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.

Well, hi, dear ones.

Welcome back to the podcast.

Today we are talking all about five practical

ways that you can show up as your best, most loving, most nourishing self to you and others.

I'm really excited about this one too because it's really practical. And I think things that we all

want to commit to practicing in our daily

lives so that we can be a good neighbor and show up to our lives and to the people in our

lives the way we want to. So summertime at my house is a time of literally having the doors

wide open to people coming to visit, coming to spend the

weekend. We pretty much have constant company until we head up north to Minnesota in late July.

And listen, it is my favorite. Having a full house is my absolute favorite. I love having our kids home.

I love welcoming their friends or whoever else ends up at the house.

I love it so much.

I was thinking about this because I over the last, I don't know, 10 or 15 years, well,

some of you might remember, how many of you, by the way, have been in my world since i wrote my hospitality book

like was that 10 15 years ago i wrote a book uh an ebook called 31 days to hospitality and i've been

thinking about this for a long time is what i'm trying to say. When you're welcoming someone into your house,

especially if you want to make a habit of hospitality, which reminds me of a book I read

this year called Unreasonable Hospitality, So So Good, About a Restaurant in Manhattan,

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