Dr. Lee Long

Nobody's out here.

It's just me.

And it was almost as if, and it wasn't audible.

I don't need medication.

I'm kidding.

But it was almost like it was audible that he said, when you look in the mirror, does the reflection of my image coming back to you cause you as much awe as all of this does?

None of this is made in my image.

You are.

That stopped me in my tracks.

But think of the most beautiful places on earth.

And he says, if you say you love me but hate your brother, you're a liar.

Well, and what did your mama do when you told lies?

I think that's it.

I think that we, again, we live life outside of ourselves.

That's through comparison.

I think it's through, you know, mind reading, not, not thinking about, uh, not, not, or thinking about what somebody else thinks of you without taking the space to clarify, like an assumption basically are trying to control the world around us because we're afraid to enter into it.

And I think that, you know, anxiety and depression are on, you know, a steep, steep incline.

And I think that, you know, those things cause us to shut down.

Like we don't, we won't reach out and, you know, be open to things.

We're afraid of things.