Happy Thursday, everybody. How are y'all doing? Hanging in there, getting through? I know. Be where you are.

And if you're not doing well, it's okay. It's okay to not be okay. You know, we don't feel any shame or guilt about struggling, you know?

It's okay if someone says like, hey, how's our mental health right now to say horrible. I had to say it the other day to a friend. And I think even as a

therapist, people think that I always am doing great. Well, that's not honest or real. And it's,

that's not even the goal. Remember, the goal of mental health isn't happiness, actually.

That's some other pursuit, which, which by the way, we also know that trying to build happiness

doesn't build happiness.

What leads to happiness, and I'll do a segment on this at some point, so I got to like make

a note of it, is finding meaning and purpose in your life.

If you have a life centered and meaning and purpose doing the things that you value, that

leads to happiness as an outcome, but seeking happiness doesn't do that. And it can't be found

if you're not doing things that bring you meaning and value in your life. But it's okay to be feeling bad.

You know, mental health again is about filling a full range of human emotions and filling them deeply.

And again, participating in the life you want and really building a life of meaning. That's what mental health is.

And allowing yourself to signs be depressed, allow yourself sometimes be anxious. That's not a bad thing. That's not a

pathological sign. That's part of being a human. And we have to have space for that. Just like if

you're feeling a lot of joy right now and you're thriving, that's great. Live in that. I'm so happy

for you. Many aren't. Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be talking about dating at burnout and a whole

bunch of other stuff. As always, question of the night is up on our LoveLenagy page. So wait on that.

And as always, we'll be doing some DMs. So if you got a DM for us, slide it on into our

Lovelin IG page in those DMs and we'll be answering those later. Got some good interesting stuff going on in the news so disney they're adding a racism disclaimer

i'm all about it why not content warnings i'm here for it also just a way to acknowledge that hey

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