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Loveline with Dr. Chris starts.

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Now, all right, y'all, happy, happy, happy Thursday.

I'm gonna give you all a little pep talk.

I wanna start this show by just trying to give us a little bit a healthy spin. But, you know, again, as a mental health professional, I'm going to give you all a little pep talk. I want to start this show by just trying to give us a little bit of a healthy spin.

But, you know, again, as a mental health professional, I'm always trying to pay attention to the role that different substances or behaviors are playing in people's lives.

I want to make sure that we have also a really, like a solid lens to really assess what's healthy and what's not. And that's going to change.

Remember that. There's an interesting thing as always a, you know, once something, always a

something. We have brain plasticity. Our brain's always changing and reorganizing. Things are

contextual as we're struggling with certain levels of stressors or events, we might over-rely on

something as a form of self-care or coping problematically or positively, and that other times

when they alleviate ourselves, it gets easier. Our relationships matter for a really healthy

relationship. We are far better with our coping. And if it's more toxic or problematic, we can, you know,

lean on some old ones. So always just hold it loose. And it's possible to look at right now,

this is what's happening. Right now, this is my relationship to something. And that could change.

But again, I want us to pay attention to our relationship to food, our relationship to exercise,

our relationship to alcohol, our relationship to alcohol, our relationship,

because, you know, we're still self-isolating. We still do not have access to all of our

favorite distractions and other forms of coping. And so people are trying to do the best they can.

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