This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. Hey Judith, what's the first thing you do if you had an extra hour in your day?

That's an interesting question because we're both overachievers.

We're busy, we're busy girls busy we've got long to do lists and I think my in a way my sort of natural

inclination might be to get something ticked off the list but I do think that doing something that makes me happy and makes me feel sort of energised is much more

important. So you'd spend your extra hour doing something you wanted to do rather than the kitchen floor?

I think so and I think that maybe therapy has helped me. It's not always easy has helped me to do that to think

well okay a cycle ride or some time in front of my, you know, with my

painting or whatever is going to make me feel better and is going to be a good use of my time,

actually a better use of my time in the long one.

What about you?

Well I'm pretty similar apart from the cycling thing.

I couldn't think of anything worse, but you know a little bit of my tapestry,

a little bit of crafting,

a creativity at the kitchen table.

I think that one of the great things about having had therapy in the past and getting

older is giving yourself license to take a little bit of time now and again to do do stuff that makes you feel better even if it's a teeny bit selfish, it doesn't really matter.

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