Good evening, everybody. How are you all doing? I hope you're getting through the week, starting it off

right. We've got a great show plan for you. We're going to be looking at ways to take a mental health

break. Now, these are promised to have some interesting ones and they're always trying to bring y'all

little tips and tricks to bring in more self-care, rest, joy, pleasure into our difficult,

complex lives. But I like to find things that are actually reasonable.

I hate cliches.

I hate cliches.

I think because they're not impactful or powerful.

We've either tried them or they haven't necessarily been meaningful for us or personalized

enough.

So we're going to drop into some ways to sneak mental health breaks throughout your day.

And I think that's the key point of the topic

is these are things that can be just woven in our day. Because a lot of times we'll talk about

things like self-care, mental health breaks, putting yourself first. And some of them are like,

yeah, that's great and all. But how do, you know, they're reserved for the weekends because they are

just not things we can do in the middle of our day, like, you know, go see some art.

So we're going to talk about this through the lines of things we can kind of just drop and scatter throughout our busy, busy, busy lives.

Busier. I don't even know how we're doing all that we're doing. I think I look at each generation and think, wow, it just got more complicated.

Things are not getting simpler.

I think technology does at times make things simpler.

But I think what it really does is make productivity more intensified.

I think everything that happens technologically somehow often gets used and we weaponize

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