Hi, guys. Welcome to Preview Alliance podcast. We're well into 2026. And I'm back with our favorite maternal mental health therapists who you guys can be jealous because I have her on speed dial and I use that speed out. So welcome Whitney. You should because how many questions have I asked you as a nurse being like, hey, can I do this? What about this? This is also a reason why Whitney's not my therapist is because I can give her the down low and she gently lead and correct me in my life as a friend. Right.

I can give you a therapist and friend Whitney.

You can say, check you're crazy at the door and this is what's really going on with you.

Right.

So on that topic, Whitney, there was this.

We like to share rules.

We like to share, you know, full Instagram quotes with each other. And so one

thing that came up and that I felt called out was, and I've talked to Whitney about this, but it's like,

let's bring us a podcast because we can't be the only ones, is sometimes if a, you text a friend,

a new friend, or maybe it's a neighbor or your email and your boss or a

coworker or whatever.

Right.

And the response is delayed.

You feel like you've been left on red, as the kids say.

You automatically, or sometimes me, maybe not you guys, but go through this kind of pattern in your head of saying,

did I do something wrong? You reread it a couple of times. Could I have offended them?

Right.

You replay maybe a previous conversation or two. You kind of jump to, are they mad?

What's going on?

Kind of worst case scenario thinking.

Catastrophizing it, right?

Where you automatically assume that person maybe's mad or leaving you or you did something wrong.

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