And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell

This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves and the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel

for better conversations and a personal awareness. This is an interactive

podcast.

Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,

text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.

This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.

The last four episodes of this show have been really great conversations. In fact, I've had really great conversations. In fact, I've had really great conversations all fall here on 10 things to tell you.

But as we move into the holiday season, as we start this last stretch of 2021. I am growing reflective as usual, maybe a little

earlier than usual. I am really going inward a little bit and thinking about a lot of

different things from the last year and a half. I feel like I really white

knuckles it through almost all of 2020 and probably the first quarter of 2021 and only in the last few months have I really been able to look back and kind of take stock of all

that has happened in our world, in my personal life, in my career, with my mental health,

with my physical health, with my physical health.

It feels like the last few months have really

been when I have looked up, you know,

when I have looked up and looked around, you know, at where we are, where we're standing after a real

wild ride of the last couple years. And I know that I'm not alone in that I feel like when I first

started talking about my mental health earlier this fall back in September I got a

lot of messages from people who were saying that they too had either hit a wall or hit a new stage of grief or were really coming to a place where they were deciding to make some real changes.

And often they were changes that came out of this time of the pandemic, out of this time of

deep divide in America, out of this time of deep divide in America, out of the way that our daily lives and so many of our

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