Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing?

How are we doing getting through the week?

Chugging along, chugging along.

God, it's the summer.

Does it feel like summer to y'all?

I was saying this over the most recent holidays,

the couple that have been punctuated, I've been like,

I don't even, I have no, I'm not grounded in place in time.

Without a calendar, I wouldn't even know what season it is, right? Everything is so, all the things,

at least for me structurally that help me determine what date is, what season it is, aren't

really accessible in the same way. So everything seems kind of a flimsy. So anyway, it's the

summer.

I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.

Usually it means for a lot of us, some of us, joy, right?

Enjoying the warmth, if that's your thing, getting out more.

I hope we're all doing the best we can right now. And that might mean for some of us kind of sitting on the sidelines, watching others thrive and participate fully.

I wanted to kind of open the show by just processing that whole concept, that there's no right way.

And I'm working with a lot of individuals that are seeing others socializing to high levels or thriving and really kind of getting back to life as it was for them

before and they're saying they're saying I feel different right or I feel very fragile or I don't

feel normal and I want to just advocate for the acceptance of that the allowance of that I am also

having that and I have access to a lot of skills I've done a lot of work right I've been a lot of my own therapy and I'm also realizing that that I have access to a lot of skills. I've done a lot of work, right?

I've been in a lot of my own therapy.

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