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I'm going to open the show up talking about

touch. Ah, yes, the importance of touch. I talk all the time about how co-regulation, the

support and care that a secondary person can provide is more profound than self-regulation,

what we can kind of access on our own. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Sometimes people

are not available or they're

overwhelmed or the people we go to just aren't there for us. And that's okay. You know, one of the

more important parts of mental health. And it's something I think culturally we don't talk enough

about is so many different words for it. So I'm not going to get hung up on the term. But it's

basically the idea that we going to get hung up on the term, but it's basically the

idea that we tend to get distressed, upset, frustrated, sad, mad, whatever it is. And we very much

create a self-centered or self-centering narrative about what's going on. You know, oh, they didn't show up to my birthday party,

or they didn't pick up my phone call, or they took too long to text me back, and we center

ourselves in the narrative.

And all sorts of emotions then flow from that.

And we kind of get lost and we really drift from the actual truth or reality of the situation.

What we need to do is do this magical thing called consider what might be going on for

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