Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? Getting through this week. Hope it's going decently.

You know, lots of complex and interesting things always happening. Most on these days are pandemic-related.

So I hope we're all, you know, keeping that in the forefront of our minds.

Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be talking about how to manage social media better

for those that are kind of struggling with it. There's a way to let it work for you, not against you.

And also going to be talking about how to kind of, you know, really get a perspective on holiday time in relationship to children.

Also later in the show talking about sex positive gift giving. Interesting stuff.

Let's talk some news. Lizzo always on the forefront of both centering black women and the

importance of continuing to center and include, but also just on the body positivity. So here

she is again celebrating her beautiful, beautiful larger body on TikTok. No

shame. And that's the goal. Everyone has a right to feel comfortable and sexy and worthwhile and

a value in whatever body they have. And we don't need to have any shame around that, you know.

And whatever you choose to do in terms of health or fitness or lack thereof is a personal

decision but everyone gets to start from just feeling like i have worth and value just because

i'm a person and i exist and we need to afford that to everyone and lizo is such a forerunner

and really taking it forward um the body positivity world has definitely been co-opted by a lot of

corporations and they're using that term for things that include counting calories and weight loss and those things are actually very body negative.

And those are centered in the idea that you always need to be trying to lose weight and your worth and value is about what your body looks like.

None of that's true.

Mental health is about accepting who you are and then deciding what you want to do about that.

And for many people, it's about learning to love.

They're disabled, fat, queer, non-gendered, whatever it is, kind of body and identity.

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