Finding Calm During the Holidays

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Hi, and welcome back to another episode of no halos

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here with Jen Lang and Jane Stark. We are excited to have

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you here with us for our holiday wrap episode. And we had to set

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a different direction about way we each had our own ideas about

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the way this episode might roll out. And so I'm going to hand

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this over to Jane to sort of get us started on it. And then we're

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going to provide some wonderful guidance and content for you for

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the end of the year.

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Okay. Yeah, we were just reflecting on our years, I

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think, you know, and what, what we've been through, and not just

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us, but reflecting on how big of a year 2021 seems to have been

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for everyone. I'm gonna enjoy everyone. Everything. Yeah. You

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know, and it's been a common theme. I think Jen and I both

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noticed in talking to people in our own circles in our personal

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lives, just how much stuff shit has been happening in people's

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lives. It's not I mean, yes, we all know that we're living

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through a pandemic, but it's not just that it's like, it just

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seems to be you know, there's loss of loved ones, there's

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divorce, there's, you know, mental health, there's, like,

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there's just so many layers and levels happening. And, you know,

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in I think in, in the self help world, in our, in our world, you

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know, we, we don't want to get down a rabbit hole of just

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looking at the negative and going, Oh, my God, it's been so

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horrible. And so Jen was like, you know, what, like, we also

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want to look for the things that to celebrate, and maybe we

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should start out with a celebration. And I had a really

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strong reaction. I was like, I do not feel the celebration

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energy right now at all. Like, yes, we're headed into the

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holidays, and I don't get me wrong. I'm not like, I'm not in

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a scrooge mentality. But I'm like, celebrate just didn't land

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for me. And so we wanted to bring that here to the show and

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talk about that, and how, you know, there are different things

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that work for each of us. And so, what we kind of what we came

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to was acknowledgment. And what if we could just acknowledge

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everything that we all have been through individually and

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collectively over the last year. And that landed a lot better for

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me. I'm like, Yeah, I can, I can do that. That feels neutral.

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Celebration felt a bit

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worst, I would say Forrest Yeah, me. But maybe.

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So can you give us a little bit of a backer like what

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did celebration bring up for you and feel like and it's always

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more aligned for you. It's

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it's definitely more aligned for me. And and I'm not

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saying because we we did talk about the word celebration, and

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especially in self help communities, celebration can be

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a way of Yes, acknowledging the good and moving into a higher

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vibe, higher vibration. And it can also be a way of bypassing

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the actual problems underneath. Right.

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And that's what I said. Right? So bypassing, like,

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I feel like we're bypassing all of the shit that went on this

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year.

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Yeah. So from my perspective, and with a lot of

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the coaches that I've worked with, I always feel it's

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actually helpful to start with celebration as a way to

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acknowledge all the awesome stuff that has happened. Yeah.

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And so for example, like, there's no reason why we

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couldn't celebrate the fact that we launched our podcast this

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year, which is an awesome way to celebrate.

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Yeah, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I don't

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want to acknowledge any of the positives. I totally agree with

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it. Yeah, important to

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us. But the celebration space is can feel

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forced. So it kind of serves a dual purpose where there's this.

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If we don't move into that space of celebration of consciously

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celebrating the accomplishments and constantly celebrating, you

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know, what we have all lived through and experienced this

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year, then we run the risk of being dragged down into the

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space of this year is so hard. Everything about this year was

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so hard. And we fall into that judgment space.

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I'm like, oh, yeah, clearly I, I'm a singer, I express myself

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through tones and tonality. Kurt calls me out on that sometimes,

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too, it's pretty funny. So, if we are always caught in how hard

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something is, then it's hard. It's harder and harder to see

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where the good isn't where the shining light is. And it's like,

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I think it's Leonard Cohen, piece of piece of poetry, where

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the cracks are where the light comes in. And

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I think it's a Go ahead. Did you talk about is

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there? Okay. You say? I think it's, it's a real balance. For

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me, it feels like, between, because I 100% agree. And, you

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know, I mean, I start most of my coaching sessions off with Ken

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want you to tell me what went well, because I know what's

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gonna I know that we're gonna get into the what's not going?

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Well, that's why we're, you know, part of the reasons, we're

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often talking, but so what went well, for the exact reasons that

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you just shared, right that you have to, it's very easy for our

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brains to just want to focus on the negative. Yeah, and we like

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to bypass the positives. However, I guess, where I was

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coming from, and what I was feeling when we first had this

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discussion is around, also just acknowledging what was and like,

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not trying to sugarcoat it, like 2021 was a really hard year, I

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think, for a lot of people. And we were reflecting, reflecting

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earlier, Jen and I, in another conversation with a friend that,

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you know, 2020 was rough. And we all kind of were like, I mean, I

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feel like a little bit like we were all just in shock with

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2020. Right, like what just happened. But I know, you know,

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you and I both shared last year at the beginning of this year

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that like 2020 was actually a really great year for me

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personally. Yeah. I felt like 2020 was a really good year.

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2021 has been different. Yeah. Not that it hasn't had its its

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highlights, and it's good things but 2021. And I've talked to a

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few people that are just like a, how did we get to December of

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2021? Like what just happened? Clip? Yeah, I was I was at the

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hair salon yesterday, actually, we were talking and one of the

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girls was like, she's like, somebody pointed out to me the

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other day that we've basically been in this pandemic for two

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years. And it's like, and we were like, Whoa, yeah, that's

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crazy. Right? We still think back to like, oh, yeah, when the

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pandemic started, and it doesn't, I don't know, I don't

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feel like it feels like almost two years ago. No. But so 2021

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has just, it's had a different energy. It's how to, there has

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been sort of a heaviness to it, and a, you know, just, you know,

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like, yes, continuing to navigate a pandemic, and and

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just the highs and the lows that have come with that. You know,

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we're, we're getting out of it. Oh, we're not getting out of it.

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Oh, we're getting out of it. Oh, here's another variant. Like,

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it's that constant

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cycling through highs and lows. I think. Well, there

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was that New York Times article, I think it about the there was

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two, there were two books. We'll find them and we'll put them in

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the show notes. But one thing of languishing, yes. That was the

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other one, I think was it Brene. Brown. She was Adam Grant.

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And you get it, we'll get it link it up with the

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correct will get the correct author. Yeah, they don't. But

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yeah, languishing was the term. And so yeah, if we feel

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like we've been languishing through 2021 hit for

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you feel that way, you're definitely not alone. And this

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constant cycling through, up and down and up and down. You know,

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or through different regulations. Depending on where

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you are in the world, you can travel, you can't travel, oh,

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you've traveled, oh, it's gonna be more complicated to get back

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to your home country. Or if you leave, you can't come back to

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your home countries, a lot of my friends in Australia and New

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Zealand are experiencing. So there's a lot of nuance in this.

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Recognizing and acknowledging 2021 where you might not want

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to, you might want to just be like, fuck, and burn it all

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down. I'm just gonna leave it in the past and move forward, which

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is one way of approaching it and not saying it's right or wrong.

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It is one way of approaching with it. So

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I think that's the piece though. That's where Yeah,

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I just I feel like a little bit like, let's call it out for what

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it was like, and for the last two years, for that matter,

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right? These have been probably some like these are, these are

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times that are going to be in the history books like we are

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living through, you know, our version of World Wars, really on

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a totally different level. Exactly. Yeah, not the same, but

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like, a new version of it. And I think there is something to be

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said for needing to recognize that and recognize what we're

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in. And in that, we can find a little bit of compassion or a

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little bit of grace for ourselves. And I know for me

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personally, and again, in conversations I've had with

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others, it's like, the macro is reflecting in the micro, or vice

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versa. But like, you know, it's definitely I'm seeing that where

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what we just talked about, that's happening kind of

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globally and for the collective, we're also seeing happen

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individually. Yes, in our own in our own lives. And so we've

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seen a lot unfolding. Yeah, and it's a lot, it's we're

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seeing it unfolding in personal relationships and marriages,

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relationships with, with loved ones, you know, and that's what

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we want to bring your attention to, with this episode,

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especially with this holiday wrap piece is moving into the

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state of observation and reflection, without reliving

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some of the extreme emotions that you may have experienced in

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the past year. So what can you observe? And it is that aspect

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of hindsight brings clarity. And I was actually thinking when you

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were talking just now, Jane, about 10 years from now, when we

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look back on this time, what will what will be the narrative

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and what will be the dialogue that is put out into the world?

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Because there will be the lived experiences of it. You know,

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there will be, you know, kids who were born during the

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pandemic, will they be identified as like the pandemic

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generated babies or COVID? Babies, you know, and so when we

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have this, if you can bring yourself forward, five or 10

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years, and after this transition time has passed, what do you

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want it to be like, and we'll probably touch on that. And then

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in the new year, as well. But looking back, and reflecting on

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this time, will give you fuel? And I'm hoping inspiration as to

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how you want to move forward. Yep. And that might just be the

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next three weeks. Yeah,

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I mean, I think that was the intention of this

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episode, right? We have to look and go, Okay, this is going to

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come out on December 14, as we head into prime holiday time.

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And, and the whole conversation around celebrating or

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acknowledging or whichever term lands for you was really about

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reflecting but not in that January reflection energy, but

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in this, okay, it's been a big year. How do I want to move

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through this big season? Because this is kind of the big finale

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of our year, every year. Right? And, and it's often so frantic,

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I saw a really funny meme yesterday. And it was of it was

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a picture of an animal. I don't remember what it was, it wasn't

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a bear. But it was an animal that hibernates and it was

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talking about how animals in the winter sleep, and rest and

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whatnot. And then the other picture was like this picture of

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like, Christmas chaos and like, you know, and they're like

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humans, on the other hand in the winter, start shopping, and

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visiting and baking, and did it and hosting and doing all the

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things and I was like, wow, it's and they're like, Yeah, we kind

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of got this wrong. Like, it just it was really accurate. Like,

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yeah, it's so fascinating. Hey, like, we're headed into the

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solstice on the 21st in North America, that means we're headed

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into like, you know, the dark hibernation hibernation time and

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what do we do we push ourselves like no other to be out there.

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And so I guess really what we want to offer up is that moment

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for you guys to pause and go How do I want to move through these

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next couple of weeks and through this season? Knowing too that

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that can really set us up for the next year? Yeah, and I don't

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know I'm not really feeling the hole at this point. All of the

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set your you know, what do you want January to be and look

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forward to like you know what's 22 to kind of bring what are you

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leaving behind

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that internationals frantic right now it does a you

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can do planning any time this is the this is the other face. You

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don't have to do the planning now. You can you can sit with

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where you're at probably is the most valuable piece of guidance

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we can offer on today's episode. Even if you're just listening,

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whatever it is you're doing, whatever it is you're feeling,

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whoever you're with, sit with where you were at today, right

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now, and give it the acknowledgement and recognition

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that you deserve.

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Yeah, except what is in front of you right now. And

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what do you need and tune in? Like what do you need? I think a

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big piece of this and again, a big theme of the last couple of

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years that has been shown to us is around, like regulating our

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nervous system, right and figuring that out, which is, you

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know, self care was heard of the term that's always thrown

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around. But really, at the root of self care, the reason that we

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do it is to keep ourselves regulated and to keep our and to

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help our nervous systems stay in that healthy state. So

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we're at least come down from redlining. So this is

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this is the other part of this whole cycling process over 2021

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is if you have been in a near constant state of accelerated

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energy or Accelerated stress, then there are certain

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physiological responses that your body will have. And we

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talked about that on last week's episode with Laura Craddock. So

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if you haven't, do go back and listen to that one, for sure. So

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when you're in this state, and you're needing to restore your

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nervous system to a bit more of a natural level, it's not a

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question of I'm going to throw 10 tools at it and hope for the

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best. It's my quiz. You know, this is also this is also the

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season of extremes. And this season of excess. So whether

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you're in the summer or winter, southern hemisphere, or northern

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hemisphere, so it might just be what, again, what I said, What

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do you need right now? What's one easy, simple thing you can

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do right now to just back?

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I've, I've actually really been trying to be

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conscious of doing some of the deep breathing. And it sounds so

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simple, but I mean, and I, you know, I told it, and I don't do

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it all the time, like, and but I've found myself lately, just

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being like literally, okay, just like stop and take three

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conscious breaths. Yeah. And it can be as small as that. And it

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actually does, it really does help. Or this morning, you know,

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I was sharing with Jen. Before we got on that I just, I woke up

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feeling kind of anxious, I woke up with some tightness in my

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chest. And I just, rather than just pushing through my day, and

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going oh, like trying to ignore it, and and busy myself, which I

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can very easily do, I really made the conscious effort to

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just sit with it and be like, What is this? Is this even mine.

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And, you know, going through a little bit of my practices and

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tools to just let that go and move it. And in all honesty, I

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did that this morning. And it didn't, it shifted it a little

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bit, but it still was there about an hour later. And then I

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had to check in again. And I was like, I wonder if I need to like

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hop on the bike and just X like sweat this out. And, you know,

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so looking for those different ways. But the first piece is

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actually being able to witness and see and acknowledge that

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hey, actually I've got I can feel that tightness in my chest,

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or I can feel that emotion sitting there right under the

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surface. I think that's that's the other piece is just like you

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say, allowing what's here? Yeah, so if there's an emotion right

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there, and you can, you know, allow yourself five minutes to

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go and have a little cry. Could you give that to yourself this

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year?

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Yeah, but gift that literally gift that to yourself.

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On the other extreme, you might be feeling angry and frustrated.

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So what would it take for you to a acknowledge that anger and

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frustration to yourself without taking it out on loved ones? Or

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be finding an outlet for that anger and frustration, that

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doesn't hurt anybody. And so when you bottle up that anger

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and frustration inside, all you're doing is you're turning

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that inward to yourself and your physiological body is going to

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show those effects. But if you are finding an outlet for you

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know, get exercise, move your body, like join some martial

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arts or something

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that cannot our empowerment playbook. Yes, well,

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actually, yes,

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let's actually do that. So the empowerment

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playbook is that tool that we've designed that's available for

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anybody and everybody to use. It's full of creative ideas to

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move through those emotions. It's a guided process. We meet

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once a month in a community to talk about aspects of the

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process. And actually, in the new year, we're gonna have some

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pop up calls to work through the playbook together, which is

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really excited.

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But the end the way we designed it, is sort of to

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that hybrid of what you were just sharing, right? Where it's

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like, there's a guided process to get you to reflect, to

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identify the emotions. And then there's a step where it's like,

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actually now get into the embodiment piece and how do you

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need to move that emotion? Is it through art? Is it through

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music? Is it through movement? Is it through tears, but just,

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you know, so if you need some support with that it might be a

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place to look. Yeah, and help through that. I wanted to touch

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Jen on We talked briefly about how we follow you know, some of

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the As the astrologers and various different people in our

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circles that are all talking about the energy that's out

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there right now, a lot about what we're feeling, I have to

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say, as I've started to follow some of this stuff more closely

Jane Stark: 00:20:15

in the last two years, it never fails to amaze me how accurate

Jane Stark: 00:20:19

Stroud of it has been. And it's really more, it's not accurate.

Jane Stark: 00:20:23

This is not about predicting events, yes, about predicting,

Jane Stark: 00:20:29

or looking at themes of what things might feel like. And that

Jane Stark: 00:20:33

part has been really interesting for me to be like, huh, I never

Jane Stark: 00:20:37

would have seen this coming. But this is exactly what they said

Jane Stark: 00:20:41

in terms of how this felt. So I was thinking, you know, where

Jane Stark: 00:20:46

we're at right now. And looking forward, a little bit into 2022.

Jane Stark: 00:20:51

What's the energy you're picking up on? What are you?

Jen Lang: 00:20:55

Oh, you know, I described it to someone this

Jen Lang: 00:20:57

week as sort of where we're currently at as we're being

Jen Lang: 00:21:01

squeezed smaller and smaller through a smaller and smaller

Jen Lang: 00:21:04

space. And it is, it feels like it's is an aspect of rebirthing

Jen Lang: 00:21:09

if you want to go down those terms, but they like we're

Jen Lang: 00:21:12

feeling the squeeze and the energy of where we're going, I

Jen Lang: 00:21:16

feel is not the pressure is not going to be letting up in the

Jen Lang: 00:21:19

next. Yeah. period of time. I'm just I'm not going to say weeks

Jen Lang: 00:21:24

or months or years. There is no timeline in that respect. It's

Jen Lang: 00:21:28

going to get crunchier. And so part of the reason we've created

Jen Lang: 00:21:32

those tools, like the empowerment playbook is to help

Jen Lang: 00:21:35

you through these crunchy times help you through those Squeezy

Jen Lang: 00:21:38

spots, and to provide that guidance and support. So where I

Jen Lang: 00:21:42

see it going, is still crunchier and still squeeze here. And at

Jen Lang: 00:21:47

the same time, I know he's totally technical words easier,

Jen Lang: 00:21:51

it's easier, squeeze, get your squeeze on. And at the same

Jen Lang: 00:21:56

time, it's unnecessary process. So is there there is, from a

Jen Lang: 00:22:03

listeners perspective, if you don't have a lot of these tools

Jen Lang: 00:22:06

at your fingertips, then start building your toolbox and start

Jen Lang: 00:22:13

building the skills and ways that you can go further inward.

Jen Lang: 00:22:21

It's it's not the the external journey is causing the inward

Jen Lang: 00:22:26

squeezing. So the inward squeezing is where you can begin

Jen Lang: 00:22:34

to resolve and let off the pressure. That's your tool.

Jane Stark: 00:22:40

Okay. Expand on that.

Jen Lang: 00:22:42

Expand on that. All right, go deeper. Thank you.

Jen Lang: 00:22:46

James gave me this look like? You mean, what are you talking

Jen Lang: 00:22:51

about? This is a big metaphor,

Jane Stark: 00:22:53

that's really deep. We need to unpack this. Okay. So

Jen Lang: 00:22:59

all of the events we're experiencing in our day to

Jen Lang: 00:23:01

day lives, whether it's in our relationships, whether it's on a

Jen Lang: 00:23:04

global platform, whether it's like, virus, something, I don't

Jen Lang: 00:23:10

know, variant number 7463. And you're having booster number

Jen Lang: 00:23:17

10,000. I don't know, I don't know. But the all those external

Jen Lang: 00:23:22

pressures on us, that caused us to have those internal

Jen Lang: 00:23:26

responses, like the internal emotions, or the anger and the

Jen Lang: 00:23:30

frustration, and the whatever it is, you're feeling, it's valid.

Jen Lang: 00:23:34

And at the same time, it's by going deeper into those feelings

Jen Lang: 00:23:38

for yourself and resolving them for yourself. That will take the

Jen Lang: 00:23:42

pressure off. So when we do the inner work, the pressure

Jen Lang: 00:23:47

reduces. But if you're constantly looking for external

Jen Lang: 00:23:51

solutions, to internal problems, to internal problems, that are

Jen Lang: 00:23:56

external problems, but they're manifesting as internal

Jen Lang: 00:23:59

problems, if you're constantly looking. So for example, if

Jen Lang: 00:24:02

you're numbing with overwork, or if you're numbing with alcohol

Jen Lang: 00:24:04

or substances, then yes, it's going to take away the pain and

Jen Lang: 00:24:08

the discomfort that you're feeling. But it's actually not

Jen Lang: 00:24:11

taking the pressure off. So then, the question you need to

Jen Lang: 00:24:16

ask is, why do I have this behavior? Why is this B and you

Jen Lang: 00:24:22

might not even recognize it as a behavior because it's such an

Jen Lang: 00:24:24

ingrained habit. Yeah. So again, that's process of observing.

Jen Lang: 00:24:31

This is a prime opportunity to observe

Jane Stark: 00:24:35

and observing so one of the things that I have

Jane Stark: 00:24:39

started to do and found helpful with the observing is in

Jane Stark: 00:24:44

journaling, or writing things out and noticing and allowing.

Jane Stark: 00:24:48

So one of the things is you can almost write it as the third

Jane Stark: 00:24:51

person. So that's one one way that sometimes we can trick our

Jane Stark: 00:24:56

brain is start to write out whatever the situation is. or

Jane Stark: 00:25:00

whatever the feelings and the emotions are, and write it as if

Jane Stark: 00:25:03

you're the third person like reading a book.

Jen Lang: 00:25:07

Even give yourself a different name if you want.

Jen Lang: 00:25:08

Yeah, give your try reading with your middle name.

Jane Stark: 00:25:11

Mm hmm. Or, alternatively, I have been able

Jane Stark: 00:25:15

to, instead of writing the third person, but I can I literally

Jane Stark: 00:25:18

have to step up almost step outside of myself, and look in

Jane Stark: 00:25:22

and be like, What is she feeling? Or what and I can do it

Jane Stark: 00:25:24

still, it's like, what am I feeling, but it is that

Jane Stark: 00:25:27

separation and being able to witness and sometimes just

Jane Stark: 00:25:34

writing it out and seeing it written on paper without being

Jane Stark: 00:25:37

completely in the emotion is the piece that's really important

Jane Stark: 00:25:41

when we can start to pull that away a little bit, then we can

Jane Stark: 00:25:45

start to, to observe in what you were what Jen was sharing there.

Jane Stark: 00:25:49

And that's, yeah, that's the enormous degree inside work.

Jen Lang: 00:25:54

It is the inside work. And it's the other aspect of

Jen Lang: 00:25:57

this is as it's I think it's even more important over the

Jen Lang: 00:26:00

holiday season to double down on this work. So to carve out the

Jen Lang: 00:26:05

time, and yes, we have lots on the go. And yes, you know,

Jen Lang: 00:26:08

there's still seven Christmas gifts to pick up and or three

Jen Lang: 00:26:12

parties to attend or whatever it is, that's playing out for you.

Jen Lang: 00:26:16

Even if it means you getting up 30 minutes earlier each morning,

Jen Lang: 00:26:20

carve out the time is invaluable, and you will never

Jen Lang: 00:26:26

get that time back. So this, it is making your emotions a

Jen Lang: 00:26:31

priority to yourself.

Jane Stark: 00:26:34

Yep, it's funny. Gentlemen, we hopped on our call

Jane Stark: 00:26:37

this morning. You said so I think many of you know if you

Jane Stark: 00:26:40

don't know, this whole podcast was born out of 70 meditations

Jane Stark: 00:26:44

that Jen and I started doing back in 2020. And we continued

Jane Stark: 00:26:49

having those little they kind of evolved into life conversations

Jane Stark: 00:26:54

meditation slash mini meetings, at 7am. And we, in the last

Jane Stark: 00:26:59

couple months have stopped meetings so frequently and doing

Jane Stark: 00:27:03

those. And you just said to me this morning, like, we need to

Jane Stark: 00:27:06

get those back. Because we actually notice how much you

Jane Stark: 00:27:11

know, it's a way for us, I think, to have that

Jane Stark: 00:27:14

accountability piece. So that we're doing that. We're sharing,

Jane Stark: 00:27:18

we're connecting. We're doing the meditations, we're carving

Jane Stark: 00:27:22

out that time for ourselves. So I know it's hard. What I'm

Jane Stark: 00:27:25

saying is we're in it to like we we do it to we've dropped it.

Jane Stark: 00:27:29

And we're both noticing how impactful those 30 minutes 7am

Jane Stark: 00:27:35

meetings are for us.

Jen Lang: 00:27:37

I'm having a real time idea right now. Yeah. This might

Jen Lang: 00:27:42

be I'm not saying this is going to happen. However, I'm thinking

Jen Lang: 00:27:47

that it would be really cool to have a listener meditation,

Jen Lang: 00:27:54

maybe twice a week, two mornings a week at 7am. Pacific. And it's

Jen Lang: 00:28:00

a space where you can carve out that time. So like we create

Jen Lang: 00:28:04

that time we create that time for people to show up. Cool, and

Jen Lang: 00:28:08

just like 20 minutes. Yep. So it's a public open to you. 20

Jen Lang: 00:28:14

minutes. Meditation spot. There's no preamble. You don't

Jen Lang: 00:28:19

have to put cameras on. No cameras, seven, eight cameras.

Jen Lang: 00:28:23

Definitely not Jameis.

Jane Stark: 00:28:24

And I've always had that rule. No cameras, no

Jane Stark: 00:28:26

cameras. Even when we did zoom. We it was always cameras off.

Jane Stark: 00:28:30

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, anyway, good idea. We'll play with that.

Jane Stark: 00:28:34

Come back.

Jen Lang: 00:28:36

We'll come back. We roll on back to that because it

Jen Lang: 00:28:37

might not be zoom. It might be another platform. So we'll stay

Jen Lang: 00:28:41

tuned on that. I'm just having this real time idea. Like maybe

Jen Lang: 00:28:43

that's something we can do for our community. It's just short

Jen Lang: 00:28:45

term. Yeah, twice. Yeah, twice a week. Moving through moving into

Jen Lang: 00:28:50

2220 22.

Jane Stark: 00:28:52

Yeah, I like it. Okay, so Okay, I think with

Jane Stark: 00:28:55

that, but summarize here. So back crunchy here. denser,

Jane Stark: 00:29:03

crunchy and wet squeezy,

Jen Lang: 00:29:05

crunchy, and Squeezy. Crunchy and Squeezy. Time counts

Jen Lang: 00:29:08

when you're feeling the squeeze?

Jane Stark: 00:29:10

Yes, some more than others. Maybe you've had a

Jane Stark: 00:29:12

really great year and that's awesome. celebrate that. Yes. I

Jane Stark: 00:29:16

am not anti celebration. You know, celebrate that. And if

Jane Stark: 00:29:22

not, if not acknowledge that. We see you were in it. Yeah, it's

Jane Stark: 00:29:30

it's not easy. We don't need to sugarcoat and pretend like it's

Jane Stark: 00:29:34

easy. It's not, you're not not been easy. And connect back in

Jane Stark: 00:29:40

to what you need. Right now. What would what is your heart

Jane Stark: 00:29:45

calling to you? Yeah. To do to be through the next couple of

Jane Stark: 00:29:50

weeks through the holiday season. What can you give

Jane Stark: 00:29:52

yourself to make it an enjoyable, soothing time?

Jen Lang: 00:30:00

That's great advice. I think we'll roll out on that.

Jen Lang: 00:30:03

All right. Have an amazing holiday season. We will not have

Jen Lang: 00:30:07

any new episodes for the next two weeks. Our next episode will

Jen Lang: 00:30:10

drop the first week of January. And we are going to be talking

Jen Lang: 00:30:14

about Yeah, we have some really great topics mapped out. We're

Jen Lang: 00:30:18

so excited. Thank you so much for being part of our first year

Jen Lang: 00:30:22

of podcasting together. We are totally celebrating that

Jen Lang: 00:30:27

celebrating that yeah, celebrating you and recognizing

Jen Lang: 00:30:30

and acknowledging where you're at. Thank you, everybody. Have

Jen Lang: 00:30:34

an amazing break. Take care. Thanks for joining us for these

Jen Lang: 00:30:40

conscious combos. If you're ready to dive deeper, head on

Jen Lang: 00:30:43

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Jane Stark: 00:30:47

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