Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? Got a great show plan for you. We're going to be talking about, you know, it's Pride Month. So we're going to focus on that a little bit for the show. We're going to talk about allyship, how to be a good ally. This is actually apropos for everyone. We all have work to do, whether in the community, outside the community, and everything we're going to talk about around. It kind of applies even outside of this topic. So we'll break it down, stick around. I had kind of committed to spending the opening of each show this week, just talking a little bit about quick tips around mental health and self-care, making sure we're all focusing

on it.

Some of it might be a little repetitive.

That's good.

I'm okay with that.

I shied away from doing that out of fear.

But then I was like, you know what, no. There's new perspectives on this, and it's something that we have to prioritize.

So last night we were talking at the top of the show more about self-care.

Tonight it's going to be more about mental health specifically, although they intertwine.

It's something I'm asking all my patients, especially when they're new to my practice.

How do you take care of your mental health?

What do you think is mental health even is?

What are your self-care practices?

And people are getting better.

It's more familiar of a term.

Not everyone knows what that means for them.

So there's a lot of work in that.

So let's talk about how we can care for our mental health.

Number one, having no shame about how you're feeling.

Remember, mental health is not the absence of certain feelings or moods. Mental health is the

ability to experience all of them deeply to sit in it, feel it, express it. It might not feel

good. It might be a little more amplified than we want. But the first step of mental health is

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