Episode 217: Saving the ladybugs

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Since we bought our house in North Carolina, every winter I have a minor ladybug infestation in my home office. They gather on the inside of my window and crawl around, trying to get out. Now, I don’t know hardly anything about ladybugs (except they are the only bug I feel comfortable holding, I know, so weird and judgy against other bugs), but I wonder if they instinctively know what to do as they try to get outside and free themselves. And they try and try, but are trapped. So, every year around this time I do my best to gather them up. Because if I don’t, they die trying to get outside, and then there are dead ladybug carcasses under my desk and that’s just not good for morale around here. (Even though my only co-worker is my dog). And mostly, I succeed in this. I get my empty coffee mug, or sometimes just my bare hands and gather up about a half-dozen at a time and take them outside. LADYBUGS, BE FREE! I shout. It’s kind of exciting. And the weird thing is some of them don’t want to be saved. Or rather, they aren’t convinced my way is the way out. If I don’t cover them up one or two will jump out of the cup and fly back on the window, even though they’ve been crawling around there for hours, sometimes more than a day and it’s NOT WORKING. So, do you do this? What is it that YOU instinctively know what to do? Is there something you know you need to do, maybe even someone is trying to help you, but you keep going back to trying the thing that isn’t working? If so, I invite you to get honest with yourself. Journal about it. Or, even just admit it out loud to yourself or to someone you trust. You, just like the ladybugs, deserve to be free from whatever is trapping you. ************************ If you’re someone who feels like she keeps crawling around the window and nothing is changing, just like the ladybugs in my office, you may want to check out the private work I do with women. I facilitate The Daring Way™, based on the work and research of Dr. Brené Brown and it is absolutely life changing. Click here to read about it and apply. http://yourkickasslife.com/217 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	This is your kickass life podcast episode number 217.
0:35.0	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy, Andrea Owen.
0:43.0	Hey, Ask Kickers, welcome to another episode of The Daily Diaries as we wind this down.
0:48.4	This is the very last week.
0:50.1	And I have loved bringing these to you.
0:52.7	And as always, I am so grateful that you are here and that you choose to spend your time with me. This month has been every day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Before I forget to tell you, next Wednesday, I'm taking a break, y'all. So there will not be a podcast episode, the normal Wednesday ones on March 7th, but the
1:13.0	following Wednesday we're going to be back to our regular weekly schedule.
1:18.0	And today I have for you another story about animals and my home office.
1:26.8	Yesterday I told you the story about the baby bunnies with my daughter
1:30.3	and her weeping and feelings and all of that stuff. And today it's a little bit different as I am going to tell this story. I'm looking. I'm in my home office sitting at my desk, and I have, the way that my office is set up,
1:44.6	we have one of those, I guess they're called frog rooms for anyone that know, Megan Hale, she's been on the podcast, she came over and she was like, oh, you have a frog room. I'm like, what is that? Front room over garage, I guess. So we have this large room that serves as, it's so large, it serves as both our guest room and our, my, our home office, but like, let's be
2:04.8	honest. room that serves as, it's so large, it serves as both our guest room and our home office,
2:04.2	but like, let's be honest, it's mine. And there's a large window on one end of it that overlooks
2:13.2	part of our driveway. And, okay, so I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit. But since we
2:20.0	bought this house, we live in North Carolina, since we bought this house, every winter, there's
2:26.7	been a minor ladybug infestation in the window. Like they're trying to get out. They gather on the inside of my window and they crawl
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