Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. A Welcome to the 121st episode of the Simple Sophisticate and have I got an

episode for you. I'm excited to talk about our topic and I'm even more excited to talk

about our Patee, Plaisier. If you were a fan of Tuesdays with Morrie, you are going to want to stay put

until the end of this episode because I have a book that is just as delightful in its very own unique way and if you are someone who loves food especially in New York City you will love this book. So stay tuned. But before we get to that,

today's topic is something I think many of us are searching for and sometimes we find it sometimes we acquire it sometimes we

lose it and sometimes we just need to need to be reminded how to bring it back in

our lives what am I talking about? I'm talking about getting back to

calm. Today I'm going to share 14 ways to get back to calm and I want to begin with a quote from James Allen he states the more

tranquil a woman becomes the greater is her success her influence her power for good.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Back at the beginning of 2015, I posted the idea of getting back to Simple, sharing 22 ways to welcome simple habits back into the everyday routine.

With much of the ideas on the list, they were reminders, ways of living that we most likely know bring our lives

more contentment but with the hustle and bustle of it all we sometimes let our priorities

and our approach to life get off track as I have been settling into my life here and Bend now having

lived here just over a year, I am more able to reflect, assess, and determine which manners of living serve me and living simply luxuriously well and which do not.

Recently I was asked the question about how my summer went and I shared something with them that I perhaps

had never vocalized even to myself before but it was a powerful truth to discover what was it?

For the first time I enjoyed staying in my hometown, which has now been during

the summer months, as I truly feel it is my home, and I enjoyed being home, not just in the house. I've always loved being in my house wherever I'm at,

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