Good evening, everybody. How you all doing halfway through the week, depending, I guess,

on how long your work week is. Hopefully, though, everything's going well. But again,

let's take it as a moment just to pause and remind ourselves that we get to decide to an extent,

but we're going to do the best, you know, around what we have control over. We get to decide

how the rest of the day is going to go.

I was kind of sharing this with you all a couple, couple weeks ago on the show.

We were talking about how I'm doing this work myself.

So often as I'm reminding you all, I'm reminding myself as well and reinforcing.

But a bad moment does not have to be a bad day. Remember that soundbite? A bad morning

doesn't have to be an entire bad afternoon. A bad day doesn't have to be a bad week, right? Bad day

doesn't have to be a bad weekend. Bad day doesn't have to be a bad week. Bad week doesn't

be a bad month. We're kind of working on right sizing things. What we're not doing is leaning into toxic positivity,

right? And we'll talk more about that, but that's basically the idea that always put a smile

on your face, always look for the silver lining, always be happy. Well, no, that's not mental health.

That's being a robot. Actual things do happen that are worthy of anger, frustration, disappointment, sadness,

depression, anxiety. You know, mental health is not the absence of emotion. And emotion is good

and bad. Honestly, emotion is just neutral. It's energy and experience and memory and feeling.

But we're not trying to have the absence of the ones that

we've culturally decided are bad or negative. So again, mental health is not the absence of

anxiety and depression and frustration and grief and loss. Mental health, as we say, is the ability

to sit with all of it deeply, right, and fully. But part of that is what we call both self-regulation

and emotional flexibility. We do want to use our cognitive functioning to say, hey, wait a minute,

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