Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a great show plan for you. As always, we got the caffeine crackleck and we got some stuff to talk about. But before I get into it, I want to do my standard checkin. How is your mental health? Yep, that's right. We want to take a moment.

Unbelievable that this might be the first time some of you have ever been asked a question like

that but this is something we should be asking ourselves at least once a day how's my mental

health doing what do i need do i need more of something less of something do i need to take the day off

i'll tell you never ceases to amaze me how we are so tied to productivity and output and outcomes as where

we derive worth and meaning and legitimacy for anything and everything.

People, relationships, our time.

I had someone tell me the other day, this was someone who's newer to my practice.

They were like, Dr. Chris,, got to tell you, I was so

proud of myself. I was not feeling well last week and I went to work anyway. And I said, that's

absolutely horrible. That is not mental health centered. If you are not feeling well, take care of

yourself. You should have stayed home, stayed in bed, rested. You shouldn't have gone to the gym.

You shouldn't have gone to work. When in doubt, rest it out. We need more rest, more downtime. That is a horrible model of functioning. I've said that before.

When we talk about things at school like perfect attendance, dear God in heaven, train your child

to know that their worth isn't tied to showing up to school every day and that sometimes you need

to rest. Sometimes you take a day off for fun. Please, let's back away from the

idea that our worth the value of something, our time and activity is not tied to what it produces.

I tell clients that. Don't turn your passion into a side hustle. Don't turn your passion,

that which you enjoy doing. And the worth and value of it is just in its own creation and existence. Don't turn that

into a moneymaker. Then it's not fun anymore. It's about how many you're producing. What do people

think about it? Got to get it done. Don't do that. Skip school sometimes. Rest, have fun. Call out

of work when you need to. Take your downtime. Take your vacation time, take your sick time. Yes. I said, we need to work on you

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