Good evening, everybody. How are you doing? Kind of great show plan for you. We're going to talk about how to get the most out of therapy, how to find a good therapist. In the past, we've talked about how to get yourself in a therapy, how to get others in a therapy. But I had a couple people reach out asking me about finding a good therapist. So I want to kind of talk about what that means, what that looks like. And then we're going to spend the rest of the show talking about sexual assault, April of sexual assault awareness month, so a little bit of a content and trigger warning.

Important stuff, but I want to give everyone a heads up so you can take care of yourselves and, you know, do what you need to do to ground yourself during that topic in case it brings

something up for you.

I want to just kind of talk quickly again about COVID.

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling overwhelmed

by all the different reports that are coming out saying increase in infections due to the

variants. Oh, that's right. Our vaccines are only going to maybe give us a good six months,

and then we're going to need a booster, and we're going to get another one. And then I'm hearing

countries that are going back under full lockdown.

Canada just went back under full lockdown. That's right. Everything's shut. Everything's closed.

They're saying don't leave your house. I mean, we are not out of the thick of it. And yet here, we have states that are wide open, no mask mandates, full capacity. California has been opening and

opening and opening. We just last week hit

25% capacity allowed. They put out an article that might have changed, but June 15th,

everything's going to go wide open again, but please wear your masks. It's a, it's a little bit

of a funky time. It's a little bit of a moment by moment, location by location. There's not

a congruent response some people are now

burn out and they're like i'm not wearing a mask anymore at your own risk whoa the wheels have

fallen off so i guess i want to say a couple things number one we're all in it together it's a very

it's complicated it's changing quickly also do it's most comfortable for you. If you still need

to wear a mask and those around you are shaming you for it or saying, oh, you're vaccinated,

you don't need it anymore. You wear that mask. If you're not ready to go back to work or to go back

out in the world into social events, set that boundary. You know, even if you're vaccinated fully,

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