Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.

I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.

Dear ones, welcome back to the podcast. I'm so happy to be here. You guys, I cannot even believe the topic of today's podcast, which is another part in our series on unlocking emotional freedom. Do you feel more free yet? Tell me. Today we're talking about embracing big big emotions and let me just set the stage for you

okay one week from tomorrow we drive to pittsburg to see our baby girl graduate from dance college

from point park at which point she will be moving to New Hampshire for, I think,

three months to, she got a job there to be in their musicals for the summer, this theater there.

And then she will be moving to New York City. So her mother, who raised her in the tiny town

of Bean Station, Tennessee, is having a lot of big emotions.

Also, I have my daughter, Emmy, who just moved into a new house and is very likely going to be getting engaged sometime this year.

I can hardly believe that.

And then a month from now, our adoption is final for Tom.

You guys, I can't function right now. I am having all the big emotions and

my aura ring. I love my aura ring. By the way, by the way, Emmy had this great idea

that in celebration of our 200th episode on the podcast, we're going to give away an aura ring

and we're going to make it fun with all kinds of giveaway stuff. I'm like, oh, you are treating the

podcast people. They are going to love you. We are giving away an aura ring. But my aura ring has

told me for the last, I don't know, four to six weeks that my sleep has been trending down and I'm trying to tell it. Do you know what's going

on in my life or a ring? Do you know the big emotions that I'm having right now? Apparently it doesn't.

But I want to talk about this today because I think, listen, I'm 54 years old, you guys. And I have

spent my life literally literally, trying to not

have big emotions, like making myself wrong for the big emotions that I have, trying to figure out

how to fix my emotions, trying to figure out, you know, like shaming and blaming myself for the

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