Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hi, guys.

I have mentioned before that I have a new friend, her name is Lisa Feldman Barrett, and she

is a neuroscientist, and boy, I just can't recommend highly enough making friends with

your friendly neighborhood neuroscientist.

She just has so many interesting takeaways that are grounded in the science of how our

brain actually works and functions to manage the systems that keep us alive.

And a thing that she talks about a lot is body budgeting.

That some things are very metabolically expensive, and other things not so much.

So, I was talking to her today, and I was saying that over the course of the past week,

I had dinner with four different people in New York, and each time we got around to

the ways that we are worrying about our children.

And here's a list that I've jotted down and say the last couple of months that have

been mentioned to me as things people are worrying about.

Whether your child is happy or happy enough, whether your child has been raped, whether

your child is suicidal, whether your child has needing disorder, whether your child

is overweight, whether your child drinks too much, whether your child is doing drugs, whether

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