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Hello and welcome back to RealPod. Thank you for coming to this episode today. I'm

really excited actually to talk about this because I feel like it's something that everyone

experiences and I got this idea because I was at Virginia Tech this week speaking and

it was part of the Q&A. A student asked the question, you know, how do I get out of a

mental slump? And I gave them my favorite answer, which I will share with you today.

But that will be tip number five. So you're going to have to get through one, two, three

and four. If you want to hear my favorite tip for a mental slump, but I'm hoping that

I can give you five things that can really help you sort of shift your mentality, your

emotions, your attitude when you're feeling low and you're feeling down. And a few things

I just want to say before we get into it, the first thing is when I think of a mental

slump, I think of just kind of being sad or just kind of being down and there's no

particular reason. There's nothing really serious about the sadness, but you're just

not feeling yourself and you're just feeling sad. So for those people or those emotions,

these are my five tips. If you're feeling something really more severe, you know, like depression

or severe anxiety or panic attack, obviously I don't think that five little tips I can

give you will cure that. I know from experience that when people tell me like, oh, just be

grateful or just be happy. You know, you're I'm like, uh, yeah, that's not how it works.

So don't worry, I totally get you there. But if you're just having one of those weeks

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