Deepika Chopra

And there is an aspect of that where we need to work on boundering, like how much information and stimulation we are exposed to, of course.

And that's something else that I want to talk about and the nervous system.

But the point is I've been sharing this new stat and people are kind of just like, yeah, well, duh.

And for me, that stat was not, yeah, duh.

Of course.

I know that's not surprising.

It wasn't a stat that is like, whoa, I would never have thought that.

But it is a stat and some of the ones you listed too that are astounding enough that we are like, this should make us want to do something.

Like we need to change.

And what it tells me is that people are not looking for positivity.

They are looking to be equipped with the tools to navigate through everyday life.

And that is what I am passionate about and what the book is about.

It is giving people the tools so that they don't look away and they're not

being numbed out and paralyzed by the fact that, or desensitized because every day feels like you just read the headlines or you wake up and you just start your day.

And there's 50 things that have already happened that should be shocking to you, but you heard the same 50 things yesterday, or maybe 44 of them the day before.

And now you're almost becoming apathetic.

And because it's a survival method, we don't have, we were not, we can't carry everything the way we are carrying it.

We need a new way.

And so these tools are equipping ourselves to be able to show up, stay engaged, still be deeply caring about our own lives and about the world, but have a way to carry it and walk through it without numbing out.

And I think that