Psychology in Seattle.

Hey deserving listeners, I have an announcement to make.

My dog died recently. My beloved Chloe passed away quite suddenly. And I hadn't

planned, I didn't plan on talking about it on the podcast but then I sat down to record an

episode just now and it was going to be about different emails and whatnot.

And I very quickly somehow my brain just routed to Chloe and her death and the feelings that I have about it.

So I so it I so I so I started the episode talking about bodies Morphia and then somehow within I don't know just a couple minutes I ended up where I'm talking about Chloe and at first I thought what are you

doing like this isn't a place for you're supposed to be talking about body dysmorphic disorder.

Why are you talking about Chloe?

And then once I started getting into it, I just thought, I don't want to stop.

I want to keep talking about it and I know enough about grief and

about human emotion to know that you should go with you should go with your

grief when it happens you shouldn shouldn't suppress it. And there's really very few

venues that are quote-unquote appropriate for processing one's grief and we need much more venues than are culturally appropriate. So I decided in my

head I was like, well, I think I need this. And maybe the listeners will want to hear about it. I don't know, but I know I need it.

So I just kept going. So I'm going to play that episode. It starts out different than, I start out talking about something

other than grief and my dog that died. So let's just go to that right now.