Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope you're doing well. Week is winding down. I know it feels like

it's always something new and the world's quite chaotic out there. Best we can do, though, is that

which we have control over. And we always have a little bit of control over what's happening

around us. So, you know, find the joy, find the pleasure, and also know that this isn't going

to last forever.

Feel your feelings, though. As always, we want you to feel a full range of everything and drop really

deeply into it. There's no such thing as bad or negative emotions. They're all just different

experiences and they're all relevant and meaningful. And our emotions always are communicating

something to us. So whatever you're feeling, talk about it, own it, sit in it and ask it. Talk to it. What is it asking? What is it communicating? What does

it seek? Ah, you got to drop down into that stuff. Often we think if I feel something bad or I feel

something, you know, that I quote unquote think is a negative emotion. I'm sad. I'm anxious.

We often think I got to get rid of it. Immediately. Remove it. You know, distract, take a pill, whatever it is. But that is not always the

best course of action. I've got to learn how to feel the feeling. So right now, you know,

suicide prevention month. We're feeling what we're feeling. We're asking others how they are.

We're connecting. We're building connectivity. Because remember,

you know, intimacy is built when we share those weaker, you know, more personal private parts

of ourselves. That's when we walk away from an experience being like, wow, I really feel seen.

I really feel heard. So make sure you're centering all that. Talk about some news. Travel shaming.

Who would have thought that that would be a thing we would talk about? Yep,

people are being travel shamed. It's kind of a new trend. Why? Because we're supposed to be

staying home. It's a pandemic. Travel shaming is when your family or friends make you feel bad about

traveling, getting out of your home for a while. Now, it makes sense. Shaming doesn't necessarily

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