In her new era marked by introspection and growth, Abbie shares her experience of embracing solitude during a period of unemployment. As she navigates this new chapter, filled with both challenges and opportunities, Abbie reflects on the deeper reasons behind her desire to travel and her adventurous multi-day hiking trips. Through candid reflections on setting and achieving goals, Abbie expresses her empowerment in her upcoming solo journeys and how she tackles her fears with courage and determination.

Abbie and Antonio discuss their life plans, embrace what the world has to offer, the importance of embracing life's offerings, forced and chosen solitude, solo travel, Abbie not seeing her therapist, feeling empowered, Antonio getting sick, quarantining, unemployment, setting big goals, and making active decisions to achieve those goals.

Self-regulation is a skill that most of us aren’t taught. With different backgrounds, upbringings, and traumas, we have different ways of getting through the day. Some of us put pressure on our emotions, while others refuse to feel them. Whatever our defense mechanisms are, remembering to back yourself away from the cliff can be hard to remember in the moment, and even harder to practice. When we practice our ability to self-regulate, we practice trusting in ourselves.

When we need people, it can be difficult to open up. Being vulnerable can feel challenging, even with the people who care about us and want to be there for us. However, it’s that vulnerability that allows us to be closer to people, to be able to form deep connections, and to see our humanity within one another. It’s okay to be human. Pain shared is pain lightened; joy shared is joy heightened.

Abbie and Antonio discuss working on self-worth and confidence, overthinking in public scenarios, asking yourself how old you feel when triggered, relearning to self-regulate, putting pressure on emotions, body image issues, vulnerability, relating to others, adjusting expectations, and affirmations.

Being human can be quite the challenge. It can feel taxing to take care of our bodies by meeting our needs, especially when we are either unsure of what they are or not willing to fulfill them. It can feel overwhelming with the amount of needs we can have, ranging from basic needs to psychological and interpersonal needs. However, when we start with meeting our basic needs, it can easily become more and more manageable, finding that putting yourself first is critical to mental and emotional health.

In relationships, we have to balance both our own needs and our partners’ needs. It can be difficult when it seems like our partners’ desires or needs feel like the opposite of our own. Expressing your expectations of your partner can be a scary conversation. Society conditions us to feel like our love is earned and that if we have to ask for our needs then something’s wrong with us. Whether it’s doing the laundry or having sex after a date, discussing expectations go farther than what can feel possible.

Abbie and Antonio discuss meeting basic needs, expectations, sex, sex drive, the downfalls of viewing sex as currency, rejection, scarcity mindset, putting pressure on sex, shifting dynamics in a relationship, communication, and attachment.