Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. We've got a great show plan for you. And it's probably a topic that is one of the more important ones and might even save your life, literally with this topic. A lot of us are living our lives in burnout, already burnout. And we're like, oh, we're just going to do a few things and try to survive within burnout. And I'm always going on and on and on about

most likely you're already in it. And if you're in it, it's not about doing self-care activities

that carve out a few moments away from it. And then you step right back in. So it's like your

blood pressure and your heart rate drop for a little bit 15 20 30 minutes an hour a day

and then you go right back in yeah your system is still going to be burning out and that's why I'm

always saying we have to complete with the change the entire structure um I know I have to work less

god bless that I'm trying so hard to work less it's really hard but I'm living almost in complete

burnout and I'm realizing I need to

push up, push back. So we're not talking so much about that tonight, but we're talking about self-soothing.

So is it a completely different topic? Yes. Does it tie right back in? Yes. At the same time it does.

Why? Well, remember, our emotional state and how we manage things, all the different things that come into our lives

moment by moment day by day, that's a part of our larger global level of functioning in the quality

of our life.

So the quality of our life, again, in relationship to burnout, is about the general structure.

If you're working a billion hours a week and then you only have two days off,

you're living in burnout. Those two days off are not enough to go up against the week before

and the week that's coming. You're basically only giving yourself two days off and away from that,

but your system for five days a week is burnout. That's the problem. We need to be centering our

lives in self-care and then work

should be centered around that. I know, good luck, right? But we're trying. So what does matter,

though, is punctuated throughout that structure is your emotional response and your emotional

health. And so that's either going to amplify and synergize or it's going to shave down some of those sharp edges and water it down a little bit,

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