These are my personal opinions. Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

Welcome to the show. Glad you are here. I've got an email that I want to read to you that I just received and we'll see where we go with it.

Person wrote, I have been listening to your podcast for a few years now and I thank you for making

them. You are welcome. They help a lot. I want to ask you for your advice on my situation.

I find myself at a crossroad and I don't know what to do next. I just finished college.

I'm in my late 20s.

There was an ongoing storm of stress in my life for years.

Even though I'm relieved, it's over.

I'm more tired than accomplished.

I don't like the city I live in.

I never really liked it.

I stayed because I had to finish school and I have an affordable apartment, which is another thing making it hard to decide on the next step.

I want a deep reset.

New continent.

But I have to think about everything strategically for finance reasons.

And I need to think about savings and starting over isn't something I could just snap my fingers and do. At the same time, I've been carrying this deep longing to be in love again. To be loved, I've craved affection and I can't seem to find a partner, even though right now I've stopped looking because I don't want to stay in this city. I'm not settling down here. I've met people and dated, but I haven't met anyone who felt like a match, not even close. I can't force myself to be in a relationship just because I'm tired of being alone. And lately I've been wondering if I'm just going to end up alone. I have only ever been in love once almost a decade ago, and I also don't like my job. It doesn't fulfill me. but I needed to pay the bills while I was in school, but now I'm done with school, and the job market is brutal, so I'm stuck with the job I'm in. It's an okay job, she says, and I feel it's not up to par with my skills. I feel like I'm worth a better one. What scares me most right now is the thought that if I stay here

in this city I dislike, in this job I don't care about, in this in-between version of myself,

I might actually fall into a depression. I've been able to hold on so far because I had school

to distract me, but now that I don't have that, I feel like I'm just sitting with the weight

of every wound I hadn't healed yet.

Some wounds I was not even aware of.

I'm doing my best not to spiral, but I'm tired, tired of being unfulfilled, tired of craving

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