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Hey, y'all, happy Friday.

Welcome back to raise your hand say yes.

For those of y'all who are new to the show on Fridays, I like to do short, really

kind of bite-sized episodes that are yours to simmer on, chew on, and carry into your weekend.

And this week, I want to talk about self-care.

Now wait before you roll your eyes and you're like, self-care. I get it. Listen, y'all,

honestly, that used to be me. That used to be me so hard. I love to. So I'm, this is a slight

aside. I'm working on a fun celebration, giveaway, all of that for my upcoming 300th episode. And one of the things that I'm doing as part of that is looking back through the years, because we've been doing this since some of y'all have been with me

since the beginning right since 2014 and i've been thinking back to who i was when i started

how things have changed what changes have stuck what which haven't all of that and i'm going to

do a big look back when episode number 300

comes around. So seven more episodes, seven-ish more episodes. And for those of y'all who have been

with me for a while know that my, I think, attitude about self-care is really evolved because,

you know, I used to definitely roll my eyes at self-care. I used to be like,

uh, self-care, whatever I know, take better care of myself and get more sleep and

blah, but-ba-ba. Don't tell me what to do, mom. Um, and I, yeah, that has changed.

Um, and I'm now at a place where I see self-care as not annoying, not I really at all,

but a completely necessary component of me showing up and being a human. Yeah. And what I want

to mention, the thing I want to settle on today for this episode is the simple

yet easy to forget idea that self-care is not a means to an end.

Self-care is not this like, oh, good idea to do when you're stressed out so that you can go back into

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