Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? I'm doing great. Thank you for asking.

I think these days I tend to be doing well. I hope you all are as well. And if you're not, that's okay too.

I want to remind everyone, we got to be where we're at, feel what we feel. Mental health is about

feeling all of our feelings, being where we we are not not shaming where we are

and uh accessing resources at the same time though so it's okay to both be where you are but also try to

step into maybe a higher level of functioning or process things and deal with them better but i'm doing

good i'm doing good uh strange times right now. It seems like it's always something.

But, but, but, but, but we push on.

We push on.

A lot of changes happen the same time.

I found myself in a conversation with someone over the weekend.

And I was saying, my God.

I was recounting everything.

New variants.

Even the bottlenecking with the shipping. And I was recounting everything. New variants. Even the bottlenecking with the shipping.

And I was just kind of sitting one of those spaces where all I was focusing on is the doom and the gloom. And it's very easy to do that these days. Watching the newest school shooting, which is

heartbreaking that there's always a newer one

and watching the different trials, court cases. Oh, my gosh. But my friend, and again, I tend to be

really good at this myself, but my friend was really beautiful about both holding that space

and acknowledging and validating, yes,

that is all happening. And your responses are very valid and very real because even as a therapist

myself, I, you know, I need people to help co-regulate me and I sometimes need to borrow

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