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

Thanks for joining me for an episode of the overwhelmed brain. If you haven't heard this show, I've been doing it since 2013, the end of 2013, and it is now May of 2025.

And I don't know if that matters to you or not, but there are some people that have listened to this show for years, probably waiting for their letter to be read.

I'm so sorry. I get a lot of messages. I get a lot of emails and people asking me a lot of questions. And I do try to tackle every single topic,

but I don't always get to every single message. In fact, there was a message that I received five years ago that I've kept. I keep

them all. I keep every message because the subject matter of the episode will eventually apply to

the topic of the message I received and then I can address it. So if you wrote to me years ago, it's very possible that I'm

addressing your topic today. I'm so sorry, but I do hope that the 11 years of content that I have

put out there thus far has addressed something you're going through. And you can find every topic that I've talked about

if you go to the overwhelmed brain.com forward slash podcasts. And you'll find a search bar in there

and just type a word or two. Type the word anxiety or depression or self-worth or anything that

you're dealing with.

Addiction.

I'm not saying that I have all the answers to this stuff, but I give you my insights

and what I've learned over the years.

I've lived with an alcoholic, all my childhood, an addict.

I was married to someone who was a self-proclaimed addict of sugar and sweets and things like that.

And I've had my own series of dysfunctions and toxic behaviors.

Almost all my life up until the point I finally learned who I was and who I should be.

Who I was was not healthy to my previous partners in my life.

And who I am today is the healthiest I've ever felt and ever been.

And I'm not, I'm still not perfect.

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