Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about self-love.

Hey guys, welcome to episode 106. It's been so nice here in Arizona this week. I think this is actually my

favorite part of year here. So beautiful. So I had two of my bestest friends come out and visit me from

back home in California and it was so good to see them.

You know that feeling when good friends just feel like home? So good. It also got me thinking

about when I was a teen and how I wish I did a better job at choosing friends who treated me better

because having good friends and people in your life makes all the difference.

So if somebody isn't nice to you or treats you in a not so great way, find some other people

because good people are the best part of life.

Okay, so today's listener shout out is to Maggie and she says,

Hi, my name is Maggie.

I really love your podcast.

I wanted to ask you about more podcasts about stress and anxiety.

If you find some time to do a podcast on these topics, that would be greatly appreciated.

So yes, Maggie, I'm actually working on a series of anxiety

podcasts that will be coming up here in the next few months. So stay tuned for those. They are a work

in progress right now. So thanks for that review. And please leave a review for the podcast if you

haven't yet. If you get helpful tips from this podcast, please just take

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Okay, so today let's talk about self-love. And this topic came about for me for this episode because when I am working with teens,

there is an exercise that I sometimes do with them and I'll say, okay, tell me 15 things that

you love about yourself right now. Let's make a list. And more often than not, the teen will just stare at me and be like, what? And I'm like,

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