Hello, friend. Hello friends. Welcome back to the episode of Be Here for a while. Today's

episode of Be Here for a while is brought to you by Lion Rock Recovery and Third Love.

How you guys doing?

How is quarantine life?

How are your sweat pants?

Mine, I'm running out of sweat pants, frankly, and comfortable clothing that I'm just, I'm

like kind of sick of wearing it. So I've kind of, I mean to be honest right now I'm wearing a leopard evening dress just

because I wanted to I wanted you to feel jazzy I wanted this to be a jazz

podcast where you feel like you're in the mood to really thrive

because I've gotten sick of just being in sweatpants. Yes, I'm probably only

wearing this leopard print evening dress for this podcast intro but that's my journey and that's my path to cross.

But I encourage you guys, get out of the sweatpants you know? Are you guys doing okay? This is this is terrifying. I hate to be light about it, but it is kind of one of the only ways I know how to be.

But I will say, I read a really cool article

from the New York Times that basically said, like, stop trying to be productive like everyone it

it's this whole I definitely have this mentality of like oh well I have to make the

best absolute most productive and you know, maybe monetarily

successful time of this time that I have like I got a oh well, how can I maybe I have a cooking show maybe I you know chill just

chill and I'm saying this mostly to myself relax a little like definitely use it to better yourself and I thought that that was really my last podcast was with

Lauren handles Zander who is a life coach and I definitely agreed with her where use your time wisely you're never going to have this type of sabbatical again and try to do it try to figure out what it is that you really want in life, maybe creatively,

professionally, but I also think that it is a time to be grateful for what you do have

right now. and I think it is also okay to not feel okay. The

moments and where we go wrong is when we think oh I should I be feeling this I should I'm just going to pretend like I'm not feeling this I guess I will just do something I will perfectionize something or I'll drink this wine or I'll do this thing like I mean feel free to have the wine and feel free to make things perfect sure but I mean within reason but it it hurts you more to not just accept what you're feeling right now. Like, of course you're scared about the future.

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