every couple months or so.

I need to do that. I need to, uh, what do they say? Refill the well, you know, put more gas back in your engine.

You get depleted. So I hope you're all finding time off. And if not, I hope you're building

rest and pleasure and self-care into your day. Again, reminding you guys, I'm going to keep doing

this until you all got it burned into your brains or maybe leave a little note or sticky for

yourself. I've talked about how I do that. It's been helpful. I put stick eats on different areas that remind me of things I want to

kind of, you know, prioritize center in my life. And one of them is every single day. We need to be doing

a form of self-care. And that will include rest, whether that's a walk, a nap, turning off all your

apps, turning your phone off,

not being available, going in a different room. And we're also bringing in joy and pleasure.

Sometimes that's through eating something. Yes, eat that pint of Ben and Jerry's, put that smile

on your face. It's okay to do whatever you need to do to cope with difficult feelings.

There's nothing wrong with eating your feelings or working out because of your feelings or napping because of your feelings or taking a bath because of your feelings. It's called

coping mechanisms. We are not built to tolerate everything that happens in the world. There's so much

going on. Let's just recap some of it. We still have Black Lives Matters movement happening because

we still haven't nailed that. We still have a pandemic going on, right?

Vaccines are rolling out, but we still have time, got political issues happening around the world and so many other things to deal with.

So yeah, we do not always have the internal resources to cope with everything that's happening outside of us.

And it's okay to lean on things. Lean on other people. We need to get away from toxic individualism. The idea that's happening outside of us. And it's okay to lean on things. Lean on other people.

We need to get away from toxic individualism. The idea that you should be able to handle everything

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