Herpes, gratitude and wounded healers

0:01It's so amazing um what being grateful does um I mean the first part of my morning is the Gratitude portion just going through everything that I'm grateful for and turns out I'm grateful for a lot who knew um it never ceases to amaze me what comes up I'm playing more and more around with the uh with just whatever comes up like whatever thought comes to my head or whatever person pops into my mind and um to uh to be grateful about that thought or for that person and it's been a really emotional time like like in a really good way um a lot of Tears um but mostly of just like tears of being in ...

1:23... touch with something that that means something to me and uh starting off with just being so grateful for literally being alive like for being here that's pretty cool um and then grateful for my health grateful for my mom and dad for loving me and raising me right and for doing the best that they can and just for all of the uh all the people in my life who have supported me and who I've been able to support and it just keeps like spiraling out like that like gratitude starting with me and who I am and where I am in the world and and starting to look outside of myself too and those people closest to me and then spiraling all the way out to all of humanity and it's um it feels really good um and I'm grateful to all of you to the herpes opportunity un Community tribe that's building and building and for ...

3:08... all of you that uh that put yourself out there for all of you who realize that it's worth it to stand up for yourself and to to stand up for your own happiness I'm grateful to all of uh all of you who open yourself up on the forums or write me emails and then for all of the community members who are supporting other people on the forums and reaching out and being herpes buddies it's this um really awesome cycle that happens like when I suffer and then I come out of the suffering if only for a bit or forever either way when I come out of the suffering to help someone else in that same suffering is so rewarding it's inspiring so to see that cycle going on on on the forums and with people connecting with one another is really beautiful to see and I'm grateful for that I'm grateful for for the ...

4:41... people who are starting to step up to be a part of this herpes shamelessness movement I feel really grateful for that and seeing it as something really edgy and it's an idea whose time has come so edgy is good um and for the weekend coming up and for all of you I mean it's in three days now and for all of you who have supported me in this and supported the mission of what this weekend is going to be all about the herpes opportunity weekend seminar thank you for helping to make this a reality like it's actually happening and uh I'm just like I'm I'm simultaneously amazed and just appreciative and it's really proud of ...

6:11... the community and for all of you who are flying from different locations to be a part of it to to help staff it and from for all of you who are flying from different locations to participate in it and for all of you locals who are going to be a part of it like we're doing some groundbreaking stuff here and we're doing it together so it feels good to have such a such a solid group of people who are standing for something so beautiful and so right so feels good to say that I never know what to say at the end of these it feel so abrupt