Well, today is my last episode before I take a month off of the podcast in July.

So I'll look forward to connecting with you again here in August.

And I thought I'd end these fun summary episodes with just a mix of lighthearted and some serious recommendations of swords, sharing 10 things that are saving my life right now. I hope you

enjoy. You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 164. Much of our daily lives

can be divided into two categories, work and play. Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul in a fulfilling life. Let's get to it.

I got this episode idea from my friend Emily P. Freeman, and I enjoyed her podcast episode so much.

I'm going to leave a link to it in the show notes in case you're curious about what's saving her life right now.

But the idea that she presented is simply to look around at the good, to not focus on the things that are challenging or hard in life right now, but to stop and say, these are the little things that are

saving my life right now. It was such a good practice for me just to prepare for this episode

to sit and think and write out the things that are saving my life. So if you're looking for a fun challenge to write in your journal

or your planner or on a napkin or wherever this week, I just encourage you today just to jot down

10 things that are saving your life right now and then try to do more of those things this summer. So here are my 10 things.

First, the gym. I joined the gym last year. My husband got a gym membership for me. Oh, when was it? I think

around Mother's Day. So it's like a couple of months before I had Benji.

I was very pregnant. And so it's taken me quite some time to get into the rhythm of going regularly

through, you know, I took like a leave of the gym during postpartum days, like several months there.

And I've been trying to get into a groove at the gym. But specifically,

I have landed on one time a week that I really look forward to. And that is my hot yoga

Friday mornings. And every Friday morning, I get the kids up and we leave the house around 8.15, head to the gym. I drop all four off

in the gym child care and I take my hot yoga class. And it is so good. I know some of you

listening are like, yeah, no things. No hot yoga for me. And that's okay. A couple other things I've done

at the gym is just run on the

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