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SureEyes: [00:00:00] you're listening to quintessentially mental a podcast hosted by sure eyes, please note that this host is not a mental health practitioner or professional, and this podcast is not made for treatment of any mental illness. 

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[00:00:32] SureEyes: [00:00:32] Hey y'all this is quintessentially mental, the podcast, and I'm your host SureEyes today's episode is called getting too old for this shit.

[00:00:48] Inspiration for this being that, you know, at various times on my mental health journey, I find myself thinking, but now haven't I dealt with this haven't I been here haven't I shouldn't, I, should I be too old for this shit though? Should I not have arrived? And so I really want to, you know, chat with someone who

[00:01:16] has been on a, on a similar lengthy therapy journey, um, in terms of managing their mental health and trying to understand, you know, do we, do we ever arrive? Do we ever reach a point where we're like, yep. See that issue. We see you. We know you're there. You know, you're not going to get us because honestly we're too old and too wise for this shit.

[00:01:45] Um, yeah. So I think, I think given, given my own mental, mental health journey, um, And it's something I always, I always laugh about in hindsight, it's usually when I'm telling the story of what happened, you know, when this person said this and I did that and, but now am I not getting too old for this shit?

[00:02:09] You know? And, and I guess my questions becomes. How do we transition this into the moment when, when it's actually happening for us to, you know, change our behavior and, and say, look, you know, we we've, we've been here, we've done this, we've got the t-shirt and we we've got this, you know, and, and we can progress and move forward, um, on this journey.

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[00:02:54] SureEyes: [00:02:54] Welcome back to quintessentially mental the podcast hosted by SureEyes .

[00:02:59]Hey, ya'll, so this is quintessentially mental, the podcast, and I'm joined by a new friend of mine, actually, my brothers squeeze. her name is Taryn . Hey girl, how you doing. 

[00:03:12] Taryn Holmes: [00:03:12] Good. How you doing? 

[00:03:13] SureEyes: [00:03:13] I'm good. Did you enjoy a little intro? 

[00:03:16] Taryn Holmes: [00:03:16] Was amazing. I mean, I don't know about that little squeeze part, but sure. Let's go with that 

[00:03:21] SureEyes: [00:03:21] main squeeze, 

[00:03:23] Taryn Holmes: [00:03:23] only squeeze.

[00:03:31] SureEyes: [00:03:31] Well, we're pretty new friends. And like we've, we've had quite a few mental health conversations, mostly because we've both, we're kind of similar in age and have been in. Therapy for like what feels like most of our adult lives. Um, and so, you know, 

[00:03:53] what I kind of want to chat with you about is. This idea of, have we ever really dealt with our mental health? Like, Oh, do you think we're going to be in therapy for the rest of our life? 

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