Ep.97 - Cultivating Authentic Optimism

Barb Knows Best

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Education, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Spirituality, Relationships, Parenting, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Barb and Michelle open up on a simple practice they both rely on to cultivate helpful optimism during difficult times. Follow us @MichelleMaros and @Peaceful_Barb and share your experiences with us @BarbKnowsBestPod or at www.michellemaros.com/podcast.

Episode Notes:

Keep something beautiful in your mind and heart as a form of optimism and motivation when times are difficult.
Life is difficult, so how we internalize it and what you do with it matters.
Acknowledge the feelings, including the sad ones but know that the feelings won’t last forever.

References Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:

John O’Donohue

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, hi friends. Welcome back to Barb knows best, the podcast. I'm your
0:20.4	co-host Michelle Marros and I'm so excited to be sitting here across from my mom
0:25.2	who is so cutely as I talk and do my intro kind of mouths along with me because she knows what
0:30.3	I'm going to say.
0:31.8	That was very cute. You're like welcome back to
0:34.4	Barb knows best the podcast. You're one day when we video these episodes you can
0:39.0	see her doing it because it's very sweet. I look forward to that in 20-20
0:43.6	or actually doing some kind of a video situation,
0:46.2	but you're so cute.
0:47.6	So long as you all don't mind maybe us looking a little
0:50.5	raggedy from time to time.
0:52.0	I think people would love it. It's the real world. It is. Yeah, so I'm very
0:56.1	happy to be here. I am a little bit under the weather emotionally so this should be a
1:02.3	really good episode. I was waiting for you to say as
1:04.7	you always do and how's it going being you today mom? You know actually in my mind I'm
1:09.3	like I'm not going to ask her because I know you're going to say please don't
1:12.4	ask me that today because I don't want to answer it.
1:15.2	Actually I'm very emotional and maybe a lot of you listening are. We're closing up 2023 and moving into 2024 and 2023 has been an extraordinarily
1:27.2	difficult year for me for us which we've talked about on the podcast quite often.
1:33.4	So it's, I have a lot of emotions,
1:36.2	a lot of waves of emotions,
1:38.0	and that's why I think that this episode is so timely
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