It's Okay To Not Feel Okay

Some mornings don’t start with motivation—they start with weight. We open the mic on a day that felt crooked and talk honestly about PTSD flare-ups, addiction recovery, and why a single siren can pull old symptoms back. Instead of hiding the hard parts, we map them: the difference between being tired and being empty, how to choose the right kind of rest, and what it takes to refill when your compassion tank runs dry. Along the way, we share stories from Bible study with recruits, nature walks that quiet the noise, and small choices that turn pain into purpose.

Our conversation keeps circling back to community and faith. Comfort received becomes comfort given; grace on the mountaintop and grace in the valley. You’ll hear how vulnerability builds real connection—online and face-to-face—and why you don’t need perfect days to help someone else. If anything, your scars make you easier to understand. We push back on grind culture, name the lies that grow loud when we isolate, and offer practical tools: box breathing, unplugging, moving at God’s speed, and calling a friend before you retreat.

If you’ve ever wondered whether a setback erases your progress, this is your reminder: healing is messy and still healing. You’re not disqualified by bad days. You belong in a community that will sit with you, pray for you, and cover the work while you rest. Share this with someone who needs a lift, and email Dan at 10-42project.org if you want to connect.

If you or someone you know is in crisis and at risk of self-harm, please call or text 988, the suicide and crisis lifeline. 

To contact us directly send an email to  Dan@10-42project.org  or call 515-350-6274
Visit our website! 10-42project.org
Check us out on social media!
Youtube: @1042project
Facebook: www.facebook.com/1042project
Instagram: 1042_project

Transcript

Heavy Morning, Honest Opening

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome back to another episode of the Shared Voices podcast brought to you by the 1042 Project. We have Jake and Brianna on the mics today. Thanks for coming back on for another episode. Brianna.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

How are you doing, Jake?

SPEAKER_02 0:22

I'm well. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Good. I'm alright. Kind of heavy today, honestly, if I can be real.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Are your glasses a little crooked right now?

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Dude, I feel like my whole world's a little crooked today. You ever just wake up, man, and you just don't feel it?

SPEAKER_02 0:34

So the glasses were crooked, but you were you felt like the world was level.

Why We Built A Grace-Filled Community

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Yeah, now everything's fine. Why didn't you just tell me that earlier? No, now I'm good. No. But no, I uh yeah, we just got to record one episode. Things have been busy. We've had a lot going on lately. Um yeah, just kind of worn down, Jake. A little tired. Um when I get tired, I get I start to start to struggle emotionally sometimes, right? It's like when we get tired, we put our guards down, we start to believe the lies of the enemies. And today I woke up kind of heavy, but we're gonna record anyway. And I actually wanted to record a podcast episode about um the days that you don't feel like you have it all together. The days where you feel like you've been doing really good, and then you may wake up uh full of depression or sadness, or not even have the will to get out of bed someday, because I still battle with that. We've talked about that on here before. Um, healing is a journey, it's not just a smooth paved road that you go down with no bumps. Um, it gets kind of rough. But that's why we created this organization is because unlike a lot of treatment that's out there in organizations, the difference between our organizations, we allow each other to go through the highs and the lows. We give each other grace when we're at the on the mountaintops, but we also give each other grace when we're we're in the we're in the valley. Um some days I wake up and all I want to do is just go out and and and be the hands and feet of Christ and to help other people, but there's other days I just want to stay in bed and cry. Today was kind of one of those mornings, um, but we're here. Um I know God will give us the strength to get through this, but I did want to do an episode about um when times get tough. A lot of people think just because I've been doing this five years and I come out on a podcast and talk that I am all well and perfect, and I just want you to know that's not the case. I'm getting better every day. Um, the more people I have, the more people I have around me, the better off I am. Having team members like everybody sitting at this table right here, where I know when I'm having a weak day that I can get some grace and some love. I can call up you guys, and I know you will step in and fill in where I'm weak, and that's that's the power of community, right? That's the power of doing life together, is you don't have to carry that burden, you don't have to carry all that by yourself. So I think thank all of you um who are here today to uh just being a great friend to me and allowing me um to have a rough day. Because it's okay to have a rough day, and I know it'll be okay. Um, I think I'm just getting tired and worn out. Um but Jake, you and I have had a lot of conversations lately about the enemy's attacks, not good, the the the the peaks, we've had talks about the valleys, we've wrote them out together. Um so thanks for thank you for being willing to jump on. I know I can bring you on with really not giving you much of what we're gonna talk about today, besides I'm struggling a little bit, I'm a little tired, and I know you've dealt with that, and you've helped me through it, and I've helped you through it. And Brianna, you've been there as well. So, Jake, um how you doing?

Triggers, Setbacks, And Discouragement

SPEAKER_02 3:57

I'm doing okay in this moment, but as I was listening to you talk, I'm thinking like I I'm no stranger to to struggling. I'm I'm I'm a lot newer to having good days and good weeks than I than I am to having bad days or bad weeks. And what I've been dealing with lately is thanks, you know, in a big part to you and this organization, I I had a I had several really good weeks in a row, you know, a couple good months, months in a row, really, where at times I almost forgot that there was even anything wrong with me. Like I forgot about PTSD, I forgot that I'd been an addict in the past and I'm newly back into s sobriety. I kind of forgot about it. Things just got easy. And then I heard a siren out my out my bedroom window one night, and that was a couple weeks ago, and it's it's just been it's not like I went back to where I was, but it I've got symptoms again. Like I've got I've had nightmares. I've had I'd say a panic attack and a half. If you've had panic attacks, you know what I mean when uh by half a half a panic attack. And it gets really discouraging. It's been really discouraging, especially because this is like this is really one of my first or second iterations of what you're describing. You've been doing this for five years, you've been up and down for five years, and I I came out of a phase where I was just down for several years and and just had my first up. And yeah, it's uh it can be pretty heavy for sure. But it's better. It's better with you, it's better with all you guys, it's better this way. And you know, like last week you you invited me to the to the Bible study at the academy. I didn't want to go. I did not want to go.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

I could tell in your voice you were struggling.

Turning Pain Into Purpose

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Yeah, I didn't want to go anywhere. I didn't want to do anything. I certainly didn't want to go to an I I d looking back, I had the enemy in my ear tell telling me that these these recruits don't want to hear this. They don't care, they're not gonna show up, they're not gonna participate, and that couldn't have been further from the truth. Yeah. I left there feeling so much better. So much better. And that's what happens every time. Every time I get out and go do something and and turn the pain into purpose and and connect with other people who have been there, it it just's a lot better that way.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

I've always found Brianna that on days where I'm struggling the most, I feel like the enemy wants me to stay in bed and just have these horrible thoughts. And that's what I used to do, is kind of just stay there and and sit in the cycle of suck and let it just get worse and worse and worse. Um, but what I found is I have to I have to get myself up and go out and help somebody. Because what I've learned is that man, I get a lot of help when I get out and start using that all the lies the enemies are telling is telling me, when I can go out and and speak truth inside the lies the enemies tell me and walk alongside somebody and help someone, um, it it brings life to me.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Yeah, I can totally relate. Um, in the sense of helping people helps me. Um otherwise, I I'm can be in that same spot where I don't want to do anything at all. But um, in a previous podcast, uh, someone had talked about being a person that helps people, and and that was kind of as I found myself, you know, stepping into this organization and trying to figure out who I am or what I'm doing. Um, that was something that really stuck with me was that being a person that helps people and that helps kind of keep me out of out of my own way.

Comfort Received, Comfort Given

Vulnerability Over Perfection

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Yeah. There's power in that. And uh in 2 Corinthians 1, um three through three through five. I just want to read part of it because honestly, this is kind of the heart and soul of our organization and why we do what we do and why we why why some days some days we're good and some days we don't do as well. But it says, God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. So the same love and comfort that God gives us through our struggles, he's doing that for us, but he's also doing it for us so we can help give life to other people. And if you think about this organization and what we do is it is just that we are all getting healing and trying and getting up every day and giving each other grace and getting better. We're not just doing it for ourselves, but we're doing it so we can actually meet with people one-on-one and to be able to speak some life into them. And some days when I'm having the heaviest days, one of the best things I can do is get up and do that. Go call somebody who I know is struggling, you know, and not blow smoke up their butt. It's okay to tell them you're struggling too. But give them a call, check on them. Um, don't go through it by yourself. Allow iron to sharpen iron. A friend sharpens a friend. Uh we've talked about it here several times, Jake, but we don't connect through our strengths and our greatnesses. It's through our weaknesses and vulnerabilities. I think that's why everybody here at this table has such a strong connection. It's not because neither, it's not because none of us look at each other and think, wow, you are super great and super powerful and super cool. It's that no, you're a human being and you're being open, honest, and transparent. It's easy to go out and talk about your good days. It's easy to blast all the good days on social media. Look at me and my family out doing all this stuff. But what do you do on the hard days? Because that's who you are. It's on your hard days. And you don't have to go through this alone. The same power that raised Christ from the death lives in you. He can strengthen you and he can strengthen you to be able to strengthen others. When it comes to giving help and getting help, please don't just sit back and say, I'm not qualified because I'm struggling. I'm not qualified because I have I still have these ups and ups and downs. That actually qualifies you to help people. Because if all you do, Jake, is have ups and no downs, is anybody going to relate to you? Because that's not real.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

No. And I've had several people that I've I've talked to through this organization. I talk about my story and I talk about August 12th. You know, that was our day. And and I've had people that I've talked to for days or weeks even that that will eventually say, like, wait, August 12th of this year. Right. And I say, Yeah, August 12th of this year. Uh, I think one of the people who was surprised by that might be in this room. But uh yeah, I mean, it's just there is no time requirement.

SPEAKER_00 11:01

There's there's not. And that's what I love about August 12th is you saying that for some of you that may know, the August 12th is the anniversary of the day I tried to kill myself that this whole organization started. And I ended up down at Lake Aquabi. And five years later, um, I was actually struggling a little bit that day too, Jake. But five years later, I got to be with you next to the lake and praying with you and Tyler. And um, that was a pretty special day.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Yeah, that was a that was a pivotal moment in my life, for sure. That was more than just a struggling day. That was I was on the brink of losing everything, and uh I'd spent I'd spent a considerable amount of time feeling like I had I had lost any motivation to keep going, like any any any will to live. And yeah, we joke all the time about how I called you and you said let's go fishing. Fishing? Yeah, fishing, Dan. That's what's gonna be. My life's crushing to the heart. But man, did it did it help?

SPEAKER_00 12:00

And Jake, I wouldn't really want to say this to you because um it's a quality in you that I think God, it's a gift that God's given you. But after that day at the lake, you immediately started reaching out and talking with people. I mean, you are like me, and I I would encourage everybody that's listening. If all you have is your voice, you you have a lot. You know, for me, when I got started, it was I had we had nothing, we had no resources, we had nothing besides I was willing to share my story, and at that point I would only share part of it because I wasn't open about the hydrocodone and some of that stuff, right? I was kind of releasing it a little bit. Um but I was really struggling, and I'm losing my train of thought speaking of struggling.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Must be contagious, yeah. Because I don't, I don't, I forgot what you're talking about, too.

Choice, Thoughts, And Surroundings

SPEAKER_00 12:55

That's all right, but and that's what and that's okay, and that's kind of the part of this conversation is that it may not be pretty.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Some days maybe you were talking about uh all you need is your voice, there's nothing else.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

Yeah, use what you have, just use what you have, and that's all I did was use what I had, and I helped the first person, and it wasn't me, it was God helping them. But I showed up for him and I helped him and I walked away, and things got better for that person. And I was like, I don't know why that just happened for that person, but I guess I should keep sharing my story. I didn't really know how to do any of this stuff, but I just started with sharing that one story with the one person, and it becomes here's what I think about help. Like when it comes to reaching out for help, like if you've ever been at a wedding and all the food's out and it's a buffet style line and everybody's standing around waiting to eat, but nobody wants to be that first person to walk up to the buffet and start eating. But when you start getting help and you start and you share your story, you're like that first person walking up to that buffet, you're grabbing that plate, and then finally everybody else moves in right behind you because they're waiting for that one person to grab a plate and start eating because they didn't want to be the first. Like sharing your story is kind of like that weird analogy I just said.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

I've found that to be especially true on social media because I you've seen what I post. Like, I I I just started posting without really any direction just to just to share some of my story and some of the people that I've messaged me, these are people I've known my whole life. These are some of these people I thought hated me. Maybe they do, maybe they did. I don't know. But just the other day I had another message from a guy that I worked with years ago that I barely ever talked to or or had anything to do with. And he saw a video and he asked for help.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Yeah. Never, I just never would have guessed it.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

Yeah. We always think, you know, when you start helping people, you gotta have all your crap together. Well, let me know. Let me tell you that's not true. If we had to wait for all of us here at the table to have our crap together, none of us would be sitting here today. Because getting your crap together is just kind of a fake, a fake destination to get to. None of us have our crap together. That's why we need God, that's why we need each other. And so we can help get our crap in one bag.

Tired vs Empty: Learn The Difference

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Yeah. Yeah. You you said you mentioned you you met with somebody uh early on and and you thought afterwards, I don't know how that, I don't know how that happened for that person. Right. That's how I feel every single time. It may it's so cool, but it's so confusing at the same time. It's just showing up and just saying, I've been there too, and God helps me out of it. God can help you too. It's like as simple as that.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

It is. That's like Brianna, when we go to the academy, even like getting to talk to those young recruits. Well, some are young, some are older. Um, they just just being able to share your voice and sit down with these people, and it's amazing how much they just absorb it all, how they want to hear it. They want to know how to have a healthy, a healthy career. Um, that's why I love when you guys, when our group comes to the academy, it's not just me, I see it in all of you guys talking to the recruits before and after class, and you guys are all being open, honest, and real and transparent, and they're sharing some hard things with you guys. And I know every, I know not every week, we all fill up to it, but there's power in you guys showing up and doing that and just sharing what you have. Some day you have a full cup, some days you have an empty cup.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

So a word that sticks out to me as you guys are having this conversation is uh choice. I feel like a lot of a lot of this comes down to the choices that you make. And that's unlike both ends. You're you know, making that that choice to go help others, or on their end, making that choice to, you know, make those good decisions or follow that path of of whatever's going to be better for them.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yeah. It all starts with your with your thought, your power of thought, and then your power of choice.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Yeah.

Refilling With Nature, Family, Unplugging

SPEAKER_00 16:54

I think it's special when we can talk on days when we're all not on cloud nine, when we're all not just doing good. Because I think some real conversations come out of days like this. And I know not everybody's feeling heavy today, but but I am. Um because I know there's people listening right now, and they've they've tried, they've been trying to get better, they've been trying to get, you know, get out of the ditch that they're in. And some days they do good and they feel like things are better, and then they crash, they have a bad day, and they feel like it's all for nothing. They feel like we should just that they should just quit. Um, that they're just too broken. But I want everybody to know that that's you're not too broken. That's what healing looks like.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

Yeah, peaks and valleys, but the valleys aren't so low, like you say all the time.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Yeah, yeah. And it matters who you surround yourself with. Because having having people around you during your valleys to give you grace matters. It helps you get out of it if you're if you're hanging around people who all they want to do is is get drink, get drunk all the time and make a joke out of it, and you know, tell you you're being a big pussy or whatever. I mean, you know what I mean? You gotta find people in your life that want to speak life into you, who understand you, who don't want to push you, you know, push you to do things when you're in a weak moment that you're gonna regret for a long time. And I know for me when I get in those weak times, sometimes it can be easy to think about the vices, to think about going back to drinking, to think about going back to that sort of lifestyle I was living. Um, but when you got people around you that make sure you don't go go back to that, that's how that's how you succeed because you can't do it in your own mind, Brian. If we could have done it in our own mind, we would have already done it.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

I feel that.

Invitation To Belong And Reach Out

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Yeah. And you don't have to have an organization to help help people, you don't have to have a podcast. Use your voice. Y'all know somebody that's hurting, y'all have somebody in your departments or somebody you used to work with. Um, be that voice. Don't wait until you're 100% perfect. Just call and check on them. There's power in that. Help right where you are. Be vulnerable. Be willing to go through the uncomfortableness because there's growth when you get through that uncomfortableness. And again, surround yourself with people that matter. Um, if I were, if I had all you guys around me that um would just tell me to keep grinding and to suck it up and uh to move on, and I wouldn't be still doing this today, but because I do have people like you who say, hey man, take the day off, we got you. We'll take care of the academy this week, I got you. Or we'll do this, like that's how we get through this together. And I hope I'm not for you guys. Our organization is here for you listeners. We don't promise we're always gonna have our crap together, but what we promise is we we can listen. We can listen to understand you. We can listen to to walk alongside you. And we can do that because we've been there and we're still going through it. And there's compassion and understanding that happens when you go through that. So please know you are not alone. You do not have to go through this alone. It's okay to have bad days. We love you on your good days. We love you on your bad days. So does God. He understands that. And sometimes we have to, Jake, Brianna, we just have to also listen to what Jesus said about rest. If you notice in the Bible, Jesus didn't run anywhere. And every every book of the Bible that Jesus is in, he walked from town to town. Even when it should have been in an emergency, he never ran. He took a boat. He went at God's speed. We don't have to rush. We don't have to try to carry more than we can. There's a difference between between being tired and being on empty. When you're tired, you can take a nap. When you're on empty, you need more than a nap, Jake.

unknown 21:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Yeah, that really you just said that and it kind of I was spacing out a little bit, no offense.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

But I'd space out if I was talking to.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

And it well, it just who I am as a person. Uh it it snapped me back to the present. Because yeah, there is a difference. That's a really good point. There's a difference between being tired. Like, I mean, I've got little kids, I'm tired a lot.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

But Brianna's nodding her head over there.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

But there there are then there's there's tired where you're just like, it's just a tired day, but it's okay. And then there's there's just I'm not okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Yeah. And no, you gotta know the difference. And you have to know to give yourself grace on those days. If you're on empty, you're on empty. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Well, and you have to have to fulfill, refill yourself, I guess, because how do you continue on and and help others? That was kind of something I was pondering over here as you're as you're talking about that is yeah, is there has to be a difference between being tired and being empty.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Yeah. And when you're empty, you have to refill. A nap won't work. You have to refill. Refill can take a day, it can take five days, it can take longer. You have to re you have to be able to refill. And when we refill, we do it with healthy things. You may need to get out and go sit in the tree stand and do do some deer hunting. It's bow season. You may need to go on a walk, you may need to go for a swim, you need to go play pickleball, you may need to go do whatever. There's ways besides just sitting in bed and crying every day. I know because I've been there and some days I still want to do that. Um, but when you're on empty, it doesn't mean that, at least for me anyway, a lot of times it's not that I'm physically on empty, it's emotionally. It's I notice it in my compassion because I know I'm a loving person, because God dwells in me, but I also know there's times, and I'll tell this to Jake, where we'll leave somewhere and I'll be like, man, I feel like I was I was really harsh on hard on that person. Um we have to be aware of that. Because I don't know about you. If if you guys go on a family road trip and you and you get in the car with your kids, everybody's in a really good mood, everybody's happy, and you're on your way to Mount Rushmore or whatever. I don't know why you'd go there, it's not that great. But you're on your way there, right? Everybody's in a good mood. Good, good mood. Two hours down the road, everybody hates each other, the kids are crying, everybody's hungry, Jake's gotta pee again. I mean, by the end of the trip, when everybody started off loving each other and everything was great, by the end of the trip, everybody's irritated, everybody's tired, everybody's grumpy. And it can get like that in life. Some days you'll catch me on the beginning of the car drive, the next you're catching me getting out of a long car drive in this analogy on empty, and it's okay. I used to judge myself based on how much how well I felt until I realized that God gave us feelings and he gave us all these feelings for a reason, not to just avoid them. But I want you to know you are healing, you're getting better every day. It may not feel like it, but I promise you, as long as you give up, get up every day, you give it to God, and you continue to work on yourself, to work on finding joy again. These things that are holding you back with your whole life, it's it's time to let those go. It's time to quit judging yourself so harsh, to quit thinking you had to be perfect, that you have to be 100% sober to reach out for help, that you have to be 100% just squared away. You don't. Healing's messy. It's part of the journey, and that's why having people around you that can give you grace matters. So if you're feeling down on the dumps today, if you feel like maybe you were you you did really good last week and now you're not, and you want to quit, you think maybe none of this is working, please don't. Because I can tell you from going at this a while now that every day's gonna feel a little different, and that's okay. Allow yourself to feel your feelings, allow yourself to process them, allow yourself to nap, allow yourself to, when you're empty, to refill, refill your cup. I know the world's systems are kind of all against that. Everything's about work and grind and work and grind and work and grind. Um, but I challenge you to try to step away from that. Jake and Brianna, as we close this out, I know it's been kind of a heavy conversation, but it's a real conversation. Um, any last words of encouragement? You guys have been there. You guys know what it's like to not want to get out of bed? What helps you, or how do you how do you refill?

SPEAKER_02 26:25

Well, as I was sitting here, you reminded me of uh something um my therapist I met with today just said, and she told me like after this is my first meeting with a new therapist, so she's just getting to know me and just hearing part of my story, and she said it's a it's really it's it's a miracle that you're to me, she says this to me, it's a miracle you're functioning at all. And it's a perspective that I fail to re recognize in yourself, in myself. And I think as first responders or first responder spouses who have been through all of this stuff, um, I think we've we forget that. Like we've been through some real stuff. And some days just like getting up and like eating, eating a meal is a win. Um but for me, I I expect everything. I expect myself to be able to run a marathon. I expect myself to be able to make a million dollars. I expect myself to be able to do everything, and I expect myself to be able to do it yesterday. But the truth is I've been through some stuff and I I don't function as well as I used to. But what I what I do to refill, uh it just depends. Sometimes I need to be alone and that fills me up, and sometimes I need to be with people. Uh the number one is is nature, just getting out, fishing, going for a hike, or just going to a park and just being around God's creation uh to get away from the distractions. That's that's the tried and true. Because I sometimes running works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes, you know, taking a nap works, sometimes it doesn't. Every time I get outside, it works.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

I love that, and that's how it is for me too. It's something about just the quietness, the hearing the birds, the hearing the wind blowing, as opposed to your mind blow, you know, your mind with all these bad thoughts and everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Brianna, what's what do you do on those days?

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Well, I strongly disagree on those naps because I really like naps. Um sometimes I have to do a little bit of box breathing to get myself to be able to take a nap. But um Hey Jesus nap. Yes. Um, but yeah, I have to say, uh, I love out in the country and and just having having the the nature and um being outside sunshine and um for me it's it's animals. Um I've got my dogs and we've got horses and just you know, being out there. Um also with uh being a mom, I don't get much time to go run around and enjoy those things alone. So um just experiencing life through my children's eyes also is just it's a lot of fun to kind of hear the commentary of a a four-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

So getting back to what matters, right? Yep, the family, the things, yeah, that truly we say we're working hard for.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

Yeah. That's awesome because a lot of times we have family, but yet we don't have family time in a way where we relax or fill our cup.

SPEAKER_01 29:26

Where you're unplugged from everything else.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

There you go. That's a good way to put it. Unplugged. Unplugged is where it's at. I think that's where where a lot of a struggle is unplugging.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

Yeah, yeah. The distractions and everything else will pull you away from what matters most.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

So as you guys can hear, I mean, life's a struggle. Just because you're doing better one day doesn't mean you're you're gonna do okay the next. Just know our organization loves you. We want to help you get plugged in. We want to help you find community, we want to help you find events, get plugged back into your hobbies. We want to help you find joy again. Help you find a way to refill. Because if you would have asked me seven years ago, eight years ago, six years ago, I would have said, I don't even know what refill is. I don't know how to do that. Um, let us help you. You don't have to go through this alone. If you want to start walking alongside and helping somebody, start today. If you want help with that, reach out to our organization. We have areas in our organization you could help. If you want to be an ambassador, if you want to help walk alongside somebody, we don't need you to be perfect, we just need you to be real. So if that's something you're interested in, reach out. There's power in community, there's power in the right community. And the 1040 2 project is here for you. We're here for your family, the whole family. We love you, and we want to let you know on your hard days we love you, and on your good days, we love you, and that you belong. There's an organization here that we are we understand you, we accept you, come as you are, no guilt, no shame. It's our weaknesses and vulnerabilities, is how we connect. So if that all sounds good to you, if that sounds like the type of community you're looking for, reach out to us. You can get a hold of me at Dan at 10-42project.org. If you don't want to hear from me, I get it. Call Jake. Email Jake. Jake at 10-42project.org. Do you know your email, Jake?

SPEAKER_02 31:37

I think that's it.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Okay. Brianna?

SPEAKER_01 31:40

Brianna at 1042. No, sorry, 10-42project.org.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

You guys reach out. It's a start, it's a place. You're going to find some people who love you. We may not have the answers, but we have an ear to listen. We have an ear to listen to understand. So as you go about your week, we just pray a blessing over you. We pray that you just feel hope and joy. Even if you're going through a storm, we just hope you feel God's presence through it. And that you realize yeah, there's an organization out here that wants to walk with that storm, walk through that storm with you. Have a blessed week. Reach out and be the light for somebody this week. Be the light. Share a message with somebody. Find somebody who's hurting. Put your arm around them, hug them. Let them know they're not alone. We all need it. Some days we can give it, some days we need to receive it. We'll see you guys next week. Thanks.