Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show.

Hope you guys starting your day off well or your evening or your weekend, depending on when you're listening.

Remember, we are centering mental health. So ask a few people that you care about that you really do mean this.

How's your mental health? Because again, it's how we communicate to people.

Hey, I'm actually a resource and someone who you can talk to about these things.

Because the familiar, how are you?

We all know that's a pleasantry.

I think we all know that doesn't actually mean, hey, sit and tell me what's on your mind.

Tell me your struggles.

So we want to use it in meaningful ways and tons of self-care,

right? Build in some joy, some leisure, and some pleasure every single day. And if you can't,

your life is out of balance. It shouldn't just be labor and work and depletion every day.

It is our right to seek pleasure. It's such a loaded, triggering, pathologized term for

someone to say, doing it just for the joy of it. It's really wild. And I've talked about this on

the show. I see to myself all the time, internalized capitalism, the sense that my worth or the worth

of anything, my time, my energy, myself is rooted in whether or not I'm working or producing something.

And that's so problematic.

We're allowed to just lay on the couch for a few hours of the entire day and we don't have to defend it by saying,

Oh, I'm taking a lazy day.

You know, I had a really busy.

It doesn't matter what you had.

You're allowed to take that time.

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