Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Got a great show plan for you. The summer's coming.

People are going to start to talk a lot about their bodies and weight loss and calorie counting.

So we're going to start the talk of how to really have some body of steam and feel really secure in our bodies.

Working on that body positivity or neutrality. We'll be talking about that later in the show as well as talking about shame.

And we're going to be talking about also how to deal with family bullies something we have to talk a lot often around

the holidays you know that's when we really see a lot of our family members and whatnot but um as I said

last night I want to spend this week opening each show just talking a little bit about self-care

and mental health things Things you might have

heard before, there are gentle, loving reminders. I want to keep building that in, reminding people

to do these things. Not everyone hears every show and repetition helps keep our paradigms on point.

So I'm going to try to change it up each week. So this might not be relevant to everyone,

but I think that there's something in all of this for us all to walk away with. Um, ways to build in self care. These are really quick,

simple, easy things. And that's what I think I love about it. Reading. Just set aside,

maybe only 15 minutes. It doesn't need to be chapters or a whole book. 15 minutes. I set aside 30 every day,

at least to read. I read things that much like the way I use music are kind of therapeutic.

Maybe you want to read something that helps you check out and dissociate, right? You're not aware

of what's happening around you. Maybe you want to read something that's really inspiring and uplift you. Maybe you want to read something that challenges the way you see the

world. Maybe you want to read something spiritual to start to really connect to a higher power or a more

universal consciousness. Maybe you want to read something that's going to make you sad and really

elicit some of that heaviness and the beauty of

tears and crying, right? But reading is a really great way to immerse yourself in a different

consciousness. It's even translocational, transgeographic, meaning it takes us away from where

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