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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Mariel Cigarra. You're listening to Life Kit. The
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  Speaker 2: other morning I was wide awake at 5 a.m., which
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  Speaker 2: is unusual for me. I was jet lagged after a
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  Speaker 2: trip to Poland yesterday. And it was dark outside, so
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  Speaker 2: I lit some candles and I took my time getting up.
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  Speaker 2: This simple act of sitting awake with the covers over
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  Speaker 2: my legs, surrounded by the glow of candlelight, it got
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  Speaker 2: me really excited for fall and for winter.
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  Speaker 3: Lighting candles, it's such a cliche winter advice, right? Like
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  Speaker 3: it's almost, it sounds so fluffy and meaningless, but I
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  Speaker 3: really think when you light candles.
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  Speaker 4: with the.
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  Speaker 3: Intention of embracing and celebrating the darkness, it actually has
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  Speaker 3: a profound impact on your experience and changes the meaning
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  Speaker 3: of winter darkness.
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's hard when the sun doesn't shine
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  Speaker 2: as much as it did all summer and the rain
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  Speaker 2: can be a drag for sure. But I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: this time of year offers so many opportunities to be cozy.
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  Speaker 2: On this episode of Life Kit, how to get cozy
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  Speaker 2: this fall. And to be clear, that doesn't mean just
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  Speaker 2: sitting at home waiting for spring. But it is about
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  Speaker 2: embracing the changes that are coming, whether we like it
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  Speaker 2: or not. Which brings me to takeaway one. Transition your space,
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  Speaker 2: your clothes, and your diet for the cold weather. Now
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  Speaker 2: is the time to bring your velvet curtains and your
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  Speaker 2: flannel sheets out of storage. And to remember what you
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  Speaker 2: love about your cold weather wardrobe. For me, it's the
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  Speaker 2: brown leather jacket I got at a thrift store in London.
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  Speaker 2: my lace-up black boots and leg warmers, among other things.
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  Speaker 2: I also love a fall plaid. Carrie Leibowitz is a
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  Speaker 2: psychologist and the author of the book How to Winter,
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  Speaker 2: and she says we can also switch up our diets,
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  Speaker 2: leaning into the cold weather foods.
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  Speaker 3: So I switch from, you know, a cold breakfast in
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  Speaker 3: the summer to a warm breakfast in the winter. And
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  Speaker 3: I switch from iced coffee to hot coffee or tea
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  Speaker 3: that I drink all day long. So all of these
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  Speaker 3: things reorient my attention from the negative things about the
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  Speaker 3: cold and the dark and the wet to the things
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  Speaker 3: that I enjoy when the temperature drops and it's raining
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  Speaker 3: out all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of, how about a soup? I, for one, cannot
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  Speaker 2: wait to make sausage, white bean, and kale soup with
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  Speaker 2: carrots and onions. It's a fave. Sola El-Weili is a chef.
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  Speaker 2: and the author of Start Here, Instructions for Becoming a
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  Speaker 2: Better Cook. We talked to her about how to make soups,
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  Speaker 2: and she said soup is the perfect communal dish, especially
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  Speaker 2: on a chilly day.
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  Speaker 5: There's something about it that's just like cozy and comfy,
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  Speaker 5: and it feels so primal, like just eating out of
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  Speaker 5: one pot, especially because food gets so complicated these days.
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  Speaker 5: You know, soup isn't like glamorous, it's not pretty, but
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  Speaker 5: it gets the job done.
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  Speaker 2: Some ingredients that Zola says go well in basically any
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  Speaker 2: soup are alliums, like onions, leeks, and garlic.
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  Speaker 5: And something about when you cook any allium in fat,
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  Speaker 5: it just adds this incredible savoriness and depth. And there's
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  Speaker 5: like a wide range of flavors you can pull out
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  Speaker 5: of it. So if you keep it kind of blonde,
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  Speaker 5: you get more of like the sharp oniony flavor. And
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  Speaker 5: then you can go as far as you want from
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  Speaker 5: there and take it like to deep caramel and get
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  Speaker 5: it very, very sweet. But it's this like really rich
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  Speaker 5: base to pretty much everything. but especially a soup. And
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  Speaker 5: it's particularly helpful to develop a base with alliums if
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  Speaker 5: you're not using like the best quality broth. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if you're going with a bouillon, starting with some cooked
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  Speaker 5: down onions or shallots will really get you far.
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  Speaker 2: She also suggests adding to your soup a pinch of
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  Speaker 2: MSG or Parmesan rind because it's a natural source of MSG.
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  Speaker 2: All right, takeaway two, this time of year, can also
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  Speaker 2: be an opportunity to slow down. When the clocks change
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  Speaker 2: in November, Carrie, the psychologist, her friends tell her, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been so tired lately. I don't know what's wrong
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  Speaker 2: with me.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, there's nothing wrong with you. You're a
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  Speaker 3: living being on a planet with a climate, you know?
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  Speaker 3: And if you look at every other living thing on earth,
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  Speaker 3: plant or animal, they are all changing their behavior in
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  Speaker 3: winter in some way, right? They're either migrating or hibernating
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  Speaker 3: or they're slowing down. They're shedding their leaves. They're storing
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  Speaker 3: up their energy for spring. And yet I think our
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  Speaker 3: sort of modern societies and modern conveniences have convinced us
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  Speaker 3: that it's a personal or moral failure to If we
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  Speaker 3: want to slow down in the winter, if we feel
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  Speaker 3: less able to maintain the same schedule 365.
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  Speaker 6: Days a year.
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  Speaker 2: Some suggestions from Carrie's book are to take a family
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  Speaker 2: nap where you stay in your PJs, make a pillow fort,
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  Speaker 2: watch movies, and just embrace the slumber party vibes all day.
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  Speaker 2: And also to let yourself take longer with everyday tasks.
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  Speaker 2: You know, slower meals, slower walks, longer bath times. Trisha
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  Speaker 2: Hersey says rest shouldn't be an afterthought. She's the author
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  Speaker 2: of the book, Rest is Resistance, a manifesto.
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  Speaker 4: I believe resting is generative. It's not frivolous, and it's
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  Speaker 4: not a luxury, and it's not some afterthought. It truly
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  Speaker 4: is something that will allow us to tap into the
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  Speaker 4: inventive and imaginative ideas that are going to get us
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  Speaker 4: to the next dimension.
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  Speaker 2: Trisha likes to plan her rest, so she puts a
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  Speaker 2: rest day on her calendar every week.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even look at my email. I don't even
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  Speaker 4: respond to anything work-related. I'm all about laying around the house.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not engaging in any type of labor outside of
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  Speaker 4: what feels good to me.
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  Speaker 2: Another idea is if you don't currently observe the Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: set aside one day a week to rest. And for you,
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  Speaker 2: that could mean no email, no phones, no technology in general.
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  Speaker 2: We talked with Katherine Price, author of How to Break
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  Speaker 2: Up with Your Phone in 2020.
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  Speaker 7: We take an evening a week and we light a
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  Speaker 7: candle at dinner and we turn off our screens and
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  Speaker 7: we keep them off until the following morning.
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  Speaker 8: People can customize that as they want.
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  Speaker 7: You could have your phone on do not disturb but
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  Speaker 7: allow calls from important people to come through if you
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  Speaker 7: feel anxious about that. But I find in general that
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  Speaker 7: just having a ritual where I know that I can
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  Speaker 7: not be on call to anything feels really good sometimes
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  Speaker 7: and I want to give myself that opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: You can start small too. Maybe you just put your
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  Speaker 2: phone on airplane mode for dinner and an hour or
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  Speaker 2: two after while you're cleaning up or you're watching a movie.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe you pause the episode here and take a
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  Speaker 2: minute's rest. But come back, all right? Because after the break,
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  Speaker 2: we're going outside.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now that we've slowed down, it is time...
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  Speaker 2: for Takeaway 3. Bundle up and get outside. Carrie, the
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  Speaker 2: author of How to Winter, studied seasonal affective disorder in
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  Speaker 2: a Norwegian city called Tromsø. It's about 200 miles north
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  Speaker 2: of the Arctic Circle, and every year it goes through
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  Speaker 2: something called the polar night, which is about two months
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  Speaker 2: of darkness where the sun doesn't rise above the horizon.
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  Speaker 3: In Scandinavia, in Norway, they have this saying, there's no
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  Speaker 3: such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. And I
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  Speaker 3: really learned how to dress for the winter when I
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  Speaker 3: was living in Norway.
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  Speaker 2: And she's picked up some tips on how to dress
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  Speaker 2: for the cold.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be wearing my leggings underneath my jeans.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be wearing layers on my top. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be wearing waterproof outer shell, waterproof boots. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you want to be warm enough.
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  Speaker 2: In the book, Carrie talks about the Norwegian principle of friluftsliv.
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  Speaker 2: It translates to open air life. but she says it's
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  Speaker 2: really about finding freedom in an open-air life. We can
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  Speaker 2: do that in the colder months, by continuing to enjoy
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  Speaker 2: nature and move around outside, even when it's cold or overcast.
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  Speaker 2: Carrie suggests that you go on an awe walk, where
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  Speaker 2: you take time to feel awe or wonder while you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at the world around you as it is. That
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  Speaker 2: tree with the bright orange leaves and or the shops
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  Speaker 2: on the street illuminated with sparkling lights.
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  Speaker 3: If this is new for you, start small. Just take
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  Speaker 3: a walk around your neighborhood, bring a thermos of tea
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  Speaker 3: or coffee, go for 15 or 20 minutes, see how
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  Speaker 3: it feels. If there's a place that you like to
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  Speaker 3: walk in other seasons, so a park or by a
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  Speaker 3: river or by the beach, try going in the winter
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  Speaker 3: and experiencing it at that time of year, right? What
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  Speaker 3: looks different? What sounds different, what smells different.
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  Speaker 2: The point is you can feel cozy outside too. You
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  Speaker 2: just need to dress right. You can also have outdoor
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  Speaker 2: celebrations in the winter. Gather around a fire and toast marshmallows.
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  Speaker 2: Have a barbecue in the park. In general, takeaway four,
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  Speaker 2: look for moments to celebrate and gather. One of the
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  Speaker 2: hardest parts of this season is when it gets so
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  Speaker 2: cold and dark that nobody leaves the house and you
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  Speaker 2: end up feeling isolated. But you actually have the power
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  Speaker 2: to change that by inviting people over and creating your
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  Speaker 2: own traditions. There are, of course, lots of holidays coming up. Halloween,
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  Speaker 2: Dia de los Muertos, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas. But we can
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  Speaker 2: also make our own holidays. Andrea Bonior is a psychologist
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  Speaker 2: at Georgetown. And she says you can start by asking yourself,
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  Speaker 2: what do you want this particular celebration or holiday to mean?
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  Speaker 2: What is it about, really? Is it about you?
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  Speaker 4: Giving back to others.
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  Speaker 2: Then maybe you volunteer at a food bank with your
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  Speaker 2: family this October. Is it about finding the light in
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  Speaker 2: the darkness? You could go on a hike with your
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  Speaker 2: people on the day of the winter solstice. Or you
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  Speaker 2: could invite friends over for a gorgeous candlelit dinner with
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  Speaker 2: light as a theme. You could bake cookies in the
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  Speaker 2: shape of stars or serve foods that offer a pop
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  Speaker 2: of flavor, like a salad with citrus or duck with
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  Speaker 2: cranberry sauce. I like to create holidays in times of
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  Speaker 2: the year that can feel slow. So last January, I
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  Speaker 2: hosted a domovik gathering at my apartment. I'm Polish on
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  Speaker 2: my mom's side. And in Slavic folklore, the domovik is
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  Speaker 2: a mythical gnome or house sprite who lives behind your
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  Speaker 2: hearth and takes care of your home while you sleep.
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  Speaker 2: So I ordered a little domovik figurine online, cooked traditional
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  Speaker 2: Polish food like pierogies and pickled beets, lit some candles,
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  Speaker 2: and then my friends and I offered crumbs and coins
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  Speaker 2: to the domovik. asked him to protect the house, and
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  Speaker 2: talked about a memory that reminded us of home. For me,
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  Speaker 2: what was driving the gathering was the importance of home
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  Speaker 2: as a sacred space and also my desire to invite
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  Speaker 2: my friends into it. Samin Nosrat is a chef and
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  Speaker 2: the author of the cookbooks Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and
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  Speaker 2: Good Things. And one of her tips is to gather
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  Speaker 2: for a meal routinely with your community, say every Monday
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  Speaker 2: night or every first Sunday of the month. And she
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  Speaker 2: says you want to do this differently than a regular
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  Speaker 2: dinner party. You want it to be communal and also
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  Speaker 2: sacred in a way.
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  Speaker 14: I think by breaking it up so it's not a
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  Speaker 14: thing that's all on your own shoulders and it's a
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  Speaker 14: shared effort, but also I think by making it a
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  Speaker 14: regular effort and ritualizing it, that's probably step one of
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  Speaker 14: making it holy. There's community buy-in.
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  Speaker 2: Some other tips that she offers are Choose one location
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  Speaker 2: and stick to it. And make sure there are enough
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  Speaker 2: chairs for everyone to sit and eat at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Because this gathering is supposed to be about the people.
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  Speaker 2: It is not about one person sweating in the kitchen
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  Speaker 2: to make a perfect experience for everybody else. After the break,
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  Speaker 2: we set aside some time to reflect.
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  Speaker 9: This message comes from RULA. World Mental Health Day takes
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  Speaker 9: place in October, making it a great time to take
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  Speaker 9: that next step in getting support if you need it.
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  Speaker 9: RULA makes accessing quality mental health care affordable with sessions
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  Speaker 9: costing an average of $ 15 with insurance. So turn off
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  Speaker 9: the talk track that's keeping you from progress and head
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  Speaker 9: to RULA.com. That's R-U-L-A.com to find a therapist the easy way.
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  Speaker 8: decade ago while reporting in Syria. And for years, we've
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  Speaker 8: been searching for him.
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  Speaker 12: This looks like a secret passage.
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  Speaker 14: I'm just pushing the door so.
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  Speaker 11: You can get in.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that's great about the fact that it's getting
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  Speaker 2: darker earlier or that it's staying overcast all day is
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  Speaker 2: that it gives you permission in a way to say
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  Speaker 2: no to some stuff and to be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a hermit, even for a day, to go inward.
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  Speaker 2: Takeaway five, reflect. Spend some time alone and think about
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  Speaker 2: what you want in your life. Graphic novelist Nicole J.
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  Speaker 2: Georges says alone time helps her to be more creative
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  Speaker 2: and to listen to her own voice.
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  Speaker 15: Because for me, I'm so.
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  Speaker 15: Codependent that if other people are around me I will
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  Speaker 15: have a hard time figuring out what I feel and
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  Speaker 15: what I want because I will be trying to respond
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  Speaker 15: to the needs of the people around me and so
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  Speaker 15: it's really important for me to take some time alone
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  Speaker 15: so whether that's a little walk by yourself even like
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  Speaker 15: a 20 minute walk by yourself whether that's journaling or
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  Speaker 15: just drawing by yourself for 20 minutes or an hour
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  Speaker 15: or meditating like those are the times when I'm away
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  Speaker 15: from people for a little bit helps me kind of
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  Speaker 15: fill up my cup and figure out what I actually.
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  Speaker 2: Want Maybe you want to get back into drawing or
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing your woodworking project.
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  Speaker 15: I mean, the point of it is to actually have
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  Speaker 15: a little spaciousness so that you can get new ideas.
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  Speaker 15: Getting other people's narratives out of your head so you
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  Speaker 15: have space for your own narrative. And so you can
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  Speaker 15: check in with yourself and be present in your own life.
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  Speaker 2: Writing is a go-to way to reflect. But, of course,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you're staring at a blank page with no idea
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  Speaker 2: what to say. So here's one prompt. Write a thank
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  Speaker 2: you letter to someone.
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  Speaker 16: In your life.
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  Speaker 17: Somebody that you have not had the chance to thank.
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  Speaker 17: It can be the past year, it can be the
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  Speaker 17: past 10 years.
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  Speaker 11: Of your life.
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  Speaker 17: Just think, why are you grateful for that person? Maybe
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  Speaker 17: a specific instance that they helped you. And either send
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  Speaker 17: them a letter, send them an email, or even better,
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  Speaker 17: deliver it in person and read it to them. That
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  Speaker 17: sort of shows the most significant effect.
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  Speaker 2: This is psychologist Christina Costa. She says gratitude can improve
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  Speaker 2: your mental and physical health. It's associated with greater happiness,
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  Speaker 2: and it can decrease our levels of stress hormones. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not sure who to thank.
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  Speaker 8: Think of a teacher.
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  Speaker 17: I was a teacher, so I always, that's my first two,
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  Speaker 17: is like, think of a teacher, K-12, that you haven't
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  Speaker 17: talked to. But really, it could be anyone, and that's
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  Speaker 17: going to give you a big boost.
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  Speaker 2: Another way to reflect is to keep a simple journal.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Rashonda James, a licensed therapist and a big advocate
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  Speaker 2: for journaling.
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  Speaker 13: You know, if you're a person who is kind of
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  Speaker 13: scatterbrained and finds themselves overwhelmed a lot, a journal can
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  Speaker 13: be a place for you to kind of keep your
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  Speaker 13: thoughts and organize them. If you're a person who is like,
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  Speaker 13: I need to write down this goal, I need to
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  Speaker 13: write down the steps to be able to get to
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  Speaker 13: this goal, journaling can be a great way because you
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  Speaker 13: can kind of follow your process, follow your thoughts, follow
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  Speaker 13: your actions.
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  Speaker 2: Another idea, take this moment to dream about your future.
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  Speaker 2: Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist teacher. He says to start,
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  Speaker 2: you want to suspend any doubts you have about what's
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  Speaker 2: feasible or possible and let yourself imagine.
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  Speaker 6: What is my ultimate, complete, golden scenario vision for the future?
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  Speaker 2: Lama Rod used this approach to dream up his most
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  Speaker 2: recent book called The New Saints.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, OK, I'm going to go really big.
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  Speaker 6: For me, my dream was to offer something that could
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  Speaker 6: help people get free from suffering.
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  Speaker 2: From there, he found the space to get going. Lamarad
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  Speaker 2: says he also loves a vision board. And yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: knows that sounds cliche.
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  Speaker 6: However, some people that I deeply respect in this world
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  Speaker 6: are very adamant about a visioning board for the upcoming year.
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  Speaker 6: And so I started doing that and found that to
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  Speaker 6: be really helpful. So instead of just like hoping for
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  Speaker 6: something to happen and having a vague aspiration, get concrete. Like,
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  Speaker 6: this is a time to get concrete about what you
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  Speaker 6: want to see next year, and that makes it much
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  Speaker 6: more likely for results to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Me?
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  Speaker 2: I love a vision board, too. I made a whole
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  Speaker 2: vision journal one winter with pictures and words cut out
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  Speaker 2: from magazines, and I still look back at it and think,
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  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm on the right path. All right,
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  Speaker 2: time for a recap. Takeaway one, transition your space and
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  Speaker 2: your habits. Takeaway two, slow.
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  Speaker 4: Way down.
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  Speaker 2: Takeaway three, bundle up and go outside, even when it's
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  Speaker 2: cold and rainy. I think nature can be beautiful in
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  Speaker 2: the rain, by the way. Takeaway four, look for moments
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate and create your own holidays. And takeaway five, reflect.
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  Speaker 2: Remove yourself from the crowd for a moment so you
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  Speaker 2: can get back in touch with what you want and
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  Speaker 2: what you dream of. All right, that's our show. One
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  Speaker 2: more thing, by the way, before we go. Do you
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  Speaker 2: never miss an episode. This episode of Life Kit was
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  Speaker 2: produced by Claire Marie Schneider. Reporting for the episode includes
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  Speaker 2: work by Shereen Marisol Maragi, Anya Kamenetz, Andy Tegel, Andrew Limbaugh,
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  Speaker 2: and Kyle Norris. Our digital editor is Malika Garib, and
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  Speaker 2: our visuals editor is CJ Rikalan. Megan Cain is our
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  Speaker 2: senior supervising editor, and Lauren Gonzalez is our executive producer.
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  Speaker 2: Our production team also includes Margaret Serino and Sylvie Douglas.
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  Speaker 2: Engineering support comes from Simon Laszlo Jansen. I'm Mariel Segarra.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. And happy fall.
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  Speaker 14: Happy spooky season.
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  Speaker 2: So spooky.
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  Speaker 16: So spooky. Before Bernie Sanders or AOC, a man named
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  Speaker 16: Michael Harrington tried to market socialism to the American public.
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  Speaker 5: Tens of millions of Americans are poor, miserable, in body
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  Speaker 5: and in spirit.
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  Speaker 16: On NPR's ThruLine, how the founder of the DSA created
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  Speaker 16: a modern political movement. Listen to ThruLine in the NPR
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  Speaker 16: app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 18: This fall, there are a lot of movies and TV
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  Speaker 18: shows on tap for you to see. And we're as
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  Speaker 18: excited for all of it to arrive as you are.
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  Speaker 18: On Pop Culture Happy Hour, we've got a guide to
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  Speaker 18: what's worth keeping on your radar. Listen via the NPR
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  Speaker 18: app or wherever you get your podcasts.