Welcome back to mood with Lauren Elizabeth. I'm Lauren Elizabeth and today I felt it in my gut heart and soul to honestly just sit down and talk to you guys just by myself because I know I've had a lot of guests on and they have been absolutely freaking incredible amazing but sometimes I do just like to chat one I want with you guys switch it up every now and then so I thought you know what I'm feeling this in my gut let's do it today we are going to talk about a new phrase that I

have gotten brought to my attention called shutting yourself I love it because it sounds like shutting yourself but it's way more meaningful and super important especially to me so I'm going to kind of broach this topic with you guys stay in the current mood section but first let's get into best mood and worst mood of the week this was a tough one I'm not going to lie I've definitely been feeling a lot more heavy in my worst moods not to say that I don't have good days but I also in the type of person that

can put a magnifying glass over the negative stuff and you know catastrophes and so on and so forth but this is always good exercise for me which is why I recommend it to you guys as well it's like really looking at the best in the worst of the week it's like you're

acknowledging where you can improve on you're really looking inward and evaluating like your worst mood and questioning it and almost just kind of not being so afraid of it and knowing that it's okay but then you're also forcing yourself to find the best mood too

because sometimes it's so easy to find the worst one and not the best one which has kind of in the case for me the past couple of weeks and so the best mood that I came up with was reconnecting and just kind of in a broader sense but obviously with some you know specific examples but reconnecting in the sense of kind of with myself with things that

give me joy in my life with the possibility of just like enjoying things because it's it's really easy to just get down especially in the time that we're in right now and not really have a lot of motivation to get out of that mindset because there's not quite

frankly much to do right now and I found myself just kind of reconnecting whether it was like kind of the mood boosters I always talk to you guys about which is like face timing and texting my friends and stuff like that and so I've done a really good job of staying connected

with my family and my close friends and then I've kind of taken it to the next level of reconnecting with that like next outer layer of friends reconnecting with some of the personal work that I do and just reconnecting on a level of not avoiding things that usually bring me joy anymore just kind of reconnecting with those little things in life that make me happy whether it's a certain person that I like to talk to but maybe haven't reached out to in a while and activity that I haven't done in a while just reconnecting to those things that bring me joy.

It's okay to feel disconnected from things at times and it becomes hard to reconnect to them since you kind of built a new habit of almost just being disconnected so it really can be a best mood to really reconnect with those things and use it as like a positive little thing to brighten up your week and look back on and think like I actually reconnected with quite a few things this week like that's good progress.

I also saw a really good meme on Instagram that said something in this sort of like stop saying I'm sorry for not texting you back and like making up some excuse and just being honest and saying I'm sorry I've just been disconnecting from my phone more.

I know that sometimes those things sound like woo woo and like cliche not cliche but just kind of like lame I guess but it's true and I feel like people are really understanding.

I'm honestly a really bad texture the only reason I'm so good at Instagram DMs is because it says seen on it so I don't open it until I know I'm going to reply and then the blue dots are always there and I want to open it so bad so I have to reply but with a text message I can just open it and like literally totally forget and I don't feel like texting someone back and so over the past week I've really just kind of been honest when I forgot to text someone back and it's nothing personal at all it's obviously not it's just kind of that text message of hey sorry I've been really disconnected from my phone.

Really disconnected from my phone lately Mr. text yada yada yada I literally got a text back that was just like I totally get it I've been doing the same thing blah blah blah so it's just like a nice kind of like honest way to communicate with people and connect with people and it put less pressure on you and just like being honest is just like it's the best it's it just feels so much lighter and brighter in your life so that's kind of a little summary of my best mood this week and then my worst mood was just quarantine fatigue I think it's just.

Kind of at that point where I know everyone sounds like a broken record saying it but hey these are unprecedented times my.

gals I mean it's just it is like I feel like I'm in this really weird transition phase of just like my personal life and just my life in general just kind of I don't know I just feel

like I'm in this really weird time where I'm like going through it right now and then it's like the pandemic you're going through it at the same time and it just like gets

exhausting when you're just kind of totally fatigued I feel like people that don't even experience depression are having like low grade depression and it's just like it's real real quarantine fatigue and just not knowing what's next not knowing where the light at the end of the tunnel is not knowing what I can and can't do what I should and shouldn't do I mean it's just it's a crazy time and it's been a freaking crazy time for a long time but to be honest as much as like this is exorbitant

and it's a broken record like it's just it's just matter of fact it's happening so you know it just is kind of being gentler with yourself knowing that quarantine fatigue is real what's going on in the world is crazy and really can affect your mental health and allowing yourself to be gentle with yourself throughout those worst moods and just kind of not should yourself which we'll get into let's jump into mood boosters and mood boosters are brought to you by article article is always a mood booster for me you guys know my entire.

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