Speaker 1: January full of promise, yes, but sometimes difficult to navigate
Speaker 1: with those short, dark days that stretch seemingly on forever.
Speaker 2: Fear not.
Speaker 1: You may not be taking notes, but I am, and
Speaker 1: I'm currently focusing intently on every single minute of extra
Speaker 1: daylight that we've been gifted since the winter solstice. Little
Speaker 1: by little, the days are getting longer and lighter, letting
Speaker 1: hope in with each little sunbeam that's able to pierce
Speaker 1: the cloudy skies and come to rest upon our shoulders.
Speaker 1: Are you experiencing a winter of discontent? I hope not,
Speaker 1: But I also know that each of us experience personal trials.
Speaker 1: Nobody's life is perfect and without storms. If you're currently
Speaker 1: weathering some difficult times, my podcast Guest Today can offer
Speaker 1: some soothing comfort and shore up some faith in yourself
Speaker 1: that may be difficult to locate right now.
Speaker 2: Faith.
Speaker 1: Broussard Cade began her career as a school counselor after
Speaker 1: completing her master's degree in Human development counseling at Vanderbilt University,
Speaker 1: but after a serious car accident back in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: she found it impossible to return to the school setting
Speaker 1: she had been in for more than a decade, she
Speaker 1: shifted to providing virtual independent counseling and coaching from home,
Speaker 1: and she began sharing positive affirmations and mental health content
Speaker 1: on social media. Her encouraging handwritten post it notes she
Speaker 1: called love letters to herself, resonated deeply with a wide audience,
Speaker 1: and she became quite an Instagram sensation. Now she's turned
Speaker 1: those notes into a bright and beautiful little book, Shine
Speaker 1: Bright Anyway, ninety affirmations that declare you are enough when
Speaker 1: the world says you're not. The message is so important
Speaker 1: and January can be so rough, so I chose that
Speaker 1: for my January book club. Pick Faith is joining us
Speaker 1: today to share more insight, more gentle goodness, and more
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Speaker 1: Faith you are so lovely, You are so beautiful.
Speaker 3: Thank you, You're kind.
Speaker 1: You are a ray of sunshine. Like your face, your
Speaker 1: countenance glows with that beautiful inner light.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That means a lot.
Speaker 1: So we're going to be talking about you, your life,
Speaker 1: your little book that sounds like it kind of happened
Speaker 1: accidentally and yet has inspired thousands of people. And the
Speaker 1: reason I wanted to have you on this episode is
Speaker 1: because with the darkness outside. I don't know about where
Speaker 1: you are, but a lot of people where I am
Speaker 1: are struggling. It's like this heavy cloak of darkness. You know,
Speaker 1: you walk around singing hello darkness, my old friend, because
Speaker 1: at four o'clock, five o'clock, it's you feel like it's midnight. Absolutely, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about shine bright anyway, which let's do it.
Speaker 2: By the way, do you have a light?
Speaker 1: You have a light from within your eyes, You sparkle,
Speaker 1: your smile is beautiful. I can tell that shine bright
Speaker 1: Anyway is truly. I mean it's not just a phrase,
Speaker 1: it's clearly your motto. So so tell me what tried
Speaker 1: to dim your light? Oh gosh, what hasn't you know?
Speaker 1: From the outside looking in, I see the little white
Speaker 1: paeony behind you or whatever, that little trait of magnolia,
Speaker 1: a little magnolia, steal magnolia. And people are going to
Speaker 1: put a B and C together and say, you can't
Speaker 1: write a book about shine bright anyway because you don't
Speaker 1: know what it's like to suffer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to make assumptions, not knowing that every
Speaker 3: single day is a struggle for me, every single day,
Speaker 3: probably more so than a lot of people. And it's
Speaker 3: simply that I choose to not let that struggle or
Speaker 3: those challenges be the entirety of my story or the
Speaker 3: entirety of my narrative.
Speaker 1: So give us the biggest challenge that you've had to face,
Speaker 1: or challenges something that tried to dim your.
Speaker 3: Lyne biggest, absolute, biggest by far is living with a
Speaker 3: traumatic brain injury. And that's kind of where if you
Speaker 3: look at my social.
Speaker 4: Media or you look through my book and you see
Speaker 4: these little handwritten notes on paper, these little affirmations, those
Speaker 4: were born out of my journey to recovery from this
Speaker 4: traumatic brain injury.
Speaker 2: So what year.
Speaker 3: Twenty eighteen January ninth, twenty eighteen, So it just came
Speaker 3: upon seven years? Was my profession? Is a mental health counselor.
Speaker 3: Started my career as a professional school counselor. I was
Speaker 3: working at an elementary school in Johns Creek, Georgia, which
Speaker 3: is a suburb of Atlanta, on my way to work
Speaker 3: one morning, completely normal day, and I was sitting at
Speaker 3: a stoplight hit from behind at full speed by attractor trailer.
Speaker 3: From that accident, I sustained a concussion and a traumatic
Speaker 3: brain injury, which in postconcussive syndrome as well as traumatic
Speaker 3: brain injuries, they don't go away. They're just something that
Speaker 3: you get better at managing TBIs. Traumatic brain injuries are
Speaker 3: oftentimes what people consider is invisible. They can be invisible
Speaker 3: disabilities depending on the severity. So some people that have
Speaker 3: brain injuries also have coinciding spine injuries. So if you
Speaker 3: see someone sitting in a wheelchair right, or someone who's
Speaker 3: paralyzed or who cannot walk, there's assumptions there that they
Speaker 3: have a TBI of some sort. But then there's a
Speaker 3: different part of the spectrum of brain injuries where the
Speaker 3: damage that has done is invisible. However, it causes the
Speaker 3: person dealing with it to struggle with everyday things that
Speaker 3: most people don't even think about. So, for example, I
Speaker 3: have extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Anytime I'm in
Speaker 3: a restaurant, I'm looking for a store or any public place,
Speaker 3: I'm usually looking for the nearest fire escape, like how
Speaker 3: can I get out of here? And there's this overwhelming
Speaker 3: feeling to want to run or escape from that area
Speaker 3: because sensory stimulation is extremely high. Migraines, nerve pain, chronic fatigue,
Speaker 3: chronic insomnia. So on a regular basis, I will go
Speaker 3: three to four days straight without sleeping at all. Like
Speaker 3: this is not oh, I got a bad night asleep
Speaker 3: last night. I only slept like four hours. No, this
Speaker 3: is completely awake for three to four days straight on
Speaker 3: a regular basis. And we know from studies and tests
Speaker 3: things that you know. That's why they used sleep deprivation
Speaker 3: as torture tactics with prisoners of my right role and
Speaker 3: right right because it causes you to sometimes have symptoms
Speaker 3: of psychosis. It causes you to like literally feel like
Speaker 3: you're losing your mind. So I'm dealing with all of
Speaker 3: these things on a regular basis at the same time,
Speaker 3: trying to be a wife, trying to be a mom.
Speaker 3: At the time the accident happened my daughter was three
Speaker 3: and a half. Since then, we have added to our family,
Speaker 3: and so I have a daughter who is ten and
Speaker 3: a little boy who is three. Living with those challenges
Speaker 3: on a daily basis and being a parent and being
Speaker 3: a counselor, and being a content creator and being an author,
Speaker 3: it's a lot. It can be extremely overwhelming. I feel
Speaker 3: discombopulated most of the time.
Speaker 1: So did the ADHD? Was that a part of your
Speaker 1: life before the TBI?
Speaker 3: That was before?
Speaker 1: So you you have been struggling my entire life, your
Speaker 1: entire life, and you're young, so now we can talk
Speaker 1: about it. But before you and I had this conversation,
Speaker 1: I was talking with my sister and we were like, wow,
Speaker 1: because I am learning because I have you know, so
Speaker 1: many kids, and a lot of them have ADHD. One
Speaker 1: son has a traumatic brain injury from long before I
Speaker 1: adopted him, just you know, but learning for them, going
Speaker 1: to the IEP meeting for my eight year olds and
Speaker 1: getting books and buying books and educating myself to be
Speaker 1: a better parent for him and for my other children
Speaker 1: and grandchildren.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, my gosh, why didn't I know this
Speaker 2: about myself?
Speaker 1: Like, why didn't I know there's a reason I jerked
Speaker 1: my legs all night long, And why did I not
Speaker 1: know there's a reason I have these piles of books
Speaker 1: and piles of clothes. I don't have a wardrobe. I
Speaker 1: have a floordrobe, and I always have Like since I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I had a pink chair that I
Speaker 1: got for Christmas from my mother, who upholstered it for me.
Speaker 1: I never saw the thing. I never sat on it
Speaker 1: once in my life.
Speaker 3: It held the clothes. Yeah, it just.
Speaker 2: It was just there to hold the clothes.
Speaker 3: Of course. Yeah, I think you know, these things were
Speaker 3: not explored as much back then as they are now,
Speaker 3: even when I was a kid. My tension is being
Speaker 3: split into so many different areas that once I get
Speaker 3: done with the kid's laundry and the cleaning, the bathrooms
Speaker 3: and the tidy all of that, my clothes pile is
Speaker 3: to me no longer a priority. If I have to
Speaker 3: choose between that in trying to get rest right, my
Speaker 3: clothes pile isn't that very high on the list in
Speaker 3: comparison to all of the other house things that need
Speaker 3: to happen that seem more urgent.
Speaker 1: Because they are more urgent because your kids have banned,
Speaker 1: so they have their band uniform exactly.
Speaker 2: That is more urgent, right, Whereas I.
Speaker 3: Work from home, and yes, I mean I see my
Speaker 3: clients for counseling via zoom, So like I just have
Speaker 3: to make sure that the top half of me is presentable,
Speaker 3: right if I don't have any bottoms, who cares?
Speaker 1: Players are not the sweats on with the whole ext
Speaker 1: you picked up off the floor for the fifth day
Speaker 1: in a row, exactly. So in Shinebright, anyway, you break
Speaker 1: it down for folks in the three parts, and you
Speaker 1: break that down for us real quick in those three parts,
Speaker 1: and then I want to talk about sure.
Speaker 3: So I try to place the book in a format
Speaker 3: similar to like You're going on a journey, because it
Speaker 3: is a book of ninety days of affirmations. So split
Speaker 3: it up into three sections, three thirty day sections that
Speaker 3: take you on a journey from essentially what the subtitle
Speaker 3: of the book is, which is ninety affirmations that declare
Speaker 3: you are enough when the world says you're not. And
Speaker 3: as somebody who has always struggled with feeling good enough,
Speaker 3: feeling worth, feeling like I have done enough, because part
Speaker 3: of the ADHD and also part of the TBI stuff
Speaker 3: is that feeling of like perfectionism want like if I
Speaker 3: just do this well enough, then that means I am enough.
Speaker 3: If I just make sure the house is tidy enough,
Speaker 3: then my family will find me worthy enough. Right. It's
Speaker 3: all of these like conditions. If I then and I
Speaker 3: realized though, that every time I reached some sort of
Speaker 3: arbitrary milestone that I had place for myself that came
Speaker 3: out of nowhere, right, because they never said anything. This
Speaker 3: is all internal. Every time I reached that arbitrary milestone,
Speaker 3: it was never enough because by the time I got there,
Speaker 3: I had already moved the bar again. Every time.
Speaker 1: There's so many expectations put on moms, though, It's.
Speaker 3: Too many and I can't keep up with them. Comparison
Speaker 3: is the thief of joy. It is all of this
Speaker 3: act that we have to other people and other people's
Speaker 3: lives in their monochromatic, decorated homes and matching family out.
Speaker 2: There twenty eight bench wastelines and there.
Speaker 3: It can really it can really mess with your mind
Speaker 3: because it messes with it. It kind of skews that
Speaker 3: line between perception and reality.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and filters.
Speaker 3: Filters, Yeah, we don't even know we don't know what's
Speaker 3: real anymore. But I found myself struggling with like feeling
Speaker 3: like I was enough, and I through talking with friends
Speaker 3: and seeing my clients, who are mostly women, I realized
Speaker 3: that it wasn't just something I was struggling with, but
Speaker 3: something that we kind of all were. And so I
Speaker 3: wanted to take you through that journey in my book
Speaker 3: of realizing first of all, that like, you are not broken.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with you that and that's the first
Speaker 3: part of the book. Part one is you are not broken,
Speaker 3: that like, there's not something about you that needs to
Speaker 3: be fixed. If you looked at the person that you
Speaker 3: hold in high esteem and that you think is perfect,
Speaker 3: if you were to be a fly on the wall
Speaker 3: in their house, you would see them in their most
Speaker 3: vulnerable moments, feeling that something about them is not the
Speaker 3: way it should be too right. We all have these
Speaker 3: insecurities about different things, and for me, it's a beautiful
Speaker 3: thing because it takes the pressure off a little bit
Speaker 3: and it levels the playing field. I mean, I have
Speaker 3: so many celebrities, famous people that follow my content and
Speaker 3: comment on it and repost it. And these are people
Speaker 3: that you look at just like you said, in the
Speaker 3: beginning of this, if somebody looked at you when you
Speaker 3: walked into a room, they would assume fill in the blank,
Speaker 3: that you are fine, that you have no struggles. And
Speaker 3: we look at these people and we idolize them, not
Speaker 3: realizing that we are all spiritual beings having a human
Speaker 3: expla all struggling with something. We're all we're all in
Speaker 3: the same figurative boat. Now, some people may be in
Speaker 3: a yacht and some people may be in a paddle book,
Speaker 3: but still those innates.
Speaker 1: And those are jumping off the boat for the front
Speaker 1: of it, or.
Speaker 3: We've lost our paddles and we don't even know how
Speaker 3: we're going to get to shore anymore. Like we'll figure it.
Speaker 1: Out, we'll figure it out, We'll figure exactly that.
Speaker 3: There's this concept that that that humanizes all of us.
Speaker 3: And I think once I started to see that, it
Speaker 3: really helped me to then go to the next part
Speaker 3: of the journey, which is like, once you realize that
Speaker 3: you're not broken, then you can love yourself unconditionally and
Speaker 3: take care of yourself, which is part two, take care
Speaker 3: of yourself, and then part three is shine bright. Anyways,
Speaker 3: So in the midst of all of this that you've through,
Speaker 3: you realize that you're actually not broken, You're just perfectly imperfect. Right,
Speaker 3: you learn that you are also worthy of your own
Speaker 3: care and consideration. You're not put on this earth to
Speaker 3: just give yourself away to other people. And then once
Speaker 3: you realize that you can allow your inner light to
Speaker 3: shine that like, there are some people in life who
Speaker 3: will dislike you simply because you are beautiful, simply because
Speaker 3: you are smart, simply because you are well educated, simply
Speaker 3: because you have a wonderful career, simply because you have
Speaker 3: a family that they don't have, or whatever these expectations
Speaker 3: they've placed on you. But that's not your concern. Your
Speaker 3: concern is to nurture the light that is inside of
Speaker 3: you and to be a good steward of the gifts
Speaker 3: that you have. What other people think about you is irrelevant,
Speaker 3: And I think that's why I'm able to do what
Speaker 3: I do. People say, oh my gosh, what's your skincare routine?
Speaker 3: What's your that? Do you drink a lot of water?
Speaker 3: On most days I forget to drink water. So it's
Speaker 3: not that I think it mainly is I don't allow
Speaker 3: what other people are doing and have going on or
Speaker 3: what they think about me to be a factor in
Speaker 3: how I live my life, or in how I parent
Speaker 3: my children, or how I run my home. I mind
Speaker 3: my business. And maybe that's where maybe that's where.
Speaker 2: It comes with a novel concept.
Speaker 3: I mind my business. You will not see me on
Speaker 3: the internet making nasty comments on people's content about things
Speaker 3: that I disagree with. If I disagree with it, I
Speaker 3: just keep scrolling, scroll, or I just unfollow. Everything that
Speaker 3: you see does not require your attention. You do not
Speaker 3: have to attend every event that you're invited to, and
Speaker 3: that's in your mind and in the world right. Just
Speaker 3: just give attention to and invest into the things that
Speaker 3: matter to you and that you care about. Let all
Speaker 3: that other stuff go, because all that other stuff is
Speaker 3: what's covering up and dimming your light.
Speaker 1: How many people you know you've got your fans, your followers,
Speaker 1: your social call and my friends, your friends, the people
Speaker 1: that have found your book or found your post it
Speaker 1: notes and it resonated with them. And then you've got
Speaker 1: you know, customers, clients, people you are counseling and helping.
Speaker 1: Percentage wise, how many of those people, when you start
Speaker 1: talking to them, feel like they're enough?
Speaker 3: Zero zero zero, like that is an anomaly, some sort
Speaker 3: of mystic unicorn that I have not yet encountered. There's
Speaker 3: this concept like mental gymnastics that we're always trying to
Speaker 3: do and keep on top of that. I think I
Speaker 3: have not encountered one woman who isn't struggling with not
Speaker 3: just the expectations but the management of all of the
Speaker 3: expectations and all of the invisible labor and the mental
Speaker 3: load of how to make it all fit together and
Speaker 3: still function as a human being in the midst of it,
Speaker 3: and still also not be triggered, not be irritable all
Speaker 3: the time. That's one of the main things I hear
Speaker 3: is like, I mean, I love my kids, but it
Speaker 3: seems like everything they do irritates me. It's because you're
Speaker 3: so triggered on alert all the time. You are so overstimulated.
Speaker 3: You don't get a brain. You don't have time to
Speaker 3: just tap out and say I need to be by
Speaker 3: myself to refill my cup. It rarely happens. So, of course,
Speaker 3: when you are depleted, you have nothing left to give,
Speaker 3: and every little thing bothers you, and then we feel
Speaker 3: guilty about that. Right then we feel guilty for snapping
Speaker 3: at these adorable, little tiny humans that we've created, and
Speaker 3: so then we like, then we don't know what to
Speaker 3: do with the guilt. So it's this vicious cycle of
Speaker 3: trying and trying and trying and not feeling like you're enough,
Speaker 3: and then feeling guilty that you haven't done enough, and
Speaker 3: then not knowing what to do with the guilt. It's exhausting.
Speaker 1: It is exhausting, it is heartbreaking, and you think about
Speaker 1: all the stuff we put on ourselves and do to ourselves,
Speaker 1: and there ain't no marbles left.
Speaker 3: No, no, oftentimes there are no marbles left, and so
Speaker 3: it becomes like a borrowing game, right, Like you're you're
Speaker 3: like reallocating marbles from one day to another and moving
Speaker 3: them all around. That's what I find myself doing, to
Speaker 3: the point where maybe every day I don't get to
Speaker 3: use my knee marble for me, but maybe I just
Speaker 3: accumulate a bunch of my knee marbles and move them
Speaker 3: all to like one day or a weekend or sometime
Speaker 3: separate because.
Speaker 2: Let me know when that happens.
Speaker 3: Hey, well there's that right that we I'm learning more
Speaker 3: and more now that if I reallocate some of those
Speaker 3: moments that I spend on the self imposed expectations that
Speaker 3: nobody else really cares about, then I can I can
Speaker 3: find some spaces for me.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: So for example, like I said, I'm from Southern Louisiana,
Speaker 3: love to cook one day and I read about this
Speaker 3: in the book. One day, my husband said something about like, hey,
Speaker 3: honey year and made jumble liya in a while. Immediately,
Speaker 3: my my good wife spidey senses go up, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: he must have said that because you know, he wants
Speaker 3: me to make jumble eye today when I that day
Speaker 3: was supposed to be my self care day. I was
Speaker 3: supposed to spend the entire day at Barnes and Noble
Speaker 3: just being in heaven. Well, I'm like, oh goodness, if
Speaker 3: I don't make this jumble eye for him, he's going
Speaker 3: to be upset or he's going to think I'm this.
Speaker 3: I literally so I ran away with myself and I
Speaker 3: gave up my self care day to make this jumble eye.
Speaker 3: I went to the store.
Speaker 1: I got all the ingry I to go to multiple store,
Speaker 1: got this full love this, stop the spies, all the stuff.
Speaker 3: Came home, made the jumble Aya, put it in front
Speaker 3: him and he was like oh honey, this is good.
Speaker 3: Thanks for making this. But he did not celebrate me
Speaker 3: with bells and whistles. He did not do it with
Speaker 3: a ten piece orchestra. He did not sing my praises.
Speaker 3: When I tell you, Delilah was hot.
Speaker 1: And it's so resentful because he didn't do what you
Speaker 1: needed him to do after you did something.
Speaker 3: That he did as you too, exactly, And that is
Speaker 3: the point that I'm trying to make.
Speaker 1: You're talking to a woman who baked blueberry pie yesterday,
Speaker 1: because at lunchtime I said to my husband, I found
Speaker 1: these blueberries in the freezer that I froze a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm going to make some jelly out of them.
Speaker 1: And he said, oh, man, I've been craving blueberry pie.
Speaker 3: There you go, that's all you need.
Speaker 2: That's all I needed.
Speaker 3: Go into turbo exactary mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because obviously, just like you said, he's been
Speaker 1: wanting blueberry pie and I have failed. That's that is
Speaker 1: the subtext, and not being able to read his mind
Speaker 1: and perceive that he's been craving blueberry pie. Therefore, I
Speaker 1: must put the butter in the freezer, get it cold
Speaker 1: enough to make the crust remember all the things.
Speaker 3: That he didn't he did not ask, And so I'm
Speaker 3: and then I'm realizing that if I take away those
Speaker 3: moments right and invest all of that grocery shopping time
Speaker 3: and jumbalia and making time into me when he was
Speaker 3: supposed to be handling the kids that night because it
Speaker 3: was supposed to be my time away, they would have
Speaker 3: had takeout.
Speaker 2: Pizza and been as happy as could be.
Speaker 3: Perfectly fine, right, They would not probably wouldn't have had
Speaker 3: a furnit and a vegetable added to it like I
Speaker 3: would have done, but it's okay. They won't die from
Speaker 3: one day. They would have been fine, but I inserted
Speaker 3: myself into a situation that did not require me, and
Speaker 3: I lost the time that I needed for myself. So
Speaker 3: I'm realizing that's where I get my time back. Those
Speaker 3: extra things that I'm doing in hopes of getting some
Speaker 3: sort of warm, fuzzy validation feeling back that no one
Speaker 3: is asking me to do. They won't miss it if
Speaker 3: I don't do it because they did not ask me
Speaker 3: to do it, So that time is better spent investing
Speaker 3: in me having that alone time that I need to
Speaker 3: bring my baseline down to get my senses down from
Speaker 3: being overstimulated to regulate my nervous system. My family is
Speaker 3: better served by me doing that than me inserting myself
Speaker 3: into situations where I do not belong. And I think
Speaker 3: that's where we get those moments back that we really
Speaker 3: need for ourselves. We may not be able to get
Speaker 3: a weekend, we may not be able to get a
Speaker 3: whole day, but we can certainly get back a few hours.
Speaker 2: And take care of ourselves and take care.
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Speaker 1: sharing your light, for sharing your story, for being vulnerable,
Speaker 1: for being so stinking beautiful in your spirit and your hearts.
Speaker 1: And I hope people pick up your book and are inspired.
Speaker 2: Because we need it right now. Boy, do we need
Speaker 2: it right now.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I appreciate it, and I appreciate
Speaker 5: you and all the work you've done a long time.
Speaker 5: I've been listening to you since I was in middle school,
Speaker 5: and I remember your voice being just so soothing and
Speaker 5: calming to me, So I just thank you for what
Speaker 5: you do.
Speaker 1: Shine Bright Anyway, ninety affirmations that declare you are enough.
Speaker 1: You are enough when the world says you are not.
Speaker 2: Faith.
Speaker 1: If folks want to follow you, because this book is
Speaker 1: a compilation of notes that you wrote to yourself, if
Speaker 1: they want to be inspired, If they want to follow you,
Speaker 1: where they Where can they find you?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? They can follow me on Instagram at flurtly speaks,
Speaker 3: you know, like the flower f L E. You are
Speaker 3: d l I s sp eaks. Slurdly Speaks. That is
Speaker 3: my Instagram handle, also my Facebook handle, and then my
Speaker 3: website is www dot slurdly speaks dot com.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Thank you, God, bless you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Wonderful New Year.
Speaker 3: Thank you you too, de La.
Speaker 1: If you're struggling, if you have any measure of self doubt,
Speaker 1: if you feel like you won't be able to make
Speaker 1: it through whatever situation you find yourself to be in
Speaker 1: right now, Faith wrote Shine Bright Anyway for you. She
Speaker 1: had to turn her schooling and advice inward when she
Speaker 1: suffered a traumatic brain injury a number of years ago
Speaker 1: and felt like her life was imploding.
Speaker 2: She gets it.
Speaker 1: She wants you to know that even even when life
Speaker 1: is hard, you are enough. You can catch up with
Speaker 1: Faith and all of her kind and fabulous advice via
Speaker 1: her web site, flor de le speaks dot com. And
Speaker 1: you can find more information and order links for Shinebright
Speaker 1: Anyway at my book club blog on Delilah dot com.
Speaker 1: This inspiring little volume would also make a fantastic gift
Speaker 1: for anyone you know who might be facing a personal
Speaker 1: challenge or who carries the fear of failure with them. Friends,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Life can be challenging sometimes
Speaker 1: especially so it's our job to support each other in
Speaker 1: times of need and remind each other to never give
Speaker 1: up hope on ourselves. I know as you listen to this,
Speaker 1: you're thinking of someone that could use your light.
Speaker 2: Maybe that someone is you.
Speaker 1: Shine bright for them, Shine bright for you, Shine Bright Anyway.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here with me. On season seven
Speaker 1: of Love Someone with Delilah Faith was the perfect guest
Speaker 1: to kick off the new year, and I promise to
Speaker 1: have more fantastic guest each month. Meet me here each
Speaker 1: time a new episode drops, and we'll get through twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five together.