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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to seek out spots of calm in

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Speaker 1: a busy life. It can be easy to feel frantic

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Speaker 1: and unhappy, especially when things turn chaotic. If that's the case,

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Speaker 1: it is important to notice the absence of chaos, mostly

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Speaker 1: to remind ourselves that these moments of calm exist. They

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Speaker 1: can become part of our story too. My life has

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Speaker 1: been a bit more chaotic over the past few weeks

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Speaker 1: than I tend to like. We adopted a puppy, in

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Speaker 1: case anyone is wondering, toddlers and puppies are quite a combination.

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Speaker 1: We had a big childcare change, We've had some normal

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Speaker 1: non COVID illnesses, the toddler has been regressing on sleep,

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Speaker 1: and the house renovation project is in the everything is

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Speaker 1: ripped up stage. So there's just a lot of unpredictability.

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Speaker 1: Such is life. The problem is when the chaos becomes

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Speaker 1: our entire narrative. To combat that, I am trying to

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Speaker 1: notice little spots of calm, like when I can read

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Speaker 1: on the porch for thirty minutes after the toddler's bedtime,

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Speaker 1: and before the six year old bedtime. When I am

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Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines of a kid's game by myself

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Speaker 1: and can just listen to a podcast and relax, or

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Speaker 1: if I've squeezed in a trail run and can listen

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Speaker 1: to the birds, or if I've headed over to the

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Speaker 1: new house to sit in the yard all by myself

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Speaker 1: for a few minutes. These little islands of calm can

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Speaker 1: feel small when you spend an hour playing phone tag

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Speaker 1: with the pediatrician and the dog has ripped up a

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Speaker 1: newspaper you thought was put away, but guess what, With kids,

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Speaker 1: nothing stays put away. But these moments do exist. They

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Speaker 1: happened just in the same way that the chaotic stuff happened.

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Speaker 1: So notice them, and when you do notice them, you

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Speaker 1: can start to try to create more of them. I

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Speaker 1: have been pretty good about seeing what I've got, say,

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes before the setter leaves, and after I've

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Speaker 1: finished the days to do list, to do something calming,

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Speaker 1: rather than lose the time to email, which will always

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Speaker 1: be there. Best to do something that will stand out

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Speaker 1: as nice, And if the calm finds me well, best

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Speaker 1: to notice that too. The morning I wrote this, My

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Speaker 1: husband had left early for work, and I was up

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Speaker 1: with the toddler. As I sat in the living room chair,

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Speaker 1: he got occupied with a toy and I realized I

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Speaker 1: could just keep sitting. Sure the other kids would need

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Speaker 1: to be woken up soon. Lunch had to be made,

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Speaker 1: kids had to get going, but until they did, I

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Speaker 1: could just sit and let him play and not disturb

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Speaker 1: the scene. It lasted about four minutes, but that isn't nothing,

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Speaker 1: so better to notice the four minutes then let them

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Speaker 1: disappear in the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 1: and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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