Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. How are y'all doing? I'll be getting through the week,

taking care of yourselves, taking care of those around you, letting things go. Most things in life

aren't violence or abuse. And if they are, speak up, walk away, set boundaries, you know the drill.

But most of the things happening in our lives are just annoyances and frustrations. So we're letting it go. Someone cut you off in traffic? Let it go. Someone's running late

for dinner? Let it go. The restaurant's out of your favorite meal. Let it go. Don't like the way

someone spoke to you. Let it go. We're dropping the bar. We're chill it out. Not letting ourselves

get excited over things that

are a level two or level three, cranking things down, allowing and letting go, not letting

our days get disrupted, you know? It's a choice. Mental health is a choice in many ways.

It's about the perspective we choose to apply to situations, people, places, and things.

It's also about our relationship

to them, right? It's our perspective and our relationship, how we encounter and interact. And we're just

trying to kind of live in a softer way and focus more in our mental health, which means

not taking on everything, not catastrophizing everything. We're getting better working with our minds,

which means recognizing that our thoughts and our feelings

are often biased and subjective and extreme

and often just not rooted in reality.

So we're really testing reality.

And if we're in a relationship,

we're turning to our partners to check in on them.

I'm sorry. If we're in a relationship, we're turning to our partners to check in on them. I'm sorry.

If we're in a relationship, we're using our partners to check in with them to understand

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