Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? I hope you're getting through the week well,

focusing on your mental health. What does that mean? A quick little reminder. It means every time

you're proposed an opportunity, you say to yourself, how would this impact by mental health? What are

the mental health ramifications? I would love it if we extended that far beyond. I'm working with a lot of individuals

about asking themselves that even before they pick up their phone. How's my mental health? What are my

needs? I think we have to get better about checking with ourselves and saying, what need do I have

right now? Because I think we often funnel every need into just some form of distraction as the solution.

But it's kind of when I use, I'll use them in my food analogies.

I tend to use the same couple ones.

When we're feeling a little bit of hunger in our in our stomachs,

which we're getting better at intuitive eating,

for those that are new to that word, it means we're not eating on a meal plan. We're not counting

our macros. We're eating when our body says we're hungry and we're stopping when our body says

we're full. That is a mental health perspective because we've gotten really familiar with a lot of

disordered eating. And overly restricted rigid food plans and dieting is disordered eating.

It's making food way too important.

In fact, some people, their entire day is centered in food.

When they're eating, what they're eating.

That is not what food is for.

Food is just for nourishment.

Yes, food has a lot more things surrounding it.

I love that food is also joy.

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