#251 - What's Saving My Life Right Now
The Lazy Genius Podcast
Kendra Adachi
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This kind of episode is one of my favorites to put together. Barbara Brown Taylor coined the phrase “what’s saving my life right now,” and I love the idea of thinking beyond favorites and splurges to find what’s grounding us and making us feel like ourselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there! |
| 0:01.8 | You are listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter |
| 0:08.4 | and lazy about the things that don't. |
| 0:10.3 | Today is one of my favorite episodes. |
| 0:12.4 | Episode 251, What's Saving My Life Right Now? |
| 0:16.1 | That phrase was coined by the amazing Barbara Brown Taylor, who's writing I love so much, |
| 0:20.9 | that this idea is to help us think beyond favorites and splurges, which can totally still |
| 0:25.0 | save our lives, but to think about what is actually grounding us, making us feel like |
| 0:29.6 | ourselves, what is making our lives feel good, or even at a bare minimum, just function. |
| 0:36.2 | What is saving my life? |
| 0:37.6 | I have a list that I'll share with you now and I encourage you to make your own, whether |
| 0:41.5 | you share it with others, or just name it for yourself. |
| 0:45.0 | As we know, the naming is often where the magic happens. |
| 0:49.4 | We think things are terrible all the time and while they very well could be, naming what |
| 0:53.9 | is saving our lives changes our posture towards our circumstances. |
| 0:59.5 | So you know, one of the things on this list is a very exciting lazy genius kitchen related |
| 1:04.3 | announcement. |
| 1:05.6 | So keep your ears peeled for that. |
| 1:08.2 | Also if you listened to last week's episode about how I make this podcast, you learned |
| 1:12.7 | that sometimes I record a couple of episodes at once. |
| 1:15.7 | This episode included. |
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