1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody. Pre recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: it has been an extraordinary time. We are living in 4 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: extraordinary times, and you know, I want to share on 5 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: today's episode some of the ways that I have found 6 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 1: it helpful to manage the overwhelm. And it is it 7 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: doesn't you know. Here's what I will say. There isn't 8 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: a person that I have spoken to. There isn't a 9 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: family member that I've spoken to, a friend, or a 10 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: clerk at a store, or an Uber driver that I 11 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: have spoken to who hasn't shared, even for a moment, 12 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: their bit of overwhelm. I've gotten out of ubers over 13 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: the last year or so, and when I get out, 14 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: the drivers all exclaim be safe, be well, you know, 15 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: stay healthy, stay safe. These are like salutations greetings that 16 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: we didn't have, right, Like when you think about when 17 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: people sneeze and they would say gazintite or God bless you. 18 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: That dated back to you know, the height of the 19 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: plague that when people sneeze they were like close to death, right, 20 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: so you were saying, you know, God bless you and 21 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: keep you It's interesting to me as the times become 22 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: more and more extraordinary, and I mean extraordinary in their wildness, 23 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: like ten years ago, five years ago, we could never 24 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: predicted where we are now or what we have all 25 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: collectively experienced. And by the way, you know, what I 26 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: find so unsettling, I think sometimes is the fact that 27 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: the media would love us to believe and pretend that 28 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 1: COVID never existed, That over a million people didn't die, 29 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: that every holiday season that you're sitting down and there 30 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 1: are empty spaces at your tables that were just all 31 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: supposed to be okay with that never to have really 32 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: talked about it beyond the one collective day of mourning 33 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: that the Biden administration ushered in before the inauguration, that 34 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: that was the only honoring we've done. And it's still 35 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: wild to me because what we know, right is that 36 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: hurt people hurt people right, That wounds that go unhealed, untreated, 37 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: bump up against other wounds until everyone around you is hurting. 38 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: So one of the things that I had the just 39 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: tremendous ability to participate in over the year the last 40 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: couple of months of the year was a commitment to 41 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: care class that I was taking and I won't even 42 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: call it a class. It was more like a gathering 43 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: with other black women led by a somatic healing coach 44 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: to teach us how to get in touch with our bodies, 45 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: our feelings, and the way that we hold emotions in 46 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: our bodies, and that when we are in certain conversations, 47 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: certain places that we just move with just our brain 48 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: but don't really think about, why did my shoulder rise, 49 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: Why do I have this not in my stomach? Why 50 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: am I feeling sore? Why am I waking up exhausted. 51 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: Our bodies provide us with signals right to alert us 52 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: to the fact that something is not right, something is blocked, 53 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: something is not sitting well. And through this healing gathering 54 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: that I was doing at the end of the year, 55 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: I learned so much about how I hold energy, how 56 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: I hold negativity, how as I've been able to not 57 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: just recognize and move through because this isn't just about 58 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: let's say, getting a massage, which is lovely and great, 59 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: but that's not it. It's really about becoming in tune, 60 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: closing your eyes, deep breathing, sitting with yourself inside of 61 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: your body. And you know, I realized as I was 62 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: in these gathering settings that that is a luxury, and 63 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be a luxury to be 64 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: able to wake up and sit with yourself, to be quiet, 65 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: to stretch, to breathe, to come into your day, to 66 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: really unpack and learn your body, your emotions. As my 67 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: mother says, the issues that we hold in our tissues, 68 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: the tissues in our body. Because, as I've said to you, 69 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: and if you've been listening to this show for quite 70 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: some time, dis ease in our bodies create disease. So 71 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: when I talk about really trying to work to live 72 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: and be and exist in flow, it isn't just about 73 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: letting things roll off your back. It's recognizing that life 74 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 1: is yang and yang. Life is always going to hold 75 00:06:54,200 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: both grief and joy. But learning how how our bodies 76 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: signal to us gives us the greater skill set and 77 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: awareness to navigate what will inevitably become rough seas right. 78 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: But if you are a skilled person who is not 79 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: caought off guard but starts to see like, oh yeah, 80 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: I can see how this can turn. So what do 81 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: I need to do? How do I need to breathe? 82 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: How do I need to approach this situation. Is there 83 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: is this real? Is this a story that I'm telling myself? 84 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: What is in my control and not within my control? Right? 85 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: I look at it in turns terms of dealing with 86 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: all of the layered crises and complexities that we've all 87 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: individually and collectively been navigating for years now. I can't 88 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: remember the last time, to be honest, right, that I 89 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: felt truly, truly, truly truly about society, truly stable, truly 90 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: like things are going to be okay. We'ven't felt this 91 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: in a while. We've been on edge, which is why 92 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: I'm talking today about the ways that I have found 93 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: to help myself, and I hope that all of you 94 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: are looking and finding the ways that will help you. 95 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: But doing this work of researching, analyzing current events and affairs, 96 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: making it digestible to all of my listeners and readers 97 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: takes a toll, because I'm a person who, for way 98 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: too long was unable to detach myself from the grief 99 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: that was in the headlines and the life I am leading. 100 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: So I was carrying all of this weight and sadness 101 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 1: of the world with me everywhere like a giant anchor, 102 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: and recognizing that if I did not learn how to compartmentalize, 103 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: how to be an observer but not an absorber, and 104 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: let me say that again, to be an observer but 105 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: not an absorber, then I was not going to be 106 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: able to continue doing this work. So for me, through 107 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: the pandemic, I developed and began to hone skills that 108 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: allowed me to center my peace and joy even in 109 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: the midst of grave hardship. Physical movement going on walks 110 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: for me is meditative. It's really hard in the winter, 111 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,079 Speaker 1: and I have to figure out other ways to release 112 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: right because for me, I need a physical release right 113 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: of movement that is both meditative, can take me out 114 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: of my body but also drop me into my body 115 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: in a real way. Cycle does that for me too, 116 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: because I can zone out, just listen to the music 117 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: and ride right. And like if I were a biker 118 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: on a road, which I would never do in the 119 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: city because I'm terrified of being hit by a car, 120 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: but if I were to ride you can see how 121 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:22,479 Speaker 1: the road right for bikers avid bikers becomes incredibly meditative 122 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: and you're just like in it. So for me, I 123 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: need to be in physical movement that allows me to 124 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: kind of drop out right of what's around me and 125 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 1: really in side of my body. So that's one. Two 126 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: is that I really shrunk my circle of friends in 127 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: a serious way because I realized that we fill our lives. 128 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: I was filling my life with a lot of extra 129 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: fluff and stuff that didn't need to be and again 130 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: through COVID, that all naturally got stripped away because you 131 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: weren't able to, you know, take that dinner date, that 132 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: coffee date, do you know this meetup, that meet up, 133 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: that happy hour, And so those kind of extra layered 134 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: people fell away. I no longer work in an office 135 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: or in a studio. I work from home, and so 136 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: again those kind of extra ness fell away. And for 137 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: me that ended up being a really good thing because 138 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: then who was left I knew were like my people. 139 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: So who are your people? Not the people that just 140 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: tell you that everything is gonna be okay when you know, 141 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: for fock's sakes, it's not and we don't know. But 142 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: that you can be real with, you can be raw 143 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: with that can hold space for you, and you in 144 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: turn can hold space for them right that you leave 145 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: their presence feeling lighter, feeling better. Right. And that is 146 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: again about connecting with your body, How do I feel? 147 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,479 Speaker 1: I told myself that once we were able to reconnect 148 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: with people, I was no longer going to just say 149 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: yes to things right like that. I was going to 150 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: take a beat and see how the invitation felt to me. 151 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: Does it feel heavy? Does it feel light? Do I 152 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: find myself wanting to come up with an excuse as 153 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: to why I can't do it, which means that I 154 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: don't really want to do it, so then why am 155 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: I doing it? Right? Funny enough, I was watching one 156 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: of these like old you know, not really old, I guess, 157 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 1: but like in comparison Christmas Movies for Christmases with Reese 158 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: Witherspoon and I think Vince Vaughan, and I started watching 159 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: it because I like to watch it like mindless Christmas movies, 160 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: as many people do, hence why they're marathoning throughout the 161 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: holiday season. But you know, they were talking to people 162 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: in the beginning of the movie about like why they 163 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: hadn't spent the holidays with their families in three years 164 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: because both of them and mind you, a lot of 165 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: these Christmas films, like if you look at them with 166 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: a proper lens, you're like, wow, this is really fucked up. 167 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: This is really toxic, So let's just suspend you know 168 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: that for a moment. But what they did bring up 169 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,479 Speaker 1: is all the ways that people turn themselves into pretzels 170 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: right in order to make other people happy, particularly during 171 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: the holiday season. So they were talking to like, you know, 172 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: colleagues at a Christmas party, and both of the colleagues 173 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: were dreading, you know, they're seventeen pickups that they had 174 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: to do at the airport. They're like sleeping on uncomfortable 175 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: sofas and listening to somebody's terrible jokes and like engaging 176 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: with family that they would rather not be with and 177 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: they would rather just take a you know, a vacation. 178 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: And then, you know, as Reese Witherspoon and her boyfriend 179 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: are sharing, they're like, don't you feel guilty? Like you're 180 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: just going off and doing your own thing, lying to 181 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: your families. Don't you feel guilty? And they're just like, 182 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: do I feel guilty about taking a vacation during the 183 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: only vacation that I have for the year. No? And 184 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: so I want us to, you know, think about Sure, 185 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: there are always things that we have to do, but 186 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: there are actually more things, I believe, you know, outside 187 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: of work. In taxes, that we have a choice and 188 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: can make a choice about how how we want to 189 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: break bad traditions, toxic traditions, engagements and conversations and experiences 190 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: that leave us wanting or feeling bad and remake them. 191 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: Just because something has always been doesn't mean that it's right, 192 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: and we each have the ability and the opportunity to renew, 193 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: re engage, figure out what actually works, because sometimes doing 194 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: the same old, same old doesn't. And of course we 195 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: know that doing the same old, same old, but expecting 196 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: a different result is in fact one of the definitions 197 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: of insanity. We know, right, folks, that life is really 198 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: precious and also really short, and so the questions that 199 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: we have to be asking ourselves is how do we 200 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: want to be living? How do we want to feel? 201 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: And lead with that. You know, one of the books 202 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: that I've mentioned before on this show, and if you've 203 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: had the ability to listen to one of my other shows, 204 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: The New Abnormal, I had the ability to interview one 205 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: of the sisters, the co authors of Burnout, The Secret 206 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 1: to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Emily Nagowski and Emilia Nagowski 207 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: wrote this book, and I had the ability to interview Amelia, 208 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:54,880 Speaker 1: and you know, everything is about whether you're into Western medicine, 209 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: Eastern medicine, you know, metaphysics, all of these different things 210 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: is about what is causing me my stress, how to 211 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: get to the core of it, how to move through 212 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: these cycles and stop them. And the holidays for a 213 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: lot of people bring up a lot, a lot, a 214 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,679 Speaker 1: lot of stress. One of the things that she says, 215 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: that they say in this book that I think is 216 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: pretty amazing is about looking for your something larger. They 217 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:43,120 Speaker 1: write this, some people know exactly what there's something larger is, 218 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: and others take years to figure it out. Amelia has 219 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: always known, even when she didn't know, she knew. She 220 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: has wanted to be a choral conductor since she was twelve, 221 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: and here she is with three degrees in leading choral 222 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: ensembles an impressive resume of conducting gigs. Emily stumbled from 223 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: school to work to school again until looking to trace 224 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: the pattern of the door she had walked through. She 225 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: finally figured it out about twenty years after Amelia. Our 226 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 1: experiences discovering the sources of meaning in our lives might 227 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: suggest there is no predictable way for each individual to 228 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: find it. For themselves, but the common thread is an 229 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: inner voice that you can hear if you stop and listen. 230 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: Everyone has it. Ask yourself, what am I doing when 231 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: I feel most powerfully that I'm doing what I meant 232 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: to be doing. If you're still struggling to recognize your something, 233 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: larger research has found a few strategies that can help. 234 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: Try writing your own obituary or less morbid a life 235 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: summary through the eyes of a grandchild or a student. 236 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: Osk your closest friends to describe the real you, the 237 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: characteristics of your personality and your life that are core 238 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: to your best self. Imagine that someone you care about 239 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: is going through a dark moment in their life, which, 240 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: as I'm saying, we all have been. They've experienced significant 241 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: loss and feel helpless and isolated. As your best self, 242 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: write that personal letter to support them through this difficult time, 243 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: then reread it. It's for you. There are all different 244 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: ways for us to be able to navigate this thing 245 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: called life and to center ourselves and our joy and 246 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 1: ease is not selfish. It is actually an act of 247 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: resistance to the darkness. So I wish for you all, 248 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: as we gear up to start anew to really think 249 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: about who we are and how we want to be, 250 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: because that is how we spread more light, more joy, 251 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: and renew without the burnout. That is it for me today, 252 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: dear friends on Woke a f as always Power to 253 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people power. Get woke 254 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: and stay woke as fup.