Self-Love is the Ultimate Weight Loss Strategy
Diving deep on something I think is so important for all of us,
developing a deep and profound sense of love for ourselves.
Deep acceptance
of ourselves and our place in the world,
our life, our experience,
the experience we've had, the experience
that we're hoping to have.
And this is something that can be a lot more difficult.
It's something that can be easy to say, hard to do in practice.
So I want to really dive in on yesterday,
Queen of Heaven, who is a long term
viewer, sent this question, posted it on one of the videos.
I just wanted to. Say hi, it's a Queen of heaven.
Give you a special shout out,
let you know how much I appreciate this comment.
Appreciate all the time we've been able to spend on the lives,
and your insights and questions
and thoughts are always so thoughtful.
Just appreciate you so much. I hope you're doing well.
I was talking in the video about love and acceptance
for ourselves and building it.
How do you do that?
You know, it's one thing to say, you know,
what does it look like?
Love and acceptance. Please teach us.
And so this really, You know, made me think quite a lot.
A doctor, my understanding of the root
level of that word is a teacher, someone who will teach.
And so this this word just hit hit me a lot.
And I think about it, you know, such an interesting space.
How did I title this?
Self-love is the ultimate weight loss strategy.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the intersection
of just medicine and life and, you know.
The and the intersection of so many things, the mind
and the body.
And I think this question, mind body spirits is hard for me
even to say.
It's like something we aren't even aware of.
At least I'm not.
And so a question like this hits me is just really profound,
because it's so much bigger
than what we would typically see as medicine.
You know, getting into this, Space.
What is health and what is wholeness and what is wellness?
And, and, you know, in this space,
what is the type of thing that constitutes a.
A good life? And how do we find happiness?
And all these things are kind of in
a, space that we would say is
maybe we're heading like within the medical system.
You say, are we heading there?
If we are seeing a therapist, you know,
it's like we're trying to move in this sort of direction.
It's like, you know, we're in this interesting space.
Whereas like fasting space, it's in the physical body
and we're trying to move toward health.
And I talk a lot about the physical body,
and we want to lower blood sugar, obliterate insulin
resistance, help us lose weight for different reasons,
reduce our cardiovascular risk,
improve the health of the liver.
And, you know, there's so many things
help our digestive function to be better.
This is a classic medical sort of zone.
Then there are these whole realms of our existence
and our being, mind and spirit that are not,
we don't talk about in medicine,
at least in my role as an actual like doctor, you know,
we say of the body where we're diagnosing things
and ordering tests and, you know, it's very analytical.
My experience in the analytical side of medicine,
as I'm really trying
to powerfully help people in the body, is like, well,
we're lacking,
I think, especially in the current,
you know, factory model of health care
where we're just cranking through people
like widgets, like that's what it feels like
sometimes as a person.
Like,
like if you got 20 minutes or less, like, it's very hard to.
And then there's many good things that are happening
in the health care system to
we don't have to be all down about it, you know,
lots of things that need to be done and can help someone.
But it's very hard to get into a space like this.
How do you actually practice love and acceptance for yourself,
and is it true, like, do you agree with how I title this?
Like, actually, when we find a space like that,
does it flow back around
and actually lead into health in the body?
I really think it does, but it's abstract, okay.
It's not the type of thing that you can just pin down
and order a lab test on somebody and be like, oh, you're,
you know, obviously succeeding in this and,
you know, it's it's very abstract.
And you tell me if you agree, if you don't agree,
I'd love to hear everybody's perspective on it.
But I give you my best thoughts.
Green of Heaven brings in the cortisol. Right?
So absolutely, it's like here is a big thing
that is feeding back around when our mind is not at peace.
And we are chronically stressed
as having real hormonal effects in the body.
And here's one tangible effect.
You know, where you can actually measure cortisol and,
you know, chronic stress state
leading to inflammation and insulin resistance and weight gain.
So if we want to really get into this cycle,
I've seen, you know, in the past when I was not appreciating,
you know,
some of these things I see
how is this just something that helps people to feel good?
Does it make it nice?
You know, it's like,
who doesn't want to talk about love and acceptance?
But isn't the real things that matter?
You know, just the physical?
And we need to hit people calories.
And what foods are you choosing and and we dial in the fasting
windows and the time see all these things very analytical.
But the more time that I have spent with people
and sat with people in the,
you know, the middle of the struggle of health, like, say,
we are in the middle of an unhealthy culture
and we have, you know, life is messy, right?
And we have encountered difficulty
and obstacles and things that we wish hadn't have happened.
And and so we are sitting here in our real human life
trying to make actual progress,
not in some controlled experiment
somewhere with perfect conditions and all these things.
Yeah.
You know, so it takes some real thoughtfulness and dedication
to open up enough space to,
like, really sink into the profound nature of this question.
And this is why I think I like it, you know, so much because.
You know, as I was thinking about a role as as a doctor,
I can teach a lot of things.
I give a lot of talks.
And, you know, a thing that I was just reflecting on, like,
we're heading into, I think a very deep space where you say,
I just want to be open and transparent with people.
I'm not.
I don't feel like the type of expert
that I can just, approach a question like this
with perfect clarity and say,
oh, I just know the exact answer to this.
What I can give you in it is my, you know, experience
as just another person
who is on a path toward this sort of space.
So that's the perspective I have.
I have, you know, some experience
that I want to share with you,
but I also want it to be a conversation
and and not so much as a lecture
I have I have like six points that I went through,
And all these can be talking
points of weight of ways to really approach this question.
developing love and acceptance for ourselves
is not, in my experience, both personally
and with other people.
Like a switch that you flip,
that it's just one day like you did it
and then it's done it.
It is a process.
It is definitely like something that you build.
And I like the phrase daily practice.
That is a daily practice of building the mindset over time.
If we are thinking of something,
perhaps see if this is a helpful way to think about it.
Something delicate or fragile, something that can be
that needs to be protected and nurtured.
That relationship with ourselves.
So easy to overlook, so easy to treat ourselves badly
without realizing it.
And and I say not a lot of people.
Do you think this is fair to say, coming to a place
in their life where they really say, hey, I want to do this,
or I recognize, no, it's actually really important
to build this type of relationship.
If you're in a mindset where you're moving toward that,
I say, make that a priority and hang on to it,
you know,
because I think it is really, really a valuable thing to do.
But it's hard to see sometimes,
especially in the midst of everything.
Pat says.
Over the past year, I've been on a journey reshaping my life.
Incredible.
I realized love is the key to everything.
Every day I show love to others with small acts of kindness.
I am learning to love myself.
Like, thank you so much for sharing that.
That is so beautiful.
Hey, this is this is so great.
Thank you so much.
I have, I have this is going to fit in so nice.
I bring these comments back with one of my perspectives here
that, this is what I am saying,
that this is a process, a daily practice,
something that we are trying to do.
And I think there's a really profound space
that it's much harder to show love for others
on a deep level
when we don't really have love for ourselves, even.
And some these things do flow both ways, though
practicing love for others
can help be a mirror to show us, love for ourself.
Then.
Then we can help to flow out
and it can go definitely the other way.
So I put this good enough or neutral mindset
when we're approaching something really deep and profound.
It can cut both ways.
It can be inspirational, like.
Something very good we can see that we're striving for,
and it can also feel overwhelming.
And I think especially when we're in a really difficult place,
if we're struggling with darkness
of some kind, depression, discouragement,
things that are negatively feeding it can feel so far away,
And so I've said this on the channel, basically,
my points are like key things that I think I
that I have taken away
from some of our reflections over the last year.
We don't have to be perfect. Certainly.
Good enough. I really like and a neutral mindset.
If we say like the pinnacle of the mountain,
total love and acceptance for myself
and others is like is such a huge thing.
Like, can just finding a place that is neutral to me
is like definitely a place where you can start.
This is just the best
we are heading into, just like the deepest
sort of space here is like,
thank you so much for like posting this.
Let's all think deeply on it.
Let's everybody do some really deep thinking on on this.
What is love even to begin with?
Okay, let's really not rush it and think about it.
Love this thinking.
I just love this.
Maybe you can't look in the mirror.
You know I love this. This is a great thing to do.
Give yourself a smile and a mirror.
Expand on that with baby steps.
How do you do that?
Okay, say if you can't look in the mirror and say like,
I love this person.
You know, it's just,
you know, can you look in the mirror and say,
hey, look like this is me, you know?
And I am doing my best,
you know, here is a person who is doing their best.
My body is here with me.
That's what we see in the mirror, right?
We see the body.
Body is here.
It is keeping me alive.
It is like I think I've been thinking a lot about.
All the cells in our body are like, it's a team, right?
Everybody is working together.
Everybody got their part to play and.
Keeping this system going don't need to judge it.
Find gratitude for it.
Maybe start sending some gratitude.
Like here is like an antidote.
Like if we can't get to self-love, can we be neutral?
And then on the other side, we have self-hatred, right?
So to move away from self-hatred and toward self neutrality
is the start of a path towards self-love, right?
This is what I'm saying is a process.
You can't necessarily switch there all at once.
Gratitude is the is an incredible practice
to start moving along that journey
and then a practice finding the neutral space of saying,
hey, I'm just okay here, you know,
can we be okay with ourself before we can
perhaps deeply love and accept ourselves?
Have to be okay with ourself first?
And this is a total space like that that you're describing.
Say we spend time with people we care about, right?
We want to do it.
But do we share that same perspective with ourself,
like you're saying,
just being present and still Getting to know myself,
not necessarily loving, but just being present of this.
Yeah.
These are the sort of spaces that
that I think are really powerful to build it.
Sit in a space like this.
Can you do it can be surprisingly difficult.
That's what I would say.
And maybe like baby steps, like atomic habits,
like some of the things we've been working through and thinking
start small.
This is what I would say.
Maybe just a few minutes
and then a place where you can build on it from
there is really powerful.
Like if we are, you know, coming from a classic medical
perspective, we're say we're we're trying to lose weight,
we're trying to adopt some dietary practice or, you know,
I try to share every good practice of health that we can have.
It's like one thing to learn about it, another to do it.
And so the practice of doing these things,
I always say they need to be done in a loving way.
It's like,
which means everything done from a mindset of kindness
and also the type of.
Loving thought that I'm saying is also courageous.
Like that is a mindset
that is willing to do something difficult
in order to show care and compassion to something,
especially ourself.
These are thoughts I really love this.
Like to just see something like this thought.
That the good, the good can overcome evil
and like to to see it the way you are explaining it.
If we are in a dark place to look in
and see the good in a situation,
and to have hope and to believe that
they you know, this is where I'm seeing
where we're in this zone that is kind of like medicine,
but it's kind of beyond it,
and it's kind of into life, beyond it.
And really bigger ideas like of like, what is the human spirit?
And to me, these are the sorts of ideas
that we can carry back into other parts of our life
and give us the actual strength and power and ability
to change.
To actually have real physical effects in the body,
lower
the stress levels, get our blood pressure in a better place,
absolutely have real metabolic effects in the body,
but by thinking much bigger.
Thank you for sharing that.
Okay.
Point two that came up adopt the perspective of a best friend.
I've used this one a lot before.
Like if you imagine yourself.
As like your best friend.
If your friend came to with your situation,
how would you treat them?
Wouldn't you show them love and kindness and compassion,
and you would try to help them and be gracious to them?
And do we treat ourselves that way?
And so if we are trying to build a loving practice,
accepting ourselves,
I have found this to be a really thought provoking thing.
Personally,
when I realized the first time I don't remember where
I first heard about this idea,
but I say, well, I certainly don't treat myself
the way I would treat a friend.
I. I spend a huge amount of time
a best friend comes to me, is really struggling.
I would sit down with them, I'd give them all the time
that I possibly could and I'd try to help them.
I was like,
how much time do I really give to myself to really listen,
you know, try to take care of myself
on an emotional sort of level.
I realize practically zero, and
I strung along for a long period of time like that.
So still things started going really badly.
And then you start to realize, like, you know, I didn't even
realize, I think, like, have have you realized it like that?
You can actually have a relationship with yourself.
It seems so abstract.
It's like, no, we have relationships with other people.
Like,
it's like you don't even realize it's a thing that you can do.
But if you start to see yourself, okay,
mind and body is like a place where we can start to see it.
Well, mind, we can certainly use the mind to care for the body.
Body is certainly using its resources
to care for the mind to me,
I'll tell you, it's harder to weave in
and think in something as abstract as a spirit.
It's like how?
What is that?
And how do we we've it in if we are to like that. But.
Yeah, this is really thinking about it.
Are we practicing what we're preaching?
Are we doing the actual work for our own self?
And so see if you like this. Have you used this?
Do you treat yourself like a friend?
When you think about it in that regard,
it really can start to realize
like, oh, I there's another thing that's like a mirror.
You know, I was like, oh, I don't really know if I am.
Or maybe think of some deep conversations
that you've had with a friend.
How have you actually acted and cared toward them,
and then try to mirror that in your own life and realize,
you know, the struggles and things that you are going through,
and can that bring in some compassion for yourself and,
you know, realize, like, you know,
I am a person here who is struggling and doing my best
and finding compassion in that space is another avenue
like we did gratitude on the first one as a practice
to help us move toward it, and then practicing compassion.
I think a thing that we can see here daily
practices, things that we routinely do.
That can help us take small steps every day
so that we are not overwhelmed
as we're moving toward, toward the goal that we actually have.
Here's number three.
Practicing acceptance in the present moment.
So like here's another theme.
Like, I don't know that some of this is our themes
that I'm trying to pick out of the the ideas
and thinking that we've been doing on this,
these sessions that have resonated with me
the most over, over time. And.
The present moment is certainly something
that I've talked a lot about, thinking a lot about.
And it's the type of thing that.
I think we have to continually center ourself on.
I think it's like a grounding space to realize that
most of the things that bring us distress,
stress and distress in our life.
Even if they are here now with us as
situations are still present, so much of the history
and the judgment is in the past,
and so much of the worry and things is in the future.
And these are things that pull us away
from what we can do right now
and, and from,
you know, the reality and grounding in this space
where we can actually have some measure of control,
perhaps, of the things in our actual life.
We can't control the future,
and we certainly can't change the past.
But we do have some agency here right in this moment,
even if it is very small,
even, you know, wouldn't
we want agency to control other people?
At least I know I do, unfortunately,
but that's something that we can't have.
You know, this is a space
I know personally that I've dealt with of why I've been,
at various moments, angry about different things,
because wouldn't
we like it to be able to control other people?
But it's hard enough, isn't it, to control ourself?
Very difficult actually takes a lot of thoughtfulness.
And so.
Coming into this present moment is the space
where we can actually practice love for ourselves.
If we're trying to dig deep here in it, how do we do it?
You say, what does it look like?
We're trying to get all this other stuff
that doesn't really exist out of the way.
The future doesn't really exist yet.
Right now is what exists now is where we can show love
and acceptance to ourself.
Some session we did, maybe a month or so ago,
we were diving deeper on acceptance
and it was something I wanted to think definitely more about.
Isn't there a space where we say we don't accept things?
You know, it's like.
I think it's the process of accepting things,
not fighting necessarily.
These are my thoughts right in the moment, not fighting.
It is how we stop sending energy into it, accepting it
and seeing it is actually the process
of how we start coming to peace with things,
and we stop feeding into negativity,
accepting it, seeing things for what it is that we can
then start just bringing love and light to it.
And is this the counterforce
to the struggle and the difficulty that actually helps
us to overcome
and move through very difficult obstacles in our life?
I think it is so practicing acceptance.
Not that we agree with something,
not that we like it, but practicing acceptance.
If you're in a dark place, just like starting by accepting it,
maybe you say a phrase like,
I am really in a difficult place today.
You know, just like seeing it and acknowledging
and accepting it
be like the opposite of living in denial, you know what I mean?
Like,
have you ever had a season where you were living in denial?
Like, I've gone through gigantic seasons of denial where huge.
Problems going on and it's just like, don't look at it.
Don't see it very hard for us if we have actual.
Problem obstacle in our life,
like we can bring it right back into our standard,
you know, health space,
you know, trying to solve a health issue.
Okay.
If we're in denial about something,
maybe in the emotional space, maybe somewhere else,
very hard for us to actually move forward, we see.
It's like we often
have to get out of that sort of space numbers
and get into the emotional space
in order to solve some of these problems.
I think this one acceptance, the path out of denial.
Very reality based. That's what I want.
Everything that we're doing, reality based,
not turning a blind eye
to anything, seeing things as they are
so we can make actual, real,
you know, tangible progress over time
is but doing the deep work of it, you know, nothing about.
What I'm saying is that there is a shortcut or an easy button,
you know?
The deep work of of getting to the root level of why
things are is the way that you can make a process
that is sustainable.
People sell, you know, think of the supplement industry
and the things everybody trying to say,
oh, you just get my new is.
Get my new thing.
Everybody looking for a new thing.
Much easier to put our hope onto a new supplement
or a new thing than it is to doing the deep
work of finding acceptance. On a really deep level.
But when we do that, as difficult as it might be,
then it can become
sustainable in the long term.
So that's what I want for people. That's the big thing.
I want for people sustainable, real long term.
Journey toward health.
That's what we are on. Here.
I put for accumulate small acts of respect.
You call that maybe small acts of love or kindness.
That's where Pat's comment, especially
I was thinking of a smile holding the door for someone.
Right.
Just these small acts that we bring in, say, I want to be.
You were saying we have this pinnacle moment or experience
that we're looking for the total love
and acceptance and kindness.
Well, very hard to be practicing that
every moment all the time
when we start practicing things like this.
Small acts, doing what we can in a moment to show kindness.
This is, you know, little bits of evidence that we have.
That I'm actually doing this, that I'm sharing,
you know, love and kindness for other people.
So we're accepting things we can practice.
We could accumulate small acts of acceptance, places
where perhaps in the past
we would have reacted in anger, that we accept,
and then we flow through it in a more peaceful way.
On the cover picture for this, didn't I say the missing piece?
You know, except definitely a way to find peace in our life.
So put the guns down, stop fighting the war,
find acceptance for it,
and then moving forward through these things.
In a loving way.
Loving in this perspective is not a weak way.
That's what I would say.
Loving is actually the type of love that would sacrifice.
For something very powerful.
I'm thinking I read a book, Leo Tolstoy, a few years ago.
The Kingdom of God is within you, Leo Tolstoy,
and that is like this.
The kingdom is within. The kingdom is love.
I love this and, you know, Tolstoy,
I have to get back into my mind.
I'm pretty sure that Tolstoy traveled from Russia
to India and actually met Gandhi.
I might be making this up.
You can fact check it.
Maybe it was just that his books went there.
Maybe Gandhi was reading Tolstoy.
But definitely as I was reading an anthology of Gandhi's
writings and Gandhi
definitely read The Kingdom of God as within you,
and because he talked about it.
Gandhi was in the military for a time.
He had my understanding.
I'm not a Gandhi scholar.
Okay, I read one book. Okay.
But Gandhi at one point was thinking of
using his military knowledge to leader,
you know, an actual violent revolution
in India to fight the British.
And my understanding, especially after reading Tolstoy,
is that he came to the conclusion that the loving path
is the next level,
that you have to be willing to fight for what you believe in.
And that you pass through that phase to actually love.
And that his nonviolent strategy, in his view,
is even much more powerful than simply attacking someone
and fighting a revolution that the real revolution,
which I would say I do
believe is a revolution of love and kindness, loving
even our enemies that he actually loved,
you know, the occupying force, the British troops.
He didn't want to kill them.
He would rather share love with him.
That's
why he started holding all of his meetings in the public.
And people hated it to say,
why are you doing all of your meetings in public like that?
Now? The British, they know everything that you're doing.
And he basically said, some of these people,
really good people, they're going to help us.
They're going to see what they're doing.
And we we're going to overcome this whole thing
just by sharing love to everybody.
And it worked.
You know, it's just he forced the most powerful military
out of the country, but it took incredible sacrifice.
They wore white robes so that when they were beaten, the blood
would come across and everyone could see it, you know?
So this is a type of love
that I'm really talking about like that.
And, you know, it's, you know,
the type of thing that really, really makes you think.
Do you, do you have that level
of love and kindness for yourself?
Like, okay, now we're heading back toward the
the pinnacle of the mountain.
And then we got to ground ourselves back in the daily practices
of doing the small thing, holding the door for someone,
giving someone a smile to help, like encourage. Right.
And these are the processes that we can build
as we're trying to move in this direction.
Do you see or do you feel, as I'm saying it,
that we're, as we're on a health path?
That if we can have a mindset like this, that we're building.
That it is actually a type of strength.
Do you see that
love is strength, that it is, courage and the ability
to do something worthwhile even in the face of difficulty.
And isn't this the type of thing
that we are actually trying to build
and do to flow back into our health space?
To say, say, is love the ultimate weight loss strategy?
You know, if is this the loving path for ourself,
where we are showing kindness and building the daily practices
and routines that actually are showing love
and helping health to flourish
in, to, to the body, to ourselves.
I think it is.
And even if it wasn't, you know, let's make the counterargument
like or a counterargument of some kind.
But if I am wrong about it and it isn't, you know,
like if we actually were pursuing this path
and we were becoming more kind
and loving and having an experience
where we are helping joy and flourishing
to happen, like, wouldn't it be wouldn't that be a better thing
anyway?
You know, like if I had to choose between being more kind
and loving or having like some health effect than I wanted,
I mean, I think I would choose, I would choose love anyway.
But I personally do think it really is actually the case
that we nurture our way, that we love our way to health
and not punishing our way.
There, I think, really is.
I believe it anyway.
Label the inner critic.
This is, you know, getting metacognitive on it.
This is my point five.
It's hard to build love and acceptance for ourselves.
I think we can.
We all agree it's like something that you really have
to dedicate yourself toward.
And for whatever reason, as far as I can see in this life,
things that are valuable.
Have resistance to doing them.
And don't you wonder why is that exactly?
But it is the way it is, I think it's.
So. Resistance to things can take different forms. And.
For many people it's kind of like a voice, like a quiet voice.
Do you experience it this way where it's like
you have something that you are wanting,
but then the voice or the thought to the perspective of saying,
oh, you can't do that.
You're not good enough for that.
You're not the type of person who does that.
Look how many times you tried to do that and you failed.
Might as well not even try.
Do you ever experience anything like that?
Have to start separating out.
Like who we are from what we are thinking, from the thoughts.
Remember in the fall we were doing thinking fast and slow
and and it was getting into the deep brain centers
that sometimes they're just throwing out ideas
like as a problem solving.
And these ideas aren't necessarily us.
We can have like ideas happening
that are just thoughts and we can see them like picture, okay,
we are like the sky and thoughts are like clouds, okay?
They are passing by but the sky is there, clouds are passing.
I did that one video.
I love fasting with clouds. Like right.
I just see that one.
I just I loved that, right?
Clouds like problems we have.
They are passing away okay.
And fasting space.
What we're trying to do here in this space,
even the thing as we're thinking
about these things, look, the body is running,
the metabolism is going.
If we're fasting right, then
energy is being consumed,
the body is running and the clouds are passing away.
I love the analogy.
All right.
So we can label these things the self-criticism, right?
Isn't this the opposite of the love and acceptance
we're trying to build?
The judgment and the self-hatred
and all these negative things that are coming,
the process, labeling these things,
seeing these things are not part of me.
These things.
Maybe we accept that they're here.
We label them and see them,
but we see them for what they really are
just judgments of the mind,
just temporary things that are passing.
Just by labeling it don't have to do anything else to it.
Can be a path forward
that I'm connecting in my mind right now up to that first one.
Finding a neutral mindset first, saying
that things don't have to be perfect, they can be good enough.
This is something you can tell the inner critic
when it is attacking and it is trying to block our path.
We can say, hey,
you can float away here, I see what you're doing.
You are blocking me. This is not who I am.
And we can show right in that moment
some kindness to ourselves by saying, hey,
good enough is good enough for me today.
And and that can be a way to flow through it.
One last one.
I put in here.
Don't be afraid to ask for help.
Which I think is, so important, can be so difficult to do.
I spent a very great amount of time in my own life
being, for whatever reason, afraid to ask for help.
I don't like to ask for help for anything.
You know, I don't know, it's an issue I have, I guess,
and maybe there are reasons for that.
You say, well, then, because we don't feel like we are good
enough, is just asking for help.
Feels like here's one more thing I can't do is more evidence
that I'm not good enough.
These are the sorts of reasons
why it is so important to work on these things,
to build out these mindsets.
Didn't I do a video somewhere back there
like like telling yourself like I am enough, right?
I am good enough.
Like this is another part of things that actually this is where
we're getting into a space with it's,
you know, a discussion like this of doing versus being.
So didn't Queen of Heaven say right in here
that just be in a space?
Is enough?
You know,
we are in the middle of this gigantic industrial machine
that values people based on what they produce.
And if we aren't constantly doing something
or, you know, we can feel like that isn't good enough.
And so to ask for help, it's like another thing like, oh,
we are lacking in something. We.
I'm kind of connecting those in my mind, if that makes sense.
Many different places where we can ask for help,
like when we are going through a darker, difficult season.
Definitely reaching out,
leaning on others is an incredible thing to do.
Like, can't take the whole weight of the world,
you know,
it's like we are meant to go through these things together and.
Whether that's a friend or it's a medical professional or it's
someone else that we are close to, like, absolutely.
Don't be afraid to reach out for help.
Really appreciate these discussions.
See where you think this can be the the first step
in a a broader conversation?
I hit these questions.
I spent a lot of time thinking about it.
Last night is a place to start.
I think we could have a lot of ongoing conversation with it.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, I love this, I am love,
I know this because I live in life is love.
This is so many beautiful thoughts shared in this session.
I just I've really loved it.
Thank you all for sharing these thoughts.
I hope I wish you all also a great weekend
and yeah, wish you the very best.
Think more on these thoughts.
Come back, throw more comments on the video if you have
more comments here, let's have an ongoing discussion about it.
I do some more thinking on it for next week
and we'll see where we head in the next week.
I am excited to find
