Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? Yeah, getting through that week, holding on to your

mental health, hanging in there. Oof, I know, interesting times. It feels like weekly it's something new.

Yeah, got to find the join it, letting go a little bit. Question of the night, as always, is up on our

Lovelin IG page, so weigh in on that. And we're going to be diving into those DMs later in the show.

But of course, we've got a great show plan. We're going to talk about all sorts of stuff,

using pronouns, some of the things you've got to consider around veterans and also ways to really

focus more on your mental health. And what are the best ways to take, truly take, a mental health

day? Because it's not a mental

health day if you're just like, yeah, I'm staying home. It really doesn't matter what you do during

that time. So we're going to talk about that. I wanted to open the show, though, acknowledging,

look, the holidays are coming up. We're going to be talking a lot about it because I don't want

people panicking because, again, we're going to be spending it maybe alone for the first

time or not exactly in the way we want to with all the ones, all the loved ones around us as it

traditionally might be. But the reminder has been and will be that it isn't, it isn't canceled. It's

just different this year. And that's okay. It being different this year allows

there to be some new benefits and levels of beauty added to it. There's a lot of really

stunning things you can do to make the holidays just as special. And again, we're going to

keep talking about it, but I keep saying this to my patients because I'm already getting

them prepared, the ones that are really feeling it because they're isolated and they're saying, well, I'm really going to miss seeing my family. And I'm saying still dress up, still play that music, still decorate your home. You know what I mean? We want to mimic it and let us have that time. Just because we're on our own, doesn't mean it doesn't count. But what about when we have kids? Because the holidays tend to be harder on them.

You know, they don't have the patience to hang in there till next year or next time.

And the holidays are, you know, what punctuate the year and make it very exciting for them.

I felt very bad that some people thought Halloween was canceled.

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