Good evening, everybody. Winding down the week. Hope you're all doing all right.

It's rough times, y'all. We're doing our best. And that's why I'm trying to be as vulnerable as I can to let you all know that even I struggle at times. I get tired. I get burnout. I get overwhelmed.

There's a lot we're trying to pull off at one time, you know, it'd be great if the government

said, hey, listen, we know that there's so much going on. So we want to give you the financial

resources to be able to take care of yourselves. No, not happening. So we all have to overwork it during,

you know, I remember people saying that during the coup. The coup, they were like, oh, well, you know, there is a bunch of racist bigots trying to overtake the capital and destroy democracy. Can we get off from work the next day, please?

We can actually heal and process what happened? Nope, of course you can't. Of course you can't.

Work, work, work. Burn out, burn out, burn out. It's really unfortunate. So we have to do the

difficult work of prioritizing our mental health.

And we're going to talk about that in a minute, but I just want to give you a heads up.

Question of night is up on our Loveland IG page. So weighing on that. But let's talk about some of the

ways we can start taking care of mental health. We were talking about this last night at the top of the

show. So if you want to hear that, you can go to We Are Channel Q and that's where you can find old episodes of Loveline. Last Night's show we kind of listed some of the things we can do to prioritize our mental health.

Let's talk about some of the other things. Look, there are some things that people are thrown around that I think can be used well or misused and something that comes up often as things like a gratitude list. I do like the idea of that because we want to always be

holistic in our thinking that yeah, some really crappy, scary things are happening. But that doesn't

mean that there aren't some beneficial positive things happening. So it can be good for some of us

to allow all of our feelings, feel angry, feel sad. There's no bad or negative feelings.

They're just different sorts of emotional, emotions and

energies, but it can help us to round it out by having a gratitude list. What else is going on today,

this week, this month, this year, or in my life that I am happy about, right? But I don't want

us to shame ourselves. If you're saying, I don't want to feel gratitude right now or there's

nothing I can really connect to, that's okay too too because that's honest. There's some days where that would be a very false expression and I don't want to force myself. I'm all about,

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