Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jilkovsky. I'm an author,

speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

Hey, self-lovers, it's currently 8.24 p.m. as I'm recording this, the latest I've ever recorded a podcast episode, because I'm just feeling really inspired. I took the day off from work, but I guess not the night, because boyfriend just got home from an international trip. However,

he's pretty jet lagged, so he fell asleep at like 5 p.m. And I've just been like writing and

thinking about things and, you know, just envisioning, creating some ideas. And I've been landing

on this one idea that I've been meaning

to share with you for a while. I just was waiting to find better words to articulate it.

But basically the past couple of months, I've shared a little bit about how I've been going through

this quarterly identity crisis, which of course

is just always a work in progress, you know, always evolving and thinking about how I intentionally

want to show up in my life, online, everywhere in between. And one thing that's been coming up a lot, not just in my mind,

but in conversations and in my therapy sessions, is this concept that I've named. I don't

think this is like an official term or anything like that, but it's just something that I've

coined as learning the difference. And here's what I mean by that. I think you're going to find a lot of

solace in this concept. Once you really like think about how many scenarios and how many things it can apply to.

So of course life is always about learning, right? And learning isn't just about acquiring

knowledge. It's also about experimenting, making mistakes, recalibrating, setting boundaries,

epically failing, succeeding, maybe dabbling in some extremes, like doing some things you're not really proud of, or going a little too far,

pushing yourself a little too hard, only to then realize that like, hey, I don't really like

this. I am trying to like recalibrate myself

back to a happy medium. And I think this is just the flow of life. I think we're all,

always in a process of learning the difference. And I had this realization that so much mindset work

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