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

I had a couple of people ask me to talk about loneliness and relationship to what's going on in the

world, so we're going to talk about that. And hopefully, if there's time, we're going to talk about

some static sex tips. But if not, there's time for that in another show.

I wanted to open the show just by reminding everyone, we are being kind to ourselves, being kind to those around us. We're making sure to ask everyone, how is your mental

health? Because again, that communicates to other people that you are a safe resource and

someone who is sophisticated enough and mature enough and caring enough to hold space. Because remember,

mental health is not, not the absence of quote unquote negative feelings. Mental health is

feeling the entire spectrum of feelings, good, bad and otherwise, and feeling them all deeply.

Feeling depressed or anxious or fearful at times is not a mental disorder.

It's called being a human. We want to be able to feel those things, make a room for it, allow it,

but not be burdened by it. We are not trying to illegitimize or deny feelings, nor are we trying

to amplify, dramatize, or catastrophize. We're trying to do the middle path, the middle way, which is allow and accept.

Now, acceptance doesn't mean you're like, yeah, bring it on, bring it on, depression.

Acceptance means we're not battling it.

We're letting it be.

We're examining it.

We're sitting with it.

We're taking it with us.

It's kind of part of life.

So we're asking people, hey, how's your mental health?

You know, because when we say, how are you?

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