Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? We are back. It's another night, right? We got through

another day. Strange times, I'm over here on the West Coast, and, you know, it's so interesting

to see the distinctions between how people respond to seasons. A lot of people live on the West

Coast because they are absolutely in love with the

sun and the heat. I'm not. And those that are, you know, loyal followers of my work are familiar

with that. I've posted about it on my social media. Always trying to bring visibility to the lesser

known forms of mental health and mental distress, but also kind of challenging some of the

overriding norms and showing these, you know, more peripheral pieces. And one of them is

seasonal affective disorder. We're all familiar with that, I think at this point, SAD, but we've

culturally held it as being about the depression or distress or discomfort or sadness that comes

from the changing of the seasons, usually towards the darker seasons and the cold. But we need

to hold space for those like myself who have that. But when that emerges for me with the sun

and the heat, I'm temperature. I'm very sensory sensitive. I'm sensitive to loud sounds, bright lights, high numbers of people. And I

found ways to kind of accommodate that. I mean, it's no surprise that I work in an industry where I do

therapy. So I'm often working with only two individuals, a couple or individuals themselves in deep,

intimate private spaces, right? I really like that depth.

So as the warmer weather and the sun emerges and everyone's like excited and going outside,

I start to hibernate and retreat, which is a really powerful thing. You know, when we're spending

a lot of times out a lot of time out in the world or with individuals, very important stuff,

but we lose that time with

self. Solitude is very important. And really check in on that with yourself. Do you fear solitude?

Do you avoid solitude? And maybe look at what you could be missing from spending some time

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