Hello, my sweet little angel, babies. No, it's been a very long time since we've chatted. And if you did not listen to my episode of Barely Famous, I do want to get into it just a little bit, but if you didn't hear that,

definitely go over there and you can hear a little more in depth about why I've been more

absent across the board. It's not just on the podcast. It's definitely on socials as well.

All in all, I think it's no surprise if you

listen to Vibein how difficult 2025 was for me in so many different ways. It felt like a

dichotomy for the first time in my life. I felt steeple in my mental health, in my finances, in my home,

in my house in different ways. And then everything external, whether it be politics, whether it be

work, whether it be friendships or whatever, is what caused a lot of my turmoil, I guess, in 2025.

And that's really difficult for me, especially as somebody with anxiety.

But eldest daughter, first gen, I have control issues.

Like, let's be fucking real.

So for my issues to be external and ones that I necessarily cannot do anything to control, it really

fucked with me because, again, I do have control issues, but that is what anxiety is, is

ruminating and constant stress and worry and pressure about things you can't control. And I

just got to a point where it was severely affecting my mental health, I think,

to experience that publicly and to be perceived, I am a very strong and really will, like,

opinionated person.

I feel like when I would try to talk about things that I was passionate

about or meant a lot to me in regards to politics, religion, anything, I felt like no matter

what I said, no matter how I said it, it was always being misconstrued and taken wrong

and coming off or being perceived as more aggressive than it was intended. And it didn't matter

how I went about it. I genuinely felt like I was not being understood. And for me, obviously,

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