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I'm David Thomas. And I'm Melissa Trevathan. And we are so glad you've set us out a few minutes

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Hey David Thomas. Hey Sissy Gough. I'm so glad to be back talking about some different things

with you. Happy to be back talking with you too. Except I don't know that either one of us like to

talk about what we're about to. Patience. We're not good at it. We're not good at it. We need

Melissa's spiritual moment to be really long in this episode because she's way better at patience

than we are. Yes she is. But we're gonna try. We're gonna do our best. Just to remind her,

everybody out there. If you're not good at it, we're not either. We're all working on together.

Building that muscle together. So if you had to say something that's helping you right now with

your patience, what would you say it is? I would say the breathing app on my Apple Watch is helping

me a lot to remember to stop and breathe. And it's fascinating to me to notice that it sends me

reminders when I'm in these kind of stress worked up moments. It's fascinating how it's reading

my body and reminding me just stop for a moment and breathe. That's so funny. I was thinking the

exact same thing when I was last trying to think of what's helping me be patient and I'm not sure

anything is. But if there's anything right now, it's the same idea. It's just stopping and breathing.

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