Speaker 1: Welcome to Checking In with Michelle Williams, a production of
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and The Black Effect. Hey, y'all, welcome to another
Speaker 1: episode of Checking In. I have fun doing solo episodes,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that they take on a different tone
Speaker 1: from when I have a guest. I feel when I
Speaker 1: do my solo episodes, I don't have to be on
Speaker 1: my best behavior, although I still must be tactful and kind.
Speaker 1: Well I'm that anyway, So let's get right to it.
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to say that we are
Speaker 1: ending the second year of Checking In December twenty second.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two marked the second year of Checking In.
Speaker 1: Today's the twenty seventh, but I just wanted to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the second year of Checking In, and it looks like
Speaker 1: we'll be going into a third season of Checking In.
Speaker 1: I am excited. Thank you all so much for tuning in,
Speaker 1: listening week by week, sharing the episodes with your friends
Speaker 1: and loved ones or somebody you want to be petty
Speaker 1: and you want to like kind of sub tweet them
Speaker 1: and be like, you need to listen to this episode.
Speaker 1: I know I'll be hearing what y'all be doing. I'm
Speaker 1: just thankful that y'all just keep tuning in to hear
Speaker 1: what your girl has to say. I don't take it
Speaker 1: for granted. I'm blessed. I am so so so thankful
Speaker 1: that you guys keep tuning in and check it in.
Speaker 1: So thank you again. We made it to two whole years,
Speaker 1: two seasons of checking in, and we're just getting started.
Speaker 1: I've got some cool plans for the third season. I
Speaker 1: want to well, you'll see, literally you'll see. I also
Speaker 1: want to acknowledge the positive responses of the episode last
Speaker 1: week on Grief around the Holidays. Wow, it was so
Speaker 1: many people that sent dms and comments on my Instagram
Speaker 1: and my Facebook, and even for the people that DM
Speaker 1: I sent them to my mother and she was just
Speaker 1: so thankful. Matter of fact, I will read one of
Speaker 1: her messages. She said, Ah, such a sweet message. I
Speaker 1: don't know her him, but I loved them already. So
Speaker 1: that's from my mama. And so she thanks y'all for
Speaker 1: the love. She loves to be loved and we all do, right,
Speaker 1: So it was kind for you guys to keep her
Speaker 1: in your prayers. My siblings, actually my dad, I think
Speaker 1: he only had two other first cousins. One just passed
Speaker 1: and if my dad were living, he'd only have one
Speaker 1: other first cousin. So I want to acknowledge our cousin.
Speaker 1: Her name was ruth Nolan, and I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out why we called her Aunt ruth Anne, and it
Speaker 1: dawned on me, probably spent some years, but I said,
Speaker 1: Aunt Ruthanne is really our cousin. Why we been calling
Speaker 1: her Aunt Ruthane all these years? But because she was
Speaker 1: I guess older and I'm like all these years, she
Speaker 1: never corrected us to say, y'all, don't have to call
Speaker 1: me Aunt Ruthie. I'm your cousin, all right, Rest her soul.
Speaker 1: She was a firecracker, meaning she said what she said.
Speaker 1: She wasn't like loud with it. She was just firm.
Speaker 1: She would cuss you out, like literally, this is my
Speaker 1: dad's side of the family. It ain't gonna be too
Speaker 1: much cussing out on my mama's side well lately. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So back to my cousin and Ruthan. Aunt Ruthan was
Speaker 1: somebody that you could go to if you feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: I need you to give me perspective on something, and
Speaker 1: she did. So that was my dad's first cousin. Like
Speaker 1: I said, my dad had two first cousins literally and
Speaker 1: one has passed away. So I just wanted to acknowledge that.
Speaker 1: That being said, again, thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, and hopefully since that episode, you have been
Speaker 1: taking stuff step by step, day by day, hour by hour,
Speaker 1: minute by minute if you have to. I know we
Speaker 1: say one day at a time, but depending on where
Speaker 1: you are around the holidays. But I want to share this.
Speaker 1: Someone was saying they lost their dad some years ago
Speaker 1: and how they are. They still find themselves in a
Speaker 1: depression when they think of him, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's necessarily depression or grieving specific moments that you
Speaker 1: do not have with that loved one anymore. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's a different type of adulting. How
Speaker 1: we can actually grieve this is beyond loss of a
Speaker 1: loved one. As an adult. You will grieve decisions that
Speaker 1: you made that may be detoward you. You'll sit and
Speaker 1: you'll grieve time, law lost. You'll sit and grieve opportunity wasted.
Speaker 1: But I believe when you acknowledge that and you make
Speaker 1: right with certain situations, God will redeem the time. What
Speaker 1: does redeem the timing? I believe that it's like God
Speaker 1: steps in. It's like, I know this happened, but there
Speaker 1: is a time and a place for everything. And I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes in life, if ways Google Maps or
Speaker 1: whatever GPS system we use, if that app can get
Speaker 1: us back on the right track, even if okay, you
Speaker 1: lost some time, but to me, time is redeemed when
Speaker 1: you get to the destination. So I feel like, if
Speaker 1: an app can do that, why can't our creator do that?
Speaker 1: Why can't our creator? And he has get us back
Speaker 1: on the right path from whatever mistake we made, whatever
Speaker 1: thing we did that hurts someone, or we took advantage
Speaker 1: or took for granted time like oh I got time,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, And then before you know it, you're forty
Speaker 1: years old, fifty years old, thirty years old, and you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to acknowledge how sometimes we can
Speaker 1: grieve differently. Grieving is not always the loss of a
Speaker 1: loved one. Grieving can sometimes be man, what would my
Speaker 1: life be like had I not done this? So what
Speaker 1: happens is you have that thought and you wallow in
Speaker 1: it sadness, anger, frustration, confusion, And I was sharing with
Speaker 1: someone I believe you project that which you did not
Speaker 1: do you project fear of someone else doing what they
Speaker 1: want to do with their life to to embark on
Speaker 1: something amazing. You project your fears on them, or you
Speaker 1: project jealousy on them. You don't want them to have
Speaker 1: it because you don't have it, and you feel like
Speaker 1: their life is going to take on a different path,
Speaker 1: or you'll feel like, well, what is my place going
Speaker 1: to be in their life once they do their thing?
Speaker 1: So I know I went down a rabbit hole, but listen,
Speaker 1: it was a good one. But I'm going back to
Speaker 1: me making sure that you feel like you are taking
Speaker 1: things a day at a time as best you can,
Speaker 1: and how grieving takes on so many different forms. Next,
Speaker 1: I want to say that I did a thing. I
Speaker 1: did a thing. Who can dn me and tell me
Speaker 1: what I did? I don't know what I'm going to
Speaker 1: do for that person who condemn me and tell me
Speaker 1: what I did. But I did a thing. I'll say this.
Speaker 1: It required me to travel a long distance and then
Speaker 1: come back home. And that's just what I'll end it with.
Speaker 1: So use your good senses. Call Ms Cleo if you
Speaker 1: have to, call God if you have to, and see
Speaker 1: if you can figure out this thing that I did. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm excited to see who can get that.
Speaker 1: So listen, we are still in the throes of the holidays.
Speaker 1: Christmas has just passed. We got New Year's even coming
Speaker 1: up in New Year's Day. So how have your holidays been?
Speaker 1: I will say that my holidays have been pretty chill.
Speaker 1: I like to chill. I don't do a lot of
Speaker 1: pomp and circumstances over the holidays. I rest, I sit
Speaker 1: in gratitude, and I look forward to the possibilities of
Speaker 1: the new year.
Speaker 2: That's what I do.
Speaker 1: I don't get stressed out Christmas shop and I go
Speaker 1: online and do what I need to do. God's been
Speaker 1: good all as well. I'm all right, but I do
Speaker 1: love going online and getting gifts for folks. I'm doing
Speaker 1: the hustle and bustle. I've never really liked the hustle
Speaker 1: and bustle. Y'all hurt me say year of the year.
Speaker 1: It's not that I'm being by humbug. I just don't
Speaker 1: like the hustle and bustle of being in traffic. Now,
Speaker 1: y'all know Christmas comes around every December twenty fifth. Now,
Speaker 1: some of y'all say, you know what I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start Christmas shopping in October, right after Halloween. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess right after Halloween would not be October. It
Speaker 1: would then be no November. But some of us do say,
Speaker 1: you know, I might just get stuff bit by bit
Speaker 1: throughout the year and just put it in a hand
Speaker 1: tree or put stuff, you know, in the back of
Speaker 1: my closet. So I just, you know, start Christmas shopping early.
Speaker 1: That way, I'm not rushing in these streets stressing out.
Speaker 1: You know, I've done that, y'all. I've stressed out about
Speaker 1: Christmas so much that I even forgot to get gifts
Speaker 1: for people. So there is something to be said about
Speaker 1: starting your Christmas a little early, especially if you have
Speaker 1: a lot of people to shop for. I'm so thankful
Speaker 1: that I have family members who just like money. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean that in a bad way. I just
Speaker 1: mean like, I don't have to like get gifts for them.
Speaker 1: I have family and friends who like, girl, just get
Speaker 1: me a gift card somewhere, and I'm like, say, less,
Speaker 1: here's a gift carp You get a gift carp. You
Speaker 1: get a gift carp you get a cash app. I
Speaker 1: just know what Christmas does to people I know the
Speaker 1: stress that people are in. I participated in a toy
Speaker 1: drive here in Atlanta. My church is called Change Church,
Speaker 1: and we did a toy drive. Y'all. People they came
Speaker 1: in not knowing, probably that week prior, not knowing if
Speaker 1: their family would have a Christmas And so I always
Speaker 1: keep that in the back of my head. I get it,
Speaker 1: you want your children and loved ones to have a
Speaker 1: gift under the tree. I get it. But y'all know,
Speaker 1: there's been so much emphasis placed on like gifts, and
Speaker 1: it stresses people out. It makes people feel horrible if
Speaker 1: they're not able to provide a humongous Christmas. So for me,
Speaker 1: I didn't put up a tree this year. I did
Speaker 1: not put up a tree. I lit a candle. I
Speaker 1: didn't do nothing this year. Plus my home is still
Speaker 1: in the process of being decorated, so deliveries keep coming
Speaker 1: in for that. So there's a box here or a
Speaker 1: box there, or I gotta wait till this is painted
Speaker 1: before I can put this decorative piece up. I just
Speaker 1: didn't feel like putting a tree up. Doing all that
Speaker 1: and being overwhelmed with cardboard boxes that I got to
Speaker 1: break down and I just not this year. But next year,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make sure that I act like God
Speaker 1: has been good and put up a tree some Christmas
Speaker 1: decorl outside. We'll get there. We'll get there. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, I like to look forward to the possibilities
Speaker 1: of a new year. Speaking of the new year, does
Speaker 1: anybody still do resolutions? Do people still do them? Let
Speaker 1: me think I haven't done a resolution in years. Well,
Speaker 1: let's figure out what is a resolution. A resolution is
Speaker 1: a firm decision to do or not to do something.
Speaker 1: A firm decision to do or not do something. That
Speaker 1: is the definition of resolution. Let's check out some of
Speaker 1: the top resolutions. I Am going to go through them
Speaker 1: to see which ones I'll do, and maybe some resolutions
Speaker 1: I might list and name off, or maybe something that
Speaker 1: you feel like, Hey, you know what, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: that with you, Michelle, I won't leave you hanging now.
Speaker 1: According to Goodhousekeeping dot com, this says, create a list
Speaker 1: of attainable New Year's resolutions that allow you to make
Speaker 1: healthier lifestyle tweaks every day. You'll start the year with
Speaker 1: a stronger, well nourished body and an enrich mind. If
Speaker 1: you adopt any of the daily objectives, we are sharing here.
Speaker 1: Our resolutions help you calm down, ease stress and anxiety
Speaker 1: while taming the crazy ebb and flows of daily life,
Speaker 1: featuring some of the best tips and life saving tricks
Speaker 1: from our Good Housekeeping Institute experts. So listen, this time,
Speaker 1: it's time to put you first, all right, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: Put yourself first, according to Goodhousekeeping dot Com, build a
Speaker 1: better budget. Okay. I always feel like you know, I'll
Speaker 1: have a moment where I feel like, Okay, pipe down,
Speaker 1: syst save, and I do it. I follow my intuition,
Speaker 1: I follow as the spirit leads, and so I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do anything crazy. But I worked really, really hard.
Speaker 1: Don't we always say that when we want to spend money.
Speaker 1: I worked hard. I should be able to buy this.
Speaker 1: And guess what you might be right? Is it something
Speaker 1: you need or is it something you want? Oprah says
Speaker 1: now when she was still on air, she said, if
Speaker 1: you can't get your mind off of it, do it?
Speaker 1: Is that what she said? She say, if you have
Speaker 1: to think about it twice, Lord Jesus, see, that's why
Speaker 1: I need to stick to the budget. All right. Practice mindfulness.
Speaker 1: I love practicing mindfulness, being more self aware Sabrina Romanov says,
Speaker 1: practicing mindfulness means doing everything you can to be grateful
Speaker 1: for what you have in the moment, where you are
Speaker 1: in life, and who you are right now. So if
Speaker 1: we can be grateful for what we have in the
Speaker 1: moment and where we are in life, guess what, we'll
Speaker 1: also be able to stick to our budget. Okay, this
Speaker 1: one says cook something new each week. Now, My mama
Speaker 1: threw some shades some weeks ago when she said, I
Speaker 1: want to come to your house for Christmas because I
Speaker 1: want to break in your stove because I know you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna use it. That's exactly what she said. She said,
Speaker 1: because I know you ain't gonna use it. I was like, Shade,
Speaker 1: I can't commit to that. I cannot commit to cooking
Speaker 1: something new each week. I know me, So I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna Yeah, I'm good. Read more books now. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say this. I think earlier this year I
Speaker 1: said I was gonna get off of social media and
Speaker 1: I'm going to read more books. That didn't happen. But
Speaker 1: because I'm singing this right now, I am going to
Speaker 1: read more books. I don't need to get off of
Speaker 1: social media totally. And I'm so glad for things to
Speaker 1: come in twenty twenty three so that I can spend
Speaker 1: less time trying to create content that's not my strong suit.
Speaker 1: And we thank the Lord for gifting people here on
Speaker 1: earth that do it very well. Create a cleaning schedule
Speaker 1: you'll stick to. Oh that's me, I can do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love a cleanhouse. I don't like clutter. Something about clutter,
Speaker 1: by the way, when you want to keep a clean
Speaker 1: bill of mental health, create a cleaning schedule. I love
Speaker 1: that I get up every day and make up my bed.
Speaker 1: There was probably only maybe maybe one day this year
Speaker 1: where I got up and didn't make my bed the
Speaker 1: entire day. Now, I'm not saying that for brownie points.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that is something that I have
Speaker 1: been sticking to for four years now, and it's been amazing.
Speaker 1: First thing, get up, straighten up the sheets, make them
Speaker 1: look nice, and I put all eighty pillows back on there.
Speaker 1: It's something about, you know, even if you might have
Speaker 1: clothes to fold or something, it's something about the bed
Speaker 1: being made. That's the biggest piece of furniture in your room.
Speaker 1: So if that's all clutter, that's also maybe one of
Speaker 1: the first things you look at when you walk into
Speaker 1: your bedroom. So I prefer that. So, yes, create a
Speaker 1: cleaning schedule. I love cleaning. See now, listen to my
Speaker 1: future husband. I just want you to know I might
Speaker 1: not cook all the time. The babae, your house gonna
Speaker 1: be clean. You hear me, It's gonna be clean. So
Speaker 1: this is a resolution I can stick to create a
Speaker 1: cleaning schedule. I don't need to create a cleaning schedule
Speaker 1: because I just like to clean. Okay, And doing the
Speaker 1: cleaning schedule, they say that it doesn't suck up endless
Speaker 1: hours of time on weekends anymore. So some people are
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed. So if you do one room at a time,
Speaker 1: I've read that for years, where you do one room
Speaker 1: at a time, don't overwhelm yourself by trying to say,
Speaker 1: you know, on Saturday, I'm gonna get up and clean. No,
Speaker 1: cause you don't know what kind of week you're gonna
Speaker 1: have at work or at school. You just don't know
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be like in Saturday. That might be
Speaker 1: your day to just rest. Okay, so do something bit
Speaker 1: by bit, day by day. Just let me know. Woo.
Speaker 1: This says drink less alcohol that's easy, breezy. I don't
Speaker 1: even drink like that, So y'all know me. I love
Speaker 1: red wine. So all right. It says if you drink
Speaker 1: less alcohol, it can improve your mood, sleep, skin, and
Speaker 1: your immune system. All right. Number eight Weekly meal prep Planner.
Speaker 1: Now there's sixty five of these resolutions, honey, and I
Speaker 1: just don't know I'm gonna do all sixty five. Commit
Speaker 1: to a healthier sleep routine. Now I'll say this. I
Speaker 1: notice that when I go to sleep earlier and I
Speaker 1: wake up earlier, this is the person you want to
Speaker 1: be with. Okay. Now, don't talk about me when I'm
Speaker 1: sleep by ten o'clock at night, ten maybe eleven, and
Speaker 1: I get a good six seven hours in. You can't
Speaker 1: tell me nothing I would say, do that. Join a club.
Speaker 1: Quit smoking? Okay, some of y'all might say quit smoking.
Speaker 1: Learn to love vegetables. Oh mg, I love vegetables, y'all.
Speaker 1: What y'all? I have a confession. I am addicted to
Speaker 1: many sweet bell peppers. Yes, many sweet bell peppers. They
Speaker 1: come in a bag at the grocery store. There's a
Speaker 1: certain brand that I like from a certain store. They're
Speaker 1: crunchy and great water content. So learn to love vegetables.
Speaker 1: I've learned to love blackberries. I didn't love blackberries. I've
Speaker 1: come to love blueberries. I didn't like blueberries. What people like, Ooh,
Speaker 1: give me blueberry pancakes. I'd be like, ugh, butter, milk,
Speaker 1: me honey, with just butter and syrup, but blueberry. I'll
Speaker 1: eat the whole plastic container of bla blueberries along with
Speaker 1: the bell peppers. So yes, it could be something that
Speaker 1: my body was craving. The bell peppers, the red ones.
Speaker 1: They're very high in vitamin C. Bell peppers are high
Speaker 1: and if I'm thinking right at the top of my head,
Speaker 1: vitamin C, D and K. All right. Another resolution, prioritize
Speaker 1: your annual health screenings. Ladies. We got to get our
Speaker 1: pap smears. We've got to get up pep smears in
Speaker 1: the year. Get that Ryan, all right. I don't know, ladies,
Speaker 1: get your pap smears. I know they say you do
Speaker 1: not have to do your pap smears yearly if you
Speaker 1: are not sexually active. I say, do your pap smears
Speaker 1: yearly anyway, all kinds of cancers, ovarian uterine. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's do our pap smears. Sorry, guys, sorry, that wasn't free.
Speaker 1: But let's make sure that our reproductive health is good.
Speaker 1: Make sure your sexual health is good. Ladies. If you
Speaker 1: realize that your periods are heavier, painful, those aren't normal.
Speaker 1: Periods are not supposed to be heavy or painful. Just
Speaker 1: because we saw mama with a heating pad and she
Speaker 1: would take medication, that's not normal. You might have pcos,
Speaker 1: you might have endometriosis, you might have fibroids. Not normal,
Speaker 1: not normal. That's a whole other podcast. But please, please
Speaker 1: please mammograms, colonoscopies. Whatever age you're in, y'all, there have
Speaker 1: been people younger and younger and younger getting colon cancer.
Speaker 1: So please get your teeth clean. Yes Lord, yes, Lord, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Get your teeth clean and treat yourself. Get your teeth whiten. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to going crazy. Exercise your brain.
Speaker 1: That's another resolution. Okay, become a plant owner. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do that. Take the stairs. Do yoga with your partner. Ooh,
Speaker 1: some of y'all that got a party, you might, all right,
Speaker 1: let me talking about you started off doing yoga and
Speaker 1: then all right, ooh, this is my kind of resolution.
Speaker 1: Plan a vacationt plan a vacation head to a day spot.
Speaker 1: These are attainable. Vacation day spa, eat vegetables, budget clean,
Speaker 1: make time for cuddling. It says cuddling just for fun
Speaker 1: can fight stress and improve both of your moods by
Speaker 1: increasing oxytoastin hormones, which research ads may also bolster blood pressure. Ooh.
Speaker 1: When you're regularly physically affectionate with your partner, they're more
Speaker 1: likely to see you as trustworthy and likable.
Speaker 2: Ooh.
Speaker 1: Jessica o'riley's sex and relationship expert. Okay, this kind of
Speaker 1: attraction doesn't always need to result in sex or erotic exchanges. Okay,
Speaker 1: can you just cuddle? Okay, let's see how many of
Speaker 1: y'all can do that make that result? Can you just
Speaker 1: cuddle and not end up thirty minutes later in regret?
Speaker 1: All right, water, this is what I gotta do. Ooh, jesus,
Speaker 1: I'm dehydrated as we speak. Hold up, I mean take
Speaker 1: a sip of water. Hold up. Yes, this says you
Speaker 1: know you need to hydrate, but it's especially important. When
Speaker 1: you get only six hours of sleep or less. You
Speaker 1: are more likely to be dehydrated the day after a
Speaker 1: disrupted night of sleep because a hormone that regulates your
Speaker 1: body's water conservation is released during later stages of sleep.
Speaker 1: So down some extra water on those days if you can,
Speaker 1: and remember that too much water can be tricky for
Speaker 1: your gut too. Baby, I need all the water I
Speaker 1: can get. Another resolution, chill out, let go of all
Speaker 1: that anger. Y'all know what that means. I don't have
Speaker 1: to do it. It says chronic anger can induce headaches, anxiety,
Speaker 1: digestion problems in high blood right sure, all right, if
Speaker 1: you want to let go of the anger, let me know, Michelle,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna release this anger, jump
Speaker 1: start a new career. Shout out to Good Housekeeping. This
Speaker 1: is amazing. Ooh. Another resolution, consider therapy all right. I've
Speaker 1: done enough. I think I've done a good list. It
Speaker 1: says you don't have to leave the house to start.
Speaker 1: Some of the best digital offerings are absolutely free. Start
Speaker 1: by checking out a few apps on your phone. But
Speaker 1: if you're ready, reach out to a care provider with
Speaker 1: the help of our guide right here. So this was
Speaker 1: found on Good Housekeeping dot Com number twenty four. Consider
Speaker 1: therapy all right, So how exciting. Is this volunteer regularly
Speaker 1: get in a body positive mind? Said lift weights? Ooh ooh.
Speaker 1: How many of us said we gonna work out at
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three? And how you ain't gonna be able
Speaker 1: to tell me nothing? Try a guided workoutter class. Now
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. There is a place here
Speaker 1: in Atlanta called Kika Kika. They do guided stretching, So
Speaker 1: instead of yoga, it's guided stretching. And I promise you
Speaker 1: like you grow like an inch or two by the
Speaker 1: time you leave there the first day. I know I
Speaker 1: did it, y'all again, they are like sixty five of these.
Speaker 1: Add more citrus to your grocery cart. Wait a minute, now,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. Oh okay, I see this says bathed
Speaker 1: for a better sleep, take a hot bath. It helped
Speaker 1: people fall asleep about ten minutes earlier and have a
Speaker 1: better quality snooze. The best time to do it about
Speaker 1: an hour or two before bed time. See I thought
Speaker 1: when I take a hot bath, I thought it raised
Speaker 1: my blood pressure up too high and it got me
Speaker 1: a little too so a shower to me was best.
Speaker 1: That's me okay, Now this is good housekeeping. They may
Speaker 1: know what they talking about. But I thought from my experience,
Speaker 1: I would like just soak in a nice salt bath,
Speaker 1: but not to induce sleep. Ease stress with kindness. Oh,
Speaker 1: get artsy, make your home more fragrant. Yes, I've got
Speaker 1: candles lit as we speak. Candles that have some lavender
Speaker 1: in it or peppermint can boost energy and lavender can
Speaker 1: zap stress. All right, And number sixty five says make
Speaker 1: over your daily routine. All right. That has been a
Speaker 1: few resolutions. Which ones will you be doing? Y'all? This
Speaker 1: has been such a fun episode. I had a blast
Speaker 1: going through some of these resolutions. When I am done recording,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and look through here so I
Speaker 1: can remind myself which ones I said I would do
Speaker 1: like I said, I just don't necessarily call them resolutions. Also,
Speaker 1: your body will tell you what it is that you
Speaker 1: need to do. If you're a spiritual person, your spirit
Speaker 1: will tell you what you need to be doing as well.
Speaker 1: Follow your gut. I'm excited for y'all for your twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Thank you so much for rocking with me
Speaker 1: this entire year of twenty twenty two. I can cry
Speaker 1: right now because I am in awe and belief that
Speaker 1: we really are at the last week of twenty twenty two. Y'all,
Speaker 1: it really is the end of twenty twenty two. I
Speaker 1: pray that if this year didn't go the way that
Speaker 1: you wanted to go, I pray that twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: blows your mind. I pray that twenty twenty three let
Speaker 1: you know that your prayers have been heard. I pray
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty three you have joy, you have peace,
Speaker 1: you have love, that you got a little less stress.
Speaker 1: I pray that you're able to discern who or what
Speaker 1: could possibly be in your space, your life, and your
Speaker 1: environment that could be causing you or hindering you from
Speaker 1: having one of the best years of your life. I
Speaker 1: don't ever want to say, you know, twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: was the best year of my life. No, we still
Speaker 1: got a lot more living to do. Twenty twenty two, yes,
Speaker 1: was one of the best years of my life, one
Speaker 1: of the best years of my life, and I'm so
Speaker 1: thankful that you guys have been a part of it.
Speaker 1: Week by week, you give me an opportunity to share
Speaker 1: with you. You help me to create a safe space
Speaker 1: to record and come into your home, your car, your
Speaker 1: air pods, your ear pods, however you listen to my podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm truly, truly, truly thankful and grateful for you. Please
Speaker 1: have an amazing, safe rest of your holiday and we'll
Speaker 1: check back in. Looks like we'll check back in January
Speaker 1: third of twenty twenty three. I love you so much
Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.
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