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Mental Wellness Series Moving from Stress to Serenity · Wellness Uncensored

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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, and welcome to another episode of Wellness
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Speaker 2: and Censored. My name is doctor Patty g and I'm
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Speaker 2: here today to offer you some tips and ideas and
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Speaker 2: hopefully a toolkit of information that will help you to refocus, reframe,
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Speaker 2: and help to get your life in maybe a calmer,
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Speaker 2: better perspective as we go into twenty twenty six. So
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Speaker 2: let's kind of kick it off without further do. We're
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: That we do have on there anything wellness really, if
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Speaker 2: you haven't tuned in before, I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner
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Speaker 2: and I've spent nearly four decades working to help people
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Speaker 2: be their best self. And I've done that through a
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Speaker 2: combination of just mental wellness, physical fitness, nutrition, and a
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Speaker 2: variety of things. Actually, But with those decades of just
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Speaker 2: working with people and the experiences that I've had, I
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Speaker 2: just think this time of day in the community and
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Speaker 2: where we live, more folks now than ever just either
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Speaker 2: don't know where to go for help, don't know how
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Speaker 2: to get the help, or have found maybe help that
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Speaker 2: is just more than you can manage. You know, we
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Speaker 2: do a lot with medications, and there are other alternatives,
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Speaker 2: and really the most important thing that you can focus
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Speaker 2: on is your wellness in ways that really works for you.
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Speaker 2: So you can be consistent and in all of the
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Speaker 2: things we're going to talk about today. You know, consistency
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Speaker 2: really is the key. But the good thing is if
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Speaker 2: you're not consistent and say you mess up, whether it's diet, exercise, nutrition,
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Speaker 2: or whatever it might be, there's tomorrow and so tomorrow
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Speaker 2: you can just do better. And so try not to
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Speaker 2: take yourself too seriously and just know that there are
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Speaker 2: things that you can do that if you mess up,
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Speaker 2: you know, the world's not going to fall apart. You're
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Speaker 2: not causing harm to anyone or even yourself, but just reboot.
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that I've I've shared with
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Speaker 2: folks a lot of times. I think it was one
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Speaker 2: of the motivational speakers I heard. If you're going to
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Speaker 2: start a routine and you do really well the first
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Speaker 2: couple of days and then you start to have that
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Speaker 2: wax and wing, never let yourself stop today, meaning if
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Speaker 2: it's five o'clock and you've got your gym bag in
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Speaker 2: the back, of your car, don't not go to the gym.
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Speaker 2: Just tell yourself, I know I'm tired, I know I've
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Speaker 2: got a lot of things to do, but tomorrow I'll
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Speaker 2: give myself the day off. Do not do it today,
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Speaker 2: and what you'll find is that you will drive a
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Speaker 2: little more consistency and you'll be more successful. And try
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Speaker 2: to do that with a lot of things. You know,
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Speaker 2: maybe you're about to have a giant piece of cheesecake,
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Speaker 2: maybe you're about to have a really unhealthy meal. Before
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Speaker 2: you order it and dive into those indulgences. It's a practice.
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Speaker 2: It's a way of developing consistency and to teach your help,
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Speaker 2: teach yourself a little self control. It's hard, you know,
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Speaker 2: we all give in. I'm a recovering ice cream person
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Speaker 2: that I used to have half a gallon a day
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Speaker 2: and I justified it, but I learned, you know, it
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Speaker 2: wasn't really doing me any good and I wasn't getting
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Speaker 2: the results that I wanted. So you know, it took
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Speaker 2: more than a minute to get good at it. But
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Speaker 2: I can't even tell you the last time I've had
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Speaker 2: ice cream. And you know what, I'm not depriving myself.
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Speaker 2: I just don't even think about it anymore. But I
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Speaker 2: do have other weaknesses. You know. Mac and cheese is
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Speaker 2: one of my biggest weaknesses, and I haven't had any
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Speaker 2: for about a month, and I'm going to have some tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: But again, these are just kind of silly, soft examples.
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Speaker 2: But let's talk a little bit about how to declutter
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Speaker 2: your life, how to reduce stress, and just a couple
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Speaker 2: of examples. And this is the last in our series
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Speaker 2: for January of kind of setting yourself forward for twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six. But in doing so, there's lots of tips
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Speaker 2: and tidbits that if you're either writing them down, which
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Speaker 2: this is a perfect way to get started in the habit.
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Speaker 2: How many times do I talk about journaling.
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Speaker 3: You should get a.
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Speaker 2: Journal if you haven't already, and start to use your
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Speaker 2: journal as a way of jotting things down when you
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Speaker 2: hear a really good podcast and making notes, and then
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Speaker 2: continue on the rest of your journal or in the
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Speaker 2: second half of your journal to jot down your thoughts
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Speaker 2: and feelings, because those thoughts and feelings, as you pull
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Speaker 2: them out of your head and write them on paper,
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Speaker 2: can really become a good way for you drive consistency
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Speaker 2: and declutter in your brain. But with decluttering and reducing stress,
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Speaker 2: there's just a couple things we're going to talk about.
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Speaker 2: First of all, how many of us are over committed.
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Speaker 2: Think about your day, think about your week. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I have to weave in some psychiatry here too, But
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Speaker 2: you know, I have people that come to me often
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Speaker 2: I need to be on a stimulant because I just
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Speaker 2: I'm tired and i can't keep up, and I've got
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Speaker 2: a really busy work schedule, and I've got a lot
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Speaker 2: of demands, and I've got kids, and I've got social activities,
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Speaker 2: and I've got to get the kids to practice or cheerleading.
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Speaker 2: I don't think we need a stimulant if you're thirty five,
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Speaker 2: forty five, fifty. We don't develop attention deficit that late
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Speaker 2: in life. And so unless you're among the ranks that
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Speaker 2: really was struggling and diagnosed, less than four percent of
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Speaker 2: the population of adults truly have unresolved attention deficit. In fact,
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Speaker 2: most attention deficit in childhood all the way up through
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Speaker 2: adult years tends to resolve. Well that's not everybody, but
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Speaker 2: it tends to resolve because your brain grows, you develop
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Speaker 2: the brain the brain develops till age twenty five. The
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Speaker 2: chances are you could be my number one over committed.
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Speaker 2: How much can you fit in the day. So if
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Speaker 2: you decrease your commitments, you know, here's an example for
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Speaker 2: your journal. Make a list, or at least make a
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Speaker 2: note to make a list when you get home. Make
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Speaker 2: a list of all your commitments. Look at your calendar.
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Speaker 2: Maybe your calendar will speak to all those commitments. Make
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Speaker 2: a list and see how many things you're committed to
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Speaker 2: outside of the things you have to do. Identify a
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Speaker 2: few that you really love or that you have to
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Speaker 2: get done, and start checking off and getting rid of.
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Speaker 2: Maybe some of the things that you just do not
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Speaker 2: have to do. Commitments become things that we think we
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Speaker 2: have to do, but do you really have to do it?
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Speaker 1: All?
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Speaker 2: Right? The second thing, think about what your routine is, like,
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Speaker 2: what's your daily routine. I've tried this myself and I've
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Speaker 2: actually taken i think the last two weekends and I've
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Speaker 2: started my Saturdays and Sundays with absolutely nothing that I
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Speaker 2: have to do. And while it was hard to do,
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Speaker 2: it was very relaxing. It helped me to really reset
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Speaker 2: my mind because I can always be busy, but there's
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Speaker 2: things that are in our life that we just feel
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Speaker 2: we have to do and we just don't have to.
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Speaker 2: Try to put some of your tasks of things that
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Speaker 2: are in your routine together and maybe one day you
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Speaker 2: look at your day and you think about all those
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Speaker 2: things and put some things together. Maybe when you're cleaning,
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Speaker 2: you have the laundry going, you've got the dishwasher going,
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Speaker 2: and you vacuum. That's like clustering some of your tasks.
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Speaker 2: It's tough when you do laundry every night, or it's
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Speaker 2: tough when you do laundry one day and then you
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Speaker 2: got to vacuum the next day. But that's just an example.
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Speaker 2: Maybe there's other things you can cluster. Maybe you take
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Speaker 2: Sundays to do your food shopping, you go to home depot,
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Speaker 2: you come home and you take care of the yard,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. Try to cluster those things on one day. Now,
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Speaker 2: that may take up your free time, so we want
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Speaker 2: to be sure that we balance our free times. That's
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Speaker 2: not exactly what we're talking about, but try to cluster
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Speaker 2: some things together so you can give yourself some more
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Speaker 2: free time. Like maybe you do those things on Sunday afternoon,
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Speaker 2: but Saturday mornings, you don't have to do anything more
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Speaker 2: than go, take a walk, get a cup of coffee,
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Speaker 2: call a friend, meet somebody for coffee or breakfast. Try
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Speaker 2: to find a time where you can really decompress. When
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Speaker 2: you do this and you look at all your daily stuff,
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Speaker 2: your chores, your tasks, some of your obligations, write them
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Speaker 2: down as well, and the non negotiables, the things that
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Speaker 2: you have to do, you know, maybe you can take
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Speaker 2: a few things off your plate. This is really looking
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Speaker 2: at your schedule and organizing it and the things that
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Speaker 2: we get attached to that we start finding we get
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Speaker 2: really busy, don't we. I know, I get busier than
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Speaker 2: I need to. Just finding that you use a daily routine,
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Speaker 2: and maybe a morning routine, even a nighttime routine. This
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Speaker 2: is about mindfulness. In the morning, can you take five
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Speaker 2: or ten minutes before you get started in your day
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Speaker 2: and breathe, look at something relaxing, peaceful or pleasant, Maybe
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Speaker 2: say a prayer, or maybe thank God for all the
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Speaker 2: things that are going well those kinds of things. Do
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Speaker 2: that in the morning. In the evening, you hadn't done
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Speaker 2: it in the morning, shift to the evening. In the evening,
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Speaker 2: a lot of times. I recommend to people, do you
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Speaker 2: really set yourself with a nighttime routine or do you
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Speaker 2: just go until you can't go anymore and you're about
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Speaker 2: to fall over and you fall into bed and then
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Speaker 2: you just hopefully go to sleep. But sometimes people fall
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Speaker 2: over and they get into bed and then they have
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Speaker 2: eyes wide open. So try to set a nighttime routine
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Speaker 2: where you use some lavender on your pillow. You've got
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Speaker 2: some sounds in the room. You might like rain sounds,
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Speaker 2: you might like white noise. You haven't listened to megahertz sounds,
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Speaker 2: some of the relaxing harm sounds, or even classical music
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Speaker 2: at a very low level, turn it on.
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Speaker 3: Try it.
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Speaker 2: And also if you can set a timer, because I've
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Speaker 2: had people try this technique and they say, well, but
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Speaker 2: I keep waking up at night. Okay, well there's a
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Speaker 2: point of maybe you fall asleep with it. But if
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Speaker 2: you don't set a timer or it doesn't shut itself off,
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Speaker 2: it's quite possible at some point of your sleep cycle
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Speaker 2: it may actually wake you up. But try some gentle
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Speaker 2: things to relax your night. So try to have a
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Speaker 2: morning routine of five or ten minutes, a nighttime routine
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Speaker 2: as you go to bed to really turn your brain
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Speaker 2: off and down. None of this stuff costs money. None
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Speaker 2: of this is medication. And then here's a tough one.
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Speaker 2: Can you declutter your friendships, your social obligations? When you
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Speaker 2: grow up and you have a big circle of people
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Speaker 2: in your life and you continue on and you find
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Speaker 2: people in your life, maybe there's some things in your
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Speaker 2: friendships and relationships that are not maybe the most positive.
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Speaker 3: Some of them could even be toxic.
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Speaker 2: I won't give you an example because it's really very individual,
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Speaker 2: but just do like a mental check right now. Are
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Speaker 2: there people or relationships that you get involved with then
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Speaker 2: on a day to day basis, you find when you
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Speaker 2: pick up the phone or you get a text message,
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Speaker 2: it can be a little startling or even triggering. Maybe
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Speaker 2: there's times that you get together with these folks and
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Speaker 2: you leave and you feel like I would have been
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Speaker 2: better off just staying home today. I didn't need to
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Speaker 2: hear that. I'm not saying cut people out of your life,
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Speaker 2: but I am saying declutter. And maybe you put some
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Speaker 2: distance between those types of relationships or friendships that maybe
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Speaker 2: you feel like you've always got to keep up. Maybe
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Speaker 2: you feel like you've always got to justify yourself. Maybe
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Speaker 2: they make you feel bad. When you declutter the friendships
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Speaker 2: and relationships, then you're only keeping people with or around
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Speaker 2: you that make you feel value and make you feel good.
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Speaker 2: None of you need to feel bad because you all
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Speaker 2: have great things that you are and that you do.
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Speaker 2: So clean out the clutter of friendships relationships that are
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Speaker 2: not positively enhancing you. Every now and then, you should
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Speaker 2: take a look at your phone and if the phone
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Speaker 2: numbers really aren't important.
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Speaker 3: Anymore, clean it up.
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Speaker 2: It just ties up space and your memory and your phone.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we all end up paying the price
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Speaker 2: for our phone being over overused and overworked. So think
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Speaker 2: about decluttering other areas. What about your desk, what about
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Speaker 2: your home? Let's declutter some of those things. I took
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Speaker 2: the opportunity a couple of weeks ago, and because I'd
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Speaker 2: been so busy between school and podcast work seeing patients,
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Speaker 2: I really wanted to dive in and clean out some clutter.
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Speaker 2: So I went into my closet. Must have gotten rid
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Speaker 2: of three bags of clothes, a bag of shoes, and
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Speaker 2: then I went in and I came into my work area,
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Speaker 2: and I have had files on files and papers and
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Speaker 2: if I told you some of the things that I saved.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I thought, oh, over time, I might
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Speaker 2: need that one day. And although I had decluttered it before,
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Speaker 2: I really took a lot of time to declutter, and
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Speaker 2: I must have got rid of two or three bags
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Speaker 2: full of just stuff.
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Speaker 3: It was taking up space.
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Speaker 2: Like our house, like our places where we live, like
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Speaker 2: our rooms, like our closets, like our filing cabinets. We
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Speaker 2: have to declutter, and we also have to declutter our brain.
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Speaker 2: So today you get a tip and tidbit to create
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Speaker 2: more serenity in your life my decluttering. As you go
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Speaker 2: forward into twenty twenty six, go forward in your desk
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Speaker 2: and start looking at some stuff. Look at how you file,
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Speaker 2: look at what you file. Look how long you've saved things.
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Speaker 2: Maybe there's some things that you need to label.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you just need.
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Speaker 2: To get rid of it.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: This is one I struggle with. And this is another thing.
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Speaker 2: Maybe this is a safer space for some of you
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Speaker 2: younger folks and techy people. But I often have tons
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Speaker 2: of files in my computer that I start out with
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Speaker 2: the right intention of labeling them, but then I never
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Speaker 2: remember what I label them, so I never know where
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Speaker 2: to find them because there's some somewhere on the list,
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Speaker 2: and I got really good at one point and I
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Speaker 2: started making files. But between some of the files and
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Speaker 2: some of the stuff that I've saved, I need to
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Speaker 2: put those things into a file so I know how
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Speaker 2: to cluster them together. That's the part of clustering that
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Speaker 2: you need to do in your brain, in your house,
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Speaker 2: and your computer, in your personal life, friendships and relationships.
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Speaker 2: And when you start to declutter, wait, you see how
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Speaker 2: much calmer and better you feel. And again, none of
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Speaker 2: this cost money. It does cost a little bit of time,
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Speaker 2: and when you take the time, you've got to really
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Speaker 2: make some time to kind of dig into it. And that's,
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of what we're talking about today. But
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Speaker 2: your computer is another good place to start with decluttering.
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Speaker 2: And seeing that I had to get a new laptop
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Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago because mine burned up because I.
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Speaker 3: Just don't have good luck with them.
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Speaker 2: I'm in the process of sort of rebuilding, and so
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Speaker 2: it's a good time for me to start doing some
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Speaker 2: of those things as I as I transition. What about information?
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Speaker 2: What about social media? What about all those things that
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Speaker 2: we feast our eyes and then we lose how much
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Speaker 2: time do you lose scrolling? I've learned to limit my
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Speaker 2: time on the phone. I've learned to limit my time
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Speaker 2: on some social media. I found some good use of
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Speaker 2: time on social media to share some of these tips.
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Speaker 2: We do some stuff on our x spaces, but how
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Speaker 2: about we limit our time and you know, you get
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Speaker 2: those feeds on your I'm not sure what they call it,
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Speaker 2: but it kind of fills up in your cookies, and
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Speaker 2: then your feeds start to get full of sending you
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Speaker 2: events and sending you updates from different social media outlets.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you need to clean some of that up too.
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Speaker 2: Today's not the day that we're going to focus too
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Speaker 2: much on the world outside of your personal circle. But
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Speaker 2: that's another area of stress. You know, while it's important
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Speaker 2: to stay informed, I also have patients that really struggle
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Speaker 2: with some of the events that can become very scary,
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Speaker 2: very polar rising. And I don't want you to put
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Speaker 2: your head in the sand, and I don't want you
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Speaker 2: to not speak up for yourself, but let's try to
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Speaker 2: limit some of the exposure. Because there is a lot
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Speaker 2: that we cannot control. Let's just focus on what we
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Speaker 2: can control, and that's you, one of our folks. Has
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Speaker 2: called in, and I guess one of the questions is,
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Speaker 2: you know they have a problem getting rid of the
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Speaker 2: right things, never know to what, never know what to
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Speaker 2: let go of?
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Speaker 3: And how many of you struggle with that?
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Speaker 2: I do too. Like I said, I would tell you
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Speaker 2: I have stuff for when I had my first nursing job,
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Speaker 2: working in the operating room, and the training manual of
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Speaker 2: all the things I learned in the operating room. Why
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Speaker 2: I thought that I would need that many decades later,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I even thought, well, maybe it'll be
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Speaker 2: neat for people to look at. Who else wants to
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Speaker 2: look at that? You know, maybe there's somebody out there.
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Speaker 2: But quite honestly, I've learned that was purged a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago. So how do you know what to
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Speaker 2: get rid of? Here's here's some general rules of thumb.
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Speaker 2: They always say, if you haven't worn an outfit in
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Speaker 2: a year, get rid of it. Shoes, same thing. If
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Speaker 2: you have stuff sitting in your file folders. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not the expert here, but you can ask your accountant,
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Speaker 2: you can ask some people that maybe you do business with. Generally,
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Speaker 2: if you hold onto files for no longer than seven
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Speaker 2: years after seven years. It's usually safe to get rid
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Speaker 2: of if you've got things in your pantry or you've
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Speaker 2: got things in your closet. You know, check the expiration dates.
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Speaker 2: But chances are again if you haven't used it in
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Speaker 2: six months or a year. I usually go for a year,
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Speaker 2: but I promise you I found things that I had
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Speaker 2: for many years and I had to clean them those
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Speaker 2: out too, And start small. That's the other thing. Start
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Speaker 2: small with things that are safe. Like maybe you don't
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Speaker 2: want to totally destroy your whole closet or pantry or
18:54
Speaker 2: filing cabinet, but get rid of a few things, and
18:57
Speaker 2: then orderly or once a year, go back and get
19:01
Speaker 2: a little more aggressive. You know, I'm not suggesting you
19:04
Speaker 2: jump everything. And then you have to spend money to
19:06
Speaker 2: buy things. When you said, oh I lost that black shirt,
19:09
Speaker 2: why did I get rid of it? Maybe you haven't
19:11
Speaker 2: worn it in six months, but now it's really cold
19:13
Speaker 2: out and you're wishing you had it. So use use
19:17
Speaker 2: a year, and for important papers and documents, you know,
19:21
Speaker 2: and then what about all of us that save things cards,
19:24
Speaker 2: birthday cards, anniversary cards, pictures. You know, pictures pro sentimental value,
19:30
Speaker 2: so pictures you have to be a little bit more,
19:31
Speaker 2: you know, discreete with or put them on a disc,
19:35
Speaker 2: put them on a what do they call those things?
19:37
Speaker 3: A stick?
19:39
Speaker 2: But for for other things the paper trail? How many
19:42
Speaker 2: of you have saved your kids kindergarten scribble scrabble or there?
19:48
Speaker 2: What do they call that? When they paint finger paint? Folks,
19:52
Speaker 2: that's exactly what it is. It's fingers in paint. I
19:56
Speaker 2: don't know about you, but it's not one of those
19:58
Speaker 2: workshark ink blocks test. The finger painting is lovely, but
20:02
Speaker 2: why is it taken of space in your closet? Maybe
20:05
Speaker 2: if they wrote a poem or they wrote a story,
20:07
Speaker 2: you want to save that, But we don't have to
20:08
Speaker 2: save every picture or everything that they colored that you
20:12
Speaker 2: can find in a coloring book, right like your thirty
20:14
Speaker 2: year old's not going to go, mom, why did you
20:16
Speaker 2: get rid of my my finger paint? When I was
20:18
Speaker 2: in kindergarten? My kids already laugh when I show them things.
20:21
Speaker 2: And my son made a snowman out of a brick.
20:24
Speaker 2: It still sits on my front porch. I think you
20:27
Speaker 2: did it when he was six years old.
20:29
Speaker 3: It's cute. Do I need it?
20:31
Speaker 2: No? But it serves a purpose. But like, let's be
20:34
Speaker 2: a little bit more flutter free. How about the rooms
20:37
Speaker 2: in your house. You know, look around your room. I
20:40
Speaker 2: often used to have like extra things stored in boxes
20:44
Speaker 2: and you know, pretty boxes or pretty baskets. But I
20:47
Speaker 2: cleaned out the baskets, and now it's easier for me
20:49
Speaker 2: to get around certain rooms because I just don't have
20:52
Speaker 2: the little baskets tying up the room. So try to
20:55
Speaker 2: look around your room and start small. You don't have
20:59
Speaker 2: to start with it's like getting rid of furniture or
21:02
Speaker 2: getting rid of things that you've already spent money on
21:05
Speaker 2: to decorate. But try to clean up the rooms a
21:07
Speaker 2: little bit. Get rid of the clutter everything that you keep.
21:10
Speaker 2: Look at your cabinets, look at your drawers, try to
21:13
Speaker 2: look at things that are organized and meat and just
21:16
Speaker 2: try to simplify. I don't know if the book's still
21:19
Speaker 2: out there, but one of the best books I read
21:22
Speaker 2: was Simple Abundance. And I can't even tell you who
21:24
Speaker 2: wrote it, but I read it in the late eighties
21:27
Speaker 2: early nineties, and there was a lot of good tips
21:29
Speaker 2: in there. And I think that's another spot since I
21:31
Speaker 2: really held on to some of those thoughts. I use
21:34
Speaker 2: that term often and I try to remember what's really important.
21:38
Speaker 2: It's simple, you know. It's just like I talk to
21:40
Speaker 2: you guys every week about you know, when you really
21:42
Speaker 2: want to balance yourself out, it's anybody remember sleep, nutrition,
21:47
Speaker 2: and activity or exercise. When you start with that frame
21:50
Speaker 2: of reference to ground, everything else becomes really simple. Yeah,
21:55
Speaker 2: and a good tip. I love that one of our
21:59
Speaker 2: viewers just has done some of the clean out the
22:02
Speaker 2: clutter and she got rid of things that were three
22:04
Speaker 2: years old. I guess we're in our pantry, So thanks
22:08
Speaker 2: for that.
22:08
Speaker 3: Beca. Yeah, I've done that myself.
22:11
Speaker 2: You know, I hate to get rid of a good vitamin,
22:13
Speaker 2: and I've held on to a few that I really
22:15
Speaker 2: I've gotten newer ones, so I'm like, why do you
22:17
Speaker 2: keep the old ones? If you didn't finish the bottle,
22:18
Speaker 2: get rid of it. Always try to be fresh because
22:21
Speaker 2: you know a lot of those things that are in
22:23
Speaker 2: your pantry when they age, let's say beyond six months,
22:28
Speaker 2: and it tells you a shelf life, you really should
22:30
Speaker 2: get rid of them because the chemical consistency changes and
22:32
Speaker 2: you could actually have something that might give you an
22:34
Speaker 2: upset stomach. So clean out the pantries. One of our
22:39
Speaker 2: other viewers. Has I have to get on my family
22:42
Speaker 2: about this stuff all the time.
22:43
Speaker 3: It's the truth.
22:44
Speaker 2: Like, wouldn't it be great if we could all just
22:46
Speaker 2: get on the same page and let's keep things that
22:49
Speaker 2: are just fresh and important in our life and get
22:52
Speaker 2: rid of the things that are just tying up space.
22:56
Speaker 2: I could take this one step further and talk about too,
22:59
Speaker 2: if you are all who's a worrier or an anxious
23:02
Speaker 2: person out there. I just talked to a patient today
23:05
Speaker 2: and she is on six different medications, high doses of
23:11
Speaker 2: sleep medication. And when I ask, well, what is it
23:14
Speaker 2: that you worry about? She worries about her adult sons,
23:18
Speaker 2: if they're going to be okay, what if they die?
23:20
Speaker 2: What if she dies? What if this happens? What are
23:22
Speaker 2: people going to do when I'm gone? There are such
23:26
Speaker 2: real concerns of hers. We have to work on ways
23:29
Speaker 2: to let those thoughts go. And so while you are
23:33
Speaker 2: cleaning out your filing cabinet, cleaning off your desk, cleaning
23:37
Speaker 2: out the clutter, and letting go of maybe relationships that
23:41
Speaker 2: are stressful or not healthy for you, when you get
23:43
Speaker 2: a thought, you have to stop and tell yourself, there
23:47
Speaker 2: I go again. And when you get that thought, you
23:49
Speaker 2: have to distract yourself. Go do something. Go step in
23:52
Speaker 2: a different room, go do something different. And there's lots
23:56
Speaker 2: of things we can do to reorganize, reorganize our life,
23:59
Speaker 2: but sometimes too we have to reorganize our brain. And
24:02
Speaker 2: in reorganizing things, it's time to let go. I've mentioned
24:08
Speaker 2: this book before, but the book by Mel Robbins Let Them.
24:12
Speaker 2: It's a great book, Love to get her on my
24:14
Speaker 2: show one day, but it's very simple. It's a simplified
24:18
Speaker 2: approach to you need to let go of these thoughts
24:21
Speaker 2: that fill your head. Chances are you're worrying about things
24:24
Speaker 2: that you can't control, and you're worrying about things that
24:27
Speaker 2: just really take no purpose in your life. And if
24:30
Speaker 2: you are worried about them, give it a time limit,
24:33
Speaker 2: no more than five minutes. And if it's not something
24:36
Speaker 2: that's going to immediately impact you, let go of it
24:39
Speaker 2: and go do what you're going to do today. And
24:42
Speaker 2: then if you got to work, like worry about the dentist.
24:45
Speaker 2: You could worry all week that you got a dentist
24:46
Speaker 2: appointment on Friday. Why don't you just wait till Friday
24:49
Speaker 2: morning and then be all stressed about it and go
24:51
Speaker 2: into the dentist and see what they can do. But
24:53
Speaker 2: why worry about it all week? You know, there's other things,
24:57
Speaker 2: right we worry. We've got you've got an important meeting
24:59
Speaker 2: coming up. We're going to be meeting somebody tonight. You know,
25:04
Speaker 2: you're doing a presentation. This is why I put people
25:07
Speaker 2: on medication, because they don't know how to use the
25:09
Speaker 2: skills and the tips to calm themselves down. And it's okay,
25:14
Speaker 2: it's okay to use some things to help you calm down.
25:16
Speaker 2: But here's the part that some people don't realize. You
25:20
Speaker 2: can't live on a pill to take care of every
25:22
Speaker 2: problem in your life. The pills, the medications are designed
25:27
Speaker 2: to help give you an advantage of how to relax.
25:30
Speaker 2: They'll help your body relax, but then you have to
25:33
Speaker 2: do the work to change your behavior. Psychiatry is not
25:39
Speaker 2: a discipline of prescribing. It's a discipline of altering your
25:44
Speaker 2: behavior to help your mind. And we do that with
25:48
Speaker 2: many things, medication, nutrition, habits, behavior, changes physical activity to
25:56
Speaker 2: release really good endorphins, emd R therapy, TMS, transcranial magnetic.
26:02
Speaker 3: Therapy, you know, and the list goes.
26:04
Speaker 2: On, and there's some definitely more intensive treatments and therapies.
26:08
Speaker 2: But that's where talk therapy comes into play, because they're
26:12
Speaker 2: trying to teach you each time you come in to talk, well,
26:15
Speaker 2: how are you working through it today? Well, you're doing
26:17
Speaker 2: better than last week, you're doing worse than last week.
26:20
Speaker 2: That's the whole goal behind all of this is to
26:23
Speaker 2: help you find the tools to improve your self to
26:27
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26:30
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30:03
Speaker 3: Paul asked talking.
30:05
Speaker 2: About e m d R. You know, we do some
30:10
Speaker 2: sessions where we talk about like different treatments EMDR. I'll
30:13
Speaker 2: just say it's more of a light light pulse light
30:17
Speaker 2: pulse therapy and it's done in a like a talk
30:20
Speaker 2: therapy session or a cognitive behavioral session with a therapist,
30:24
Speaker 2: and what they're doing is using light reflective pulses that
30:28
Speaker 2: you watch and follow the patterns of light as they
30:31
Speaker 2: talk you through stressors. It's used a lot in trauma.
30:36
Speaker 2: It's used a lot to desensitize you from past triggers
30:40
Speaker 2: or hurts, and it's just one of many alternative type
30:43
Speaker 2: therapies that you can find if you if you go
30:46
Speaker 2: into Psychology Today, it's a great place to find a
30:49
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30:55
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30:58
Speaker 2: does E. M.
30:59
Speaker 3: D R Therapy. So that is kind.
31:02
Speaker 2: Of what I would recommend if you have stressors and
31:04
Speaker 2: traumas and unresolved conflict and general talk therapy or cognitive
31:09
Speaker 2: behavioral behavioral therapy is not helping you. And you know,
31:13
Speaker 2: we'll do an episode on that, we'll talk a little
31:15
Speaker 2: bit more about some of those treatment therapies, but today
31:20
Speaker 2: kind of getting back to just some of those other alternatives,
31:24
Speaker 2: you know, cleaning things out, setting up different ways to
31:29
Speaker 2: set yourself up so you don't slack off. It's really
31:32
Speaker 2: about how do you want to define yourself in twenty
31:34
Speaker 2: twenty four, oh my god, twenty twenty six, you know,
31:38
Speaker 2: because every year we get into things and then we
31:41
Speaker 2: lose our New Year's resolutions. What things have been something
31:45
Speaker 2: that you've wanted to work on that you've not found
31:47
Speaker 2: success with, And here we are in the beginning of
31:49
Speaker 2: the new year, just those kinds of things. I think
31:54
Speaker 2: it's important that you pick a goal and have a
31:58
Speaker 2: short term commitment to it to see how you do,
32:01
Speaker 2: so you can reset. Like if you say for the
32:03
Speaker 2: rest of the year, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
32:06
Speaker 2: eat sweets, somewhere along the line, that's not a defined
32:09
Speaker 2: enough goal. Somewhere along the line. If you say, you know,
32:12
Speaker 2: I'm going to do a better job trying to work
32:14
Speaker 2: on things to organize my house or whatever. You have
32:17
Speaker 2: to have small, simple, specific goals and make them measurable,
32:21
Speaker 2: you know. And if you can do some of the
32:23
Speaker 2: things you know that we started to talk about today,
32:27
Speaker 2: just in one area of your house or one area
32:30
Speaker 2: of your life, you know, start with your phone, clean
32:33
Speaker 2: out all the old numbers that you know you don't
32:36
Speaker 2: need anymore, you know. And how many places in time
32:40
Speaker 2: do you find that you get stuck and you get
32:42
Speaker 2: frustrated and you feel like, oh my gosh, I could
32:45
Speaker 2: be doing so much more, Like how about waiting at
32:47
Speaker 2: a doctor's office, or waiting or driving through a car
32:52
Speaker 2: wash wherever you're stuck and you're waiting, use things to
32:56
Speaker 2: make good time, to organize and clean things out. How
33:00
Speaker 2: many of you have thousands of pictures in your phone.
33:02
Speaker 2: I took a day where I got stuck and I
33:05
Speaker 2: was waiting for something, and I said, well, no point
33:07
Speaker 2: in getting frustrated, right, Why get anxious? Why I get stressed?
33:10
Speaker 2: I started organizing some pictures. I found I had a
33:13
Speaker 2: few double pictures or I didn't need all the pictures
33:16
Speaker 2: of the same setting. And I just started organizing pictures.
33:20
Speaker 2: I have a lot more to go through, by the way,
33:21
Speaker 2: but so just some ideas. How else can we destress
33:27
Speaker 2: and declutter? How about finding things that you can do
33:31
Speaker 2: for yourself. This kind of goes into self care, and
33:33
Speaker 2: as we move into February Ebywray is a lot of
33:36
Speaker 2: good stuff. We're going to talk more about healthy self,
33:40
Speaker 2: self love, ways to indulge that. How many of you
33:45
Speaker 2: feel guilty about doing good things for yourself? How many
33:49
Speaker 2: of you all put other people before yourself? We all
33:51
Speaker 2: do it right, our kids, our spouses, our parents. If
33:55
Speaker 2: you don't take time for yourself and organize yourself and
33:59
Speaker 2: kind of regroup, do it one activity at a time,
34:03
Speaker 2: you will be able to do more. Because we've talked
34:05
Speaker 2: about this, right, you put the oxygen mask on you,
34:09
Speaker 2: then you can help the person next to you. You
34:11
Speaker 2: throw the life raft out in the water, because if
34:14
Speaker 2: you jump in the water, you may end up being
34:16
Speaker 2: the person that goes under. You've got to take care
34:19
Speaker 2: of self first. So look forward to next week. We're
34:22
Speaker 2: going to start that series on self love and ways
34:25
Speaker 2: to really get into yourself, to learn more about yourself,
34:29
Speaker 2: to feel even better about yourself. But a lot of
34:32
Speaker 2: things we're talking about today really just to destress life
34:35
Speaker 2: and to distress or declutter your life besides looking at
34:40
Speaker 2: the physical places. How about this. Have you ever set boundaries?
34:45
Speaker 2: What do boundaries look like for you? Are you over committed?
34:48
Speaker 2: Those boundaries fall into your calendar, They fall into being
34:52
Speaker 2: over committed. They even fall into spending too much time
34:56
Speaker 2: on the internet or too much time in a conversation
35:00
Speaker 2: with some of those toxic people. How do you set
35:02
Speaker 2: a boundary? So think about this. Boundaries have to be
35:06
Speaker 2: set when things start to go in a direction that
35:08
Speaker 2: doesn't feel comfortable. And if you stay too long at
35:12
Speaker 2: a location, if you're waiting too long to do something,
35:15
Speaker 2: maybe you set a boundary and rethink how you're going
35:18
Speaker 2: to do it next time. You know, like if you
35:21
Speaker 2: go food shopping on a Saturday morning. Maybe you go
35:24
Speaker 2: on a Sunday night next time. You know, if you
35:27
Speaker 2: travel a certain road and you know, these are things
35:30
Speaker 2: that I've put in practice for myself, maybe don't go
35:33
Speaker 2: down that road at the time that you know that
35:35
Speaker 2: everybody's out. Like there's benefits to leave, And when I
35:38
Speaker 2: work at the office, there's benefits that I can get
35:41
Speaker 2: done early and leave at four o'clock in the afternoon.
35:44
Speaker 2: But I have a lot more people in traffic and
35:46
Speaker 2: more decision making on the road to deal with. Like
35:49
Speaker 2: who stops in a circle? You know, I could probably
35:52
Speaker 2: have a whole show on things that we see that
35:55
Speaker 2: people just shouldn't do. But that always drives me crazy.
35:58
Speaker 2: We get into a circle and there's nobody coming around
36:00
Speaker 2: the circle, but we stop. Yield means just that slow
36:04
Speaker 2: down and look, but don't stop.
36:07
Speaker 3: So and why do I bring that up?
36:08
Speaker 2: Because I want to also include humor. I had a
36:12
Speaker 2: patient today that takes things so seriously and we talked
36:15
Speaker 2: about and I've told you guys this before, add a
36:18
Speaker 2: little laughter. How do you add laughter in your life? Well,
36:22
Speaker 2: maybe I just found the circle stopping funny, But I mean,
36:25
Speaker 2: think about some of the silliest things waiting till your
36:28
Speaker 2: gas tank light is on and you're down to five
36:31
Speaker 2: miles and you know you've got to.
36:33
Speaker 3: Get to a gas station. We've talked about that before.
36:35
Speaker 2: So find things that you can actually give yourself a
36:39
Speaker 2: little levity. Say you plan to have this great conversation
36:44
Speaker 2: with somebody that you're dating, and you think it's a
36:46
Speaker 2: great idea, or you say something like a faux pap
36:50
Speaker 2: instead of going home and beating yourself up about it
36:52
Speaker 2: and saying, oh my god, what am I going to do?
36:54
Speaker 2: What if they never call me again? Laugh at yourself
36:56
Speaker 2: and go, well, maybe I blew that one, or well,
37:00
Speaker 2: I guess I'm not going to make that comment. At
37:02
Speaker 2: work when they ask does anybody have questions? Like? Have
37:05
Speaker 2: you ever been in a setting at work? And they go,
37:08
Speaker 2: what does anyone have any other questions about what we've
37:10
Speaker 2: discussed today? And in all honesty, you may be asking
37:13
Speaker 2: a very legitimate question, but you get those looks. So
37:17
Speaker 2: laugh at yourself. Be willing to laugh at yourself, and
37:19
Speaker 2: also be willing to have a little laughter in your day.
37:24
Speaker 2: One of the research articles that I read, I'm trying
37:27
Speaker 2: to get myself out of the Sun. It talked about
37:30
Speaker 2: kids that they laugh three hundred times a day, but
37:33
Speaker 2: as adults we last less than fifteen times a day.
37:38
Speaker 2: Sometimes we don't even laugh.
37:39
Speaker 3: Isn't that sad?
37:41
Speaker 2: If you are that serious, you are bound to find
37:45
Speaker 2: times in your life when you just can't let go
37:47
Speaker 2: of stress. So try to add a little laughter. I'm
37:50
Speaker 2: guilty of this too. You go down the road, it's
37:52
Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff. You're struggling, You're trying to just
37:55
Speaker 2: get where you need to get to. You get a
37:57
Speaker 2: little frustrated. Turn on the laugh channel. If you've got
38:00
Speaker 2: exit serious XM. Try to find a way to laugh,
38:03
Speaker 2: Try to distract yourself. It's really not worth getting stressed about.
38:07
Speaker 2: And that is definitely something that I am. I am
38:09
Speaker 2: guilty of, and I just you can't take life too seriously.
38:15
Speaker 2: So those are just a couple tidbits of how to
38:17
Speaker 2: find some more serenity in life. How about mindfulness. We've
38:22
Speaker 2: talked about this before, but when you are mindful and
38:25
Speaker 2: you're taking time to pause, indulge in the quiet moments.
38:28
Speaker 2: We talked about aromatherapy. I think it's very underutilized and underrated.
38:34
Speaker 2: It was one day last week I had some folks
38:36
Speaker 2: in the office and everybody that came in was literally
38:39
Speaker 2: in tears, and I kind of joked with the staff,
38:42
Speaker 2: but I'm serious about I'm bringing in aroma therapy thing.
38:45
Speaker 2: I have one you can plug into your computer. But
38:48
Speaker 2: when people are that stressed and people are that sad,
38:50
Speaker 2: you need to change the air, the current, the flow.
38:54
Speaker 2: Lavender is great for relaxing. Maybe you have a favorite
38:57
Speaker 2: or maybe you've not explored them, but different aroma grapefruit
39:01
Speaker 2: and oranges and lemons are great for energy. But try
39:05
Speaker 2: some aroma therapy for your mindfulness. And then it always
39:09
Speaker 2: comes back to too movement. How many of you do
39:12
Speaker 2: things to destress your body. You know, maybe you've never
39:15
Speaker 2: had a massage, maybe you don't have the ability to
39:18
Speaker 2: get a massage often, but you can go get a
39:20
Speaker 2: hot shower. You can do some stretches. Nothing better than
39:24
Speaker 2: after a hot shower, put a towel or a mat down,
39:27
Speaker 2: open up YouTube and put on a video and do
39:30
Speaker 2: some stretches. You know your muscles are warmed up. Then
39:33
Speaker 2: it's a really good time to distress and relax. But
39:36
Speaker 2: try that all kinds of things. How about when was
39:40
Speaker 2: the last time you did a fun activity. You know,
39:43
Speaker 2: did you ever do like painting or did you ever
39:46
Speaker 2: go to one of those places where you can paint
39:47
Speaker 2: a picture and they show you kind of how to
39:49
Speaker 2: do it without paint by number or molding some clay,
39:55
Speaker 2: those kinds of things. Even here's my new favorite thing,
39:58
Speaker 2: and I have to get them because I old with
40:01
Speaker 2: the text where I work part of one of my
40:03
Speaker 2: self care skills, working on cognition. I haven't done word
40:09
Speaker 2: searches in forever, and I jumped into doing TMS this
40:14
Speaker 2: past quarter because as much as I administer it and
40:17
Speaker 2: prescribe it, I wanted to get the benefits for myself
40:20
Speaker 2: and the cool thing about that type of therapy, which
40:23
Speaker 2: we'll spend time on an episode. I've got a prior
40:25
Speaker 2: episode if you want to tune into iHeartRadio. I've got
40:29
Speaker 2: older episodes where I talk about TMS. But in TMS,
40:33
Speaker 2: if you want to improve your brain without medication, one
40:36
Speaker 2: of the protocols we use is cognition. But have you
40:40
Speaker 2: ever just grabbed a crossword puzzle or a word search.
40:45
Speaker 2: The more you do them, the better you challenge your brain.
40:48
Speaker 2: And it's mindless. I mean, you've got to think to
40:51
Speaker 2: get the answers right, But another way to de stress
40:54
Speaker 2: and declutter and put some serenity in your life. You
40:58
Speaker 2: want to do things that are healthy or your brain.
41:01
Speaker 2: And I'm going to shift gears here because this is
41:03
Speaker 2: a really important topic and I'm going to kind of
41:05
Speaker 2: end with that and some notes for going forward. We
41:09
Speaker 2: have had a tendency of having the ability to see
41:13
Speaker 2: whatever we want we want online. We can over expose
41:17
Speaker 2: ourselves to things that are not healthy. You can pollute
41:20
Speaker 2: your mind, and this is where a lot of couples
41:22
Speaker 2: run into trouble.
41:23
Speaker 3: Polluting your mind with.
41:24
Speaker 2: Things that are not healthy nor are they organic to
41:28
Speaker 2: bring goodness to the relationship. And when you deviate to things,
41:32
Speaker 2: this is where people get caught up in gambling and addictions.
41:35
Speaker 2: We can go so far as to say there's a
41:37
Speaker 2: lot of things out there that you can become attracted
41:40
Speaker 2: to that you are polluting your mind. Let's get some
41:43
Speaker 2: healthy things in our mind. If you don't like reading,
41:46
Speaker 2: get a crossword puzzle, learn crosstitch croche, get word search puzzles.
41:52
Speaker 2: There's even how many of you have them. I don't
41:54
Speaker 2: have it here in front of me, but the coloring books,
41:56
Speaker 2: I call them the adult coloring books. Get a an
42:00
Speaker 2: adult coloring book. Your kids may even have some. Get
42:03
Speaker 2: your kid's coloring book. But the adult ones, you know,
42:06
Speaker 2: you can use pencils and you can get really creative
42:08
Speaker 2: with shading. It does wonders for your mind to stimulate
42:13
Speaker 2: your mind with healthy habits instead of unhealthy ones. And
42:18
Speaker 2: if you are out there and you know who you are,
42:20
Speaker 2: let's declutter and let's de stress, getting rid of unhealthy
42:25
Speaker 2: things we put in our brain. You know, forget the
42:28
Speaker 2: toxic relationships. Maybe you've had toxic behaviors, toxic thoughts. Maybe
42:33
Speaker 2: they're not so much as toxic, but they're unhealthy. That's
42:36
Speaker 2: where social media there's good stuff, there's not good stuff.
42:40
Speaker 2: Internet use there's good stuff, there's not so good stuff.
42:44
Speaker 2: Use things that are going to enhance your mind. How
42:47
Speaker 2: do you think people stay so fresh and engaged as
42:51
Speaker 2: they age. They don't pollute their mind. They promote their mind.
42:55
Speaker 2: They promote learning, they promote change, they promote new ideas,
43:00
Speaker 2: They promote hobbies that are going to stimulate. So my
43:05
Speaker 2: goal for all of you is to really look at
43:08
Speaker 2: how can you promote things in your life that are
43:11
Speaker 2: going to enhance the positive stimulation in your mind. I
43:16
Speaker 2: want to destress you. I want to get rid of
43:18
Speaker 2: the anxiety. I want to promote what I call simple
43:22
Speaker 2: abundance and healthy wellness. And most of this stuff doesn't
43:26
Speaker 2: cost a dime. Clean out your life, clean out your closets,
43:30
Speaker 2: Simplify your work schedule, simplify your social schedule, pull out
43:35
Speaker 2: the negative elements of people that don't enhance you for
43:38
Speaker 2: the benefit of who you are, and then start working
43:41
Speaker 2: on things where you can either read a book, you
43:45
Speaker 2: can watch a healthy video. You can stimulate by journaling,
43:50
Speaker 2: doing puzzles, painting, and some of those things. Yeah, maybe
43:55
Speaker 2: take up a hobby, take up pilates, take up yoga,
43:58
Speaker 2: but a lot of these things too you can find
44:00
Speaker 2: on YouTube that are very very positive and healthy. Stay
44:03
Speaker 2: away from the bad stuff. Stay away from the stuff
44:06
Speaker 2: that's toxic. You know, sometimes I call that stuff it's
44:09
Speaker 2: like smut in your brain. We don't need the smutt.
44:12
Speaker 2: That's like the stuff that's left around after you have
44:14
Speaker 2: a fire and you got the soot. It's soot for
44:18
Speaker 2: your brain. So clean that stuff up. And as we
44:22
Speaker 2: go into February, if you like the stuff that we're
44:25
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44:28
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44:30
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44:31
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44:34
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44:38
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44:40
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44:43
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44:46
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44:51
Speaker 2: If you know anyone who's been a great help in
44:53
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44:56
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44:58
Speaker 2: always open to I thing guests, come on. All you
45:01
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45:03
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45:07
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45:11
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45:15
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45:21
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45:24
Speaker 3: Oh, so this is a good one.
45:26
Speaker 2: You have to get on your Oh your family, I
45:27
Speaker 2: thought they said family doctor. You know, these are the
45:30
Speaker 2: things what we talk about on these podcasts you are
45:33
Speaker 2: not going to find in the mainstream medical model. That's
45:36
Speaker 2: part of the reason why I do this show. So
45:38
Speaker 2: if you want to do things that are not going
45:40
Speaker 2: to necessarily tie you up with more medications, more treatments,
45:44
Speaker 2: more behaviors, tune in often and learn about ways to
45:49
Speaker 2: really find that simple abundance, that healthy selfishness, that natural
45:54
Speaker 2: way to heal your brain and heal your body. We've
45:59
Speaker 2: got lots of stuff to talk about this year. I've
46:01
Speaker 2: got more and more folks looking for holistic ways to heal.
46:04
Speaker 2: I've had a number of folks come to me about
46:06
Speaker 2: questions about just been diagnosed with cancer. I want to
46:10
Speaker 2: make sure you tune in in upcoming episodes because I'm
46:12
Speaker 2: going to talk about some of the experts that can
46:14
Speaker 2: help you through a holistic way, and maybe you're doing
46:18
Speaker 2: some stuff now with cancer treatments. There's a lot of
46:21
Speaker 2: information out there you will not find on mainstream media,
46:24
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping to get one of the docs on
46:25
Speaker 2: to talk more about ways to heal, so we're going
46:28
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46:30
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46:34
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46:42
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46:44
Speaker 2: for being here. Our hour has gone so fast. But
46:47
Speaker 2: stay tuned. We've got more stuff coming. And have a
46:51
Speaker 2: great and wonderful weekend and we'll see you in February.
46:53
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