Are the January blues hitting you? Are you feeling like everything is piling up on you? Are you in your

pajamas right now? Me too. But really, how are you right now? If you're not doing great, then today,

my friend, we did a podcast episode just for you. I hope you can feel our love for you and that you'll

hear this message today and be able to tell

yourself, it's okay to be in a season of survival. And if you aren't in that kind of a season,

but you know and love someone who might be right now, share this with them once you're done listening.

And to my friend who inspired this episode today, know that I love you and I'm here for you and that this is just a season

and today is not forever today's episode today's episode is inspired by a phone call that I made tonight to a dear friend.

And this person came into my mind.

And if this ever happens to you, do this.

I was going to text them.

But instead, this little baby nudge prompting came to me.

Call them instead. So so I did I called

it this person and it turned out they were just having a really hard time and you know very

quickly into the conversation just broke down and started telling me about all of the hard

things that are stacked up against them right now.

And like most people, there's challenges in many facets of their life, not just one thing,

but several things that are kind of stacking.

And this person is totally in survival mode.

So I was able to hopefully try to offer some hope and try to walk through some just exercises

to put things into perspective. And what I really hope that this person feels and that you feel

if you're listening to this episode is it's okay. Not only is it okay to be in a survival mode, it's part of the journey.

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