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Loretta LaRoche - Stressed spelled backwards is desserts · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew Mcgibbon for November 20th.
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  Today is National Peanut Butter Fudge Day, celebrating that
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  creamy melt in your mouth confection that combines 2 of
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  the world's greatest comfort foods.
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  Peanut butter and chocolate fudge itself dates back to the
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  1880s, when it was likely created by accident.
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  Someone botched a batch of caramels, creating something
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  even better. Peanut butter fudge became
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  popular in the early 1900s as peanut butter itself gained
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  traction in American kitchens. What makes peanut butter fudge
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  special is it's pure indulgence. It's not health food.
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  It's not practical. It's just sweet, rich,
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  comforting joy and edible form. Sometimes that's exactly what we
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  need. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from stress expert and humorist Loretta La Roche, who
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  perfectly captured this day when she said stressed, spelled
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  backwards is desserts. Interesting.
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  It really is. La Roche's clever word play
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  reveals A deeper truth about stress and comfort.
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  When life gets overwhelming, we instinctively reach for
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  sweetness. There's science behind this.
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  Sugar triggers dopamine release, temporarily easing stress.
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  But beyond biology, there's something psychologically
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  soothing about indulging in pure pleasure when everything else
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  feels like pressure. Peanut butter fudge represents
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  permission to pause, to enjoy, to remember that life isn't just
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  about productivity and problems. Sometimes the best response to
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  stress isn't more efficiency or stricter discipline.
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  It's a square of homemade fudge and 5 minutes of savoring it.
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  LaRoche understood that managing stress isn't always about
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  elimination. Sometimes it's about balance,
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  and occasionally that balance includes dessert.
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  Today, honor La Roche's wisdom. If you're stressed, consider
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  desserts literally or metaphorically.
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  Maybe make some peanut butter fudge or buy yourself something
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  sweet, or simply give yourself permission to indulge in
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  something purely pleasurable with no practical purpose.
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  Life doesn't have to be all vegetables in virtue.
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  Sometimes stressed, sometimes stressed becomes desserts just
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  by reversing your perspective and allowing yourself a moment
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  of sweetness. Because peanut butter fudge
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  won't solve your problems, but it might help you remember that
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  joy still exists, even on stressful days.
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  That's going to do it. For today, I'm Andrew McGivern,
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  signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.