Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Welcome to the show. Um, got an interesting and good show for you. It's going to be one of those things where it's a dual process. Uh, we're going to be talking about the process and also the content. Um, tonight's show we're going to be talking about things you should let go of things. Things you need to just accept, which means we're going to also

be talking about how to practice acceptance and letting go of things. So it's content and form.

I think it's one of the most necessary and helpful things within mental health is acceptance.

And I think it's a very, very, very misunderstood concept. I think some believe that to accept something means that you are allowing it or choosing it or enjoying it or saying it's okay.

Let's go with that.

That's probably the most difficult part of it.

People are saying, but this isn't okay what maybe we're talking about.

And acceptance isn't saying I'm okay with what's happening.

Acceptance is saying I'm going to have a healthy relationship with something I cannot change.

Something that's changeable. Do it. Make the changes that are possible. But there's a lot of things

in life that just are and we need to just accept and allow. And there's some things in life that maybe are going

to have to be accepted for for now, time limited. And then there's some things that maybe we can

change, but that change process isn't going to be immediate or it's not a linear process of

consistent improvement. Acceptance, I think, is the key to mental health, not letting things bother you.

We live in a world of poor impulse control.

We don't know how to regulate ourselves.

I think if everyone worked on, I think there's like two or three things that would improve

everyone's lives in the world and it would be more care and compassion for ourselves

and those around us.

And also really learning self-regulation, which a key part of that is quickly understanding a few things. First, that there is a space between the event that occurs in our reaction, but most people don't know that, and that's impulse,

where if they're

angry, they just run off their mouth or their hand, you know, flies off. But there's a space

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