Speaker 1: We've made gifts to feel like such a important, big
Speaker 1: thing around this time of year, and it often leads
Speaker 1: to more disappointment and more anxiety. The giver is full
Speaker 1: of anxiety. The receiver now has unmeta expectations field it's
Speaker 1: extremely disappointed, and it also ruins the spirit and the
Speaker 1: moment that we're trying to create, which is just about
Speaker 1: connection and love. Hey, everyone, welcome back to Our Purpose,
Speaker 1: the number one health podcast in the world. Thanks to
Speaker 1: each and every single one of you that come back
Speaker 1: every week to listen, learn and grow. Now. Today's episode
Speaker 1: is a special one because it's coming up to the
Speaker 1: holidays and I am a huge, huge, huge holiday fan.
Speaker 1: I love Christmas music, I love Christmas decorations, I love
Speaker 1: Christmas trees. I like anything to do with Christmas. I
Speaker 1: grow up as the biggest Christmas geek and it's my
Speaker 1: favorite time of the year. I'm that person who's playing
Speaker 1: Christmas music on every car journey from my phone at
Speaker 1: any given moment i possibly can. And I love the
Speaker 1: energy of the season. I love how it makes me
Speaker 1: feel nostalgically. I remember this being a special time with
Speaker 1: my family back home in London. I remember some of
Speaker 1: the rituals and routines we would do. I remember these
Speaker 1: shopping trips would go on. I remember the idea of
Speaker 1: opening up my one special gift on Christmas Day, and
Speaker 1: so I have so many good memories attached to this
Speaker 1: period as well. And even though now I'm away from family,
Speaker 1: I still really enjoy putting up my tree, putting up
Speaker 1: the lights, just getting into that festive spirit and the
Speaker 1: music just takes me back. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I know that this can also be a time of
Speaker 1: a lot of stress and anxiety. And sometimes as we
Speaker 1: get older, we find ourselves finding this time even more stressful,
Speaker 1: nerve wracking, and anxious because we have more responsibilities. We
Speaker 1: now become the parents, we become the gift givers, we
Speaker 1: become the hosts, and or we become the visitors and guests,
Speaker 1: and even that can be challenging. And so there are
Speaker 1: so many different types of challenges and anxiety that people
Speaker 1: experience during this time, and I think it's really really
Speaker 1: important to address them. So I wanted to dedicate this
Speaker 1: podcast to methods of reducing anxiety and the types of
Speaker 1: anxiety we feel during the holiday season, Because if any
Speaker 1: one of you right now, who's listening is feeling any
Speaker 1: sense of anxiety or nervousness as it comes up to
Speaker 1: the holidays. I mean, you know, how far are we
Speaker 1: right now? We're literally one week away from Christmas. If
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, and I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you're prepared. If you're one of those people
Speaker 1: that have already been to a couple of holiday parties
Speaker 1: and you know that you've got your big ones coming up,
Speaker 1: this is the podcast to listen to if you have
Speaker 1: friends in your life that you know are struggling during
Speaker 1: this time, maybe they've been through a particular type of stress.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about some of the most common types of stress.
Speaker 1: I think this is the podcast that everyone's going to
Speaker 1: need at this time of year, and I hope you
Speaker 1: take a moment to listen to it and share it
Speaker 1: with someone as well. So I want to start off
Speaker 1: by some of the research I was looking at from
Speaker 1: the American Psychological Association or the APA. The website is
Speaker 1: APA dot org if you want to check out some
Speaker 1: of what I'm referring to, and they have something on
Speaker 1: there called the Holiday Stress Resource Center, and I found
Speaker 1: this to be really useful in looking at the different
Speaker 1: types of stress, and I think it's really important to
Speaker 1: have the skill to be able to label and articulate
Speaker 1: your stress. One of the challenges we have is we
Speaker 1: often say things like, oh, I'm just stressed about everything. Right,
Speaker 1: when someone says, well, what are you stressed about? We
Speaker 1: say just everything, you know, everything is just so stressful.
Speaker 1: And when we don't have the words for something, it
Speaker 1: actually makes it harder for our mind to deal with it.
Speaker 1: This is something I've learned over time, is that when
Speaker 1: you don't have the vocabulary to articulate what you are
Speaker 1: internally experiencing, it actually becomes harder to deal with it,
Speaker 1: because when you don't know what it is, that creates
Speaker 1: more anxiety the unknown. In the same way as if
Speaker 1: you have a rash on your arm or on your
Speaker 1: hand and you decide to google it and you don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, you don't have the language of
Speaker 1: the vocabulary for it, all of a sudden, you feel
Speaker 1: you have every infectious disease on the planet. Right when
Speaker 1: you self diagnose, it leads to this feeling of more anxiety. Now,
Speaker 1: so in the same way, when we can't diagnose, when
Speaker 1: we can't articulate, when we don't have the vocabulary for
Speaker 1: what is happening internally, we actually deal with more struggles.
Speaker 1: So when I went on to the APA, it talks
Speaker 1: about how there were many different triggers for our stress
Speaker 1: and anxiety during the holidays. Now, I know I'm not
Speaker 1: going to cover every possible one, because they truly can
Speaker 1: be unlimited. But I'm encouraging you at this point in
Speaker 1: the podcast to really take a moment to define what
Speaker 1: types of anxiety you're currently experiencing, and I promise you
Speaker 1: that this activity and exercise is going to help you
Speaker 1: manage it better and in a more healthy way. Just
Speaker 1: as if you diagnose a rash, you know what it is,
Speaker 1: you know what to do right, you don't overamplify or
Speaker 1: under sell what that is. I think this is a
Speaker 1: really important note that often we either overamplify an anxiety
Speaker 1: when we don't know what it is, or we treat
Speaker 1: it with less care than it deserves. How many times
Speaker 1: have you done that, where when you don't know what
Speaker 1: something is, you either amplify it to feel like the
Speaker 1: worst thing ever, or you underplay it. So often we
Speaker 1: underplay our pain and we say, oh, no, it's nothing,
Speaker 1: it's nothing, it's nothing. And then later on you find
Speaker 1: out it is something, and so articulating and diagnosing and
Speaker 1: giving a vocabulary allows you to deal with something for
Speaker 1: what it truly, truly is. So one of the first
Speaker 1: stresses that the APA talks about is dealing with the
Speaker 1: pressure of giving. How many of you feel the pressure
Speaker 1: to get the right gift for the right person and
Speaker 1: you're sitting there for ages, you order that thing, you
Speaker 1: then realize it's not the right thing, and then you
Speaker 1: had a conversation with them where they said, well, I
Speaker 1: don't like that, that's not the right thing, and now
Speaker 1: you're looking at something else, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you now are feeling the anxiety of gift giving. And
Speaker 1: I was looking at some statistics on Investipedia to give
Speaker 1: you some idea. Planned holiday spending breaks down to six
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight dollars on gifts for family, friends,
Speaker 1: and co workers, two hundred and thirty one dollars on
Speaker 1: non gift holiday items including food and decorations, and one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen dollars on other non gift items for
Speaker 1: self and family. That's roughly the average that people are spending,
Speaker 1: So nine hundred and ninety eight dollars is the average
Speaker 1: amount that consumers expect to spend on winter holidays in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Then I was on finder dot com
Speaker 1: and I saw this interesting research study that talked about
Speaker 1: Christmas gift confessions, and it said that Americans have wasted
Speaker 1: fifteen point two billion dollars on unwanted gifts. We've wasted
Speaker 1: fifteen point two billion dollars on unwanted gifts, so forty
Speaker 1: three percent of that is made of clothing and accessories,
Speaker 1: twenty percent of that is in household items, twelve percent
Speaker 1: is cosmetics and fragrances, four percent is food or drink,
Speaker 1: five percent is technology, music is and literatures eight percent,
Speaker 1: which means the best gifts that people are less likely
Speaker 1: to feel it's wasted. Our technology and literature, books and
Speaker 1: tech are good gifts to give, and food, of course
Speaker 1: goes in their clothing and household items go as the
Speaker 1: biggest wastes that often get returned or have to go back.
Speaker 1: So important to think about them. And around thirty percent
Speaker 1: of people keep their unwanted gifts, around thirty percent give
Speaker 1: it to someone else, twenty percent exchange them, seven percent
Speaker 1: actually sell their unwanted gifts says finder dot Com. And
Speaker 1: four percent give them back, four percent throw them away,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much how it stacks up. So when
Speaker 1: you think about that, it starts to make you realize
Speaker 1: that gifts are given too much importance when so many
Speaker 1: of them are given back, exchanged, sold, and we can
Speaker 1: switch our focus to experiences. We can start to recognize
Speaker 1: that an experience is far more valuable than a gift,
Speaker 1: because if someone's had an experience, it's an exchange of time.
Speaker 1: And if you've organized something for everyone to do and
Speaker 1: everyone has had that experience of food and drink that
Speaker 1: was up there, then that doesn't feel like as much anxiety,
Speaker 1: and it actually reduces our anxiety because we stop giving
Speaker 1: gifts so much precedence. And I think this is a
Speaker 1: really really important thing that we need to reprogram ourselves.
Speaker 1: Or we've made gifts to feel like such a important,
Speaker 1: big thing around this time of year, and it often
Speaker 1: leads to more disappointment and more anxiety. The giver is
Speaker 1: full of anxiety, the receiver now has unmeta expectations, extremely disappointed,
Speaker 1: and it also ruins the spirit and the moment that
Speaker 1: we're trying to create, which is just about connection and love,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's so important that as receivers
Speaker 1: and givers, we think think about communicating with the people
Speaker 1: in our life and really talking about where the gifts
Speaker 1: are important, where the gifts are the only thing. We
Speaker 1: don't do that thing where we say, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't mind if you don't get me a gift, and
Speaker 1: then we're upset when they don't, Or we say, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't mind if you get me a gift, and
Speaker 1: probably let's not worry about it. Then you get them
Speaker 1: a surprise gift and hope that they give you a
Speaker 1: surprise gift. Right, we play all these games with each other.
Speaker 1: Let's communicate really effectively about what we do and don't want.
Speaker 1: Let's also reduce the emphasis on gifts and increase the
Speaker 1: emphasis on experiences. And let's also set realistic expectations when
Speaker 1: people are giving us something. If we haven't told them
Speaker 1: what we want very clearly, chances are we won't get it.
Speaker 1: Chances are it's not going to be wrapped beautifully under
Speaker 1: the Christmas tree. And so it's so important to really
Speaker 1: resolve the amount of pressure we place on gift giving.
Speaker 1: This was a really interesting thing from the APA, and
Speaker 1: it was from an expert. Pauline Wallin, PhD, a clinical
Speaker 1: psychologist in camp Hill, Pennsylvania. She said, over the course
Speaker 1: of my career, I have talked to thousands of patients
Speaker 1: and never once has anyone said, I'll never forgive my
Speaker 1: parents for not getting me that fabulous toy for Christmas.
Speaker 1: She said, parents overestimate the importance of the holidays in
Speaker 1: the overall picture of their kids' lives. Those are not
Speaker 1: the memories the kids will carry with them to the
Speaker 1: world to guide and inspire them, which hopefully offers some relief,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully if you who can breathe again and
Speaker 1: recognize that it isn't all about that. She goes on
Speaker 1: to say a parent could sit down with their kid,
Speaker 1: even as young as six or seven years old, and
Speaker 1: explain a budget. When they're aware of the family budget,
Speaker 1: I think it helps them share the responsibility for good choices.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a beautiful idea because we may
Speaker 1: never have had that, and that's why we think the
Speaker 1: way we think about Christmas, and we put so much
Speaker 1: pressure on Christmas. But if it was possible to actually
Speaker 1: have a child understand budgeting from a much younger age,
Speaker 1: I remember my parents would always say to me that
Speaker 1: we'd get one gift because that's what the budget was,
Speaker 1: so we could only pick one thing. There was only
Speaker 1: one thing we could have, and I think that always
Speaker 1: made it very very simple, and then if they manage
Speaker 1: to get us something small on top of that, it
Speaker 1: always felt like this really exciting bonus. So setting that
Speaker 1: budgeting example is really powerful, and so I really hope
Speaker 1: that that helps in your gift giving. I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: lots more things I could share there, but hopefully that's
Speaker 1: some insight. The next thing is finances. And I've talked
Speaker 1: a bit about spending habits already, but finances can be
Speaker 1: a big stressor during this time, and one of the
Speaker 1: most important things to do is to start with the budget,
Speaker 1: to not just say, well, let's see what we can get,
Speaker 1: or not track what you're spending. It's really important to
Speaker 1: create a budget that you feel comfortable with. As I said,
Speaker 1: the average spend is about a thousand dollars. You may
Speaker 1: be spending more, you may be spending less. It's just
Speaker 1: really important to that's something that you're truly truly comfortable with,
Speaker 1: and remember that you shouldn't feel pressured to spend more.
Speaker 1: Or less best on what other people are doing. It's
Speaker 1: truly about how much you feel comfortable spending. Often we say, oh,
Speaker 1: but they spend so much on their gifts, and last
Speaker 1: year they gave us so much, And that kind of
Speaker 1: pressure can often ruin the relationship, it can ruin the interaction,
Speaker 1: and it's so important to just be honest with where
Speaker 1: we truly are and give something with love, to give
Speaker 1: something really, really thoughtful. I know that some of the
Speaker 1: best gifts I've given have not been the most expensive,
Speaker 1: but they've been the most thoughtful. They've been the most powerful,
Speaker 1: They've been the most meaningful. And often when I've given
Speaker 1: gifts that are expensive, They've actually been so easy to
Speaker 1: give that there isn't much thought in them. So really
Speaker 1: think about that now. Another thing the APA points out
Speaker 1: is that you have to recognize how you deal with
Speaker 1: stress related to money. So it says that in tough
Speaker 1: economic times, some people are more likely to relieve stress
Speaker 1: by turning to unhealthy activities such as smoking, drinking, gabbling,
Speaker 1: or emotional eating. So you end up spending more to
Speaker 1: actually deal with your stress of spending in the first place,
Speaker 1: and so it's important to understand your relationship with money
Speaker 1: during this time of year, and again, investing in experiences
Speaker 1: and memories is more important than investing in gifts. It's
Speaker 1: so important to build those moments and build those memories
Speaker 1: as opposed to building a gift culture in your home. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying don't get gifts. I love gifts. I
Speaker 1: know what my family is getting me for Christmas. I
Speaker 1: know what I'm getting them. But if you are creating
Speaker 1: a gift plan, create a gift budget for each other
Speaker 1: as well, and even creating a budget within the family
Speaker 1: creates so much more joy during this time rather than
Speaker 1: the guessing game of how much will someone spend on us.
Speaker 1: The Apia goes on to say that the next thing
Speaker 1: that people struggle with the most during this time is relationships.
Speaker 1: It could be that awkward conversation you've been trying to avoid.
Speaker 1: It could be managing the kids during this time. It
Speaker 1: could be just you know, not wanting to see someone again.
Speaker 1: And it can also be the idea of loss. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've lost someone. I know. For my family, we lost
Speaker 1: my grandmother during the pandemic, and we're so used to
Speaker 1: celebrating Christmas at my uncle's home where my grandmother used
Speaker 1: to live and my grandfather also passed away just before
Speaker 1: and so I know that this year they're not going
Speaker 1: to want to celebrate Christmas at their home. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of rituals and routines that they don't want to do.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if they put their tree up
Speaker 1: this year. And that's kind of the things we have
Speaker 1: to think about when it comes to loss, that how
Speaker 1: can we help someone who's dealing with loss, and how
Speaker 1: can we also help ourselves if we've lost someone in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and Christmas doesn't feel the
Speaker 1: same anymore, it's really important to ask some really difficult questions,
Speaker 1: but questions that could hopefully help us go in the
Speaker 1: right direction. So the APA says that you know, there
Speaker 1: may be some traditions that you don't want to do.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just too painful, and it makes sense to
Speaker 1: either not do any traditions or maybe try something new.
Speaker 1: It's a real opportunity to create something new. You may
Speaker 1: not want to celebrate in the same place. You may
Speaker 1: want to travel, you may want to be at a
Speaker 1: different home. I think these are very important conversations to
Speaker 1: have because on the day these things can really really
Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on us. Who are the
Speaker 1: people you want to be around? This is a really
Speaker 1: really critical question. Often we feel the pressure to be
Speaker 1: around family and specific family, but we have to also
Speaker 1: be around our chosen family. It's really important to make
Speaker 1: sure that you are around a tribe that you want
Speaker 1: to be around. So these are some of the main
Speaker 1: areas that the APA talks about. I want to go
Speaker 1: over some really key principles that I think are going
Speaker 1: to help you during this time overall, that you can
Speaker 1: apply no matter what situation and you're in the Number
Speaker 1: one thing is to be cautious with your calendar, don't overcommit,
Speaker 1: and remember it's okay to say no. I think too
Speaker 1: many of us we just start saying yes to everything.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's nice to see everyone again. It's been
Speaker 1: a long time, but we end up saying yes to
Speaker 1: so many people, and often I say no to people
Speaker 1: in it really like, I'm really sad and sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: going back to London. Someone messaged me the other day
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, j I'd love to meet up
Speaker 1: with you in London. And I just was honest and
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, my parents haven't seen me.
Speaker 1: They've seen me once in the last two years. I
Speaker 1: really feel like my sister and my parents are my
Speaker 1: priority on this trip, and I'm just really sorry. I'll
Speaker 1: let you know if I have time. And I feel
Speaker 1: like it would have been so easy for me to
Speaker 1: say yes, yes, yes, yes yes, And the next thing
Speaker 1: I know, my calendar is filled. I feel anxious because
Speaker 1: of my calendar being so busy, and then I feel overcommitted.
Speaker 1: You have to remember it's okay to say no, and
Speaker 1: remember it's not saying no, it's explaining why you're saying
Speaker 1: no in with the truth of what the reality is. No,
Speaker 1: I'm to come up with an answer. But one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why we create anxiety in our lives is
Speaker 1: that we're not cautious with our calendars. And so I
Speaker 1: recommend having your calendar open. Every time you say yes
Speaker 1: to someone or note to someone. You look at it
Speaker 1: and use it throughout the period so that there's never
Speaker 1: a time when you're just back to back. Okay. The
Speaker 1: next one is prioritizing sleep. Now. I know this may
Speaker 1: sound counterintuitive. You may say, Jay, I want to stay
Speaker 1: up all night, I want to have fun, But what
Speaker 1: I find is that we often get unwell. We get tired.
Speaker 1: We get more anxious when we don't sleep well. When
Speaker 1: I was reading from the Sleep Foundation dot Org, I
Speaker 1: was looking at the connection between anxiety and sleep, and
Speaker 1: I think often we're not really aware of that connection,
Speaker 1: and we don't recognize how deeply interrelated they are. Research
Speaker 1: findings suggests that sleep loss and anxiety are closely linked.
Speaker 1: This was an article from Psychology Today that talked about
Speaker 1: how we've learned that sleep provides the brain with an
Speaker 1: invaluable period of transporting toxins out of neural tissue through
Speaker 1: a complex garbage removal system operating separately from the body's
Speaker 1: lymphatic system. The brain's trash disposal apparatus seems dependent on
Speaker 1: sleep to function properly. When you hear that, doesn't it
Speaker 1: just blow your mind and you think, wow, I thought
Speaker 1: sleep was just about getting rest. But there is so
Speaker 1: much cleansing happening. There is so much brainwashing happening during sleep.
Speaker 1: Poor sleep seems to put the brain on guard by
Speaker 1: triggering spites in stress hormones like cortisol, producing an early
Speaker 1: am anxiety bloom even before the day begins. I cannot
Speaker 1: stress to you all how important it is to get
Speaker 1: good sleep. Some of my favorite sleep habits include sleeping
Speaker 1: at sixty seven degrees fahrenheit to get that cooler temperature.
Speaker 1: Often we want to be cozy and warm, but you
Speaker 1: want to sleep in a room that is at sixty
Speaker 1: seven degrees. You want to sleep in cave like darkness,
Speaker 1: no lights, no light coming in through the wind. Get curtains,
Speaker 1: get shades, get blinds. One of my other favorite sleep
Speaker 1: techniques is making sure that I'm sleeping in a room
Speaker 1: where the site sense and sounds are really created that ambience.
Speaker 1: So whether it's a candle, whether it's a diffuser, whether
Speaker 1: it's an essential oil that just really calms your body,
Speaker 1: it's really healthy to have that in that space. Now.
Speaker 1: Another one is really allowing for imperfection and not meeting
Speaker 1: people's expectations. I think no matter how hard you try
Speaker 1: with food, a party, an event, it's never truly going
Speaker 1: to live up to anyone's expectations. And we have to
Speaker 1: allow for imperfection ourselves. I think we often put pressure
Speaker 1: on ourselves right. A lot of the pressure around the
Speaker 1: holiday time is on ourselves. Are we going to organize
Speaker 1: in good enough party? Are we going to make good
Speaker 1: enough food? Are people going to think we're good hosts,
Speaker 1: and we're constantly worried about how people are going to
Speaker 1: think of us. And the truth is that no one
Speaker 1: really ever is going to be fully satisfied, not because
Speaker 1: you're not great, but because people have so many different
Speaker 1: expectations and you can't appeal to every single person. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes we get so lost trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that everyone's happy, that no one's happy, whereas if we
Speaker 1: actually just allowed for imperfection and tried our best, more
Speaker 1: people would get our energy. And remember that people are
Speaker 1: looking to feel love through you, not through what you
Speaker 1: give them. And I think this is something that I've
Speaker 1: noticed so much. If I go to someone's home, I'm
Speaker 1: deeply touched by how they speak to me, how they
Speaker 1: welcome me, how they connect with me. So much more
Speaker 1: than what was in the gift bag or what was
Speaker 1: for dinner. The care and the attention in mood and
Speaker 1: spirit and energy goes much longer way, and it's something
Speaker 1: you can fully fully control. Now. I think it's also
Speaker 1: important at this time to remember that we focus on
Speaker 1: what truly matters, experiences in human connection and memories, making
Speaker 1: new memories. It's not the gifts. It's not the food.
Speaker 1: It's not you know, that doesn't make the memories. What
Speaker 1: makes the memories is that human connection. And I really
Speaker 1: hope that the people that you're worried about seeing, I
Speaker 1: hope you practice conversations before. I hope you prepare in
Speaker 1: advance for those conversations. And the best way to do
Speaker 1: that is to think about who are the people that
Speaker 1: are going to trigger you, what are they going to say,
Speaker 1: and practice your response now before you go there. That's
Speaker 1: the best way to do it, because what that does
Speaker 1: is it means that now when you hear those words,
Speaker 1: you already knew they were coming, and you've already programmed
Speaker 1: yourself to not give an instinctual response, but to give
Speaker 1: a practiced response. What the practice response does is it
Speaker 1: allows you to respond without anxiety. I find it shocking
Speaker 1: how so many people will know the person who's going
Speaker 1: to trigger them, they know that that person's going to
Speaker 1: upset them, and then they still let that person upset them.
Speaker 1: If you know someone is going to upset you, be
Speaker 1: upset now and practice how you respond to make sure
Speaker 1: you don't feel upset in the moment when you practice
Speaker 1: that conversation. Now, when you practice that feeling I do
Speaker 1: this all the time when I was about to go
Speaker 1: on and become a monk. Whenever I would be in
Speaker 1: my family, why are you going to be a monk?
Speaker 1: Why are you going to do this? I knew I
Speaker 1: was going to have those questions, and I responded by saying,
Speaker 1: this is something that means a lot to me. And
Speaker 1: sometimes they would laugh at that. Sometimes they would make
Speaker 1: fun of that, and I would just say, Okay, I
Speaker 1: would move on with it because I realized it didn't
Speaker 1: affect my life, it didn't affect my decision, and that
Speaker 1: sort of realized that winning an argument with your family
Speaker 1: doesn't solve anything. It doesn't solve what's happening in the
Speaker 1: real world. And therefore, allowing yourself just the space to
Speaker 1: not have to make your holidays a place of debate
Speaker 1: create so much peace and de clutters the mind. And
Speaker 1: the final thing I want to say is make sure
Speaker 1: you take some time to reflect. This is one of
Speaker 1: the things that's often avoided until the first of January.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do an amazing episode in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks about how to reflect during this time,
Speaker 1: and I really truly hope that you'll make time for that,
Speaker 1: because you've done some amazing things this year. You have
Speaker 1: achieved some incredible things this year, and I want you
Speaker 1: to take a moment to truly honor how far you've come.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode.
Speaker 1: It means the world to me to have this time
Speaker 1: with you, and I cannot wait. I cannot wait to
Speaker 1: see you again next week. Thanks everyone, Thank you. Bye.