Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Got a great show plan for you. Basically,

going to be talking about how to do a little self-help therapy of your own. Nothing can replace the

work of working with an actual licensed therapist. But there's a few things you can do just to kind

to help yourself. So we're going to be talking about how to do a little bit of a self-help

cognitive behavioral style on your own. Basically, this is a little bit. It's a little bit of a self-help cognitive behavioral style on your own.

Basically, this is a little bit. It's a little drip of the wider ocean of the work I do with my clients. So we'll talk about, though, how you can apply this to yourself by yourself.

Also, little exercises you can kind of tuck in your back pocket so as to help yourself out in

difficult times. As I say all the time on the show, and I'll say it again for you all, the quality of your life

is tied to the quality of your practice.

What does that mean?

It means that we all got work to do.

It doesn't matter where it came from, why it happened, whether or not it's a choice,

whether or not you're victimized by something, bad genetics, trauma. We as adults have to make sense of the lives we're leading and we have to undo the damage that was done for our own benefit, but also for the benefit of those around us.

And as I say, also on the show all the time, if you don't know what you're working on, then you're not working on anything.

And when someone says something like, oh, I'm working on being a better person, that doesn't mean anything. If you don't have targeted goals that you can measure, well,

you can't really track whether or not you're working on anything or improvement is happening.

So we want to know what we're working on and we want to consistently be doing that because we

have to rewire our brains and our nervous systems. We have to track who we're being in the world and how we want to be different.

We have to pick a few aspects of our thinking or our behavior that we want to change or improve.

See that sigh?

It never stops.

And again, no judgment.

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