Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you. Before we jump in

anything, I want to just give you the weekly reminder, maybe for some of you, the daily,

monthly reminder that we want to be focusing more on our mental health. So quick and dirty way to

understand that is we are asking those around us, hey, how's your mental

health? That's a way to acknowledge on a safe space and also a way to remind people to actually

check in on that to then help them track it and understand what they might need. Because again,

when we say things like, hey, how are you? We give the standard, cool, I'm fine, all all good so saying how's your mental health again

communicates to focus on it that you're a safe resource also we're focusing more on

don't do that the self-care because we're not trying to get trapped in or live in burnout a lot

of us are living in burnout if you're exhausted at the end of the day if if you're crashing when you get home, you're in burnout. And we want to prevent ourselves from

getting there. So again, my quick, dirty tips for that is number one, do 70% max with all

things you're engaged in. Nothing should take our 100%. We want to have energy left over,

especially because when we get home from work,

that's when we want to participate in our hobbies, and our self-care and our relationships,

same things with the weekend. If we are burning ourselves out, which is when we are always

operating at 100%, or trying to go for 150%, because our toxic productivity-based culture

tells us that our worth is tied to what we produce and how hard we work and that's not true

That's actually toxic problematic not rooted in mental health or physical health and absolutely not true and that's how people end up in burnout and end up over reliant upon things like drugs and alcohol because they don't know how to disconnect or soothe themselves.

So they turn to things that literally force that that rest or that soothing. And that actually

doesn't nurture us. So we want to operate at 70% max and we want to be leaving time and energy

for other important things in our lives. We're not trying to give 100% like I said or

pushing ourselves like that. And then of course self-care every single day. And this is how we

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