Hey guys, welcome to the Mental Makeover podcast. I'm Lauren Curtis. You've probably heard the phrase,

the grass is always greener on the other side, but I believe it's greener where you water it.

This podcast is here to provide you with meaningful advice from myself and others in order to give

your little patch of grass the best chance to grow and flourish.

Hey guys, hope you're all having a nice day. I wanted to chat about what has been on my mind. I

generally talk about the things that I need to come to terms with myself. Not always, actually. That's a bit

of a generalisation, but a lot of the time, I feel like the reason I record these podcasts is because

I've just come full circle with a thought or just finished struggling with something and I've gotten mentally on top of it,

even if like temporarily, but just mentally on top of it. And I want to share how I got to that

point. It's not always like, oh, you know, I've just been observing people for years and I've come to this conclusion.

A lot of the time, I think I heard that about authors.

Like, a lot of the time authors write books that they need to take advice from themselves

or they write books for themselves.

I don't know.

Something like that anyway.

But this is one of those.

So it was yesterday, I believe, that Reese and I...

This is like... I'll tell you the story, like the lead-up to this particular situation.

But Reese and I were shopping for dinner, and we couldn't decide between a little like summary

salad that we love or this pesto summary salad with pasta that we used to eat and loved.

And we couldn't remember the brand of vegan pesto that we used.

So I thought to myself, oh, no, and also the vegan parmesan,

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