Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? We've got a great show plan for you.

Take a deep breath, settle in. You know, it's let, let the show be a little bit of a distraction from

literally everything that's going on in our lives. We're going to start the show with some

positive feel-good topics, although probably won't stay that way for too long. I'm always

trying to show both sides of things. But, you know, we're going to talk about the things we should

do for people we care about, be with someone who does these things, essentially. Always trying to

help people unlearn a lot of the things that have been normalized. I constantly have couples

coming into my private practice. You know, most of my work focuses on relationships and sexuality and

marriage. And I think some people have gotten a little too familiar with some, you know, unkind,

unhealthy dynamics.

And that doesn't allow us to be better or ask for better. And so, again, it's always about looking at how we are interacting with others, right?

What kind of partner we're being?

But then also what kind of relationship are we in?

We talk all the time about how our mental health is impacted by the health of those that we spend time around.

We are open systems, right?

And so we very much internalize what those around us are saying about us, how they're seeing us, how they're making us feel.

They're always giving us consciously and unconsciously messages about our worth, right?

Our value is a person.

And so it's really important that if we're feeling as though we have low self-esteem,

it's not an inside job. It's very much an inside and outside job. And the outside part is

making sure that we're around people that treat us kindly and setting boundaries when they don't,

removing people that are unwilling to really truly care for us and be in commitment.

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