Thank you for joining us for episode 381 of Live Happy Now.

We've hit the end of summer, and for many people, that means dealing with end of summer anxiety.

And it's not just for kids anymore.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Ellie Weinstein, a social work therapist and host of

the dude therapist podcast who is here to talk about how we all can handle that end of summer

anxiety and head into fall with a brand new game plan.

Ellie, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Thank you for having me.

Super excited to be here.

This is a great topic for us to talk about because it's the end of summer

and that means end of summer anxiety. So we are already living in a time when anxiety is really high.

So what is it about the end of summer that then increases that a little bit? You know, I think

when we have the summer mentality, we kind of take a step back, relax a

little bit, take our foot off the gas a lot and relax.

I remember when I was in grad school or even in college and I actually had summers off,

going back into the quote unquote real world was so scary because he haven't had to do it for

about two and a half months.

Right.

So for a lot of people getting back into the swing of things or even if they haven't been off

but their kids have been off, getting back into that routine again, it is something that

scares a lot of people, myself included.

Yeah, because it does disrupt the parents. As parents, we've gotten used to a slower pace.

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