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

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.

Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,

or share 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. Whether you judge the end of the summer season by the last days of

August or Labor Day weekend or the kids going back to school or football season.

However you look at it, we are here.

We have arrived at the end of summer.

How did it happen?

Every year we ask ourselves.

But as I like to do at the end of every season and the beginning of another one.

I want to get a little reflective

and take a few moments to just ask myself some questions that help close one chapter and let me enter open-hearted into the next chapter.

Now I use the word season here because we're literally talking about

seasons the end of summer going into fall, but I like to do this with

metaphorical seasons also, seasons of life, eras, if you will, both short term and bigger picture.

Like this is something that I really do multiple times a year as a way to kind of reconnect with myself, with my family because this often becomes a bigger family conversation, which I encourage you to do that if that applies to you but it also lets me see the path that I am on if it is the path that I want to be on which is sometimes up in the air. But I know we can go through so much of our lives. A little bit on autopilot or just with our, you know, nose to the grind, like we're chasing a career, we're chasing

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