Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Hope you're having a good week, a good day, and

keeping it all in perspective, a good morning, or let me say differently, a bad morning does not

mean a bad day. A bad day does not mean a bad week. We're staying open to what's to come.

And if we are having a difficult time, which a lot of us still are, we're softening into that,

but also carving out some time for fun and joy to the extent that we can.

A little bit of a content warning. We're going to open the show by talking about abuse, partner, domestic violence abuse and other forms.

So for those of you that are triggered and struggle with that, now is your, you know, your warning to do what you need to do, take care of

yourselves, maybe, you know, hit a pause. So, you know, this topic is important for a lot of

reasons. So even if you're not in a relationship of some kind with someone who's maybe in an

abusive relationship, this also

becomes a conversation about how to deal with difficult topics in relationship to those we care

about. So this is a show for everyone. So I'm going to get to that part secondarily in a moment,

the takeaway for literally all of us us because all of us have been in

conversation with someone we care about and they're saying something that we don't agree with

or we don't like hearing and we're frustrated. And we notice, wait, why am I upset? Why am I angry?

This isn't happening to me. Maybe we're tired of hearing our friend complain about their job.

Maybe we're tired of hearing our friend complain about their bad relationship Maybe we're tired of hearing our friend complain about their bad relationship.

And we're just like, so it falls under that kind of category.

We'll get into that.

I just wanted to start by saying the cycle of abuse is a very difficult one.

And so we always want to enter it with safety and softness.

And we don't want someone to feel judged or to feel bad because

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