5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Finding Small Hints of Joy Amidst the Chaos

Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This has been a week. On Thursday, I found myself flipping through my journal, seeking out highlights from 2020 to counteract the anxiety I'm feeling courtesy of all of this election uncertainty. Chatting about a happy memory on today's episode, and encouraging you to find some joy this weekend as well.

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0:00.0	Hey, Herdlers, Emily Abadi here, bringing you another installment of five minute Friday.
0:24.7	If you're new to the segment, I share a little story for you. I offer up a prompt to take you into the weekend.
0:32.3	And then I bring you my content picks, my highlights, some things that I am digging to share with you. This week,
0:39.8	I find it really important. Oftentimes I correlate between the newsletter and what I'm sharing
0:45.4	here on the podcast feed. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly hurdle, I highly encourage
0:51.0	you to do so. The link to do that is in the show notes. But this week in the
0:55.6	newsletter, many of you have been asking for it. I am offering up some of my favorite cold weather
1:00.9	gear picks, everything from gloves to leggings to long sleeves. So if you're in the market for
1:06.9	any of that, I have got your back. Make sure, again, that you subscribe. Anyway,
1:13.5	wow. What a week. It's so interesting recording content and working on content,
1:19.0	not knowing exactly what's going to be going on in the news cycle when you release it.
1:24.6	You know, I'm recording this on Thursday afternoon to bring you on Friday morning.
1:30.5	And I still don't know what could happen in our country between Thursday and Friday morning.
1:35.4	There's just a lot going on. I know that a lot of us are anxious with all of the uncertainty
1:41.4	that's going on between the election. I know here in New York City,
1:45.8	there have been protests. All of them, to my knowledge, have been peaceful. There are stores boarded up.
1:51.1	I mean, there's just a lot of unrest right now. So if you are feeling anxious, I'm sure that you know this,
1:57.0	but you are certainly, certainly not alone. As I was feeling really anxious earlier this
2:02.5	morning, I was looking back at my journal to reflect on some times that brought me joy this year.
2:13.3	There have been a lot of them. I think that it's easy to reflect on 2020 and think about all of
2:22.8	the hard and bad stuff that's been going on. But I also recognize that this year has had a lot
2:31.2	of positives and has brought with it a ton of growth. So I mentioned the journal.
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