Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Hopefully you are getting through the week.

Not burning yourselves out, making time for rest and pleasure and leisure. That's the mental health.

It's mental health part speaking. That's the mental health reminder center mental health.

Now listen, I want to talk tonight about a couple different topics that I think are all paralleled and aligned.

But I want to kind of front load so as to frame this, all of my topics are born out of what's going on in culture, what I'm seeing in my clinical practice, questions and topics that people are putting in our

loveline DMs and in my personal clinical DMs and emails I'm getting, always tracking the

trends of research that's being done, which is borne out of all of those different things.

And, you know, the passion or the drive is seeing what my clients are struggling with or are

oppressed by.

And so sometimes I think listeners might not understand the emotional meaning or the

severity of some of these topics because it might not apply directly to you.

So I'm just kind of explaining that that's where these are all coming from.

And this idea of productivity and laziness is one of those where I'm working

with families that have been torn apart because the primary caregiver is never around, is never

accessible, it's never available. And so they're, you know, that primary caregiver is feeling

distant and detached. That primary caregiver for the family financially doesn't know what hobbies are,

doesn't know how to unwind or

relaxed they're stressed as a result of all of that they are you know they have a problematic relationship

with drinking or drugs or their sexuality or shopping or gambling as a as a faulty coping mechanism

keeping the problem in place but finding a way to still somehow squeeze out a little bit of joy or rest while

again, allowing the problem to be in place. Family members missing out on having that primary

support or caregiver present at their birthday parties or soccer games. People having health

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