Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

We are recording today's episode just a few days after celebrating Halloween here in the

US and Jenna and I had actually carved our own pumpkins and we'd gotten into a bit of

a conversation around the topic of rituals.

Rituals on holidays, other special events, occasions in general, and we thought what better

than to unpack the topic of rituals on an episode here right now.

Most of our episodes we've realized lean themselves towards a how-to.

Here's an issue or here's a question from you, the viewer or listener, which we love.

We love hearing your feedback and conversation and really engaging with you guys from there

and when we were thinking about what to do on this episode so that we're not just doing

one more how-to and let's just open up to a more just open conversation and while we

were having that conversation about what to talk about, we were sitting on the couch

in front of our fireplace that has these really cool carved pumpkins that Nicole and I

carved the last couple of days.

I think just that cozy feeling of that sort of retreat, it's winter here at least in

the United States or going into winter.

I know for me my whole body, my whole being sort of feels that retreat and wanting that

sort of consistency of resting but also finding a, I don't know like this deep joy that

I have that is for me largely found in a ritual, something that I know that I enjoy doing

that I love doing and maybe seldom make time to.

It's been quite a while since I've actually sat in carved pumpkins and as a kid that

something I would do all of the time and I signaled it in my body in a transition way, it

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