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38. Hacks that will change your life · Unbalanced with Cerys Davage

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Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Unbalanced
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with Me, Kerry Savage. This is an exciting episode, as
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I say for every episode. But genuinely, I promise you
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this is exciting because if you're watching through Spotify,
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this is a video episode. And this is my first video
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episode recorded with a camera with my new microphone.
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And I'm really excited about this little new chapter in
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Unbalanced. And I hope that you guys are
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excited as I am about this new chapter.
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Video podcasts are a thing now, so I thought I'd hop on that
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trend. And I enjoy watching people
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video record their podcasts as well.
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So I thought, why not give it a go?
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And yeah, maybe you'll see more of me on social media because of
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it. So you're so welcome.
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This episode we'll be discussing some hacks or some things that
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might enhance your life, things that have definitely made my
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life so much easier, if not change my life.
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And I thought I would share it with you guys.
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But before we get into that, of course I need to catch you up on
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what's been going on. No more trips, I promise.
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I have been good at just settling into a routine.
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My work is going well and I am just embracing the changing
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seasons because it's not easy and I'm already feeling the
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change. I'm already feeling mentally
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different, slightly more unstable, got to be honest.
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And I am really not looking forward to the cold weather.
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I know that's something a lot of people struggle with.
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I know it's a huge, huge thing. It just has such a big impact on
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people with disabilities and mobility issues and also mental
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health. So I do want you to know that
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you're not alone in feeling a bit weird and a bit different
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this time of year. I already missed the summer so
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much. You guys know I'm a summer girly
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throughout, but I'm really trying to embrace this new
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season because otherwise I'll just be like really depressed
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the whole time and that's not fun for anyone.
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So yeah, I'm going to try and try and embrace this and do as
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much as I can. Maybe some more things indoor
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because I just can't last that long in the cold outside.
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It's just not realistic for me. But anyway, that's not what
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we're here to talk about. What else have I done?
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Oh, I've got my hair done. Shall I show you?
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If you're watching this video right now, you'll be able to
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see. Got my hair cut a bit and I got
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it blonded. Just got my roots done.
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I definitely feel so much better doing it.
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Obviously got it done just for the podcast.
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Anyway, headphones back on, Where was I?
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Oh yeah, something happened in work.
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It wasn't very fun. I tripped and I fell over
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because, you know, me, I'm unbalanced.
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Usually when I have my falls, I recover pretty quickly.
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I maybe just get a bruise on my knee, but that's about it.
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But this was the first time that I actually had a knock on effect
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after a fall. So I think because I tripped, I
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must have fallen pretty awkwardly.
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But I have sprained my right ankle because of it and it's not
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fun, I tell you. I guess that's been a hint for
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me to take things slow, but it's really frustrating knowing that
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a fall can lead to a fracture, a sprain, a break in bones and,
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you know, force you to slow down and to take care of yourself and
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maybe miss out on certain things because of it.
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So it's not fun. And this is the first time it's
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had a proper impact on me. And it's been a while since I've
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had an injury so I guess I should have seen it coming, but
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I've tried not to let that stop me.
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I've still kept pretty active. I've stayed away from the gym
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for the first couple weeks, but I've just gotten back into it
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just to take things slow. Easier workout routines, maybe
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things that don't really focus on walking or using my ankle as
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much. Not that I ever did any ankle
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routines, but you know what I mean.
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I'm just trying to take things slow.
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I honestly don't think I've got much else to update you on to be
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honest. I went to Aberystwyth back again
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for a birthday of one of my uni friends and it was really nice.
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But I think I've been to ABBA a few times since I've graduated
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now and it hasn't changed. So I don't think I'll be going
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back there anytime soon because you know, I'm all set for that.
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I am going to London in a couple weeks for one of my home friends
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birthdays because she lives in London and I'm excited for that.
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We do it every year in November, but it's just going to be cold.
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So I have to be realistic about staying warm.
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And that is something I'm really trying to put an effort into
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doing. Especially the season
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temperature can really affect people with mobility issues.
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And the cold really does have a big, big impact on me.
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And if you've been around for a while, you would know that I
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have struggled with the cold in the past and maybe not really
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known that it was the cold to begin with.
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Like I've had this pain in my leg sometimes, like basically on
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and off all through last winter and I have realised that it's
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due to maybe lack of moving around, but also the cold.
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Like that is something that a lot of people struggle with and
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it's something that really does affect your life.
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So instead of sitting here and complaining about all the things
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that are hard about my life, I thought I would dedicate this
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episode to sharing some life hacks with you.
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Things that I think make my life so much easier.
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And this one is for the disabled and the non disabled.
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Some of these hacks might be specifically for people with
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mobility issues. And some of these might just be
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hacks to try in general for people who may not need any
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extra support but you know, fancy trying it out because why
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not? Because life is just simpler
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when you figure out a routine. So I've narrowed it down to 10
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things. And some of these are things to
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buy and some of these are like practical things that I do that
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hacks. So stick around and let's get
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into it. Are you a star Baker or know
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baking in the famous white tent next.
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OK, so the first one is something that I have bought on
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Amazon quite recently and they are wire clips.
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I think you call them so bear with me while I try to describe
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them. So you know, you have like
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chargers or wires for your phone or for your watch or for
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whatever it is. Something I really, really
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struggled with when I was especially going to bed was to
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have to pick the wires up from the floor.
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And you know, that requires bending down and coming back up
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and plugging my devices into the wires and putting them on my
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bedside table. But that just requires so much
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effort. Like you guys have no idea how
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much effort bending down actually it is.
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So these little wire clips, wire stoppers, they have a sticky
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back, so you just stick them onto your bedside table and you
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can just stick the wire onto it and it just stays.
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And it kind of like stops the wire from sliding off and
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falling to the floor. It's just a little thing, but it
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really, really changed my evening routine and I just feel
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like life is just so much easier with them.
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So I thought I shared that because like, how would I not
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thought of that before? Like that's actually saved me so
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much energy. My next hack is for a similar
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reason, and it's quite a popular hack that I've seen a lot online
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and people have recommended to me is a grabber or a litter
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picker and that they're so handy to have in a house.
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And, you know, if you drop something, instead of having to
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bend down. And usually when I bend down, I
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have to bend down with something else around me so that I can
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lean on that to get back up. Having a grabber just prevents
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you from having to do that exercise to just go all the way
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down just to pick something up, especially if they're really
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tricky to pick up. Like, you know, you'll be down
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there for ages and your hips are getting sore or your knees or
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whatever. The grabber will just prevent
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all of that from happening and you can just pick it up without
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having to bend down a little bit.
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I would show you it right now if you're watching the video, but I
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don't have it on me. Maybe I'll call Tristan to go
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and get it so that I don't have to get up.
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Hello, Can you get my grabber, please?
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Hey, that's another hack. Just have someone in the house
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that's willing to bring you things so that you don't need to
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always get up. Thank you.
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This is it. This is the grabber.
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But yeah, it's very handy. So if you're watching this now
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on video, you'll be able to see. So I recommend.
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There we go. OK, let's move on to the next
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thing. The next thing I have is not
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cheap, but if you are into reading then I would really
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recommend a Kindle. As someone who's trying to read
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more and maybe take my book more out and about so that it gives
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me more opportunities to read, I really do recommend a Kindle for
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that reason. I feel like even if you don't
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read every time you take your Kindle with you, just the act of
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bringing your Kindle with you everywhere will bring more
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opportunities for you to read. Just in case, you know, you have
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like 5 minutes and you're waiting in a queue, you can flip
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out your Kindle and you can read a chapter or two.
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And but if you brought your book with you, you wouldn't be able
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to do that as easily. I don't know, I feel like you
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need, you need 2 hands to read a book and you need to be in an
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environment that that's maybe book friendly, you know,
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somewhere you could sit down maybe properly to read.
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But with your Kindle, you can just kind of whip it out
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anywhere. And it's so lightweight.
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It's, it weighs next to nothing. And especially if you're going
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through a really thick book, that's when a Kindle is best
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used, you know, to read those thick books that you've always
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wanted to read, especially like hardback books and stuff like
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they're the kind of books I would only read at home.
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Like I would not pack it with me because it's too heavy.
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It would be too big to fit in a bag.
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It's just so much easier to bring a Kindle.
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So, but I know they're a bit of an investment.
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So if you want to get onto that reading grind, Christmas is
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coming up. I recommend that as something to
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ask for Christmas or something to maybe treat yourself with for
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Christmas. The next item is a Unique Low
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bag. So if you guys aren't familiar
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with Unique Low, they are a Japanese clothing brand that's
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becoming very very popular. Oh, well, it has become very
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popular over the past few months.
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And I was recommended a Unique Low bag by another LGMDR. And
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yeah, she just said that she takes it everywhere with her if
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she's got like days out or weekends away.
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It's just a really, really handy bag to have on her and it fits
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everything. And I think what's different
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about this in comparison to like shoulder bags is that your body
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distributes the weight of the bag evenly.
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And it's not just like on one shoulder.
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So you kind of, it's like a crossbody bag, but it's like on
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your body, it's not like hanging to one side.
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If you know what I that is something that has rocked my
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world. I've taken it to nice with me,
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I've taken it on holiday to Gran Canaria and I take it every time
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I go out the house and I just need to take a few things with
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me. It fits my Kindle, it fits a
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little water bottle and honestly it just fits all my essentials.
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But when I wear it, it doesn't feel like I'm carrying anything
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because the weight is just kind of on me.
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And I, yeah, it's not like an extra thing I have to carry on
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my shoulder because I know that that is an issue, especially
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with muscular dystrophy, it's medically advised for you not to
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carry things on one shoulder because it's just not good for
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your muscles. And, you know, it strains one
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side more than the other and stuff like that.
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And growing up, I always carried my school bag on one shoulder
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because it wasn't cool to wear it on both shoulders.
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And I think that that maybe has contributed towards the fact
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that my hips are a bit weak and my right knee turns in a bit
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more. I don't know if it is that, but
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I remember constantly getting told off for having my bag on
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one shoulder because it wasn't good for me.
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And here I am suffering the potential consequences of it.
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So listen to me when I say a Uniqlo bag will change your
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life. And they're not that expensive.
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I know that there are dupes available elsewhere, but I
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really think that they are worth it.
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An alternative to this, I have like a nice cosy jacket that has
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really big pockets. So you know, it might be able to
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fit a couple of essentials in there as well.
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It may be if I'm not going out all day.
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Like this morning I met a friend for coffee, but I didn't need to
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take a bath because I just took a nice jacket that had enough
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room for my tissues and my purse and my phone and my keys and my
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Vaseline. Just essentials, you know?
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OK, this next thing is for my disabled friends or those who
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have mobility issues. This has changed my life and I
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wish I could take it out anyway with me because honestly, I
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don't think I could go a day without using this.
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It is a toilet frame, so it's essentially A-frame that goes
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around the toilet seat and it's like 2 handlebars, 1 on each
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side, and I just lean on that to help me get up.
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So I use my arms to push me up from the toilet.
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And honestly, I wish that I could take this everywhere with
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me because the amount of times I've had to put my hands on the
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toilet seat to enable me to get up from the toilet in public
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spaces is really, really bad. And even in disabled toilets,
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you don't always have the rails on both sides to help you up.
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So I would still need to put a hand on the seat to help me get
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up, which is obviously not the most hygienic way, but it's like
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the only way I can get up. Like the only way I can get up
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from sitting down is to push down with my arms.
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So this is a game changer and it just makes life so much easier.
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Like getting up from a seated position requires so much hard
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work. You guys have no idea if you
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guys don't have a disability. Trust me when I say this, it
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really does make you so fatigued.
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It knocks your energy and it just is so much hard work for
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like nothing. So having this really has
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changed my life and saved so much energy.
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I did get it from the occupational therapist through
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the NHS. And if you guys are looking for
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stuff like these, you know, around your home to help just
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make daily life a little bit easier, I really do recommend
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getting in touch with an occupational therapist.
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I've also gotten hand rails put in in my bath and my shower to
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help me kind of climb in and out of the bath.
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And that has again change my world.
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OK, the next thing is my last item for today.
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So this is number six and it is especially handy this time of
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year. So I thought I would include
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this in this episode because this is the time when people are
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getting cold and need to be a bit cosier and bad.
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A hot water bottle and or an electric blanket.
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I have both, they are amazing. I've had an electric blanket
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since Christmas last year. Again, a great Christmas gift or
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a hot water bottle is a great Christmas gift if you're looking
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for presents for other people or if you would like some of those
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great things to ask for, by the way.
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But genuinely, there's no better feeling than coming home after
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being outside in the cold to something really really nice and
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warm and it just really helps relax your muscles.
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I'm talking like I'm a professional or like a medical
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professional, but I'm really not.
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This is just from my own experiences.
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Making sure that you do warm back up after you get in from
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somewhere is so important and it really does relax you.
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I genuinely cannot sleep until I'm warm all the way through.
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Like last night I really struggled to sleep because my
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feet were really cold and which is so silly because like I was
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fine. Like I hadn't been outside
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really. I'd spent all the evening
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inside, but my feet were still freezing and I couldn't sleep
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until my feet had warmed up completely.
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It was so weird. But that's just one of my
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things. So having an electric blanket
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really contributes towards that. And also, I'm going to try and
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get in the habit of taking a hot water bottle out with me, like
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in the car or if I'm going to be sat outside or something for
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some reason to take something with me.
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It's so essential, especially for this time of year.
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OK, I'm going to move on to some practical things that I do that
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help me. They may not help everyone.
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So I just want to do a little disclaimer.
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These are just things that help me in my life and the hacks that
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I've picked up from trends or from other people and have
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applied them to my own life. And I thought they'd be good
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enough to share today, but they might not work for everyone and
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not everyone would be able to do them.
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So I do want to just put that out there first.
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Everyone's different and everyone copes in different
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ways. One thing I do almost every
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night without fail, and something that really, really
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helps me in the morning, especially if I have work in the
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morning, is to lay my clothes out the night before.
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Choosing an outfit to wear for that day can take so much time
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for no reason and it's so much effort, you know, going through
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drawers and bending down and going to the wardrobe.
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And I feel like it's just such a waste of time in the morning
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when you can just get up, get dressed and go.
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And something that has really helped me get out of bed in the
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morning and be productive is to lay out my clothes the night
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before because that way it's all set, it's all been decided.
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There's no changing my mind in the morning.
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Those are the clothes I'm going to wear and that's it, you know,
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like it just actually saves so much time.
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Another thing I do to save time, because time is just so, so
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valuable, is to meal prep. And that is for the evening
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meals, but also for lunchtime as well.
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It's so easy to get into a bad habit, especially if you go to
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work to buy food out at lunchtime.
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And I'm really trying not to have that habit.
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And I know it was one of my resolutions this year to not buy
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food out all the time. So it's really important for me.
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So this is Sunday. I'm recording this.
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So tonight, you bet I will be in the kitchen making my lunch
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meals for most of the week. And the same goes with the next
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time I cook, I'm going to batch cook.
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I mean, when I say cook, I mean trust them.
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We'll be cooking, I'll be helping, I'll be prepping, but
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we will ensure that we have enough meals to keep us going
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for a couple days so that we don't have to cook from scratch
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every night. Like it's so exhausting,
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especially if you've had a long and busy day.
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You come back and then you have to cook from scratch every
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night. It's exhausting.
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So why not save yourself a little bit of energy, especially
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in these cold and dark nights, to just batch cook and then that
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freeze up a night for the next night for you to do whatever you
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want and to just relax. And if you have a long day, you
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can come back and heat up that meal and it's all done for you.
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It really does make such a difference.
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Something I want to get back into doing a lot of is making
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soup. This so easy because you can
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just like freeze most of it and it's just like a such a nice
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cosy thing to do in the autumn. If you guys have any other
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autumn recommendations for recipes or just for activities
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like indoor cosy things to do, please let me know.
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Hit me up on Instagram at Unbalanced Podcast.
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And yeah, I would love to know how you guys deal with this
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awful weather and how you guys embrace the autumn in the
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winter. The next one is something I'm
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still working on, but I have found that it actually really
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does save a lot of energy and a lot of time.
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Before you do something, check. Is this available to do online?
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For example, your work, Is this work doable from home?
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Can I ask to just do it from home?
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Especially if you're not feeling completely right, if you're
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feeling a bit under the weather because of your disability or
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your chronic illness or whatever, ask is it doable from
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home shopping? And I've, I remembered speaking
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about this in an episode before because I know a lot of people
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find home deliveries really lazy.
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I personally don't. I think it's such a time saver
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and such an energy saver, especially for those days where
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I really need more groceries in the house, but I don't have
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enough energy to go out to my local shop to buy any home
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deliveries are the way to go. So you could just do it from
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your phone, from your laptop, from home and it's there the
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next day. It's amazing.
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So I really do recommend that. But yeah, anything like work or
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meetings or support groups or one thing that really helped me
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was like if I had an appointment, like a consultant's
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appointment, can I just do that over the phone?
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Probably yes. And it's so much easier unless
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they need to see something, you know, or like, assess your body
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or something. Tracking all the way to the
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hospital and parking and walking over from the car park to the
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right ward and walking through all the different corridors,
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like it actually takes up so much time and so much effort.
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So why not ask yourself, can I just do this from home?
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Can I just do it over the phone or through a video chat just to
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save that bit of energy? And again, I'm still working on
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it. I went to an appointment last
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week that could have been a phone call.
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And I wish I had asked beforehand if I could just do
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that because that meant I had to leave work for a couple of
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hours. It meant I had to to a lot of
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walking actually, you know, to get from the car park to the
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actual room that I need to be in is a lot.
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So I wish that I had asked to just do it over the phone
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because it was definitely something that could have been
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done over the phone. So I'm just passing all my
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wisdom that I've learned from my mistakes to you guys so that you
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don't have to go through the same stuff.
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OK the last one I have is heatless curls and maybe my
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TikTok girlies know or I'm on about, but heatless curls is
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something that's become quite trendy on TikTok over the past
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couple years and I've seen a lot of people try them out before.
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I tried it myself and I thought this is too good to be true.
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So I first started with a pair of leggings.
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So I did like one leg for each side of my hair and then used
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the kind of waist bit of the leggings to like pull it all the
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way over like a bonnet, like a cap.
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And that kind of worked. Like it did work really well.
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But now I find that using the belt of my dressing gown is
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actually better because it's smaller and I can get tighter
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curls. But I know that there are some
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things out there online that you could buy specifically to do
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heatless curls. But hey, mine's free.
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I just used the belt of my dressing gown and it still works
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the same. Honestly, I do heatless curls
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mostly because it's a way of styling your hair without using
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any heat, which is really good for your hair, especially for
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people who highlight their hair like me.
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You know, I obviously get my hair bleached.
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So my hair is in such good condition and I have heatless
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curls to thank. And the fact that I try not to
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use the hair dryer too much, especially on a very hot level,
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especially on a very high temperature.
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But anyway, it's also such a time saver and I really curled
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my hair with a curling wand before this because it just took
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so much time and my arms were aching after I curled like half
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of my hair. I remember, you know, you have
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to hold your hair after wrapping it around the wand for a long
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time for the heat to settle in. And to do that repeatedly
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really, really took it out of my arms.
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And my arms are quite strong compared to my legs.
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LGMD wise for now, but even that like really really took a toll
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on my arms and my hands so I really curled my hair.
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Growing up I always straighten my hair just like roughly ran
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some straightness through it because my hair could be a bit
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frizzy, especially fresh after a hair wash.
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But now I don't use any of those and I just wrap my hair around
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in heatless curls. You might look crazy going to
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bed, but who's going to judge you?
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You know, you take that out in the morning, it takes like less
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than 5 minutes. You unwrap your hair from this
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robe and you've just got beautiful curly hair.
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Disclaimer, it may not last as long as it does if you use heat
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on your hair because that obviously that's supposed to be
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long lasting. But genuinely, it has such a
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great impact on your hair and it just looks really nice and
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bouncy. And it's something that I will
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not stop talking about. It's kind of like air fryers,
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Obviously not similar at all. But you know when people say
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like air fryers are so much better to use than the oven
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because it's less time and takes up less energy in the house, I
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feel like heatless curls are like the hair equivalent of air
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fryers, you know what I mean? Maybe I've been yapping for too
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long and I'm just chatting absolute rubbish now, but I
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thought I would share those little hacks with you and I hope
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you guys enjoyed listening to what I had to suggest.
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Before I go, I did put a little question box up on my Instagram
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because I wanted to know if you guys had any hacks that you
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wanted to share with me. I have had a few come through
26:09
now so I'm just going to read some of them out.
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Someone said using a litter picker around the home to pick
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things up off the floor. Yeah, with you on that one.
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Someone else said might grab a tool that helps me pick things
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up off the ground. Couldn't recommend more writing
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down my feelings. Oh, I like that one.
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You know, it's a great way of like processing how you're
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feeling and I need to do more of that.
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I think I started journaling in like during COVID time and then
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I just kind of fell off of the trend and fell off of the habit.
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So it's definitely something I need to get back into.
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So thank you for reminding me. Someone said face wipes for the
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days I'm not up and about. That's such a good point as
26:48
well. You know, like sometimes putting
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on makeup can take so much time and effort that when you come
26:53
back after wherever you've been to, you don't have the effort to
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take it all off and do the whole like 50 billion step skin care
27:00
routine. So sometimes having face wipes
27:03
can just do the job for now. And I know they're not supposed
27:06
to be amazing for your skin, but for people with chronic
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illnesses and disabilities, nothing is straightforward.
27:13
So having those little things like face wipes can really make
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your life easier. Someone said having the courage
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to ask for help, people want to help you.
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And that is something I was actually considering putting
27:24
down on my notes to share today. But I actually think I might do
27:28
a whole episode on how to show up for yourself and be yourself
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advocate because there's just so much to talk about on that
27:37
topic. And it's just such an important
27:40
thing to always remind yourself people around you are willing to
27:43
help you. And even trust on bringing in
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that grabber for me so that I didn't have to get up, pause the
27:49
recording and go and get it. You know, like just having
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people around you that are willing to help you will really,
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really, really help make your life so much easier.
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And it just makes me grateful for the people I have in my life
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because I know that they're willing to help me.
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They know, I know that they're willing to do anything to make
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my life just that bit easier. And then, yeah, that's all I've
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got for today. I hope you've enjoyed.
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I hope you have picked up a little hack that you might try.
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Let me know if you try any of these hacks or buy any of the
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things that I've recommended. If you have any recommendations
28:26
that you want me to try, please let me know.
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Give me a message on Unbalanced Podcast on Instagram or just
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leave a little message below this episode in the little Q&A
28:36
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you guys very soon. Have a lovely couple weeks.