You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 218. We're talking all about

emotional resilience for yourself and for your kids. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, and this podcast

is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. You'll gain the emotional,

physical, and spiritual tools you need

to get your sparkle back and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life.

Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcasts.

Hey, my friends, the world's changing, isn't it? Yes, there is struggle. Yes, there is suffering, but there is also

a great pause, I like to call it happening now for many of us. And my guest today, Rachel Macy

Stafford from Hands Free Mama blog, is going to be talking about how we can be more emotionally resilient

and really start to pay attention to the landscape of our emotions. In this interview,

she compares our emotional health to a garden. We can either have a dried up brown,

dehydrated, rusty garden.

You know, you can imagine it.

It's what my garden looks like right now.

I'm about to plant the new one.

Or we can fertilize and water and add topsoil and help beautiful, colorful,

vegetables and flowers and anything else we want to thrive in that

garden. And if you imagine the two gardens side by side, you know which garden you want to have,

emotionally speaking. And the beautiful thing, which we'll talk about in this interview,

is when you have the choice of sitting in and being in each garden,

of course, you want to choose the beautiful one. Well, this applies to our children and teens.

They are going through emotional situations right now with anxiety and grief over how things

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