Well, hey there. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and this is episode number 99. How to Belong. So glad you're here.

Hey, everybody. So good to chat with you again today. I am in my office. It's dark this morning. It is another cold, rainy day. I don't know about you. I actually love the winter. I love kind of snuggling in and feeling like, oh, we should just cozy up and

stay in together. But about this time of year, I'm like, okay, I'm ready for spring. So I hope

you're enjoying whatever, whether you're having. I also just took some sourdough bagels and I let the, I put all the dough together and let it

rise overnight and sat it by the fire so that the dough could rise a little more.

So I'm making sourdough bagels today.

So I hope you are having a wonderful day.

I can't wait to chat with you about this topic.

It's so funny that I posted this earlier this week on Instagram and most people are like,

oh my gosh, wow. Yeah, this is so true. But then there's always those people who can't wrap

their minds around the fact that it's really up to us. I teach this a lot

with everything I teach, with how you think about your life, how you experience your life,

the emotional life that you create for yourself with your thoughts. And I do think it's one of those

things that's hard to wrap your head around,

but just be patient if it feels like, I don't know if I believe this or not.

Just be patient with yourself.

But before we dive in, I wanted to thank you, first of all,

for all the reviews that you leave on the podcast that helps other people find it.

We're so grateful for that.

We had one recently and it was so sweet. This person didn't leave her name, but she said,

this is a solid gold podcast. Dr. Edie is my spiritual fairy godmother. Oh, I love that.

She always knows what I need most and is so good at communicating it gently.

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