1639: Make Your Everyday Place Your Happy Place by Jay & Heather Harrington of Life And Whim on Mental Health

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🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Jay and Heather Harrington of Life and Whim on making your everyday place your happy place. Episode 1639: Make Your Everyday Place Your Happy Place by Jay & Heather Harrington of Life And Whim on Mental Health Jay and Heather Harrington are the husband and wife team behind Life and Whim. They started Life and Whim after moving their family to Traverse City, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, to break the script of their life and reimagine what's possible. They live in pursuit of a purposeful, meaningful, active, and simple life. The original post is located here: https://www.lifeandwhim.com/first-moments-blog/2019/make-everyday-place-your-happy-place Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1639.
0:03.7	Make your everyday place, your happy place by J.N. Heather Harrington of LifeAndWim.com
0:09.6	and I'm Justin Mollik, your personal narrator, reading to you every day including holidays
0:13.8	and weekends.
0:14.8	Hope you're having a nice one.
0:16.0	And I'll keep this intro short for the weekend so let's get right to it as we optimize
0:20.3	your life.
0:25.6	Make your everyday place, your happy place by J.N. Heather Harrington of Life.
0:29.9	For years while living in urban and suburban environments, Heather and I would look for opportunities
0:37.9	to escape to our happy place.
0:40.4	When the stress became too much, the busyness crept in and we just needed a moment to catch
0:44.6	our breath, slow down and spend time in nature, we'd head north.
0:49.2	Most often, Trevor's city, Michigan was our destination.
0:52.2	We would spend a long weekend recharging, hiking the trails and exploring sleeping
0:56.0	bear dunes, eating fresh food and breathing in the crisp air.
1:00.3	After a few days, we would begin the trek home and spend much of the four hour drive fantasizing
1:04.5	about how nice it would be to spend all of our time in our happy place while lamenting
1:09.0	how unrealistic the whole idea was.
1:11.9	After all, we had a family to raise businesses to run and responsibilities to look after.
1:17.5	Maybe after we retire, we'd conclude while exiting off the highway.
1:21.4	But year after year, the allure of our happy place would keep pulling us back, and that
1:26.3	nagging desire to make our intermittent escapes our everyday existence persisted.
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