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Season 2 - Episode 340 - Lessons from Dottie · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop, along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So this morning I want to talk
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  to you about Dottie. As you know, Dottie is.
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  One of my favorite chickens. If you're a regular listener,
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  yes, I do have favorites. And I'm not going to lie and say
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  I don't. Because humans, we have
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  favorites of things. We have favorite socks.
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  We have favorite spoons, for crying out loud mugs.
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  How many of us have a favorite mug?
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  Well, guess what? Kim has favorite chickens too.
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  And I can't help that. There are just some that have a
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  personality more than others and Dottie happens to be one of
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  them. So little Dottie has gone
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  through a major, major purge of her feathers and when this
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  process takes place, molting, it's called when molting takes
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  place. It is just like every single bit
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  comes off of them and it's usually they don't look quite so
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  naked. But Dottie went through a major
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  one it it was like she just decided to go right down to her
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  skin and say OK, let's just start over now.
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  The reason that this happens is basically because of the quality
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  of feathers that they need to have.
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  Feathers, who knew? Just they wear out.
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  Their ability to keep them warm, cool, to help them regulate
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  their body doesn't last the whole life of the chicken with
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  one feather. That's why they constantly lose
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  them. Like we lose hair, they lose
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  feathers, but our hair doesn't have the same properties that
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  the feathers do to protect us and their feathers are a big,
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  big, huge protector. So unfortunately, Dottie loses
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  most of her feathers all at the same time, and this also causes
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  them to feel very vulnerable and scared in the world.
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  Because now Dottie, who is at the top of the pecking order in
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  the coop, now feels like she's very weak because she's not big
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  looking. She doesn't have her same
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  stamina, so she pushes off to the side.
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  She's been sleeping by herself. She normally sleeps right with
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  the rooster, but she's been sleeping by herself.
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  You almost think that they're sick and their body is just
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  going through a massive transformation.
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  So why am I talking to you about this?
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  Because here's the funny part about this.
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  This is exactly what humans do. They go through something, They
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  pull back, they contract, they separate themselves, They go
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  into these emotional cocoons, physical cocoons, and and we
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  wonder, like, you know, is this normal?
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  Well, it's normal all throughout nature.
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  It's, it is completely and totally normal, acceptable.
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  And you have to expect it to happen to you at some point in
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  time. That is the beautiful part of
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  recognizing that. It's part of nature.
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  We are 100% part of that nature. I saw a little picture the other
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  day on one of the science pages that I follow and they cut this
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  circle in half and half of it was filled with the rings of a
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  tree, like a cross cut of a tree where you can see the rings and
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  count how many years the tree is old.
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  Well, if they split it with a thumbprint of a human, and it
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  was so strange how close it looked, it actually brought
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  tears to my eyes because it really shows you that we are
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  part of nature and nature is part of us.
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  And you don't think about these things because you're human and
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  you're stuck in your everyday world and you're doing dishes
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  and going to work and taking care of kids and people and
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  projects and everything else, and you don't think about these
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  things. But we are part of nature.
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  So when I noticed that Dottie was having all of this and I
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  felt such compassion for her. And of course, what do we what
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  do you do for them? Well, there's not a lot
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  theoretically if you read about it, that you can do but
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  supplements? And for me it's always about
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  diet, diet, diet. So I started pumping her with
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  coconut oil. I went and bought her fresh live
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  crickets and within the matter of 10 days she looks like a new
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  woman. All of her feathers are
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  completely back, not grown out all the way, but she at least is
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  covered in feathers again. And this morning she's already
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  out the gate and she is in the lawn and she's looking for
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  whatever they do every morning. Worms, bugs, I don't know, they
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  go spend all day digging. So she's already gone.
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  And the good news is she's out and about again, because she
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  wasn't doing that, but it took some self-care and it took that
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  contraction and recognizing, hey, this is the spot she's in,
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  help her out. And we have to do that for
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  ourselves. So when you get to those spots,
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  instead of being mad, instead of being frustrated with yourself,
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  just give yourself the break. Let yourself feel that way.
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  You don't have to stay that way for a long time.
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  But take care of yourself. Do the things so that you can
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  have that moment where your new feathers come in and you feel
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  like, damn, now I can go fly. Now I feel good and you can see
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  it in her face that that's where she is now.
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  Now she feels good. Her flight feathers are coming
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  back in. She feels like, OK, I've got
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  some protection again. I can go out there.
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  Take care of yourself that way. Learn the lesson from Dottie.
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  When you have to get rid of everything in order to feel
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  better, you do it. But then you realize, OK, now
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  I've got to contract. I've got to take care of myself
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  a little bit and then I can go right back out there.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.