Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? Hope you're getting through the week well, focusing on self-care, joy and pleasure, and tons and tons of rest.

Set in boundaries, put your phone away, spending time with your loved ones, and checking in on three people a day.

I want you to reach out to three people every single day. Phone, shared DM texts face time it doesn't even

matter Skype three people a day and that's for your mental health that's for their mental health

right we're all in this together uh got a great show planned we're going to be doing a little

couples therapy and also talking about mail and securities yep interesting facts stats fact stats, ways to maneuver. We'll be

getting in all that. And of course, some DMs. So if you got a DM for us, drop it in our

Loveline IG page. Guess where in the DMs. So that's called sliding into the DMs. But yeah,

we're here for you. Any question you got, hook us up. Always anonymous, confidential. And if you want to check out past episodes of Lovelin, you can do so by going over to We are channel Q.com scrolling down, clicking on my face, there they are. So I wanted to share an

article with you today. I love things that are kind of ridiculous. And this one is, it's an article

on how to deal with stress, you know? And the American Psychological Association was like, yeah,

we're going to put this article out there. And it's kind of ridiculous. And I was laughing. I hated the article before I even read it.

I'll just be honest with you. I could see the imagery. I already knew they weren't going to think

systemically and they were going to basically victim blame. And they did. They didn't let me

down. So let's go through what they were talking about. How do you, how do you deal at stress, American Psychological Association? Well, here's the first thing. They want you to remember

that stress brings valuable life benefits. Oh, well, thank you, stress. Thank you. Because as they say,

can lead to increased resilience. And an ability, wait for this one, and an ability to manage even bigger and respond better to other life stress.

So basically like life is just one big ball of stress. And the way to deal with it is to be like,

thank you stress because you're helping me get better and more resilient to deal with even more

stress because it's just all about stress. We're not going to look at what creates the stress

and work on dismantling that. We're just going to say people on the receiving end that are victimized by, you know, capitalism, racism, you know, not having universal health care, all these

things like, you should just learn how to deal with more stress, but it gets better. Then they say,

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