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The Mid Year Glow Up To Emotional Hygiene · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadagal Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: is Two Broke Chicks, the show that shares life lessons
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to episode four of.
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  Speaker 2: The Meet You Glow Up and very Sexy.
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  Speaker 1: In today's episode, we are tackling emotional hygiene.
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  Speaker 3: You dirty slut, you dirty girls, you dirty emotional girls.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get clean.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, SuDS up chicks.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna SuDS up in today's episode.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get study.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get study. No, what doesn't work?
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  Speaker 4: Ready, you already?
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  Speaker 3: Let's get Saudi girls, Saudi girls, Saudi girl. What is
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  Speaker 3: emotional hygiene? Okay, yeah, seriously, now that we have a
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  Speaker 2: It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're talking emotional hygiene. You may have kind of
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  Speaker 3: heard the term hygiene being thrown into everyday things, for example,
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  Speaker 3: like sleep hygiene, and now we're seeing this rise of
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  Speaker 3: the term emotional hygiene, which I'm very interested. I am
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  Speaker 3: keen to see what we're going to unpack today because
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm a little bit new to this concept.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like a little bit of an amateur, if
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  Speaker 3: you will. Maybe I have dirty emotions, maybe I need
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  Speaker 3: to set up, but I'm keen to get into this
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  Speaker 3: because I love a new little concept for this that
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  Speaker 3: because sometimes it's not not necessarily a new concept, but
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  Speaker 3: it's reframed in a way that makes sense. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what I like about these things. So, emotional hygiene.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 4: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: What is emotional hygiene?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well, in the midyear glow up, we've covered a lot
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  Speaker 1: of ground already. We've spoken about skincare, fashion, but I
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  Speaker 1: do think that emotional well being is the most, if
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  Speaker 1: not all, one of the most important. But essentially, emotional
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  Speaker 1: hygiene is all about noticing and caring for your.
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  Speaker 2: Psychological health because, like you were.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, we have heard of the term hygiene being tacked
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  Speaker 1: onto other elements of our life, such as sleep or emotions,
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  Speaker 1: whereas previously it would have been about like your physical health, right, so, like.
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  Speaker 2: Your dental hygiene, for example.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that we are now starting to
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  Speaker 1: take some of these things more seriously, even if they
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  Speaker 1: don't show up physically. We now understand that our psychological
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  Speaker 1: well being is just as important as our physical well being,
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  Speaker 1: and it actually has a huge impact on how we
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  Speaker 1: feel physically.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's all intertwined.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all rich tapestry to say, we like to say,
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  Speaker 5: and there was this substack called milk and Cookies that
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  Speaker 5: describes the concept.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Emotional hygiene is a bit like brushing your emotional teeth
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  Speaker 1: before your brain starts chewing on the wrong things. So
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  Speaker 1: it's an important skill to have not only to keep
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  Speaker 1: ourselves grounded and at our best, but also to prevent
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  Speaker 1: emotional harm in the future, because just like brushing your teeth,
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  Speaker 1: you're not necessarily trying to fix the problem that you
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  Speaker 1: have currently. You're brushing your teeth so that you don't
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  Speaker 1: get cavities in the future, which is why we need
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  Speaker 1: to have emotional hygiene. It's also about preventative measures just
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  Speaker 1: as much as the current day exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I also think for you know, the anxiou overthinking garlies,
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  Speaker 3: this can be I mean, yeah, everyone, basically this can
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  Speaker 3: be especially crucial to get right. Creating opportunities to reset
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  Speaker 3: and recharge is literally key and very often the task
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  Speaker 3: and the thing that falls to like the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the barrel or the bottom of the to do list,
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  Speaker 3: because we run the risk of letting our thoughts multiply
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  Speaker 3: if left unchecked. But also life is just busy, and
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  Speaker 3: especially for women, their own personal care or emotional hygiene
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  Speaker 3: is very much something that gets left last. Instead of
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  Speaker 3: cleaning the emotional mess from a hard week, it turns
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  Speaker 3: into feeling like your whole life suddenly needs to feel
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  Speaker 3: fixed or be fixed, and it kind of tunes into
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  Speaker 3: that like peak time theory we were talking about of
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  Speaker 3: you know, if two things happen bad in the week,
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  Speaker 3: feeling like the whole week was bad, but not wanting
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  Speaker 3: to sit with those emotions or understand or even focus
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  Speaker 3: on the good things will bring that in. It becomes
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  Speaker 3: a whole picture thing when really it's potentially not. And
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  Speaker 3: so research shows that people are feeling at least one
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  Speaker 3: emotion around ninety percent of the time. So becoming a
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  Speaker 3: master of your emotional wellbeing is huge in self care
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  Speaker 3: because it allows you to identify what you're feeling. And
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  Speaker 3: also this was a big thing that was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a life lesson that again, everything's a journey. Wouldn't say
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  Speaker 3: I'm like one hundred percent there, but realizing that I'm
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  Speaker 3: also not my emotions so a lot of the time
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  Speaker 3: we identify as what we feel rather than our feeling
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  Speaker 3: being a feeling. So, for example, let's use anxiety because
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  Speaker 3: that's so common and understandably so that it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm really anxious, I'm really like I'm an anxious person,
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  Speaker 3: or I'm anxious. You're not anxious, you're feeling anxious. That
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  Speaker 3: doesn't in any way diminish the emotion, but it does
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  Speaker 3: establish your control over it and your ability to identify
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  Speaker 3: that you are feeling an emotion you are not the emotion.
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  Speaker 3: And that's something that's definitely been like I'm so angry
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  Speaker 3: or I'm so upset, I'm so hurt, but I'm feeling
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  Speaker 3: so hurt because what has caused that. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: feeling so anxious because what has made me feel anxious?
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  Speaker 3: And building that emotional hygiene to identify what you're feeling
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  Speaker 3: is such a strong tool to be able to navigate
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  Speaker 3: yourself out of those waters if you're not because it's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. Yeah, like we're not going to be
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  Speaker 3: as much as Oh, I want love to be, Like
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy rainbows and I'm listening to I'm walking on
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  Speaker 3: the sunshine every day. Yeah, had that on karaoke slated
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  Speaker 3: every time. That's just not going to happen. So knowing
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  Speaker 3: what you're feeling, and I have always had this thing
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  Speaker 3: where I'm like, oh, I feel this way and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why. And that's like been a thing that
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  Speaker 3: I've had quite often throughout, like being like I feel stressed,
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  Speaker 3: or like being like I'm stressed and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: What is it there?
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  Speaker 3: And I try to make myself and I'm like when
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  Speaker 3: is it in? And I'm like why, And I have
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  Speaker 3: to remember why I'm stressed, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: Which is you know, probably a whole different ball ball.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say ballcake.
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  Speaker 2: It's a whole different ballcakes.
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  Speaker 3: It's all different ballcake. But yeah, understanding your emotions and
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  Speaker 3: where they're coming from and why they're happening, he is
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  Speaker 3: like the first step and also realizing that you're not
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  Speaker 3: your feelings. Like I was listening to this philosopher that
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  Speaker 3: whenever I say that I sound like a knob. Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: but his name's Alan Watts, and I love him. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that much about it, but I just listened
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  Speaker 3: to his like talks and he was like I think
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  Speaker 3: he was a Buddhist and he used to take magic
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  Speaker 3: mushrooms and shit. But some of the ship came out
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  Speaker 3: with I was like ten out of ten Allen, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: great work. And one of them was that your feelings
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  Speaker 3: are never wrong, Like your feeling to feel a certain
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  Speaker 3: way is never a right or a wrong thing. Your
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  Speaker 3: reaction is. So it's never like you're never guilty or
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  Speaker 3: bad for feeling a certain way about something, but what
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  Speaker 3: you do with that feeling is right or wrong depending
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  Speaker 3: on you know where you sit value wise. For example,
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  Speaker 3: if let's say I was feeling jealous of a friend.
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  Speaker 3: If I felt jealous and yet let's say they were
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  Speaker 3: hanging out with someone else and they didn't invite me,
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  Speaker 3: this is a very hypothetical situation, and I felt jealous
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, they've hung out. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: invite me, like I would have loved to go to
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  Speaker 3: the markets. But blah blah blah blah blah. Maybe they
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  Speaker 3: didn't even plan that, maybe they just bumped into each other. Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just having a jealous feeling. Right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm jealous because I wanted to go. That's okay that
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  Speaker 3: I feel jealous. Well, it's not Okay, is if I
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  Speaker 3: then planned a dinner and invited a bunch of people
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  Speaker 3: and then didn't include them and never said a single thing,
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  Speaker 3: and I like got revenge like that kind of That's
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  Speaker 3: what I'm meaning in terms of emotional hygiene is recognizing
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  Speaker 3: an emotion, sitting with it, and letting it go. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is actually an emotion I even want to act on,
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  Speaker 3: versus might just need to go to bed and wake
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  Speaker 3: up and sit on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I also do think a part of that, which you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned before, is recognizing those emotions that you are feeling,
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  Speaker 1: but paying attention to the patterns that are happening, because
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  Speaker 1: I think that some people are more prone to certain emotions.
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  Speaker 1: So whether that is feelings of anxiety or sadness and
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  Speaker 1: depression or anger or jealousy. And if you notice that
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  Speaker 1: there is a pattern that you're feeling a certain emotion
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  Speaker 1: a lot and quite regularly, then it's like, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: what will I do about that? What is the solve
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  Speaker 1: of that? Like why do I feel angry a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the time? Or why do I feel jealous a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time? Why are these emotions that I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling a lot more compared to some of the others,
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  Speaker 1: And what are the steps that I can take to
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  Speaker 1: maybe improve my relationship with those feelings, whether that is
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  Speaker 1: you know, like going to talk to somebody about it,
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  Speaker 1: going to seek professional help. Because I saw this study
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  Speaker 1: from the University of Sydney and they found that on
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  Speaker 1: average in Australia, it takes people twelve years to reach
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  Speaker 1: out for help when they're experiencing a certain mental health
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  Speaker 1: issue or addiction issue.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that, like a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: probably could relate to that because I think we wait
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  Speaker 1: until we've hit you know, rock bottom in quotation marks
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  Speaker 1: before we get help, rather than so it's like we
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  Speaker 1: wait to get our wisdom teeth taken out instead of
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  Speaker 1: going and getting your dental hygiene check up every six months, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or brushing our tears.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For you, what's like one of the first signs that
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  Speaker 3: you've not been prioritizing your emotional hygiene and might need
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  Speaker 3: a reset?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, because I do definitely feel anxious a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's if I notice that I'm just waking
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  Speaker 1: up feeling anxious and nothing's happened, and I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because I know that there's certain things that will trigger
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  Speaker 1: feelings of anxiety within me.
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  Speaker 2: But if I'm waking.
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  Speaker 1: Up and automatically feeling anxious that I'm like, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: probably haven't been prioritizing my sleep or putting in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some boundaries in place to have a bit more like
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  Speaker 1: balance in my life. Or you know, I've fallen out
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  Speaker 1: of my gym routine and doing that because that always
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  Speaker 1: makes me feel good. So I try and like keep
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  Speaker 1: track of or I will take stock of like what
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  Speaker 1: I've done for the last week, and I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: have I not gone to the gym, or have I
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  Speaker 1: not you know, have I worked a little bit later,
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  Speaker 1: or have I not spent time with friends, And try
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  Speaker 1: and have a look at some of those behaviors and
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  Speaker 1: the things that usually make me feel good and then
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  Speaker 1: try and introduce those What about you?
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  Speaker 3: For me, it's definitely like my physical space. Yeah, if
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  Speaker 3: my like house or house, if my like home is messy,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like okay, because it means that I've just been
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  Speaker 3: like too consumed by something else, by something else. And
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  Speaker 3: it's more like if my house is messy, my brain
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  Speaker 3: is messy, and it's it's a reflection of the internal monologue.
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  Speaker 3: And that's and the first thing that I'm doing is
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  Speaker 3: cleaning that space. And it's like the physical act of
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  Speaker 3: cleaning the space also feels like a reset and a
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  Speaker 3: cleaning of my emotional space and like that, and I
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  Speaker 3: always feel better after I do it. And I fucking
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  Speaker 3: hate cleaning, hate it, don't enjoy it, but love the
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  Speaker 3: feeling after it. And sometimes that's like what the focus
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  Speaker 3: is is. You know, when you are in a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a rut, when you're in the dirty girl
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  Speaker 3: hygiene emotion thera, It's like, Okay, you don't feel like
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  Speaker 3: going for a walk. I know you don't feel like
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  Speaker 3: going and seeing your friends. I know you don't want
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  Speaker 3: to clean your house. Totally get that, and so what's
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  Speaker 3: difficult is to start doing the task. It's to start
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  Speaker 3: doing the thing that makes you feel better and embraces
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  Speaker 3: that emotional hygiene, and it's to focus on how you're
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  Speaker 3: going to feel after it, because yeah, I know you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to do it. Same s fair. So how
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  Speaker 3: can we pract just good emotional hygiene.
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  Speaker 1: There are lots of different techniques and things that we
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  Speaker 1: can use, especially when you're feeling big feelings and you
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  Speaker 1: don't really know what to do with them.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever felt a little feeling in
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  Speaker 3: my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: All of them big, all of them all big feel
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  Speaker 2: yeah and every time.
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  Speaker 1: But one of them is the Rain technique. So this
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  Speaker 1: was popularized by psychologist Tara Brack and meditation teacher Michelle McDonald,
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  Speaker 1: and it includes four steps to identify and process some
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  Speaker 1: of those big feelings.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like an.
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  Speaker 1: Acrostic poem love, I know it, love already, Yeah we
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  Speaker 1: love this So stands for recognize, stop and identify what's
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  Speaker 1: going on inside yourself clearly label.
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  Speaker 2: The emotion that you're feeling. Is it anger, am i Tara? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Is it anger, sadness? Anxiety?
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes you can feel like it's a mix
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  Speaker 1: of both. But that's why it's really important to pause
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  Speaker 1: and be like, what is.
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  Speaker 2: That core that I'm experiencing?
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  Speaker 1: Then A for allow give yourself permission to feel this
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  Speaker 1: way and have the emotion exactly as it presents, because
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of us at first reaction would
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  Speaker 1: be like push it down, don't.
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  Speaker 3: Feel see, don't let them know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah actually, or immediately trying to I was.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be the good girl. Okay them got a hit. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 3: she was really onto something there, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She was, seriously, but yeah, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our first reaction would be to push it down or
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  Speaker 1: to judge yourself and be like, oh, like here you go,
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  Speaker 1: you're being jealous again and putting yourself down, or immediately
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  Speaker 1: trying to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, just let it be, feel the feels.
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  Speaker 3: Also, I reckon a lot of women would be like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have time. I don't have time to be sad.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have time to be upset. I can't even imagine,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, for the moms out there that are
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  Speaker 3: basically running a household picking their kids up, like to
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  Speaker 3: be able to have a bad date, it's probably just
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  Speaker 3: not even in the cards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And then you feel guilty as well, being like so
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  Speaker 1: many people have it worse off and that may be true,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still allowed to feel those feelings.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why that allow step is really important.
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  Speaker 1: Then I investigate with gentle curiosity, see if you can
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  Speaker 1: start to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: What's making you feel this way. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like what you were saying before.
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  Speaker 1: When you have those feelings of stress of anxiety, and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, what is it? There's something, but actually listening
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  Speaker 1: to yourself and trying to get to the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the final step en for nurture. Give yourself
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  Speaker 1: some radical, unconditioned self compassion and care. So it could
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  Speaker 1: show up as a physical action like holding a hand
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  Speaker 1: to your chest or repeating assuring affirmation to yourself, or
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  Speaker 1: splashing cold water on your face or eating a sour lolly.
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  Speaker 1: That can be really helpful if you have experiences of anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: because it gives your brain something to kind of focus
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  Speaker 1: on instead and can calm you down. But figuring out
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  Speaker 1: whatever that is and just making time for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I also think a really big part of emotional hygiene
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  Speaker 3: isn't figuring out what's made you sad, but it's also
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  Speaker 3: figuring out what makes you happy. I kind of feel
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  Speaker 3: like that's the part of this that maybe gets left
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  Speaker 3: out of the conversation, and especially as adults. And this
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  Speaker 3: is just me like broad spectruming here, but I would
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  Speaker 3: say most adults could very easily list what makes them
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  Speaker 3: stressed versus what makes them happy, and I don't think
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  Speaker 3: people would be able to list as quickly or as
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  Speaker 3: thoroughly what makes them happy in life versus what makes
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  Speaker 3: them stressed.
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  Speaker 2: Especially for day to day.
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  Speaker 1: So you probably could mention some of those big picture
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  Speaker 1: things that you love to do, but in terms of
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  Speaker 1: I'm sad, what's my immediate go to happy fix?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is like a stress happy emotional hygiene deficit
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  Speaker 3: that you know what's going to stress you out. You
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  Speaker 3: know what makes you stress, whether it's work, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: running late, whether it's a messy house. But when someone says, well,
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  Speaker 3: what makes you happy and your mind goes blank, that's
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  Speaker 3: not good emotional hygiene. That shows and tells you that
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  Speaker 3: you need to figure out what are your And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not talking coping mechanisms either. I'm not talking things that
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  Speaker 3: are going to get you out of bad feelings like well,
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  Speaker 3: there's no such thing as a bad feeling. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: not talking things that are going to get you out
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  Speaker 3: of you know, feeling overwhelmed or feeling anxious, feeling stress.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about like what is gonna what takes you
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  Speaker 3: from neutral, What takes you from neutral or happy? What
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  Speaker 3: just genuinely brings you joy? And I don't think we
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  Speaker 3: understand or explore that enough or prioritize that enough and
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  Speaker 3: to be able to choose those things and choose happiness
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  Speaker 3: habits or tasks or whatever is genuinely why emotional hygiene
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  Speaker 3: is so poor as adults, you know, like being able
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  Speaker 3: to wake up and really appreciate your morning coffee, or
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: listening to a song and you go, I haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: this song, ages, I love this song and turning it
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  Speaker 3: up like really pop fit. But you know, calling a
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  Speaker 3: friend to reminisce about a really funny memory you have
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  Speaker 3: with them, or just watching a funny video on YouTube,
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  Speaker 3: like where are you laughing? And choosing joy? Like There's
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: definitely been mornings where I wake up and I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: like the mundane ant carrying a pebble and I'm like
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: just I'm going through the motions and I'm going and
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I literally will out loud be like no, like let's
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: be happy. Where's the sparkle? Like let's do something that's
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: gonna bring the Z back? Because I'm not necessarily sad,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: but I'm not necessarily happy and that's also gonna be
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: fine too, But where are the things that I'm gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: be like tiki haha, like let's make it fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like the prioritizing the things that when you
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: were young and you imagined what adult life would be
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  Speaker 1: like and doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go to the movies, get all the lollies. I
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: bought like twenty five bucks of lollies on the weekend.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I made a lolliger half of It's gone ten out
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: of ten. Highly recommend So when about developing your sense
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: of understanding, giving compassion to others but also to yourself,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Like would you talk to a friend the same way
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: you talk to yourself? Is that very common example that
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: people throw around, But you can try what's called emotional archaeology.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Jurassic Park theme sign.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking the Mummy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh hot, yeah, yeah, yeah, Now I'm locked in.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. So think of your emotional landscape as an
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: archaeological dig. The present moment is like top soil. It's
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: what we see, what we experience. Directly Underneath the top
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: soil lies layers of history, like childhood experiences, past friendships, relationships,
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  Speaker 3: and significant life events, a mix of joyful and likely
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: less joyful, painful things. These experiences, big and small, leave marks.
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  Speaker 3: They become ingrained in our emotional memory, influencing how we
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: perceive and react to the world around us. It's not
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that we're consciously like reliving those past experiences, but the
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: emotional residue is there so ready to kind of influence
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: how we live and react in present day. So understanding
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: that our reactions have roots, you know, like there's a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: reason why this has maybe hurt your feelings, there's a
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: reason why you don't like when someone says something you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: And maybe it's not as deep as like some childhood
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: thing that's happened or high school friendship or whatever it is,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: but there's roots to everything that you feel and reasons
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: and supporting that for yourself and not diminishing your emotions
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  Speaker 3: and your feelings. It brings us one step closer to
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: knowing ourselves better, but also knowing others and maybe living
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and leading with a little bit more empathy too.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree to yourself, but also to the people
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: around you, because everybody is having their own experiences with
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: their emotional hygiene. And I think that's the thing, Like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: your emotional hygiene is your responsibility.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to come and brush your teeth for you.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: I know I would love that. Yeah, but I think
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I'm talking literally love no same, but.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I was imagining. I'm always I've had like a.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Little hot choking and I realized I have to get
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: out of it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I know it's tough. It's tough, but that's the thing.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Nobody is going to come and do it for you,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and your emotional hygiene is the same. But that doesn't
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: mean that you have to do it alone. If you
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: have listened to this episode and you do some of these,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you've used some of these tactics like the rain tactic,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: or you know, you've really tried to do a bit
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: of a stock take on how you're feeling and some
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: of those like patterns of emotions that you have been
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: feeling and you've noticed, you know, a bit of a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: trend or you know, maybe you're just not feeling your
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: usual sparkly self like. There is no shame in speaking
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to the people around you. If anything, it is so
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: incredibly brave and important to speak to people around you
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: about how you're feeling, but also to reach out for help,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and there are so many amazing resources in Australia that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: can help you do that. We've put a list of
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: free resources and helplines in the show notes because yeah,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I do think that whilst you know so many of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the practices and things we've spoken about in today's show
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: are helpful if you are having, you know, genuine experiences
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of mental health, which so many of us do.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: No shame. Yeah, it's very very.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Worthwhile and helpful to speak to somebody else. And absolutely yeah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: love you chicks.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Love you.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Your homework for Say's episode is to write down at
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: three to five things that actually make you happy, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: then you have to do like two or three of
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: them every single day, and I'll check and.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Feel free to share them in the comments because we
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: love all the ideas.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Spread the jaw, cheekys, spread the.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Jaw, spread the left of spread the kisses. All right, bye, honey,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: thanks for having us in your holes.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: We love to be here and we'll see you back
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: through episode five.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Maine. Bye,