Mary Oliver posed the question, are you breathing a little and calling it a life?

In this episode of the podcast, I want to give you a gift. In fact, I was thinking if I could give

you anything for the holidays, what would it be? And here's a hint. It is so needed in our world

right now and a world that's so stressed and so serious and so uptight. This is a gift that

will change your life. You ready for it? Let's dive in.

Welcome to the School of Self-Image where personal development meets style.

Here's your hostess, master life coach, Tanya Lee.

Hello, my beautiful friends. Welcome to this episode of the podcast. We are about to head

into the holidays. So crazy to believe that another year is almost passed. And last year,

I did a whole episode on a gift that I wanted to give you. And it was the first time I'd ever done

an episode like that. And I decided I want to make this a tradition. Every single year, I want to

think about if I can give this community any gift, what would that gift be?

So I encourage you to go back and actually listen to last year's podcast because the gift that I

gave you was the gift of self-validation. Not waiting for other people to tell you that you're

good enough or that you're doing a great job because if we wait for that, we're often very

disappointed. We end up letting ourselves down and we put our own feeling state, our own

wellness, our own psychological welfare in somebody else's hands. Never a good idea, my friends.

So I was thinking about the gift that I wanted to give you this year and I wrote down a bunch of

things. And a lot of them were very heavy and very serious. One of them was like the gift of

self-acceptance, the gift of forgiveness. And listen, all of those things are very important,

very important. But I was like, this doesn't feel right. This isn't what I want to give people.

Like, what do people really need right now? And the word that came to mind, my brain sort of

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