Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and longtime advocate for birth choices.

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night to all our listeners.

And a happy Thanksgiving belatedly.

You'll be hearing this two weeks from now, but tomorrow is Thanksgiving for Bliss and I,

and I just want to give a shout out and a thankful thanks to my friend, confidant, colleague, co-host.

Because Thanksgiving is a time where we gather with our families, and it's always a little

tougher time for my friend Bliss over the last five years.

And she pulls herself together to come and get down the show with me

and give her best wisdom.

And so, Bliss, thank you.

Oh, you're so sweet.

I'm grateful for you too.

You know, every morning, I think I told you, I do you're so sweet. I'm grateful for you too. You know, every morning I think I told you I do have a little ritual that I do. When I got back from Bali, one of the things that they do in Bali is they always, I think

they do it day and morning and night, but everywhere you go and every island, they have an offering, so like little flowers or

something like that, and then they burn incense. And they, you know, go around and bless whatever,

their home or the hotel or whatever. And so I've always lit incense in my house and candles just as a way

of like changing the energy and like,

you know, when you light a candle, it just burns off that energy. And so it's just been a ritual

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