Days Are Long But The Years Are Short
The Southern Tea
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Lindsie unpacks the feelings behind Jackson turning 13 and the complexities of co-parenting. Lindsie also shares an intense ten-day struggle with constipation, leading to a discussion on TMI with partners and the miraculous power of prune juice. Plus, Kristen says she will be doing any baby showers or sprinkles, and Lindsie emphasizes the importance of focusing on the mother after childbirth. Kristen recaps her holiday sickness and the function of the often-forgotten gallbladder.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe I'm just like weird, maybe I'm crunchy. |
| 0:03.6 | This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Crisly. |
| 0:06.2 | I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their children's accomplishments on the back. |
| 0:12.6 | I don't love them. |
| 0:13.8 | A Southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying true to her roots. |
| 0:18.7 | I am a functioning, non-functioning human being right now. |
| 0:22.7 | Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea. |
| 0:28.6 | That is the tea. |
| 0:30.1 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 0:34.2 | Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea. |
| 0:39.0 | How are we doing, Kristen? |
| 0:40.5 | Hello, Lindsay Christie. Welcome to 2026 and I am hoping that this year is nothing like 2025. |
| 0:48.2 | Listen, 2025, actually I think I said it about 2024, too. |
| 0:52.9 | I would have to go back and look at transcripts, but |
| 0:56.2 | 2025 almost took me out. So, 20205 really was battling to take me out. |
| 1:02.7 | Let me tell you. So last night, well, let me back up. So yesterday was Jackson's 13th birthday. And I do not know why I was so |
| 1:16.9 | emotional on this birthday, like specifically. I have no idea. But I was just bawling my eyes out |
| 1:24.4 | whenever I woke up. I guess I was just like going back and looking at old |
| 1:28.4 | photos and then like the memories pop up on Facebook and then you go down the rabbit hole and then |
| 1:33.9 | you're looking at like birthing photos and all the stuff. So I was just very unwell and I had stuff |
| 1:40.8 | that I needed to get done to go out of town in a couple of days. And so I was trying |
| 1:45.2 | to like occupy my mind while doing that because it also was Will's birthday for Jackson to wake up with |
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