Bum, um, bum. Welcome back ladies. My name is Emily Thompson. You are listening to the

Mom Struggling Well Podcast, the show that helps you love your actual life so that you don't need to run

away from home. To date we have prevented 93 moms from running away from home.

Those are the facts. They cannot be checked or verified, but just trust me on that.

And how did we do it? Well, we helped them love their actual lives. You might not know it,

but if you look around it, your actual life is pretty great.

We believe here that perfection is nonsense and peace is a perspective shift away.

You know, a perspective shift that I am needing to have is that at my job.

So I don't know if you know this but a lot of nurses are pretty type A and wound up.

Pretty tight.

And so in my new job I love it but it's hospital and it's intense

so I think I just need to do everything perfect the first time. I need to anticipate every need

and everything needs to go just right. So can you imagine the anxiety that I feel?

Oh! Anyhow, so perfection is nonsense at home is also nonsense at work. It's nonsense everywhere and I just need to remind myself of that as well. So this week ladies I got to go to Ohio and

meet up with my sister Katie who's now I don't know if she's I don't think she's said this yet but she's moving to California and she is going to start going by Kate

So she's growing up so fast. I'm probably still going to accidentally call her Katie. So Kate and

Rebecca who likes to go by Rebecca I met them. Well I already knew my sister but we

had so much fun. In fact we recorded several

podcasts so Katie is the assistant slash we like to call her the a sister end of the mom's struggling while

podcast also now a co-host but she is the one with the plan she's the one who

keeps us on track I I'm going to be perfectly

honest. I needed a break so bad that I on purpose didn't bring my microphone or my

...