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Season 4 - Episode 107 - Coconut Curry Soup · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happened to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to. Record a podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some. Joy into the world, so welcome
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  to the coop. And let's start your day off in
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  a fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. OK, Today we're talking about
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  your love of finding something that gives you comfort.
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  So reason I'm bringing this up is obviously I've sounded very
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  rough for the past couple days. Didn't don't know if it's
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  allergies with all the pollen, don't know if I've got
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  something. My husband was sick last week.
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  So I'm not sure, you know, what could it be?
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  What could it be? So, but I felt like physically I
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  have mostly felt fine other than the fact that I have this like
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  cement in my head. And then it started to like wear
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  on me and I started to notice I was observing myself starting to
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  think about comfort foods and things that made me feel
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  comfortable. I have a sweatshirt that I
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  particularly like this sweatshirt when I, I will use
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  the word I want to feel cozy. And I put this sweatshirt on,
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  you know, it's more of a winter sweatshirt than a spring
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  sweatshirt, but I wasn't getting hot in it.
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  Interesting, right? But I was being drawn to it and
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  I first I was like, oh, I want to put that Magnolia sweatshirt
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  on. And then I was like, interesting
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  that I want to put that on. Then I started to recognize that
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  I was craving tea all the time. Now that was something that when
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  I was sick when I was a kid, my mother always made me tea and I
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  would drink tea. And another interesting comfort
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  thing showing up. And I would always have to have
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  like a certain lineup of things when I wasn't well, when I was a
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  kid. My mother was excellent at
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  taking care of when you're sick. She was like, all on it.
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  She'd make you this cozy spot on the couch with all your A sheet
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  and blankets. And she'd put the Kleenex box
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  next to you and have, you know, saltine crackers.
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  That was an important part of the whole little thing, a plate
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  of saltine crackers if you wanted them.
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  And always, always, always with a pot of tea that you could feel
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  good. So I started noticing that I was
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  gravitating towards those things.
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  And I don't have saltine crackers because I don't eat
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  them anymore. But I had another type of
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  cracker and I was finding myself eating this.
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  And I over the last 72 hours, I was noticing I was like,
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  interesting. I haven't said I was sick
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  because I don't like to do that. I have, I've isolated myself
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  from people so that I don't get anybody else.
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  But I noticed I was really moving unconsciously, very
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  unconsciously towards comfort things.
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  And it got me thinking about how often we do this without even
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  paying attention to it. Like, it just kind of gravitates
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  to us. And before you know it, here you
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  are doing something that brings you comfort and you, you
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  sometimes have to question it. So the final straw, if you will,
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  was yesterday afternoon. There's a place that makes the
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  best Curry, coconut Curry soup that you could ever imagine,
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  this little Thai restaurant. I absolutely love this soup.
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  And I know it's a comfort thing for me.
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  And I had to go out and do a couple errands and my husband
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  was with me and I said, hey, do you feel like having Thai food?
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  And he started laughing because he knew I was going to ask for
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  this coconut Curry soup. And he's like, it's 2:00.
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  And I was like, I know, but are you hungry?
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  Like, it's we missed lunch, but, you know, it's too early for
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  dinner, but we could. And he's like, let's just get
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  you soup. And as soon as he said the word
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  soup, I was like, all right, I have to admit it.
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  I'm really moved into this. I must have a little something
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  that I have to deal with here. And he's like, yeah, you think?
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  And as soon as I started thinking I wanted the soup, I
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  was so excited to have the soup. But there's one little thing
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  about this soup. Whenever I have it the next day,
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  I always feel very puffy because of course I'm getting soup that
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  no doubt has higher sodium or something in it that causes you
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  to have that inflammation. But I also know that as soon as
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  I eat it, I'm going to feel so different.
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  Like as soon as it goes into my body, I start to feel so much
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  better. So now I have this trade off in
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  my head. Do I want the soup?
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  Do I not want the soup? Do I want the soup?
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  Do I not want the soup? And he's he knows this is going
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  on and he's like, well, you have 15 minutes while we're driving
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  down the highway before we get to the exit to decide.
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  And I was like, OK, so I'm sitting there and screw it, I'm
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  having the soup. So I get the soup, I eat it.
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  I'm so, I feel so cozy. I feel so good.
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  I didn't have a client's all afternoon so I could actually
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  lay down, came in the house, ate the soup and laid down and just
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  went right to sleep. And I felt so much better when I
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  did that. But guess what happened today?
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  I woke up and of course I was all puffy and I and I started
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  laughing and I was like, well, you knew it was going to happen.
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  And as irritated as you are that it did happen, you knew it was
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  going to happen and you did it anyway.
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  So the reason I'm telling you all this is sometimes you have
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  to ask yourself, is the trade off worth it?
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  And yesterday's trade off was worth today's puffiness.
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  And, but sometimes it's not worth it.
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  Sometimes I'll be like, Nope, it's not worth it.
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  You know that. That's the reason why I don't
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  drink alcohol anymore. It's just not worth it.
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  I don't like the way I feel after I drink.
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  And you know what, no more alcohol.
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  That's it done. So this is one of those things
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  where you have to check in and say, is it worth it?
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  Is it going to be worth the outcome?
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  And for me yesterday it was. But it's just a point of
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  something to think about and consider in your own world,
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  because I know this shows up constantly across the board in
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  many areas. All right my friends, I hope you
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  have a blessed day and hopefully tomorrow my voice is going to
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  sound better. I will see you then, Bye.