Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Hope you getting through the day, getting through the

weekend, through the month. Focusing on self-care, rest, joy and pleasure, make sure if you

haven't already that some, at some point today, whenever it is you're listening to this live or

afterwards, that you definitely carve out some time for some joy. Eating a donut, listening to some

music, going for a walk. I was actually going to say reading a

magazine. How many of you still read magazines? Is that still a thing? Whoa, that was a flashback.

Whatever it might be. Also, some rest and they don't mean sleep. Napping? Maybe. Maybe just

laying there daydreaming. Maybe sitting outside. Maybe sitting in the bathtub.

More rest. Got a great show plan for you, though. It's a little bit of a hodgepodge. A lot of really

important stuff we're going to cover. So, you know, we talked last night. Maybe it wasn't last

night. We talked recently. I never know. Sorry. Everything at some point kind of blends into my head.

As I said, I'm really bad at chronology.

So this could have been last year.

Point being, at some point, either this week or last week again, I don't really remember.

I was talking a lot about how a lot of the skills that we need as parents or primary caregivers are the exact same things that we can offer

are required in our adult relationships. And I think there's something really powerful and beautiful

in that commonality and that thread that's woven through all the above. Because what it does is

it reminds us that as humans, we never lose those needs. The same things we need

as a child from a caregiver are the same things we need from adults, those other people in our

lives, primary figures. There's nothing regressive or primitive or elementary or immature

about that. In fact, it's a sign of maturity when you can acknowledge, I can't do things on my

own. I'm better when I'm connected and in relationality of whatever kind.

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