Welcome to the Mathisie Barker Podcast, everybody.

Last night I had a live Q&A with Dr. Frank Anderson for folks who registered for the

Healing Trauma course that we launched just over a month ago. And I wanted to share a clip from

the Q&A because I thought it was really meaningful. I had a lot of broad applicability even if you

didn't watch the course. And I don't know, it was about the sensation of a feeling like you're

kind of outside your body and just kind of observing your life from the outside in, like not really

feeling connected with the present moment. And there's also some kind of undertones in the person

who submitted the question that long-term depression has been something that they've been struggling with,

that dull depression that can make it feel like there's just a fog between you and everything

that really matters to you. And so Frank and I talked about how this sensation is often connected

to an experience of trauma. And I thought it was both kind of our dialogue back and forth would

be generally helpful for other people listening that might have experienced something similar.

Part of the way that we fund the podcast and the channels that provide free access to mental

health is what the help of our sponsors done along with our mission. And there's been a big push

recently for like these electrolyte drinks that I've seen in the podcast world. It feels like

most of the mental health podcasts I've listened to have like an ad for an electrolyte drink. And

yeah, it makes sense to me because, you know, hydration has a lot to do with mental health. If

you're super dehydrated, then, you know, you can experience things like anxiety and irritability

and fatigue. So that makes sense to me. Hydration isn't just, you know, about sports performance,

you know, it's supportive of overall well-being. You know, it's not just about drinking enough water,

but specifically having the right balance of fluids in your body, the chemicals that regulate

those fluids like sodium, magnesium, potassium. So I started looking around, you know, at different

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