Latest / The Trauma Therapist / Episode 805: Individual & Conjoint Therapies for PTSD with Candice M. Monson, PhD
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- 0:53Let's get started, Hi or three, you and a one, our
- 1:00folks, Welcome back to the podcast. I am very excited to have with
- 1:03Mike Us today. Doctor Candace Monson, Candace, welcome, Welcome to you
- 1:08as well. Thanks for having me. You are welcome. Appreciate that so.
- 1:12Doctor Monson is professor of psychology at the Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto.
- 1:19She's one of the foremost experts on traumatic stress and the use of individual and
- 1:23conjoint therapies to treat PTSD. Doctor Monson has published over one hundred and fifty
- 1:29per review publications, seven books, and forty book chapters on the development,
- 1:34evaluation, and dissemination of PTSD treatments more generally. Wow, that's all.
- 1:42That's pretty amazing. Look, I'm tired. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks
- 1:46so much for being here. Yeah, that's great to do. What's your
- 1:49dog's name. My dog's name is Oliver T Bear. Oliver T Bear.
- 1:55Okay, I'm sure there's a story behind that. Thank it's my teddy bear.
- 2:00Awesome, awesome. So, before we get going Kanadas shore with the
- 2:01listeners, where you're from originally and where you are from? Yeah, so
- 2:06I was born in Ulysses, Kansas, which is in southwest Kansas in a
- 2:12small town, and did my academic training in the Midwest before then moving to
- 2:22the East coast and then eventually, as you mentioned in the opening, to
- 2:27Toronto in Canada. Okay, all right, let's get into this here.
- 2:31What I mean, a really impressive background. How did this start, this
- 2:37interest start for you? How did you get into this Mmm, that's you
- 2:40know, gosh, I would say that it was really in the latter part
- 2:49of my training, when I started working with veterans in a hospital that was
- 2:55focused in a veterans hospital and really hearing veterans stories of being an incredibly compromising
- 3:06situations and enduring some tragic situations and being privileged to hear their stories. But
- 3:17then also by like systematically working with them and watching people transform over a relatively
- 3:25short period of time, that I caught the bug honestly of hearing people's stories.
- 3:34And really, to this day, over twenty five years since I graduated,
- 3:42I feel like the luckiest person in the world to actually get the opportunity
- 3:47for people to let me into their lives and trust me to walk along in
- 3:53journeys, to share some of the most vulnerable, intimate details, and to
- 4:00be someone who gets who gets the right to hear that based on their permission,
- 4:06but then also to watch them become better versions of themselves, like it's
- 4:13it's incre I have tremendous gratitude for what I get to do. So you
- 4:17said it wasn't until the latter part of your training what kind of consumed you
- 4:26in the earlier part and even what drove you into the field, And we're
- 4:30talking about your training of what psychology what I'm trained as a clinical psychologist,
- 4:36and I would say what probably brought me into psychology was I was born later
- 4:46in life and surrounded by a lot of women who were always talking about,
- 4:54you know, people in their lives and their relationships. And because I was
- 5:00kind of surrounded by that, probably just became better aware of and capable of
- 5:06kind of reading people so just and interested in people's stories. I am very
- 5:14rarely bored by people. It happens, but it's rare because people and their
- 5:18stories are just really very intriguing to me. And you know, I think
- 5:28as a psychologist and social worker, psychotherapist, et cetera, we all are
- 5:32doing a little bit of research, right, so we have our own adversities
- 5:40that we're working through, and so I think, you know, I'm part
- 5:44of that club in all honesty of you know, searching, searching self and
- 5:49learning about self, but obviously with the goal of trying to help a bunch
- 5:55of other people as well. So when you initially got into the field,
- 6:00did you have a specific interest M Well, okay, so this is an
- 6:05interesting part of the story, speaking of people and their stories. So I
- 6:10started undergraduate. I'm a first generation undergraduate. So my dad was a truck
- 6:15driver, my mom was a housewife, and I went to school to be
- 6:20an accountant because I was really good at math, and as an accountant,
- 6:26I could always have a job like that was that was the sensibilities of where
- 6:30I came from. And what I quickly realized is that accountants, the people
- 6:34I was surrounded by, were kind of like relatively boring. They probably were
- 6:40my people. And what I really loved was putting numbers to human behavior.
- 6:46So there was a term where I was taking like cost accounting, tax accounting,
- 6:50abnormal psychology, and developmental psychology, you know, all at the same
- 6:56time. And I think that's like I think of myself first as a clinician,
- 7:00but I'm a clinician who loves math, like putting the metrics and the
- 7:06statistics to what we do and making it a science in terms of how we
- 7:13understand human behavior. So that I think that's part of the story too.
- 7:16Yeah. Yeah, Where was it when that you first encountered or had your
- 7:23first experience working with veterans. So my first work with veterans was in nineteen
- 7:30ninety seven at the Boston BA Hospital, a n ATRI center for PTSD I
- 7:36had definitely encountered people who had been traumatized because trauma is endemic, and had
- 7:43worked. I was a volunteer for the Rape Crisis Domestic Violent Shelter, that's
- 7:49what it was called at the time, carrying a pager, meeting victims at
- 7:53the hospital. So definitely definitely had an early interest in trauma. But I
- 8:01was a bit more interested in perpetrators a trauma early on in my graduate career,
- 8:07and then when I started working with victims and watching that capacity to change
- 8:11is really what hooked me, and I became really focused on how do we
- 8:16build interventions that actually can work and then get clinicians to deliver them, Like
- 8:22that's been my life work. What was it about perpetrators? It just reminds
- 8:26me someone reached out to me on Facebook about a month ago and said,
- 8:31how come you don't have people talking about the perpetrators on your podcast and actually
- 8:37have, But what was your interest specifically around them? So? I was
- 8:43interested in perpetrators because I think, honestly, if we want to solve the
- 8:46problem of domestic violence and all kinds of assaults, like we have to figure
- 8:52out the perpetrators, and we've got to figure out who's amenable to treatment,
- 8:58and then what treatment to do. So that's how I got into that,
- 9:03and I went to the University of Nebraska that's really well known for forensic psychology,
- 9:07so that was part of it, and I still do some work in
- 9:13that area, but became much more interested in the victims and those who have
- 9:22PTSD in order just because we can it's very treatable, like people can get
- 9:30better, and so it's an area where talk therapy really wins out over medication
- 9:35as well, and so that was compelling. One thing, one project that
- 9:39I'm doing that has been super interesting is treating those with PTSD in prisons who
- 9:48actually including people who have PTSD related to having perpetrated aggression and then after the
- 9:56fact, you know, like working with some one who, for instance,
- 10:01is part of a gang and part of gang involvement actually killed a family member
- 10:05and you know all of the guilt and remorse and shame that goes along with
- 10:13that kind of experience. So I think this idea that there are victims and
- 10:16perpetrators is actually a misnomer. You can be both at once. They're not
- 10:22orthogonal, and you know, people who have been victimized going to be perpetrators
- 10:28and people who perpetrate can be victims. So it's probably it's probably full hearty
- 10:33to think of them as two different things. That's a very interesting statement.
- 10:39So I'm thinking about the people who are listening, who are maybe thinking,
- 10:45well, you know, I've been sexually abused, I'm a victim. I'm
- 10:48not. I mean, I maybe I could at some point be a perpetrator,
- 10:52but I'm not a perpetrator. Now what are you saying? Yeah,
- 10:56And it's true that being a pertrator does not require being a victim, like
- 11:01I want to be clear about that, or that if you're victimize you're destined
- 11:05to be a perpetrator by right. I take more of an exception to the
- 11:11idea that these things are so clearly like an identity that it's a simple thing.
- 11:16People are way more complicated than that, right, right, in terms
- 11:20of their histories, and then you know what they can go on to do,
- 11:24right right. So, you had this experience or series of experiences with
- 11:31veterans, You're you're thinking to yourself, you're drawn to this. How did
- 11:37things unfold such that you started writing these books? And you mean, obviously
- 11:41you're you're you got so involved in it. How did that unfold? How
- 11:46did that progress? Dumb luck? I mean, there is some dumb luck,
- 11:54right, right, But it's one thing to to you know, be
- 11:58a therapist or a psychology just to be working with people, and it's another
- 12:01thing to be writing books and chapters and articles and doing research. Right.
- 12:07Well, it's probably my overachievement, my over achievement problem that needs to be
- 12:13fixed. You know. Here's here's one part of the answer, I guess
- 12:20is that I do love to learn. So you know, it's funny.
- 12:24As a young kid, the play I always did was teaching. I was
- 12:30always a teacher, and I think from an early age I was good at
- 12:37school. I love to learn, and I am genuinely just a very curious
- 12:46person, and so I think that very innate part of me then led me
- 12:56to just be attracted to people who are asking some of the best questions and
- 13:03doing the best work. And like I always felt like I might not have
- 13:09been the smartest person, but I can work hard, and so I probably
- 13:15I found really smart people and I learned like trying to work with them and
- 13:18learn from them, and then attracted people. It's like a snowball, right,
- 13:24and you're acting people who are super smart and building teams of really smart
- 13:28people. But you know, one thing I've learned in this process is that
- 13:33you know smart dime a dozen. There are lots of smart people in the
- 13:39world. It's really the good people. Finding really good people to work with
- 13:48with a passion for what you do, that then makes it possible to be
- 13:52productive. Right, So it's not about I never went into it thinking I'm
- 13:56going to do this many publications, this many books like that was never It
- 14:01was almost like that was incidental to the process of loving what I was doing.
- 14:05I love what I do, and now everyone gets not everyone loves what
- 14:09they do. That is certainly true. When you started out and you had
- 14:15mentioned you know that PTSD is very treatable, you saw improvements. How were
- 14:22you working with your clients at that point and how did your understanding and your
- 14:28knowledge of treatments progress. Yeah, that's a really good question. So keep
- 14:35in mind this would have been ninety seven, ninety eight, So I started
- 14:39graduate school in ninety three, at twenty one twenty two. I think I
- 14:45saw my first client at twenty two years old, which is like baffling,
- 14:50and at that time, so like say ninety seven ninety eight in VA Hospital.
- 14:58Like our understanding of PTSD, he was growing right by now it was
- 15:01actually a recognized diagnosis, and there was there were some systematic attempts to develop
- 15:11treatments and test them, but a lot of the treatment in the VA Hospital
- 15:16was what I would say is palliative care like stress management, anger management,
- 15:22interpersonal skills, a lot of polypharmacy like trying to basically relief suffering and minimize
- 15:31the symptoms. And I had a supervisor, doctor Barbara Niles, shout out
- 15:39to her who was like, Hey, there's this therapy, cognitive processing therapy
- 15:43that Patty Rezek has been testing with female sexual assault survivors. You know,
- 15:48maybe we should like try it with veterans, and you know, I'll supervise
- 15:52you. And then you know, this is what I mean, like it's
- 15:56one of those incidental try Let's let's try this therapy and see how it goes.
- 16:02And then that you know, struck a whole line of research on cognitive
- 16:08therapies and the idea that actually people could get better. Like at the time,
- 16:14it was like you have a life sentence. This is like you're going
- 16:17to always condition. Some people do have the condition forever. Like I don't
- 16:25suggest that like everyone goes into remission, but a lot of people do get
- 16:30better and some people do, you know, lose their diagnosis. And I
- 16:37think I think I was one of many people who are a part of that
- 16:41reformulation of PTSD as a treatable condition and that it's about recovery from events,
- 16:51not a disorder that develops and stays forever. So that that I think has
- 16:56been interesting to observe. Now, you know, one of the topics I
- 17:03talk a lot about is being careful not to fragilize our clients by being afraid
- 17:10to talk about trauma and being afraid to have them go back and systematically go
- 17:17through those experiences to come out the other side, because we're if we say,
- 17:22oh, you're not ready or you know, we're afraid that you could
- 17:26get worse, like we're kind of sending the message that there's not mastery and
- 17:32competency and capability. And that's been one of the things that I've really as
- 17:37part of kind of anti stigma and hope is to really talk more about our
- 17:44clients being way more capable than we give them. I mean, with the
- 17:48understanding that everyone is different, there are you know, there's there's a lot
- 17:56of talk out there that it's not necessary to review or or even talk about,
- 18:04you know, what's occurred. Where does that come into the mix here?
- 18:11Yeah, I think several things about that. One is that there there
- 18:18are improvements that people have from therapies that do not involve going backward, like
- 18:26non trauma focused therapies. The effects are not as big generally in terms of
- 18:32improvements. But you know, you can't force anyone to you can't force anyone
- 18:37to treatment, let alone a certain kind of treatment, right, Like,
- 18:41there's always respect for that, and it's all about inform consent, you know,
- 18:47like you can choose what you want to do. I think what's interesting
- 18:52is that there are there are a number of ways to go back if you
- 18:56choose to go back. Sometimes people have this concept that to go back is
- 19:00to go back at a really thinly sliced site, sound, smell, sensory
- 19:07experience, And there are treatments that work that take you back, but it's
- 19:11not at that kind of thin sliced that seem to work. So there's there's
- 19:18different roads to roam. Sure depends on the path you want to take.
- 19:23So I guess in general I just get concerned about messaging people they shouldn't talk
- 19:30about their trauma. That that that's the part that concerns me because it does
- 19:37seem like people talking about it in a supportive environment is helpful, whether that's
- 19:44with a professional or a loved one. And you know, we just don't
- 19:48want to instill this idea that you're going to like somehow taint people or not
- 19:52get better by talking about it. We've been You've mentioned, you know,
- 19:56working with veterans and PTSD with In that context, are you talking about trauma
- 20:02in general, the benefit of talking about it in general, or you're specifically
- 20:07referring to talking in terms of veterans and their experiences. When about my statements
- 20:15about kind of talking about the trauma is helpful, Yes, yeah, I'm
- 20:19I'm in general. I'm talking more, not with particular populations in mind,
- 20:26got it, got it? Okay? Yeah, Now I wouldn't recommend wholesale
- 20:30disclosure. Sure, you know, like there are people that you know,
- 20:37like a trusted person who is going to receive information in a positive way is
- 20:45important too, right, It's also how you disclose, where you disclose,
- 20:49who you disclose to that I think be a part of healing. That's really
- 20:55important. Yeah, I mean I think that's very interesting because I think there
- 20:59is is obviously a sentiment about use the word fragilizing, and I like that
- 21:06word, and you're saying, well, let's look at this a different way
- 21:11here. I mean there's something very empowering about that. Yeah. Yeah,
- 21:17I mean it's part of if I can riff for just a second, of
- 21:19course, this is this is what this is about. I think it's also
- 21:22part of my concern about trigger warnings, that we've kind of become a bit
- 21:30like traumaphobic. And while I think it's I think it is respectful to say,
- 21:37you know this, what you're about to watch could be troubling or distressing,
- 21:44Like some preparedness is good. I think if we are constantly treating people
- 21:52as if they shouldn't here see experience things, we're also kind of taking away,
- 22:00stripping of stripping that person of their capacity to do it, like kind
- 22:06of devaluing them and their ability to handle it. So I think it's I
- 22:12think it's especially when trauma is endemic. You know, it's like over five
- 22:19percent of people have trauma, So just being careful about what message are we
- 22:23sending by saying don't talk about what happened to you, or you know,
- 22:30for us to sanitize conversations when it's like, no, really, this is
- 22:33what's happening in the world. Right. If it's too sanitary, it's like
- 22:38we may not fully appreciate the impact of what's happening. So I think these
- 22:42are some of the nuances that I that I've observed in my career. It's
- 22:48very interesting that you bring that up. There was a recent article I think
- 22:52was in The Times about how certain UH colleges at the elite level, I
- 22:59know they were talking about we're wondering whether they need to put trigger warnings in
- 23:04the literature that certain Did you hear about this? I did hear about this.
- 23:11Yeah, it was a very interesting article bringing up a lot of what
- 23:12you're talking about. And of course there were two sides to that story.
- 23:18And I think that the fact that let's have a dialogue about that, Like
- 23:22I am throw dialogue right, yeah, Like, in fact, I wish,
- 23:27you know, we had more of that dialogue. But I think for
- 23:30me, where I end is this idea that that there is value in serving
- 23:37things up realistic as they are to fully understand the impact right now. Let
- 23:45me I want to talk about other treatment modalities, but I want to go
- 23:48back when you first started, uh, you know, really encountering or engaging
- 23:56with people who'd experienced trauma. How did that land for you? Okay,
- 24:03So this is something I think about a lot when i'm because I'm selecting students
- 24:10and I'm training people. I think there is a lot about becoming a trauma
- 24:19therapist that is more about the selection process than teaching people how to hear hard
- 24:26stories. And I think for me, one of the things that's very protective
- 24:33is that I am not a very good imaginer. So you know, some
- 24:37people, if you hear a story, then it's all of a sudden you
- 24:41have like a very embellished version of it in the mind. I don't at
- 24:45all. So I think that's protective for me in terms of hearing people's stories.
- 24:55Now that said, there are stories that I've heard at certain points in
- 24:59mind life that we're really hard to hear. And you know, I'm not
- 25:04immune or other people are immune. I think as a therapist one of the
- 25:11things that's also protective is that I'm thinking I come to that situation with a
- 25:18certain goal, which is, how do I help this person. So,
- 25:22yes, the story is going on and I'm hearing this story, but I'm
- 25:26also thinking about, Okay, how do I make this person better given what
- 25:30they're telling me? And so you have your mindset on a certain goal.
- 25:36That goal, which is also probably you know, puts a protection on it
- 25:41as well. But mostly I said this before, I'm repeating myself a little
- 25:47bit. I just feel like for someone to tell me the most intimate things
- 25:52that have happened to them, in parts where they felt like maybe they did
- 25:56the wrong thing, or they reacted in a way that they're ashamed, or
- 26:02you know, like wow, like how can you not be there and be
- 26:07present and honor that. I think that's mostly my experience about it, Like
- 26:15it's like it's a gift, Like it's a precious gift that not everyone gets
- 26:22right. Right, can you share an early clinical error? Oh? MANI
- 26:30yeah, pick one? Ah wow? Okay, So the topic of self
- 26:42disclosure is always an interesting one, right, and a lot of training programs
- 26:49are you know, rightfully so very I would say, I'm going to use
- 26:56the word dogmatic from the perspective of like there's only one right answer, which
- 27:00is never self disclose. And yet I think there are times where self disclosure
- 27:07can be incredibly important. And so I was working with the same sex couple
- 27:15and they were feeling like the system in which they were operating was being very
- 27:26perseconatory of them, which in that era probably was true. Anyway, we
- 27:32happened to get on they took the wrong elevator. It's one of those weird
- 27:37situations. They took the wrong elevator went up, so they came back down.
- 27:41So I got on the elevator to leave at the same time, and
- 27:44they were like, are you are you going home to see your husband?
- 27:52And I said, I'm going home to see my wife. And they didn't
- 27:57know that I was in the same X relationship at the time, and I
- 28:02thought, oh, that will be joining, you know, like I don't
- 28:07think I get them more, and now that they know this piece of information
- 28:12about me, it'll increase the working alliance. It had the opposite effect of
- 28:21Oh my god, like, you're in the same sex relationship and you're working
- 28:26in this organization and you're going to get persecuted. They'd like had a very
- 28:30protective, preoccupied response to the whole thing, and like I mean, probably
- 28:38in the end the air, like all ruptures and repairs that we do in
- 28:44psychotherapy. Was probably very helpful because I was able to say, you know,
- 28:48actually that's kind of not my experience and to you know, to talk
- 28:52about that more and to bring that into the room. But I think it
- 28:59was an because I wish I would have been more intentional at that disclosure.
- 29:03It was one of those like popped into the elevator someone it yeah, and
- 29:10I totally went with it, and I wish I would have been more intentional.
- 29:14And that's what I would say in general about myself as a therapist.
- 29:17Sometimes I just go with it and then later I'm like, uh, you
- 29:22know, I need to I appreciate you sharing that. It's want to remind
- 29:26everyone I'm speaking with doctor Candice months and in the in the bio, I
- 29:34referred to conjoint talk about that. Hmmm. So part of my background was
- 29:44thinking about how we use couple and family therapies to treat individual problems, so
- 29:49that I was like part of my training. My major advisor was trained as
- 29:56a couple researcher anyway. So when I got to the VA, one of
- 30:00the major things that people would say about why they actually got to treatment was
- 30:07their relationship with their partner, and pretty much all mental health conditions will put
- 30:15a lot of wear and tear in relationships, and so I was kind of
- 30:18born out of that, like a history of training, but then realizing,
- 30:22wow, this is a major part of what's not working in people's lives that
- 30:29actually brings them It's like where it hurts. And so then in two thousand
- 30:33and one started building Coudee behavioral conjoint therapy for PTSD. And yeah, now
- 30:41twenty two years later we have had let's see how many trials now, five
- 30:51clinical trials and a bunch of case studies and some uncontrolled trials and been testing
- 30:56it alongside MDMA as an intervention for PTSD. And it's probably in terms of
- 31:06my contribution to the field one of my proudests, like in terms of being
- 31:11creative. And at the time people were like, are you crazy, Like
- 31:15do you really think you can do trauma processing and a couple therapy context.
- 31:22It's like, yeah, let's clear that, So how does that? How
- 31:26does it work? I mean yeah, yeah, yeah. So the a
- 31:33lot of it is like communication skills and teaching couples to be able to communicate
- 31:40better with each other, but the other part is a lot of these couples
- 31:44with PTSD are very avoidant and so trying to overcome the avoidance. You know,
- 31:49people place these situations and the partner oftentimes is also accommodating those symptoms,
- 31:56and so to work together as a system as a unit to push against PTSD
- 32:02and by approaching so is the understanding here that both partners have PTSD. No
- 32:10one or both can have PYTSD. Yeah, one or both can HAPPYTSD,
- 32:15but they're joining together to work against it, whether it's in one or both
- 32:21of them, work against it, meaning perpetua against the disorder. Yeah.
- 32:25So what we do is even in the conceptualization is externalize the disorder. It's
- 32:31not someone that's something that's in you, it's something that's living between us.
- 32:36Wow. Yeah. And then once we improve the couple's relationship is then we
- 32:44do cognitive work together, like exploring the cognitions that may be problematic about how
- 32:52the person who has been traumatized has made sense of their trauma, but also
- 32:58potentially how the loved one who's participating may also have some problematic thoughts that are
- 33:05operating. And so we're kind of teaching them critical thinking skills to work together
- 33:10on in order to address whatever thoughts that we think are maintaining the disorder or
- 33:17causic disorder. Wow, I don't think I've ever talked about that specifically on
- 33:28this podcast. Oh, we should talk more about that. Yeah, I
- 33:31think I'll have to bring you back. I would love that. Can you
- 33:35tell yes for a different episode, let's can you direct our listeners to perhaps
- 33:43a book you have that would maybe help them in that field in that topic.
- 33:47Yeah. Yeah, So the particular treatment that I was talking about is
- 33:53Cognitive Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD and is published by Guildford Press. So if
- 34:05they google my name and Conjoint Therapy for PTSD, I'm sure they would find
- 34:12their way to it. Okay. And that's harnessing the healing power of relationships.
- 34:16That's it. Okay, I will have that linked up. Yeah,
- 34:20I should say to your to those who are listening, it is a clinician
- 34:25treatment manual. So some of it, I mean, there's nothing that a
- 34:32patient or a loved one couldn't read, but it is geared toward the readership
- 34:38is for clinicians. There are some amazing resources on the National Center for PTSD
- 34:50website that is specifically about couples and families and PTSD and loved ones and care
- 34:58care givers courts. So that's VA dot PTSD dot gov. Okay, that
- 35:07would be another amazing resource. And there are like some whiteboard videos about the
- 35:13treatment and just some fact sheets couples and relationships and PTSD and trauma. Okay,
- 35:22I'll link that up as well. Candace, you are amazing. I'd
- 35:29love to have you back. Like I said, I would love to love
- 35:31awesome. Awesome. There's obviously so much to talk about. What's the best
- 35:36way for people to get in contact with you? Yeah, I would be
- 35:38delighted for people to contact me. Do you want me to give my email
- 35:43here or no? I can link it up you. Yeah, they can
- 35:47absolutely contact me via email if they also go to my website candas monson dot
- 35:54com. There's a contact page as well as a strategy of getting a hold
- 36:00of me either either either that email or the contact us page on my site.
- 36:07Would be great, all right. All the other thing I could I
- 36:09could just quickly mention is that we have started a North American online like virtual
- 36:17mental health center focused on stress and trauma for people who are looking for different
- 36:23options of treatment for PTSD. Wow, it's called Nellie Health. So just
- 36:30to put a plug in for Nellie as well. Okay, where is that
- 36:34on your website? I don't think there's a link from Candace Monson dot com,
- 36:40but nellyhealth dot com, my eHealth dot com. Okay, Nellie help,
- 36:50I'll put that here too. Awesome, Candace, thank you so much.
- 36:53It's the pleasure, my pleasure again. It was awesome than here.
- 37:00Okay, lokay Bye.