Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Welcome to the show. Hope you're having a great day,

getting through it, asking those around you, hey, how's your mental health, letting people know that

you're a safe space to talk about that. We're getting back to those bare bones basics.

And, you know, we're looking out for ourselves. We're dropping the bar. We're being kind to ourselves,

kind to those around us.

So a little opening reminder when you start to shame yourself or feel that guilt because you're, what, not doing enough or you're seeing others doing more.

I'm still hearing that in my practice, my patient saying, you know, I'm just happy if I get out of bed.

I'm just happy that I washed my face

or I cleaned up a little bit.

I'm like, awesome.

We're not, you know, some people have been high functioning

throughout the entire pandemic continue to.

They're producing producing.

I see that even in my own world.

There are some therapists that are like, bam, bam, bam,

putting together these beautiful, beautifully curated social media pages. And I'm just, that is not where I'm at. I haven't

touched that thing in forever, I post a few stories every now and then, just not where my head's

at, conserving my energy, resting. But I get it. We want to guilt and shame ourselves. We

compare and despair, as they say, comparing ourselves to what others are

able to do. That's not our journey. Everyone wakes up in a different place every morning with a

different amount of energy and it goes where it goes. So when you're feeling that shame or guilt,

bring that self-compassion in. That's really what you need to translate that into. Just like we're trying to translate

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