Good evening, everybody. How you're doing? Hope you guys are surviving and thriving. I am still

carrying symptoms of having had COVID. Yes, it is something that has touched us all. For those

haven't had it, I hope you don't get it. Definitely, definitely, definitely not fun. And as you can hear in my

voice, I definitely still have some residual congestion, but surviving, not quite thriving.

But, you know, look, New Year, that means we are accepting a different world. And that's kind of what I think I'm going to spend

a lot of time talking about how can we carry a different perspective. How can we, you know,

do the best we can within the context of all that's happening around us and within the world?

And take care of ourselves and find a little

joy and pleasure and mental health while doing all the above. So got a lot to talk about. As always,

DMs are open. You got a DM for us, dropping the DMs on our love line, IG page. We want to hear

from you. Topics you want covered, questions you got for us, whatever it is that's going around,

popping, percolating and sticking in your head. Let us know whatever it is that's going around, popping, percolating,

and sticking in your head, let us know, unload that. We all got, you know, we all got a lot of

questions we can all learn from them. I wanted to kind of open the show, just talking about a quick

little easy framework for a little bit of a self-regulation way to ground ourselves. And,

you know, again, we're always starting with

ourselves. Although, feel free to offer this to those that might benefit from it. Be thoughtful

about not slinging these things around or weaponizing them. You know, there's a real fine line

between lovingly reflecting to those around us how we feel being in their lives and how we feel

with having them in our lives and being very judging critiquey because we're moving into the

new year letting go of judgment and being more curious we're being more curious which means

we're holding things loosely we're moving into a lot more means we're holding things loosely. We're moving into a lot

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