Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? Welcome to the show. We got a great show plan for you.

Holiday season is upon us and it continues to roll out. So I thought, let's do something a little

festive opening the show talking about, excuse me, gift ideas for your loved ones that have mental

health issues. Interesting concept, right?

I think, you know, again, as we work very hard culturally and, you know, within the field,

outside the field, on normalizing, discussing mental health, prioritizing it. And P.S., I continue

to remind you all reach out to three people every day. I have to get in the habit of getting

back to that every once in a while, kind of sprinkling that in. Reaching out to three people every day. I have to get in the habit of getting back to that every

once in a while, kind of sprinkling that in. Reaching out to three people every day. Why? Well,

we're doing that for ourselves and for others. There's a lot of people that are still feeling

disconnected and isolated. Reaching out to others lets them know that they're being thought of and that

they're cared for. And sometimes that one little text or phone call or photo you share or memory or a link you send is all that person might have needed to feel cared for, to feel important.

And you can save a life.

You can save their hour, their day, their year and sometimes even their life.

Just letting them know you're there.

And that's kind of what that's part of.

But then we're also doing that for ourselves. We do better when we're connected,

reminds us, you know, who's important to us and that people are there, gets us familiar with accessing others. And socialization kind of distracts keep you out of your, keep you out of your head.

So all that to say, when we're giving gifts, if it's someone that you are comfortable with,

you know well and maybe you've talked about mental health. giving them a gift related to that can be one of the most

loving and soothing things. And it's an interesting list. I think these are things that could be

meaningful to all of us. I think these are things that could help all of us. But I like the idea of

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