Okay, a lot of viewers seemed really interested in this, which is doing chroma keying blue screen or green screening out the background. And I'm going to be using Blender 2.66 here. This is important that you're using the most recent version of Blender because the tool that I'm going to be using in here is not available in earlier versions. I'm not sure exactly what version it came in. I know that I also have a copy of 2.63 and it's not in there. And there are chroma keying tools in older version of Blender, but this one I feel is a lot simpler and does a better job, although I might do another tutorial for older versions. I don't know. It may not be worth it since everyone will have this in a few months and you can get it right now at the website, Blender.org. Anyway, I'm using Blender 2.66. If what I'm showing you here is missing in yours, it's because you're using a different version. First thing to do anytime you're working with video in Blender is go to your rendering tab here and set your frame rate and your resolution, or at least your frame rate, because Blender doesn't go by seconds and minutes. Maybe there's a way to make it, but as far as I know, it only works with frames. So let's say you had a five minute video at 15 frames a second and you bring it in here and you have it set to 30 frames a second, that five minute video is actually going to turn into a two and a half minute video for you, or the other way around. So just make sure whatever your camera is set to set the frame rate here before you start importing videos and start doing work, it's going to save you a lot of headache later on. So now that we've got that figured out, let's go up here to our little settings tab and we're going to go down to compositing. If you've never worked with the compositor before, I recommend watching some basic videos on it, because it can get confusing if you've never worked with a compositor before with nodes and stuff like that. So I check nodes, I'm going to check background, I'm also going to check auto render, and I'm going to right click and delete that render layer because we're not working with 3D objects at all here, so we don't need that. I'm going to hit and make sure you have your cursor hovered over here, hitting keys in different areas, well you should know the basics of it before you start this tutorial, but hovering over this view, the compositor view up here, the node editor, hit shift A and say import and we're going to say movie clip. Now I'm going to say open and I'm going to go where my movie clip is.  I'm going to click open clip and there it is. Okay, so now at this point I can connect straight to our compositor there and if I hit F12 down here you'll see I can scroll out, that's the first shot of the video which is me pressing the record button. At this point I'm going to hit shift A and say output and bring in a viewer which is going to end up in the background because we've checked this backdrop checkbox here, so if we connect this to here, boom. I'm going to hit V on my keyboard to zoom out and you can also hit alt V to zoom in on that image. Okay, so now that we have our background view there, what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit shift A and go down to matte and once again I said there's lots of matting options in here for cutting out backgrounds and blender. Some of them have been around, some of them are new. What we're going to go to is keying, not keying screen, just keying and that brings up this big long node here. I'm going to drop it in there and it'll connect and right away you see that my eyes and my shirt disappear because by default it's screening meaning it's using black as its color it's going to remove. What I'm going to do is I'm going to click here on the color, the key color, choose the little dropper, I'm going to choose a green somewhere in the middle here because my lighting is not perfect. The better your lighting the easier this is going to be for you. I find even with little wrinkles, wrinkles are less of a problem than having even lighting but I just have one light in the shot shooting up from the side so it's brighter on the right side than the left. I'm going to click somewhere in the middle and you can see right away it does a pretty good job of masking out all of this area here. You can see a bluish color over here that's area it has not completely masked out yet. At this point what I'm going to do is I'm going to center click and drag that stuff out of the way but I still have the keying node clicked. You can see it's highlighted in red there and since that's highlighted the same tools that are in that node are over here on the right hand side so now I can see the image better while I'm messing with these options over here. What I'm going to do here is well let's throw a background image in the background because it's easier to see what you're doing because I have messed with it like this before getting it all looking nice then I throw an image in the background and realize it's not quite right. So let me shift A and choose another input and I'm just going to throw a still image in the background so I'll say image open I'll go to where I have images I'll do thumbnails and I will scroll down here I'm just going to choose a picture a still image that my wife took of a deer in our front yard I'll click on that open image and I'll just connect that straight to our renderer here for a second to show you something so the output image to the input on the compositor there now you'll notice if you look at the little thumbnail here we have a full shot of the deer but our render is only a headshot the reason for that is this image by default is a lot bigger than the 1080p that we have set in our resolution for our project here that's not a problem that's another reason we should set our default resolution initially what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna hit shift A and I'm gonna go down to distort and I'm going to go scale I'm gonna drop that in there so that's connected through and instead of relative where we can adjust the size one being the full size I'm just gonna choose this drop down and choose render size and they'll automatically set that image as long as you grab in the output from here to our render size if you have a video that is different than the render size you want you would do the same thing to the video movie clip up here but both this and my project are 1080p so that is not an issue right now so now that we have that scaled option I'm gonna move this over here in fact I'm gonna minimize this and I am going to hit shift A again and I am going to bring in a color and I'm gonna say alpha over and here's our alpha over now this is one of the many situations where blender kind of does things backwards than what you would expect now if you're working with a traditional track editor this video of me would be the top track and this image of the deer would be the bottom track since the image of me should be on top but blender is backwards in that in this case what I'm going to do is I'm going to go the output of my video of me to the bottom and the image of the deer to the top and I'm going to connect the output of that to the view and to the compositor so we don't forget to do that later on and right away with the with the little the default settings there after choosing the green we got a pretty good background image there but if we we notice the deer is kind of bluish so what we're going to do let me maximize this for a second you can see we have three outputs here let me zoom in here three outputs here we have the image the mat and the edge we're going to take the mat and we're going to connect that to the fact input there and that will give us a nice crisp background there and what I'm going to do again is I'm going to minimize all this I'm going to move it out of the way and we still have since we have the keying node selected you can see orange there we still have the tools off to the right here and I'm going to use my arrow keys and I'm going to jump ahead in the video and actually I wanted to show you more but I had a pretty good results right there that not much for me to do after choosing the color there although there are a lot of options here so but if we do look I think my shirt is a little off oops that's not what I meant to click there yeah you can see some speckling in my shirt you can see through so let's let's do let's do adjust some coloring here I'm going to adjust basically the black clipping if I turn that up it's going to show more and more of the black through the shirt so I'm going to turn that down all the way in this case and turn the white clipping down a little bit and right there because I had a nice clean green background I am pretty much done with the configuration there in a minute I'm going to bring a video clip that isn't as well green screen in the background and I do a lot of moving so I'll get more into these tools here then but we're not completely done yet because one this video is much longer than 250 frames if you look at our frame range here frame 1 to 250 that's not long enough here I'll hit shift right arrow that brings us to our last frame in the project but if I keep hitting right arrow after that you see the video keeps going and that's because the video once again is longer than 250 frames so all they have to do is change this end frame here to be whatever the last frame in our video that we want but how long is this video there's lots of ways to figure that out but to do it within blender I'm going to show you one of many ways this is how I normally do it we still have our default cube selected in the 3d view here I'm going to go up here to textures it already has a default texture I'm going to click on type I'm going to choose image or movie open and I'm going to go and choose that same movie clip right here open image and I can see right here that is 366 sorry 3665 frames so I'm just going to set this for now to 3000 whatever it doesn't matter I can at least figure out where I want I can render out the whole thing and then cut it in another video editor on because I know the end of this video I'm going to walk up and turn off the camera so I'm just going to set that but that's how you find out how long the video is and if you just set that last frame to that or within a few frames of that you should be good and but we now currently have our project you know green screened the render length right but now we also have to set our output to be a video by default I've already changed my default settings to xfid but you have some presets here a lot of people like h264 I sometimes use that but mostly I use xfid and that's just me then I'm going to come down here to encoding and I'm going to choose the default for xfid and I'm probably going to turn the bitrate up to anywhere from 8000 to 12000 so that's great we got that but we don't have audio by default because the the compositor doesn't have any audio options so what we need to use is the video editor here so you can either render this out bring it into another video editor and drop the audio from the original video onto it or you can do it right here in blender using the video editor which used to be called the sequencer and still is in some places as you'll see in a minute but once I have that selected in there I'm going to click add I'm going to go movie and we're in the folder here already and this is the movie clip right there over here you have starting frame that's where it's going to place the video set that to one if you forget to that you can always drag and drop it after you import it will say add movie strip and here's our movie strip but we don't need the movie clip of it we only need the audio part and once again this is another place where blender kind of backwards from what you would think we got two tracks here one's a video track and one's an audio track most video editors the video track goes on top and the audio track on the bottom blender is backwards the bottom blue track here is actually video so I'm just gonna select that and delete it because we don't need it so now we just have our audio track here almost all set if we go back to our compositing view here we have our renderer settings by the way if you look under post processing you'll seek by default compositing and sequencer is checked so it will composite and then use the audio from the sequencer that should already be set but one more thing we need to do down here in our encoding is set the audio codec by default is none set it to whatever audio format you want I'm just gonna choose mp3 you can choose the bit rate here now you're set to go give it a video give your video name I'll call it test dot avi and I don't want to render out the whole thing right now but that's what you would do and then you just hit animate and it should create yourself an avi with the audio and the screen background and the background image there but once again that was a pretty easy job because I had a pretty good green background there to show you another one that has a decent background a few wrinkles in it but I'm moving around a lot so I have a lot of blurriness in my hand which will allow me to use a lot more of these tools but that's the basic concept of that I'm just gonna say file new so basically if you got lost there I'm gonna do everything again right now with a different video clip once again make sure your project is set to what your video is going is you're bringing in is I have it set to 30 I actually think my camera is recording at 29.97 so I'll set it to that if you're a little bit off like that's not a huge deal unless it's a really long video clip I'm going to then choose up here and go to compositing node I'm use backdrop I'm gonna auto render I am going to delete this render layer I'm gonna move this compositing over here shift a up here input movie clip open go to where your movie clip is I click this button up here to see the thumbnails and I'm gonna choose this clip of me put it there and I'll also say input at this time and once again you can put another video in the background if you want but I'm just gonna do a still image I'm going to open and I am going to choose an image I'll just choose another one of that dear whatever open once again the image here I know is larger than my project size so I'm going to say shift a go down to distort and I'm going to say scale connect this to here this to our render there once again if I hit F12 now you'll see that the image is cropped but if I change relative to render size it automatically makes that image our render size and I could do the same thing for this video if it was not already at 1080p so at this point I'm going to hit shift a I'm gonna say matte keying once again not keying screen but keying I'm gonna drag that up here I actually did not want to connect that there I want to connect this video to the image and disconnect that picture of the deer so at this point once again by default it's keying out the black in my shirt I'm gonna say key color so click on that white box there choose the dropper and I'm going to choose some middle green there this picture also after watching this video I realized I needed a haircut right back there I have like a little mullet going on which also made it a little bit harder to key out so I fixed my hair since then but we still need to adjust all this so once again the green over here was a better green because that's where my light was it was a little bit darker over here let's just go ahead and for right now we'll minimize that hit shift a and I'm gonna say color alpha over I'm going to choose the picture of the deer even though it's the background to the top box the image from our key to the bottom box and if I maximize this out the matte output MATTE to the fact input there and I'm also going to hit shift a choose an output of viewer which we already have check back down here backdrop if you don't check that you will not see what you connect to here but if I do right now boom there's our image I'll hit V a few times to shrink it down select the keying and minimize it and I'm just going to drag oh wait I did not mean to drag the image there I meant to drag the alpha over to there I'm also going to do the same thing to the compositor so I don't forget because I tend to do that and I'm gonna drag I'm gonna make sure I have the keying selected so I have the tools over here so once again you can do all this right in there but just to see the image better I'm going to select that drag it over I'm even gonna hit control up arrow to make this portion of the screen full screen so make sure you have your arrow over the portion you want to hit control up so now we can see pretty good right here what we got going on and right here once again out of the box we got some pretty decent effects here results here I'm gonna turn the white down a little bit because if you look right here you can see some speculating you can see the grass behind my shirt going to turn the white down a little bit and I'm gonna turn the black up a little bit and you'll see I'm right here at the hardest part of this particular image is if you look at my hair there once again I fixed my hair there but if I turn the black all the way up you can see that right there so I'm gonna try to get a good result right there because that's my worst part of this picture but once again if I go up a number of frames till I start moving my hands and you'll see what I'm talking about when I get there I'm not exactly sure where it is in the video it's near the end so so far we're looking at we're getting good results okay so right here is what I'm talking about my hands are moving so they're kind of blurry ways to fix this better lighting so you can use a quicker shutter speed maybe a higher frame rate camera might get better results there but you can still see kind of green there and actually what I have right now is actually looking pretty good it doesn't look that great in a still image but faster moving image it may be less noticeable it will be less noticeable but you also can see my hair is a little messed up right there so let's see if I turn black up you can see that's actually making things worse so black clipping let's put that back towards the middle there one thing I found I think with this particular image is post blur or I'm sorry pre blur I can turn that up and you can see if I put it let me put it back to zero here it's gonna like blur the edges before it starts processing it and that trims away some of it I can also change the screen balance if I turn that up it's getting larger there if I turn it down I think that yes so I think turning it down in this case it's a little bit better I don't want to do it too much because you don't want to stiff edge there basically play with these options if you got a good green background you won't have to do too much you got your feathering option which is something you don't want to use too much of but is I think an essential part of keying out the background that's something if you watched my preview of this tutorial I tried doing keying in Caden live and it has a green screen option but has no feather options it basically it cuts the color out and gives you a variance like the screen balance here doesn't give you any of these blur options feathering options black and white clipping at least not in that tool I don't know there's other tools you can use in conjunction with it but yeah that's pretty much it I'm gonna turn I'll turn this up to 20 the pre blur but once again it's going to depend on your image I'll go a few frames now it's still obvious that I'm super imposed here mainly due to the fact that the lighting is completely different really if you want a realistic merger of two images you don't even have to get similar similar lighting the one picture is outside and mid afternoon the other ones inside during the evening using really a cheap little light on the ground and just my living room lights that's why I kind of have an orange is changed so get lighting similar will help make sell the effect if you don't have that then you can do color corrections but I'm not great at that myself but I would definitely take some probably some red out of that this video of me if I wanted to make it look like I was really here and probably turn up the blue tones in my face a little bit would probably be the basics of what I would do but again once again you know the blurring hands you can still see the green screen a little bit because you're gonna get that with the blurring but it's really not that bad and you considering we're looking at this frame by frame right now and it's actually 30 frames a second it's it's actually gonna be pretty good results right there I think my hand actually got close to the screen and I got my shadow on there and that's why you can see that so again to get this ready I'm gonna control down arrow to get at a full screen mode there we're going to want to go into our video editor we're going to add movie we're going to choose the clip that we're using which is in this case this one I'm going to either set it to 1 here if you forget to set it to frame 1 there and you import it just hit G for grab and move it on down until you see that you're at frame 1 and you can delete this bottom track which is the video track because we're not using the video here we're using the video from the compositor so there's our audio set your your project frame rate I'm just going to say 700 this isn't a very long video but you would want to check to what part of the video you want to clip and then I'll go back to my compositing and I will make sure that I choose the encoding presets I want so I change this to whatever movie type I want if you're going to do a movie you can also do still images choose the preset you want in this case I'm choosing X fit I'm going to turn this up to 8000 and we're also going to make sure that we say that we want to encode the audio I'm just going to choose mp3 and then choose name of your file test 2 dot AVI in the case of the X vid and then I would click animate and it would start animating I also recommend saving before you click the animate button and that's it you can see it rendering out I get on my computer results of about two frames a second about at the 1080p which isn't horrible for for this sort of thing probably could be better I'm also you know there's a lot of rendering options you could probably change stuff in here to make things better I'm just going with the default settings here but that's it so I hope you enjoyed the tutorial I hope you check out my website it's films by chris.com that's chris with a K there should be a link in the description if you have any questions technical questions unless it's a very simple question please use the IRC channel if you go to my website click on the social networking tab and go down to IRC you'll be brought to the IRC channel most the guys in there probably aren't very just thinking about the guys I hang out in there most of them aren't blender guys I'm in there often not all the time but that's the best way to get your your questions answered is in there the YouTube comments is a horrible place to ask questions unless it's a very simple question I just want to make that clear also I don't always check all the comments if you're looking at this video month from now two months from now a year from now I'm probably not even realizing that you're commenting on it because I just get so many comments on many of my videos that I don't have time to check them all so IRC channels definitely where you want to ask your questions so this is kind of a long story but we did it twice I try to keep my tutorial short but I once again thank you for watching thank you for sticking with me through this tutorial I hope you found it useful and I hope that you have a great 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The pride of Ford Dodge Isle, so the dirty dog on dodge. Mr. Teske, how's it going man? Good. So you kind of back home, pretty close to home. Not too far. So you Ford Dodge and do you train with Carl Valley? Were you a Carl Valley guy? Yup. Alright, so coming up Ford Dodge, Carl Valley, do a stint at Penn State and then you find yourself back in the UNI room. Talk a little bit about that journey coming back here and kind of how it feels to be back in Iowa and be in this room and be around these guys. Well, shoot, I mean not even two weeks ago I planned on winning a national title for Penn State. Life is crazy, things happen and it wasn't one specific incident or something. You know, it wasn't one thing that I was like yeah, I'm ready to leave. It wasn't like that. It was more of just getting myself back to Brody Teske and that involved coming home and so, you know, things change. Obviously this march isn't a thing anymore but we move it to now April for the World Team Trials and I'm home. I'm getting back to myself and feeling good and I'm surrounded by a lot of good people and I'm ready to elevate. So, talk about being back home. You had unbelievable, unbelievable career in Iowa. You were a four-time state champ. One loss to Thompson. You and him had two of the craziest matches that I've watched in high school. It was a council bluffs and then the other one was another one an overtime match. So you won the first one, he won the second one, right? So, had a little history with him. What about those matches pushed you? Because obviously, you know, you go pretty dominant through high school in a very tough wrestling state. Talk about if it did. What those matches did, how it elevated you and you guys were two different weight classes. So, you all kind of made a effort to find each other throughout the season, right? Yeah, I mean, we both were chasing four titles from day one.  But yeah, we met up and we were at the same weights, 126. I mean, that was that was the weight I needed to be at, not cutting much and just living life as a senior in high school. It was the same for him and paths crossed. We banged it out and, you know, it was more of just, you know, learned so much about ourselves through it and just that, you know, what else came from it? You know, we grew the sport, we grew Iowa wrestling and we got our names out there a little bit more and it was just the growth, you know, for ourselves and also the sport. But as far as learning for myself, you know, the preparation going into it was a little bit different. It wasn't just another, well, here's another Saturday tournament, you know, let's kind of go through the motions. You know, things had to make sure, you know, we had to make sure things were in line and things were gonna work out the way we needed them to. And the first time we met was in Council Bluffs and that's a pretty, pretty tough tournament. It is. And actually, dang near, seeing the feet, the match before, I actually wrestled him in the semis. It was pretty crazy back and forth match and, you know, maybe looking ahead too far, maybe just, like I said, not doing the things exactly right on that I needed to be doing. But I don't know, we just learned a lot and carried that into the future. And again, we met up in Cedar Rapids not too long after, maybe two, three weeks. And which is again, it's a pretty tough tournament and it wasn't just another let's go through the motion Saturday. It was make weight the right way, feel good, rehydrate, get ready to go. And again, we had another tough battle. As far as shaking hands and wrestling, I mean, on the mat wise, I learned a lot about myself and, you know, that I could go with anybody. You know, where he's at now, he's starting for Nebraska. He's wrestling tonight against Penn State, so it's kind of cool how things work out. But it's just a lot was learned, you know. You talk about need to get back home and get back in touch with Brody Teske. Like, can you put that into words and can you talk about what you've experienced or what you've figured out just in the short time you've been here or what the goal is to get back to maybe, maybe you got a little away from who you are or your core values or talk about that. What do you mean by that? Oh yeah, definitely you hit it right on. I mean, my core values, that's not something that I got to get back to. I mean, that was kind of a bad reference that I put. You know, it's not getting back to Brody Teske, it's just become Brody Teske and just continue to become a better version. You know, not so much go back to this or that, you know, because I'm so much different than I was, you know, when I was recruited and committed to Penn State and now, you know, to where I am and being a Northern Iowa Panther, it's more about just the evolution of who I am and now the revolution of who I want to become and that's what's exciting, man. Ready to just take off and catapult towards my goals and as far as that reference of getting back to Brody Teske, that's kind of a bad way to put it, but just remembering who I am and what makes me who I am and it's not, you know, I could have done that out there. I was, you know, that's who I was. That's always going to be a part of me. Them experiences at Penn State, I'll never forget. Them experiences I'm going to carry with me forever and the values and the lessons I learned priceless wouldn't change anything. Some experiences that I did go through were kind of, you know, a struggle, but again, that's making me who I am and some of them were major reasons on why, you know, I decided to, you know, come home or come closer and here I am. Yeah, if everything's perfect, man, you're not really finding your limits, finding really who you are. And Doug Schwab is one of those people, I mean, he's got an amazing staff behind him with Pew and Roper and B-Raw, but I feel like you and Doug Schwab are a special pair when y'all get on the same wavelength. Is that one of the reasons that you ended up in UNI, just what you think that Doug Schwab can put you, Teske 2.0? Yeah, absolutely, man. I mean, it's, that's, you're actually not the first person that's told me that.  What makes me who I am, what makes him who he is, you know, they correlate and that, that relationship is something that, you know, we built a long time ago while I was being recruited and now we just, you know, we're together and now it's ready to clash, but and that doesn't take anything away from where I was, you know, Cody Sanderson and Coach Kale and Coach Casey kind of him and the guys I've spent a lot of time out there with, you know, it's nothing that I'm going to bash on them and I'll never look back and, you know, take anything away. I mean, they, they, they did a great job and that's the thing that a lot of people don't understand. You know, it's not something that I, you know, wasn't an experience that I needed more from them or they didn't do something or did do something that made me like, all right, I'm leaving. You know, it wasn't anything like that. It was just a build up of things that, you know, just pointed me to here where I was like, I need to get back and this is where I am and having Doug Schwab right down the road. That's a plus, man. What else you got for me, man? You're welcome aboard the UNI Panther train, first and foremost, but you got anything else for us, man? No, just a big thank you to everybody that's been supportive and helped me on this journey. It's, it's crazy, but you know, all glory to God and let's see where this is going to go.


All right, it is Friday. We are on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Jim Kramer, the big store this morning, GE's earnings. Jim, take it away. We own a fraction alerts. You're selling it now because of Jeff Inmell. You might end up buying it because of John Flannery. I think that it is a big mistake to sell. It's a reset. You basically have a quarter where the cash flow is good, so I'm not worried about the dividend. Flannery is going to take a hard look at everything, and when I say everything, it means that portfolio may not look the same as it does now. So you're talking about a guy who's a very hard-nosed guy who's going to come in, he'll take no prisoners. Does it trade to 24 perhaps? It shouldn't. If I didn't own any GE, I'd wait a little bit, Flannery, he's going to do a good job assessing what he needs to change, but Flannery's not in there. All right, let's leave it at that. All right, another actual alerts name, Honeywell Reporting. No, no, we don't own that. Wish we do. Oh, excuse me. It's all right. Wish we do. Had been a long time. Had a lot of money on it when Dave Cody, when it was clear Dave Cody was not going to work there anymore. You know, Dave Cody was my next-door neighbor, a great CEO, but I've got a little cold feet. I don't like what happened with Charlie Sharp and Visa. I feel so bad. These were two where I didn't know the successor to Honeywell, Darius Damcheck. I do know him now. He's excellent. And I didn't know who would succeed Charlie Sharp and Visa, and turned out to be Al Kelly. He's excellent. Look at that stock. My judgment is that historically in my career, I will talk about this in my actual alerts call, in my monthly call, historically my career when you don't know who the new CEO is, that is when you take a breath. Now take a look at email. You see, you did know who this CEO is, and look at that. That stock's now dropped from 28 to 25. I violated my rules. Sometimes the rules get you in trouble. Sometimes they save you. But both Honeywell and Visa were two that we did own. We made very good money, but we should have stayed long. Yeah, what did you make of Visa's quarter? Excellent. But Schlumberger, that you own. That is the stock that you have to buy, because what's happened is that the CEO is finally called the bottom. He had been very reluctant. I follow his words very closely. He's now saying that the international is turning. Now you have the recount today, and maybe Al goes back to 44. But it's a new sheriff. He's saying, Schlumberger's back. He was the first to see the downturn, Scott. I think he'll be the first to see the bottom. All right, Jimmy, you have a fantastic column in real money about Microsoft, Amazon, and Walmart. In there, I sent it to Sachin Adele. I mean, what I'm really saying is it's a piece about the idea that Microsoft should merge with Walmart. Now it's not about Microsoft merging with Walmart. It's what it would take to stop Amazon. And now the FTC may be looking at pricing. I think that if it's predatory pricing, I say good luck. I do not think that you will be able to find that. But Microsoft's, as yours, is doing incredibly well. Microsoft's a buy. And Walmart is also a buy. Walmart has got lots of things going in terms of the front end, what they could do with consumers and the web. But you need a $600 billion company and a $300 billion company to take on a $400 billion company. Because Amazon's got both the best cloud and the best retail interface. And then on Stop Trading, on Swark on the Street, you talked about Home Depot. Yeah, I mean, Home Depot's doubly challenged. One is the Sears Initiative. And I don't even think that's more psychological. That's Sears, Ken, more tying up with Amazon to deliver an Alexa-built washing machine and dryer. What I really think is far more important is that on the Sherwin Williams call, they talked about a decline in do-it-yourself. And so if you have both the challenge of Sears and the decline in do-it-yourself from the largest paint company, then you're going to be considered guilty till proven innocent. Not unlike Costco, Woodstock is still trying to stabilize after the fabled purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon. All right, and then on Mad Desh, you talked about Union Pacific. Union Pacific reported a very good quarter, but Lance Fritz, the CEO, is not one to puff out, puff his chest and say, listen, we're going to do it again. The cargoes were really rather remarkable. Union Pacific under 100 would be a great place to get affiliated with. All right, and Jim, let's end with earnings previews. We've got Alphabet, an actual arts name. Yeah, now Alphabet, this is a quarter that I think a lot of people are going to be highly anticipatory of. That is usually not a good sign. But that said, this is a company that has a division, Waymo, that I think is worth probably 50% of the company.  It's got a huge business overseas. The companies that have got gigantic business overseas have been doing better, and it has Ruth Porat, the best CFO in America. All right, another actual arts name, Arkonic. Arkonic is a situation where we don't know who the CEO is going to be. I actually like that situation because I think if the Elliott management people are able to get their way, then they're going to put in a CEO that would make it so this company is a must-buy. We've also got VF Corp. Which wouldn't VF Corp? Not an action alert name. No, it isn't. All of the apparel companies are doing better. VF is doing better. I prefer PVH. They're a company that has been using the Bowzon, which is a terrific company to be able to sell on Alibaba. They are for Tommy Hilfiger. You're going to see a terrific international number there. I think they tell you a decent back to school story too. Manny Chirico has delivered, delivered, delivered. Now the stock has moved up rather radically. Is it the right level? We have to see the entire market come down. If you can get it below 110, I like it. All right, thank you very much. We'll leave it there. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. For more information on the stocks you mentioned, please head back to thestreet.com.


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Good evening wherever you are joining us My name is why bonnie chi pronouns they them and she her I have the privilege of zooming in today from the unceded traditional ancestral's territory of the muscarium Squamish and silvetooth peoples of turtle island Otherwise known as the vancouver lower mainland in british columbia canada It is a beautiful day out really hot really warm. I'm primarily staying indoors today To stay cool and i'm hoping that once the temperature drops till something a little bit more reasonable I can go out and go for a walk Um, I want to acknowledge that I am a first generation immigrant and settler And that I have the privilege to work and learn and play here And so before we kind of dive into answering questions That have been submitted. I want to just take a brief moment to invite everyone to Take note of wherever you're joining him from today and take a breath inhale And exhale And just simply be here So passing it back to cindy Awesome. That was a great quick You know practice in the beginning to get started Thank you so much again And so I have some questions that we kind of narrow down on different themes So first let's just get to know about your role as a therapist Also as known as a clinical counselor. So Someone in our community As how does a typical therapy session go and how long or often is the therapy? Yeah And so From what I understand culturally speaking depending on where you're located in the world Some sessions differ in length. So i'm well how i'm going to be answering is specifically pertaining to my knowledge Here in Vancouver, north america specifically, right? Typical sessions that I engage with with my clients are about 15 minutes long Sometimes clients can request for 75 minute sessions or for those who do couples or family therapy Those sessions can go on to 75 or 90 minutes long Thank you for the answer um And another question that someone asks is when you start therapy for the first time How many sessions does it normally take for a person to be comfortable with the therapists they are talking to? Yeah, good question. That again Will vary depending on who the therapist is and where the person is at in terms of Their their journey and whether they feel ready to start therapy. I've had clients come in And sit there and we spend we spent the longest I sat in silence was 15 minutes 15 minutes And then I've had clients come in and they just immediately burst into tears And and so like that that doesn't like that isn't representative of How comfortable one is I think that will always be dependent on the client I for myself I check in with them let them know like if things change if There are things that they want to share with me don't want to share with me. There is no rush The idea is that um, ideally it goes at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for the client. Um, however Some people perhaps are limited to the amount of therapy sessions They're able to receive through their work benefits or through the community That they've connected with sometimes it's one sometimes it's three sometimes it's eight sessions Depending on the scenario the therapist can also request for more um, yeah, just it varies and Everyone's different Right. So it's like it varies and everyone's different. So it comes down to The situation that you brought in that you connect with the therapist. Yes. Um, okay um, so the next questions that someone our community asks um, I guess maybe let's talk about your role like how do you become a therapist like, um, You know, and they also have a concern or a question that they they mentioned like due to technical advancement Will there be no need for therapy therapists in 10 to 20 years? That's quite interesting. Let's see your thoughts Yeah, so, um Two separate questions that i'm gonna answer the first one. Um, how one works to becoming a therapist Depending on where you're located in the world. There's going to be different regular regulatory bodies right In north america in the uk. There's training. There's certification There's requirements that are necessary and I imagine other countries as well, right and so Uh, figuring out, you know, what the requirements are for your area is the first step or for wherever you want to eventually practice Right. Um speaking to canada In british columbia counselors therapists, uh, we do a bachelors and it can be in psychology sociology criminology I know somebody who did a bachelors in communications and But then what's important is meeting the prerequisites that are necessary in order to then get into the master's level and so some of those prerequisites could be, uh, counseling rec related courses or psychology related courses and um after that we go into the master's level and there is and Intensive training process where we learn more about, you know, the human body the human brain What may Contribute to the way that people respond and react there's a lot of different approaches and In in bc after you get your master's you're then able to register with the BCACC to become a registered clinical counselor or you can register with a ccpa the and become a canadian certified counselor and so That's that's primarily in in, uh, canada and and then In america from what I understand there are also similar steps like supervised hours that need to be met um intensive training in a master's program and and in terms of things like diagnoses or writing prescriptions, you know, um, that will also vary depending from country to country Interesting it sounds like there's a lot of process to become a therapist and lots of the education background as well Okay, that's that's that's great that I think that really covers that question of how to become a therapist The second question was more like an interested Interesting question that they were just curious about like as you know, like technology events like quite fast and they're wondering like Well, do you actually be no need for therapists in 10 to 20 years? Let's see from your point of view. Yeah I Personally think that therapists are always going to be around um To to to try and sound hip. Um, this is the hill I will die on Uh, like There's been a lot of talk like, um, I I I won't um, I won't deny that the advancements of technology and having apps and Ways at which to support individuals outside of therapy has not been helpful, right? Um at the same time As humans, we are relational beings that healing occurs when we're able to be in relation with another when there's attunement and being able to connect with somebody and um Have that healing process like neurologically that attunement right to be present that energy. It's different Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.  We're getting to the next section of getting help like I know a lot of our audience You know may not have access to therapy or therapy is too expensive So these are some of the questions that they have That they want to ask you so number one is How do you know? Um, how do I know it's time to get therapy or how do you know you need to see a therapist? Yeah, that's a good question and you know, uh Some of the listeners and viewers will notice the theme with the way I respond. Um, because a lot of my answers will be it depends They'll be dependent on the individual where they are in their life um Quite often what I say to my clients is most people come to care therapy because they want to change in their lives They're realizing that the way that they're living is no longer sustainable and something needs to shift And perhaps they've been trying to do certain things a particular way and it hasn't gotten them the results that they would like to see um, so there are scenarios like that and then there are scenarios where Individuals come to counseling really unwillingly like they're there because their family members want them to be there Or they're there because they've been mandated, you know, they've been institutionalized, right? And in those scenarios, there's a lot of uh pushback a lot of hesitation which makes therapy even more difficult right, um, therapy is meant to be a place where people feel safe and comfortable to share and you know Be unapologetically authentically themselves, right, which I think not many of us Feel comfortable doing because society has kind of put these expectations on how we need to be seen how we need to act how things are and um, in particular in the last 15 16 months, I imagine a lot of people have had to really sit with themselves uh working from home or learning from home or You know, not having that relational connection with others right You you brought up a good point about, um, how they have to be Comfortable with the the therapist has us that's important And then so then that comes to the next question like how do you know? It's the right therapist that you're you're seeing or when do you know Is time to move on to the next therapist? Yeah, really good question, right? Um, again Depending on where people are at in their lives, some people stick with the therapist that they have because financially speaking Uh, that that's what they're able to afford, right? Um speaking for myself when I was in grad school The therapist I saw was through my my school, right? I'm able to pay. I think it was $40 a session Which was quite affordable therapy. Um, at least in bc Starts off at 120 a session um, and at the time I Like that was what I was able to afford. Um, it was great therapists Perhaps not like the most perfect fit, but we were still able to get work done, right? Um, and Something that one of my colleagues mentioned earlier this week is like When it comes to therapy sometimes sometimes when you're in a crisis It's similar to like the vaccine situation that's going on, right? The first vaccine you get is the best vaccine Right. So the first therapist you can get for support is is the best therapist you can get and From there being able to get ourselves, you know into a place where We have the resources where we realize, okay, um Working with this therapist has served me and has provided me what I've needed in this time and If things are Staying stable. Uh, they're realizing. Okay. I'm ready to wrap up or I'm ready to tackle something else on And perhaps this therapist doesn't specialize in it, right and wanting to shift to something else That's interesting. Um, because you just mentioned in my you might need to find different specialists, but I'm just wondering like, um Therapist is very like therapy is very complex and there's Different types of therapy that you can go into. Uh, do you mind just briefly explain to our audience about like what different types of therapists or That's out there. Yeah. Yeah So Before I dive into that I do want to like acknowledge that depending on where people are located in the world Some places do not have like the word therapist or clinical like counselor Regulated, right? Um, and so what that means is anybody can hang a shingle outside of their house and call themselves like a life coach or a therapist Which is really concerning because that's when you can get You know, that's when harm can occur, right? And so when you're when you're looking for a therapist really really taking the time doing the homework and checking to see, you know Does this person report to a regulatory body or they registered or are they bound by a code of ethics? So that they do good work, right? and um, so there's there's that portion and then When it comes to therapy the different kinds of therapists So the fancy term that is used in in the counseling world is theoretical orientation And so what that means is the approach that the therapists use When they are working with a client, right the more popular ones that people have heard of are Cognitive behavioral therapy, right? There's also person centered or client centered meeting the person where they're at There's there's trauma therapy. So emdr There's also dbt dialectic behavioral therapy So these are all different modalities that can be used when working with clients Some people prefer individual some prefer groups Some people prefer intensive it all kind of varies and it's really figuring out Like what fits the individual, right? Right? It comes down to doing your research and Finding what works for you because there's a lot of different type of therapy It may not work for you in the beginning And that's where you we have to dive a little bit deeper and find the next one that actually works for you Yeah Because like a lot of people can easily think that oh if I go into therapy for the first session I feel like that might Resolve all the the concern that it might have but it's actually it's a long it's a it's a long journey that takes time Um to you know recover or heal from whatever issue that or concern that you may have Okay, um, okay. So let's go to the next question. Um, this is another question that a lot of people have at our audience as So they feel like they have anxiety or depression and They want to bring out the the concern to the parents, um, but they they're afraid of Um, hearing back from the parents of rejecting their request that um Asking for therapy so for help. Um, so in your opinion like what can Uh, it could be teenager adults. Uh, what can they do to bring up the the concerns that they have right now with the parents? They want therapy for help. Yeah, that's a really good question And I think it's a it's a concern that many people experience Especially since there is that you know stigma around mental health and therapy, right? Depending on what culture you're from and so on um yeah and so Depending on what age an individual is, right? Um, there's there is a legal age of consent Right, if people are of age and they feel comfortable reaching out to mental health professionals Um Communities like resources in the community like nonprofits in order to seek therapy They're able to do that themselves, right? Um for those who are younger and perhaps need, you know parental assistance there That that does become a lot more challenging, right? Yeah, and um, you know Quite often what may be beneficial is being able to have the language to describe what is going on Finding the supports that are already existing in your life, right? If there are siblings or aunts and uncles or teachers Or or doctors that we're already working with um that are aware of how we're doing having them Take part or join in on compensation can make things a little bit easier as well So we're not the ones kind of just diving into the deep end on our own, right? Um Because it can be really difficult to start that conversation and Yeah, I can for sure can imagine it be, you know, difficult to bring out um That you're having that you feel like you have inside or that you feel like you have depression But again, you don't know and you want to bring up to your parents So your your first suggestion maybe like to talk to someone who you trusted First to kind of, you know, just voice it out to someone that you you trust and and go from there Yeah, so that really leads to the next question like, um How how can you ask for help when you don't know how to get the words out to get to get the help That someone has asked that question like you want to Know you need help, but how do you ask someone? How do you ask for help? Yeah Mm-hmm. Um, so the question that the person is wondering like like if they know they need help How do they um ask for help? What's your opinion on that? Yeah, and so Before I answer I just want to acknowledge that, you know, whoever it is that submitted this question, you know Uh, thank you for submitting it. Thank you for acknowledging that. Okay. I'm wanting to take the step It is Hard it is really hard. It takes a lot of courage. It is terrifying. It is scary. It's overwhelming, right and even having that thought even Coming to that conclusion that I want to reach out for support that in itself Right, you are making progress You have grown from where you were before right and so being able to acknowledge that to begin with And then again thinking about What is available in terms of resources? Right the fact that you are Watching and listening to this live stream right now. I imagine that you perhaps have seen other things on psych to go and Are familiar perhaps with you know things like crisis lines or Community resources perhaps like going to your doctor, right? Um, a lot of times it's the first step is the hardest part, right and What is Great about the community, right the mental health community is um, ideally not always but ideally, um, if the person you reach out to Uh, they aren't competent and well suited for whatever has been brought up Um, if they're unaware that at the very least are able to refer And connect individuals to someone else, right? Um, I've had plenty of clients reach out to me, um, whether through private practice or in the institution I work for and And we'll we'll talk about what's going on and it's like they're ready for therapy And I'll be like I'll be completely transparent with you. I don't think I'm the right fit for you I think there's another therapist that would be able to work with you better and be able to get them connected with that, right? um and then also Acknowledging like it's not always the case. Like there are barriers. There are obstacles. There are challenges, right? And so Uh, really asking ourselves, you know, what is readily available for us, right? Perhaps it's, um Watching educational videos to start right to get the language for it. Perhaps it's calling into a crisis line or texting into A help Text sort of thing. I know in the last 15 16 months with with the impacts of coven in the pandemic There's been a lot of shift And um support that's been provided online, right? So whether you are in Um, usually usually elementary high schools have a counselor available, right? And they're they've got resources to connect individuals to their community college university level There's also a lot of like online resources there Yeah, so it seems like um That's important. The first step is taking a step on acknowledging that, you know, you you understand That you need help and there are resources out there that you can reach for Such as like you mentioned like lmhs school or high school university Usually they have counselors there that you can reach out for or even your doctor or like Online research on the government websites. So there's just plenty of resources online that that's the first step to You know look into That's that's a good tip right there Okay, so let's jump on to the next section. Um, this is going to be talking about toxic relationship Relating to family friends or perhaps co-worker So someone in our community has asked how to deal with toxic parents or family members Yeah, do we do we have three hours? Um For a couple weeks Yeah, that's that's that's a that's a that's a very tough question. Yeah, it can take a long time Yeah, and it's it's something that a lot of my clients have come into therapy for right, um I know there's like a a meme or a post going on around being like Um, we're people are in therapy because the people in their lives aren't willing to go to therapy um, right um and and and like When it comes to toxic relationships a lot of it comes down to boundary setting yes, yeah, and depending on the Culture the environment, uh the individuals that you grew up with Sometimes boundaries don't exist Right. Um, or if they are, um, they're very blurred or they're not very clear or you know, they're they're different from what we see um in the lives of others, right and so With boundaries it takes a lot of time, right and kind of relating to what we were talking about in the previous question about like when you're starting therapy How do you reach out? What are the steps? Um, same with like when it comes to toxic relationships Being able to find even just one person that you feel comfortable with and safe with talking to about the situation to get A separate perspective whether that be a friend a colleague a sibling or calling into the crisis line or your doctor or You know, um, because when we're in it, it's really hard to realize what's going on Because yeah, we know what we know and we don't know what we don't know right a lot of people grow up and they're like Oh, yeah, this is normal Right. Um, you know parents barge into our rooms whenever they want to Phone calls at late hours of the night being expected to drop everything kind of thing, right? Um, that's that's their their norm right, um and the way that I I saw this online. I can't remember exactly. Um, who is from boundaries are described as How much I can love you while also loving myself at the same time? Right and when a person sets a boundary, it's not that they don't want you in their life anymore It's because they're trying really hard to keep you in their life um That's a very um deep quote quotation right there Um, and now I'm just wondering like how do you set boundaries now that that's just tough Like because your parents is your parents that you know since you were born Or family members or that you live with like, how do you set boundaries? If you know you need to that's a tough question. How do you how how will you do it? Yeah And there are a lot of um, like boundary workbooks Right. Um, that like if people are want because I know we're limited on time, right? Like if people want to work through there's that um going to see a counselor and learning different boundary setting um Approaches um, I know when it comes to boundary setting when I'm working with my clients I Really invite them and encourage them to be aware of how they're feeling Right on my feeling physically right now Um, what's going on emotionally what's going on with my thoughts? Am I noticing that I'm getting anxious overwhelmed? Am I shutting down am I numbing out right because these are Warning signs to let us know when our boundaries are starting to get crossed when we're we're not in a place Where we're comfortable anymore, right and for that it could be you know, okay I need to take a step back and go use the restroom right now where I need to go take go for a walk Or I need to go listen to a song right everyone for everyone boundary setting may be a little different right um and so Really having that awareness is important is we can't change what we don't know Exactly. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So like yeah, that's that's exactly Okay, so on to the next question that our community have asked um How would they deal with? um Distrust towards oneself after uh, you have ruined your relationship like pushing away or cheating That's very specific. Yeah Yeah, it's very specific and I think it's something that Many of us relate to right when we've had Experiences in our lives where things have not gone the way that we wish that it could have and we Start questioning and we start judging and we are really critical and we start wondering like, you know Oh, I made these mistakes in the past and do I know if I'm making the right mistake or making the right choice tried to avoid mistakes um and you know A lot of times you know You know, there's a saying that uh when we find ourselves constantly thinking about the past, right? We're in a state of depression because there's so much regret. There's so much guilt, right? And when we're worrying about the future, you know, all the what-ifs we're in a state of anxiety Right because there's that uncertainty unknown Whereas, uh, if we are able to be in the present the here and now This is the only thing we can control because we can't control the past. We can't control the future, right? The here and now is what we do have control over, right? That's why they call it the present. It's a gift. Yes, right? Yeah Well, that's a good one I actually for some reason I just never fall about like present is like, you know right now and Yeah, sorry to interrupt you. No, no, no. I'll get yeah. And so like when it comes to you know Asking ourselves like can I trust myself again? Like that that is hard, right? Yeah especially when we've had experiences where Perhaps, you know, things haven't gone well And so we start distrusting our actions or if we have going back to the previous question If we have toxic individuals in our lives who really put us down And have us think oh, I am making poor choices. I am making poor decisions, right? neurologically speaking our brain shifts to to adapt to protect ourselves, right and The way that we have been coping the way that we have been responding and reacting, you know Perhaps it worked at some point in the past, right? Which is why we continue doing it However, you know what worked in the past may not work in the present, right? And again having that awareness, right? And then Recognizing we want to take those steps to change and then perhaps reaching out to supports or starting to look at, you know Books or connecting with doctors therapists so on so forth So yeah, you can't change the past but you should be focused on the present is a present And reaching out for our resources that you have available around you So let's go to the next question that our community have asked How do you protect your mind against? Negative people around you or how do you how to cope in a situation where your family seems to be around you? But not with you Oh, that's hard. Yeah oof that's that's a tough one and I imagine with uh The last 15 16 months a lot of us being at home We're having to move back home being around family people or being around people that we mean Not necessarily want to spend time with it's like oh, what do I do? Right? And Again going back to like boundary setting awareness of whether or not this is like an environment that I don't want to be in right now Right. Um knowing what works and knowing what doesn't work, right? Um I've had clients share with me how like, um They know that they can't try and do work In the living room because their families are walking around. They're really loud. Um, so like they know, okay Um, depending on what I'm needing to do. Maybe I need to be in my bedroom or maybe Um, I need to communicate with them saying like hey, I have a meeting right now or you know being clear about what's going on and in particular Making sure that what we're saying like what we're intending is actually being interpreted the way that we want it to right um Some of us perhaps if you're living at home I've heard stories of this where you're like in a meeting and like even professors teachers They're teaching and then their mom walks in with like a plate of fruit. Um, which is really sweet But then like the person is just like I I can hold you and And he's like well, you said you were teaching you didn't say it's not okay for me to bring you food Right. And so like like being clear with our boundaries being clear what our expectations are, right? Sometimes we we don't know we know what we know. We don't know we don't know Exactly. That's a good point So let's go to because we don't have a lot of time. We're going to go to the next section Topics it's going to be on anxiety So one of our community member Mention or asks this question. What do I do when I have a panic attack and how do I overcome panic attack? And this is also leads to I sometimes I'm outside. I can't cuddle up in my dark quiet room But sometimes I guess I can't do that when I'm not home. So it's hard for me to cope. How do I? Um, any advice on how I could calm down when I'm not home or alone So there's like three questions right there. Yeah, yeah um So these these are concerns that are often brought up by other clients This it's not just this person who's asking and I imagine for those who are listening and right now Some of you are like who I I experience that too, right? I know for myself Um, especially as things are ramping up and reopening like going outside if I'm suddenly around a lot of people It doesn't matter if I have a mask on I I'm just like I don't want to be here right now. It's like why are you so close to me? um and and everyone again Has a different approach and fit to taking care of ourselves Right and panic attacks in particular are are challenging because they're hard to control, right? And You know Depending on who the person is which therapist you're working with right again, everyone has a different approach and fit Right. Um for myself, you know, I've had I've I've experienced anxiety. I've not experienced a panic attack myself However, what what I have learned and been informed is that They they eventually pass Right. Um, the research shows emotions and physical feelings when physical responses when we sit with them long enough We're able to regulate ourselves and bring ourselves back to that equilibrium, right? Whether or not we do it quickly Is a whole other thing, right? Um And for this individual that submitted this question It sounds like they they know when they feel like they're able to ground themselves and and manage their anxiety Right being at home, but when it's dark, right? And so, you know being aware, okay, these are the things that are working Are there things similar or adjacent that may perhaps work? Right and being curious with it and and testing it out, right? Again, there is no one size fit all, right? And a lot of people come to therapy and they're like What's the answer give me advice and I'm like, I am really sorry to be the bearer of bad news I'm not here to give advice I'm just here You know a lot of work we do is psycho education looking at things from a different perspective, right? Thank you for answering that. I feel like we have a lot of community repeating Similar questions around pan attack. I think that might be helpful for those who are wondering So this leads to the next question on how How to deal with social anxiety over thinking and being embarrassed in everything even by talking Yeah, so a lot of layers there Yeah Yeah, I I've had clients come with That precise concern right wanting to experience a change wanting to experience a shift and Yeah, it's it's gonna vary, right? Um I shared this with Cindy yesterday. Um, and I'm gonna share it today um With therapy the way that I describe it to to my friends and my family to my clients is it's very similar to when you are driving a car Right.    What therapy is in fact not that therapy is the mechanic going, okay Tell me what you see right now Is the key in the exact ignition is there gas in the tank pop open the hood? Is there any smoke, right? Okay, uh, the right hand side there. That's where the engine oil is I think it's yellow or like take that out check it And so you kind of explore see what perhaps needs to be adjusted and shifted and maybe Are going and so you hop back in you drive a little longer and maybe it acts up again and you have to pull over and and you You end up Trying what worked the first time and if it works awesome If not, you call a mechanic again and as time progresses ideally the duration between the car breakdowns lengthens and extends and Eventually gets to a point where you don't have to call a mechanic anymore because you're self-sustaining, right? And when it comes to anxiety taking care of ourselves managing ourselves, right? Being aware Do I have the capacity to do what it is? I'm wanting to do right now is really important Right, if you decide when you wake up in the morning, I'm going to do all of this stuff But you wake up and you are drained. You've barely slept. You don't have an appetite.  Do you get mad at the car? For not being you were you were wanting to go or do you realize? Probably probably would be good to fill up the gas, right? Right. It's similar to us as humans That's a really good analogy using a mechanical mechanic and your car to force a therapy Okay, so because we don't have a long time 15 minutes left But I'll try to skim through like the topics that most people have asked in our community So we're going to go to the next Section as it's on self confidence and self improvement So the first question is how do I stop? Overthinking, uh, I feel like it's lowering my self confidence Yeah, and what's your advice on that? Yeah um I don't have advice. I have different Strategies that may or may not be beneficial on things to explore, right? Um, so In in British Columbia, we have anxiety bc as a resource and some of the resources are available on there Particularly your surrounding like overthinking and anxious slots and such is Again having that first step that awareness that these slots are coming up, right? The the term that's often used is um thinking traps like ways of thinking That we find ourselves trapped in right and some of those categories City what I can do is I can send you the links so you can provide them in Afterwards and people can click on them, right? Um, so let me see if I can pull Mine up so I can just read some of sure here Um, so like some examples of thinking traps are you know when we are fortune telling Right? I'm predicting that things are not gonna go well, right? Um, even though we don't really have a crystal ball to predict how the future is going to be Where we think in black and white, you know anything less than perfect is a failure, right? Or will you mind read? You know, ah Everyone who's watching right now.  I'm I'm a loser, right? Um, or we may overestimate danger, you know I'm gonna I'm so worried. I'm so anxious.  Right? Um, or catastrophizing Worst case scenario, um, or this one is one that's often used Should statements I should never feel anxious. I should Do this I should do this I should do this, right? And so all of these are considered thinking traps and Um, having awareness that these are thinking traps helps because we're then able to start challenging our thoughts, right? Is there evidence that this is true? Have I confused it with a thought or is it a fact? Right, what would my friends say am I 100% sure that this is going to happen? Right is this so important my life is going to depend on it. What's the worst thing that can happen? Right so on and so forth and so uh, the documents that I'm referring to right now, Cindy What I can do is I can send them to you you kind of Share them as a resource, right? Um And sure. Yeah Thank you so much for sharing that I'll definitely include uh, is that a website link or is it? It's a pdf. It's a pdf. Okay. Sure. I'll upload it. Um, it will be listed in the description box So all of you guys can check it out for your resources that you can look into We're going to go to the next section. Um on trauma. Um, so this is a very Personal question. I think um, how to how to start living my life after past trauma Or how do you how do you learn to trust again after your trauma? Yeah and so Before even diving into answering this, um To whoever submitted this question. Thank you for submitting it. Um trauma is hard trauma is You know described as something that is unexpected Overwhelming out of control, right? People often think of trauma as like the things we see on tv Car crashes neglect abuse, right? Um when that's not always the case, right? Um, there's trauma from The third grade math teacher who told us we'll never be able to get this right or the seventh grade english teacher Who was like you're never going to be able to write anything? Well, um that shows up later on in life when we're in college trying to take a stats course When we're trying to get the right, um paper out. Um, so on and so forth, right? And so even just acknowledging that Yeah, this is something that that we've experienced that in itself is really difficult right, um because The thing with with trauma you look at history, right? Um after the world wars. It wasn't called Like ptsd, right trauma. Um, it was shell shocked, right? There was never really language for this like this has been around for a really long time But we never had the language we never had the capacity or the understanding for it, right and um for those who have taken Like biology or psychology courses you're familiar with like our physical body and how it responds To to stress or you know our nervous system, right? There's the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system, right? One helps our heart rate increase the other helps it like relax This is super cliff notes version if there are any bio majors or medical students watching right now Be gentle But but the but the gist of the idea is um again having that awareness, right? Um Because again as humans we're relational beings and our body is going to adapt and adjust To do what it thinks may be the best option in order to protect ourselves, right? And that could be choosing to fight that could be choosing to flight right to run We could freeze in the moment completely shut down completely numb out or we can do fawning which is a more recent the fourth f that As there's been more research out But the idea that the gist of the idea is like we we basically placate and we do what we can To is the other person to keep ourselves safe Right. And so these these responses are ways to protect ourselves and keep ourselves alive Right and again what worked in the past may no longer work for us in the future in the present, right? and again that awareness And particularly around like trauma processing trauma therapy getting support with that Acknowledging is the first step and then taking the steps to Gain support right kind of going back to some of the earlier questions like how do we find a good therapist? How we find a good, um, you know general practitioner, right? Um, depending on the type of trauma that's occurred ensuring that your medical professional team is trauma informed or Say for those who are in the lgbtq. I to plus to s plus community Making sure that your Therapist or your doctor is gender affirming, right? Those are all really important to ensure that we can feel safe feel comfortable Because like with trauma it it stays in our body the body keeps score Right. Um, there's a book Actually, uh, if you want to look I'll give you the links so you can provide it But the body sure it talks about how physically our body remembers the trauma that we endure, right? And um, it's a lot of unpacking a lot of working through and again depending on the individual where they're at in their life Which therapist or or or health professional they reach out to? The process of healing is going to look different for everybody, right? And so again really finding Um, something that works Mm-hmm Yeah, that's interesting. You have a lot of points that brought up That like everyone's different. Um, they have different You know, it may not it may worked in the past, but it may not work the future. So that's where you First step has to be a knowledge knowledge and finding the right therapist for to help you out again, it's come back to like researching and finding your right therapy and That's right for you. Um, so we don't have much time left, but um, I think I'll cover maybe one last question um, let's see Let's choose um, so this will be someone asks Can pets help with depression? Especially birds and how to deal with depression if you can't talk to someone or go to therapist Yeah, and it's a very personal question. It is a very personal question. Yeah, um, so, you know Like if we break down that question can can pets help with depression, right? How do we define help? Yeah, right. How do we how do how does a person define depression and what they're experiencing? Right? Um, research has found that being around animals is really therapeutic is really grounding, right? Um, depending on what kind of animal we're around like that's why there are, you know, um Like pads therapy dogs, right? Um, and you know it's a lot of Again figuring out the right fit Right. Um, if a person has shared with me. Yeah, I I as a child Um, I had these dogs chasing after me and it was terrifying.  Just knowing their past history. Um And it it comes down similar to like Finding a good therapist, right? Does the individual feel a connection? Do they feel safe? Do they feel comfortable? Right? Um Uh as a little bit of a side note like you look at young children, right? Um For those who have kids or nieces and nephews or siblings Do you ever notice how they have like that blanket or that toy that they really love and they don't go anywhere without it, right? It's because that is something that is comforting to them. That's soothing to them, right? And you know at that stage, perhaps that is what they need to stay regulated and ideally eventually You know, they get to a place where they're able to regulate themselves without that however at that time That's what they need and so for some individuals. Um, I've had I have clients who have dogs cats rabbits birds snakes, you know For them like that is what works Hmm. Yeah. Thank you so much for answering question about pets. Um, I think Uh, some people just wonder what are other ways to help them cope and that could be a way as well Um, so, uh, we're gonna wrap up and interject really quickly if you're living at home with your parents Um, or if you have roommates and stuff like that like always check to make sure it's okay before going Going get a pet. Um, just just just sharing like some some some personal experience from from friends who are like, um I'm going to do this and then and then realizing like, oh Oh, no, I don't actually have permission to do this or or like someone at home is allergic And then and then they have to return the animal and it's like this whole this whole roller coaster of emotions, right? And so yeah, yeah first make sure that your roommate or whoever you're living with is okay with pets before you Actually look into getting one Bonnie, I thank you so much for your time. Uh before we wrap up I want to uh, do you mind just explain like work when we find you or how can we if we want to uh, you know, maybe talk to you Talk to you or connect with you. How can we reach you out? Yeah, um, so for those who are located in British Columbia, Canada, and they're wanting to seek counseling services. Um, because uh, like I'm regulated and I work primarily with those in in bc. Um, I do have a website. It's why bonnie chi dot com I'll ask me to put the link below Yeah, I'm also on uh, twitter. Um at why bonnie chi. Um, I do want to mention like, um Like I like I imagine there's all these questions. I've been brought up, right? Um, I'm not always going to be able to respond to things Um, ethically speaking if there are concerns that are brought up that i'm not able to address and such I i'm i may try my best to redirect you. Um Yeah, I know like for for twitter like I do retweet a lot of other clinicians Um, and um, there's a lot of psycho education on there, right? Um, it's not a replacement for therapy Um, however, it is um, kind of good. It's a good reminder. Um, so to speak in between sessions, right? Um, I shared this analogy with uh, Cindy yesterday when we are Um going on a hike somewhere, right? If there's a trail that's already, um, you know Existing and we're used to walking down that trail. We're we're realistically going to go down that trail, right? And as humans Um, if we've learned to cope and adapt and respond in a particular way, that's going to be our go-to, right? Um part of therapy is learning. Okay. What is an alternative approach? What is a different path we want to take and at first if we're walking and hiking? There's going to be a lot of grass there There's not going to be a trail But as we walk through it more and more and more a trail or path will start to clear, right? Um, and you know the 15 minutes once a week once every two weeks, right? Um, we we do as much work as we can But what's important is what you take out of it and what you apply, right? And sometimes, um, some of these, uh, tweets or instagram posts, they're kind of like, uh, maps reminders prompts that show up that tell us Okay, this is the path and whether or not we choose to take it is up to us Mm-hmm. That's a good reminder because a lot of times we see these inspirational quotes online It's more like a reminder and not a replacement for therapy and that's where you know, you guys all All of you are empowered to seek help Look for a therapist that's right for you and do your research before you go into it Thank you so much for Bonnie. Um, this was a great stream that we have covered some of the questions Unfortunately, we're weren't able to cover all the questions but If there's something that all of you enjoy and wish to see more on the monthly live stream and Want us to do a part two of a ask a therapist. Let us know at the end of the live stream thank you so much for Bonnie again, and hopefully everyone will Are doing well and have a great day Thank you, Bonnie. I'll see you guys next time. See you. Bye now


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