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. First of all, sorry for the generic, weird podcast episode title. I truly was

struggling with, like, what to name this episode because it's kind of esoteric and weird, and I

didn't know what would just capture all of it. So I greatly appreciate

you clicking on this and trusting me. And with that being said, I also want to warn you that

I haven't fully developed this idea yet. And I'm kind of flushing it out as I speak because I generally think as I'm talking

and this is just something that has been keeping me up at night. I haven't been sleeping really

well. I've been having like very vivid dreams and I've just been processing a lot both consciously

and subconsciously in therapy and in my sleep

and in talking with friends and just observing people in the state of the world and all of that

jazz. So I'm going to do my best to put this idea into words, but if it calls you or if you

have something to add or some thoughts of your own, feel free to hop on

over to at Mary's podcast and send me a DM over there on Instagram because I would love to hear

what you think and if this resonated with you or if you think maybe we're on the right track here, but I'm missing like a big key,

the big piece of the puzzle, please let me know. So like I said, I've been thinking about a lot

and I've noticed that so many people, myself included, are struggling a lot. And some of the struggles are big and

definitely warranted and always all the struggles are so, so valid. But I'll speak for myself here.

What I've noticed in myself, which

really annoys me, is that sometimes I'm struggling about things that just, like, aren't worth

even thinking so much about. It's almost like my brain is making up problems that aren't there, and it's

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