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58: Moments of gratitude

2022/11/28
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主播在节目中分享了她对感恩重要性的认识,以及如何在生活中实践感恩。她认为感恩是生活中最重要的事情,应该优先考虑,但很多人并没有这样做。她鼓励听众建立感恩清单,并积极地将消极想法转化为积极想法,从细微之处发现生活的美好。她还谈到了社交媒体对心理健康的影响,以及与他人建立联系的重要性。她认为,通过感恩和与他人的联系,可以改善心理健康,并使生活更加充实和快乐。她分享了自己从低谷中走出来的经验,以及阅读和冥想等方法如何帮助她改善情绪。她还鼓励听众珍惜与家人的时间,并从生活中学习。

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The host discusses the importance of gratitude and how it can transform our lives, sharing personal experiences and tips for maintaining a grateful mindset, especially during challenging times.

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Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to the Moments Podcast. I, for some reason in my head, think that this is a Thanksgiving episode because I'm recording it a couple days before Thanksgiving, but I'm realizing now that it doesn't come out until after Thanksgiving. But I do want to title this episode...

moments in gratitude and just kind of talk about gratitude because I honestly think that it is the most important thing in our lives and we all need to prioritize gratitude but so many of us don't and by so many of us I mean me I mean you yeah we're appreciative and yeah we're grateful but I don't think that any of us have been prioritizing gratitude in the way that we should lately and honestly the two books I'm reading have made this so clear to me and I

The timing of it is also interesting with it being Thanksgiving and everything. I just feel like this is a fitting episode. And I told you guys before about how I did that one journal entry where I dated it a year from when I wrote it, but I wrote it in the present tense. So I basically manifested everything that I was going to do in my life in that year. And so much of it came true.

But one of the things that I wrote in that journal entry is that I had a podcast and I was recording an episode on gratitude. And I don't know if I've done a gratitude episode before. For some reason, I don't think I have. Maybe I have. I don't know. Point is, it's so full circle. And it is so cool for me to be able to just sit here and talk to you guys like every week and get caught up on life and

I don't know. I've been having all these really strange emotions lately. I told you last week I was in a funk. I've talked about it on TikTok, talked about it on Instagram. I was just in this weird place and I was trying to get out of it, but I couldn't really get out of it. Well, good news is I'm finally starting to feel out of it. I feel like myself again and I want to do a whole episode.

about different tips like to get out of a funk. So DM me all of the tips that you use that help you get out of a funk or like help you get back above the water when you're under the wave because obviously we all have different things and different things work for each of us. But I would talk about how I got out of it, but I really want to save that for next week's episode or an episode in the near future. And yeah, I'm happy to be feeling like myself again and I'm happy to be recording this episode. And one thing that I will touch on before I

Letting go of the whole funk topic. I used to tell myself Obviously i'll dive deeper into this when I do it in a whole episode But I used to tell myself that I had to pull myself out of my funk and get my life back together overnight Or it was never going to happen And I think that one of the shifts that I had this past recent funk that I had Was that it is going to be progressive and it is going to take time to pull myself back to well myself like I

I went to the gym for the first time in a long time and I was only able to go on the stair stepper for five minutes and I was like, get me out of here. And usually I can go sit in the sauna for like 25 minutes. And honestly, the sauna is where I find like so much peace and so much bliss, but I can only sit in there for five minutes. I was like, get me out. And I was like, you know what?

This is progress. This is better than what the past days have looked like for me. I did something. I moved my body. I was able to go sweat. And then I came home. Usually I hate taking showers. I shower all the time. That sounds terrible, but I don't like it. Like I'm not someone who takes like these beautiful, long, intuitive showers. But I put on my energy playlist. It's on my Spotify if you guys – I think I've talked about it before. But –

It's called working on my energy, I think. And I put that on and I took like a 30 minute shower, shaved my legs, exfoliated my legs and was listening to the words and all these songs and all of the songs on that playlist are very, they're basically affirmations. And I was able to find myself feeling like myself again. I was like, who would have thought that a shower was going to pull me back to feeling like me? And I

After I did all that, I was like, okay, I'm so back. The next morning, I slept in again until like 11. And I was like, what? How did this happen? Like, that is one thing that just makes me feel so off. And that is how I know my mental health is bad when I have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. And I know that I'm not the only one that struggles with that, especially when I don't have commitments, like early morning commitments, and I can do my work at any point throughout the day. I'm like, oh, I'll just sleep in. And it's not even like I do it like that. It's like I physically can't get out of bed. But anyways...

What I'm saying is that it took time and I made baby steps every day and each day I made a little bit more progress. And I just want to remind you that if that's a state that you're in, especially with winter coming up and the holidays coming up, give yourself credit for the little things that you do as you pull yourself out of this funk. And obviously we're saving this for next episode. I've literally been talking about this for five minutes. Back to Thanksgiving. All right. Love you. Back to the podcast. Speaking of the holidays and all of that coming up,

I know there's a lot of emotions that come up with the holidays. With Thanksgiving and with Christmas and with family and whether it's you struggle with family issues, whether you've recently lost someone in your family, whatever the case may be, I know that the holidays can be hard. This is going to be my first Thanksgiving without my grandpa. And...

It's really sad. And a lot of times I've complained about Thanksgiving because usually I go and it's like all these grown-ups that I, one, don't necessarily agree with on a lot of different topics in life. Two, they're not even like my immediate family and I only see them once a year and they just ask me like the same questions over and over again. Like, oh, are you ever going to go back to college? Are you still just posting on Instagram? And obviously that's not what all of them are like, but I kind of dread Thanksgiving and being with all these people sometimes. But...

This year, I don't know how to explain it. With gratitude being like the main focus in my life right now, I have found this appreciation for every moment that I get with every person. And whether it's like good moments or bad ones, I just kind of tell myself that I'm going to learn something from everyone and I find this different kind of appreciation for it.

If that makes any sense. Basically, just savor every moment that you can with your family and try to make the best of it. But also just know that you're probably going to have to hear things that you don't want to hear. And I know that a huge thing with the holidays, I've seen a bunch of TikToks talking about it.

And also just something that I've struggled with before is a lot of people have a hard time when it comes to food on the holidays. And I just want to sit here to be your friend to remind you that food is good. Food is a gift. And you deserve to eat as many slices of pumpkin pie, of apple pie, of appetizers, as many cheese and crackers as you want. And you shouldn't have to do anything to deserve it. Like you can eat whatever you want and the next day you don't have to prioritize working out or whatever.

Making sure you burn off the calories you deserve that food Okay you deserve to enjoy every second of it because it is a gift and that is just something that I am going to remind you because I know What the holidays can feel like with family like I've been nicknamed bottomless pit vulture Vacuum like tons of different things because I love to eat food is a priority in my life and I enjoy every second of every bite of every meal that I take and

Obviously, these jokes are somewhat harmless, but I've noticed that when I am struggling with my body image and these jokes are made, I'm like, oh, you know, that is kind of uncomfortable and I kind of don't like it. Other times I'm like, heck yeah, I'm proud of it. I don't know.

It always shifts for me, but I'm just here to be your big sister or your little sister. I don't know how old you are and just tell you like eat all the food. Enjoy every second of it. Don't listen to what people have to say. There are people who have like really obsessive relationships with food and that is not your problem. Okay, like if you have a mom or an aunt or a cousin or a sister who eats almonds all day long, it's not your problem. Okay, eat what you want. Enjoy every second of it moving on.

Those are my Thanksgiving thoughts. Try your best to enjoy the holidays. Okay, I think they're going to be great. I'm putting out good energy into this year and just manifesting that, honestly, I don't need to talk about Thanksgiving anymore because this episode comes out after Thanksgiving. So use this for future reference when it comes to like Christmas Eve and all that stuff. I guess I should have probably dropped this episode before. Moving on. I'm reading two books right now.

One of them, and honestly, don't let that fool you. Getting back into the funk thing for a second. I got these books months ago. I've been wanting to read them for the longest time and I have not been able to because I find myself scrolling on TikTok for hours at a time and I literally just can't stop no matter how hard I try. It's a little bit embarrassing for me to admit that, but I have fallen so victim to just the social media trap. And I think I touched on that last week.

last week's episode or probably the week before because last week was mad happy but I have been scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and this goes back to the thing where I'm like slowly but surely I'm pulling myself out of a funk instead of doing it overnight I've noticed myself going on a little bit less and doing a little bit more with my days and going to bed a little bit earlier waking up a little bit earlier one step at a time that being said two books the first one is 101 essays that change the way you think and

I ordered this book on Amazon. I've been wanting to order it for a really, really long time. I finally caved and I did it and I've been reading two essays per day. I read one when I wake up in the morning and one when I go to sleep at night. And this is the kind of book that I love because I think self-help books are awesome. I think they're great. I think that I also, well, I know also that I have a very bad ADHD. I can't read more than a chapter of a self-help book without putting it down and never touching it again. I start about 10 million things that I never finish.

But what's nice about this book is that it's like each essay is two, three pages. It takes me less than five to ten minutes to read. And then I can feel this kind of

What's the word? I feel fulfilled each time I read an essay and I feel proud of myself. I'm like, you know what? I read this morning and I read before I went to bed and it just gives me this little bit of purpose. And also each essay that I read has such valuable information. And I honestly want to start a little TikTok series where I talk to you about what each essay teaches me.

But I'll get to that when I get to that I'm only on like the seventh one right now But the other book that I'm reading is a fiction book, but it's by Mitch album If you've ever read a Mitch album book, you know that he is very intentional with his writing his words speak So much to your soul and I'm reading Tuesdays with Maureen if you've read this book You probably swiped off on my story and we're like this book made me cry. I changed my life Well, it did I'm not even done with it, but I'm almost done with it and it is just such a valuable book and

without giving anything away, well, I guess it's not really giving it away. It says it on the back of the book. There's an old man who is kind of on his deathbed and he is talking to one of his old students about everything that he's learned in this life. And he is teaching the living man what he should do to really live. And a huge, huge takeaway that I've taken so far is that

Love is important and love is valuable and that has impacted my life a lot lately. I have been dealing with stupid people leaving stupid comments on my TikTok and I try not to let comments faze me. I really do, but I'm also human and a lot of comments lately have just been on my appearance, like random things, all from these random accounts with no followers, no profile picture, and I'm assuming it's all the same person, but like I just block one and then another one will show up. It is what it is.

But I have a really hard time when people comment on my appearance. Nice. Appearance. Especially when I'm already struggling with my self-confidence.

One of the reasons I've been in this funk is just that I, I don't know, I feel like I'm aging. That sounds so silly because I'm not even 22, but I'm just noticing my self change in ways that I'm not used to. And it's such an adjustment for me and I don't know, I just feel a little bit icky sticky. And when people have to comment on like what my face looks like or what my face is shaped like or what I look like without makeup or how bad my eyebrows are, I question everything.

And it's also tough because so much of what I do, not so much, everything that I do is posted online basically. So I have to look at myself all the time. Even if I wanted to take a break from knowing what I look like, which sometimes I think would be nice, I can't. Like my job is to post and to be on the internet and to show my face. And I don't know, it all sounds silly. Point I'm trying to get to is that when I read these comments, I am encouraged to be a little bit more of a decent human. We...

often don't realize how big of an impact we have on other people and by this I mean just interacting with strangers in public like being kind to the cashier at the grocery store or tipping 50 extra cents if you can when you go to I don't know Chipotle Starbucks anywhere like offering kindness wherever we can letting the person merge on the highway I think that oh what am I saying

Okay, I got it. The book is teaching me that love is so valuable. Kindness is so valuable. And when we fill other people with love and when we are a good person to other people, we notice that it fulfills us. Like when we take the time to encourage someone and believe in someone and hype someone up for something that they've accomplished...

It takes away the comparison aspect that society has taught us that we have to constantly be chasing. And by this I mean, say someone writes a book and you've always wanted to write a book. Instead of feeling that anger and feeling that competitiveness and wanting to...

now write your book even faster or one-up them or do it better than them or blame them for whatever reason, if you choose to genuinely be happy for that person, the comparison goes away and you just feel good. Like when you are a good person, you are going to feel better and the whole world is going to feel a little bit better. And I think that that's just something that has become so, so apparent in my mind. Like I'm constantly thinking about it. Every time I go in public, I'm like, how can I make this person's day better? Or what can I do to help someone?

And sometimes helping someone is simply just waving and smiling. And I don't know, it's taught me a different kind of gratitude, which is kind of what I'm getting into next. We take so many things for granted. This episode of the Moments podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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what are random little things that you're grateful for in your life? And someone commented, the way that my dad talks to my cat. And my heart melted. I realized that there are so many little things that we don't even realize or recognize that we have. Today, I was on a walk today. I picked up this little flower. I was like, oh, you know what? This flower is beautiful. I could have just left it on the floor. I could have stepped on it, but I picked it up and I put it in my phone case. And I found a new appreciation for it. And I found an appreciation for...

Spending money that I didn't necessarily want to spend because now I have cute Christmas decorations in my house I found a new appreciation for vacuuming my floors because now when I walk barefoot I don't have dust all over the bottom of my feet. I have just found a new appreciation for pretty much everything. What I try to do is

Whenever I find myself complaining or stressing or overwhelmed is immediately stop in my tracks and say, okay, I know it might be cheesy. I know it might be cliche, but what is good about this? What can I be grateful for? And how can I appreciate this more than I would have in the past? It is so easy to,

to complain. We are brought up in this society where we're always chasing more. Like, we're chasing the idea of being better than everyone for some reason. And it's not something we can avoid because it's what we're constantly fed. And also, I don't know if these two align. I'm sure they do somehow, some way. But another huge thing that I've been thinking about lately is how...

I am realizing a lot of the reasons that we struggle so bad with our mental health in this day and age is because back in the day, there wasn't social media. So you only knew what your direct friends and direct family were doing with their lives. That's all you knew. And you barely knew that. You were just so focused on your own life before you were paying attention to anyone else's. And then we turned to Facebook, you know, where you know what all your friends and family are doing and you keep up with their lives. And it was awesome and it was great, right?

Then we get to this day and age where TikTok consumes us. What? Glitched. TikTok literally consumes us. We spend hours and hours scrolling through this customized for you page that is going to show you all of the things that you like in your life or that you want in your life. And it's going to show you all of the people that have those things already. For example...

I love content of people traveling, right? I love to travel. Something I dream of is going as many places as I can in my lifetime. My For You page is constantly feeding me with videos of people going to my dream locations or traveling to places where they're in waterfalls and they're in the ocean while I am still in bed at 1130 in the morning and I can't get out of bed. So basically, it leads us to this point where we are constantly just comparing videos

in our lives to what other people are doing, but in a much less healthy way than it used to be. And I believe that's a reason that we're constantly chasing. We are constantly thinking that people have more than us. And it's not even that we're so competitive because we want to be better than everyone. Like, I think that that's a part of it and that's something that society encourages us to do.

But we're constantly chasing just being good enough. Like that's what I've realized in my life. I'm so sorry. I've said realized in constantly 10 million times and I don't know how to stop it. I'm not chasing the idea of being better than everyone. I am chasing the idea of just being good enough. And again, not even for everyone. I'm chasing the idea of being good enough for myself.

Because when I am always looking at what other people are doing, I never feel like I'm doing enough. Because I'm watching everyone do everything. And when I do that, I forget that I am placed on this earth for my purpose and to follow my path. And my path is going to look different than someone else's path. I am one person. I can't complete every path. I can't fulfill every purpose. I can't chase every single idea of something that I might want to try.

I'm one human and where I am and what I'm doing is exactly what I'm meant to be doing. Does that make sense? So I just want to remind you of that. Social media is a highlight reel. You're going to see everyone's highs. You're going to wish that your everyday could look like that person's TikToks, but I can promise you that that person's TikToks aren't there every single day. You're wishing that 100% of your life could be like 10% of their life, you know?

It's not going to work. We're all going to struggle. We're all going to compare. We're all going to question our path and our journey in this day and age. But what we can do moving forward is instead focus on being grateful for what we have and being intentional, intentionally grateful for what we have. Not just, yeah, I'm thankful that today I got to wake up in my house and hug my cat and drink my morning coffee. I could say all those things, but if I'm not intentional with it, it doesn't mean anything.

Like when I say be intentional, I mean sit there and take deep breaths as you breathe in and focus on what you actually are surrounded with because it's so much more beauty than you realize. I posted a TikTok the other day talking about how I wish I could be in the snow, right? I said it for like two seconds. I was like, oh, all my friends are in the snow and I'm in Florida. Like I wish that it was snowing. To a lot of people, everyone commented and was like, girl, you're in Florida. Like you don't want the snow, I promise. And I'm like, well, I kind of do a little bit.

And it's just so interesting to see. We're all chasing the idea that we need what someone else has. But do you know what those comments reminded me? I was like, you know what? These people are right. I get to live in Florida. I get to be warm. I get to walk outside in a tank top and shorts and sweat my butt off when people have to scrape the snow off their cars. I'm going to intentionally be grateful for that.

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I also have told you guys this 10 million thousand times. You need to start a gratitude list on your phone. Literally go in your notes. I'm not joking. If you haven't done it yet, I'm going to be really upset with you. Please go do it. First thing you're going to write on there is life, breathing, oxygen. I don't know. Something about the fact that you exist now. And you're going to add to that. Every time you feel an ounce of gratitude or appreciation, you're going to write on it. And you are going to make that list as long as it can possibly be.

Because we are prioritizing gratitude. And another thing I've learned lately is that when I actually am prioritizing gratitude in my life, I feel the best. And I think I haven't been feeling so great because I haven't been prioritizing gratitude. I have just been this ball of depression. And of course, I can't necessarily control gratitude.

How I'm going to feel. And I know that I have to feel. But I think that there's a difference in allowing yourself to feel. And then detaching from the emotion. And moving on to the next phase of your life. And feeling the emotion and just sulking in it. And making it everyone's problem. And...

I don't know. I just have this epiphany that I can move on. I don't have to keep feeling like this. I can take baby steps towards feeling better and that's what I'm going to do. And gratitude has been the number one thing in doing that. Every time that I have a negative thought or a judgment or a self-doubt or negative self-talk, I turn it around. I shift it and when I'm constantly doing this,

I'm slowly faking it till I make it until that is my brain's first thought. So instead of looking in the mirror and saying to myself, you look like an ugly piece of shit today, if I can redirect my brain enough times and change my thought process enough times, eventually the first thing that I say in the mirror is going to be, you look good today. I'm proud of you. But it takes time to do that. Okay? Overnight, it doesn't work like that. So I want that to be everybody's goal for these next few weeks is to just...

Grateful. Be grateful that you get to exist at the same time as Taylor Swift. You get to exist at the same time as Colleen Hoover. You get to have a pet that you pet every single day. Or you get to have siblings that annoy you and drive you crazy. You get to have parents that argue with you all day long. You get to do everything. Because everything is a blessing. Because the chance of us even existing right now is like one in four trillion, I think. And we get to be here. So let's make note of that.

and be thankful for that. I want you to go about your days with purpose. Focus on doing things with love.

and being nice to strangers and detaching from your emotions when they're weighing you down too much and redirecting your thoughts into positive thinking and taking more time to go be in touch with nature, in touch with friends. Another thing that this book has really been teaching me which is like a hard pill to swallow for me is that

Connection is one of the more important things in life and I am someone who isolates myself when I am in a dark place. I don't talk to anyone. I don't call people. I don't text people. I simply just hide and I run from connection and the book talks so much about how connection is so valuable and it is what makes us feel human and it is like really really good and

So to force myself to think like that has been tough. But it's true. Go hang out with friends that make you feel happiness. And go hang out with your family because we're only getting older every single day and we cannot take these moments for granted. Like they're going to be gone quicker than we realize it. That's one thing.

Going to Hawaii taught me. I don't know if I've talked about this before. I'm so sorry guys I really get so confused on everything that I say sometimes I need to start making note of everything I talk about I've definitely talked about this But when I went to Hawaii for a long time the first time I realized I came home and and noticed that my brothers got older and my parents got older and I was like, holy crap I don't want to miss this. This is valuable time with my family and I want to appreciate every second that I get with them and

So that's what I've been trying to do. And that's what I encourage you to do if you are someone who isolates or finds yourself in a deep, dark, hiding bubble when you're going through it. Remember that your friends care about you and your family cares about you and connecting with them is only going to make you feel better. And I can pinky promise you that. Especially if they are people who are good people and people that are genuine and that love you. You are only going to feel more fulfilled.

When you fill your heart with love and you focus on being thankful and you connect with others, things are going to start to shift. And I know that it's easier said than done, but trust me, just start by calling your best friend, FaceTiming someone that you haven't seen in a while, going on a dinner date with your mom or your dad or hanging out at your parents' house.

Also, this is my first I don't need to get into this right now But I was just thinking this is gonna be my first Christmas where I don't live at my parents obviously I'm gonna go sleep at their house, but like that's so sad to think about it makes me feel so grown up Yeah

I don't know where I'm going with that. I'm going to cut this episode here just because I think that you guys understand now that the point is to go be grateful. And since this episode will usually be 10 minutes or so longer, I want you to take the next 10 minutes to mindfully do this like little meditation. I want you to just sit and I want you to brainstorm every little thing that you're thankful for down to the tiniest of things like toilet paper.

And understand that we are all privileged. If you are able to be listening to this podcast right now, that's a blessing. And if you are able to be existing right now, that's a blessing. And I know it's so easy to get caught up and it sounds so cheesy to be like, you know what? I'm just glad I'm alive. But it's real and it's true. So go reflect. Make that gratitude list on your phone. Enjoy it.

these next few weeks that are going to be filled with all sorts of different things find the beauty in all of it and instead of listening to me repeat myself just enjoy also

I don't know by the time this comes out if there's going to be any left, but go buy a crew neck or a zip up because we restocked them for Black Friday. And I don't know. I kind of hope there's none left when you guys are listening to this. And if so, thank you so much for selling out. Again, I love you guys. And nothing makes me smile more than seeing you guys in Moments collections. But if they are still available, go buy them.

grab one. And also I still love you and I'm thankful for you and you guys are my biggest supporters and my best friends. And I'm really getting ready to take all these things to the next level and start getting some really cool people on the podcast. I still want to do an episode with my therapist and with tons of just DM me what you guys want to talk about. Sometimes I don't know what to talk about and I get sad and stressed, but I'm here. You're here. We're best friends. I love you. Go be grateful. We'll talk soon. Goodbye.