I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to The Next Right Thing. You're listening to episode 360.

This is a podcast about making decisions, but also about making a life. If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation,

or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of information and the

sometimes delightful but distracting hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning

your next right thing. I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional workshop leader.

I live in North Carolina with my family and through my work, I've helped thousands of spiritually

thoughtful people overcome decision fatigue so that they can discern their next right thing

in faith, work, and life.

What is our next right thing when our personal reality collides with the world around us?

Like when your birthday falls on the anniversary of a national tragedy,

or when you're grieving a loss in the midst of someone else's celebration.

Or maybe you're just trying to navigate maintaining some healthy personal boundaries around your intake of headlines and the news,

but you don't know where the line is

between a legitimate desire to stay informed and an unhealthy addiction to confirmation bias.

If you're looking for some guidance on how to balance the paradox of life that will

always be with us, you're in the right place.

Listen in.

Music be with us. You're in the right place. Listen in. We all know the complicated emotions that rise up when we're in celebration mode, but the world around

us is grieving. I remember reading stories about people who had babies born on September 11th,

2001, how they watched footage on their hospital TV between contractions, and now those baby's

birthdays will always carry something of that tragic day.

On a smaller scale in my own life, we celebrated the milestone moment of our first teenager

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