Bum, bum, bum. Welcome back friends. You are listening to the Struggle Well Project

podcast the show dedicated to helping you not run away from home.

Each week I do my best to make sure

that you learn something new, laugh a whole lot,

and remember you are already enough.

So it's getting cold here, but I'm in Texas,

so probably wherever you are, it's colder. I get it, I'm a wimp. But every year, we have our

neighborhood camp out. And every year, I managed to get out of it, because I like looking like an outdoorsy person but I don't actually love

the outdoors.

And I don't know if you can identify with this but sleeping outside when it's 30 degrees, when you can just walk to your actual warm cozy bed

it's really hard to make myself stay when my bed is so close but this year you guys I

have thought and thought and there's no real reason for me not to go

And my husband just had surgery and so he can't go and so I'm doing it I'm taking one for the team. I know it'll be a great time and I'm pretty

sure I won't die. Plus we got a new tent because the only tent we ever had was a

really a two-person tent from when I worked at REI. So that's the funny thing guys. I used to work at an outdoor store

just because I love outdoor gear and they assumed that I also loved the outdoors which that's a correct assumption to make but I really haven't

spent much time outside so when I worked at REI and they were like okay so now we need

you to put up all these tents and I was like oh okay, so now we need you to put up all these tents.

And I was like, oh my goodness.

So I had to try to pretend like I knew how to put up tents in the middle of REI

around everybody who, like probably even the five-year-olds at REI, knew how to put up a tent more than me.

So anyway, I'm gonna go face my worst fear and try to put a tent in front of other people.

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