Take it away.

Okay, thank you.

I respect that.

I guess, you know, I'm a human, you know, on the earth, just like all of us doing my best.

And I've learned a lot of hard lessons, which I know from your background, I know you can resonate with.

And the big theme of my work is that, you know, I discovered along the way that most forms of suffering, so mental, emotional, physical, financial, relational, so personal and professional suffering and problems, I could tie back to us never learning how to have a healthy, loving, optimal relationship to ourselves in childhood.

Basically, no one ever taught us how to love ourselves, how to have a healthy relationship to our mind, to our emotions, to our body.

Can we talk about some of the habits that would help us get that under control so that we are coming from a place of logic, not emotion a little more often?

Mm.

And, um, one night when I was 17, I was coming home from a party in the middle of the night, and I had taken a couple Xanax pills and had been drinking all night and smoking cannabis all night, and I did this all the time, and, and I thought that I was invincible.

And I got to a freight train in the middle of the night.

I was literally about one minute from home, and I couldn't keep my eyes open as the train was passing, and so I pulled up right to the guardrail, and thankfully I put my car in park, and I put my head back, and I fell asleep.

And I woke up to police knocking on the window, and I rolled down the window, and I said, "Excuse me, officer.

Was I driving too slow?" And he said, "Son, you've been parked here for at least an hour with the car running and the lights on, and we got a call from this house over here that there's a car parked in front of the train tracks." So, you know, I got out of the car.

I went through all the sobriety tests.

Mm.