Hey guys, welcome to my podcast. I hope you're well. Welcome to Inside Anna's Mind if you're new here.

This week has been a week in itself and you know I always talk about turning up as your authentic self.

And sometimes your authentic self is feeling down and not feeling too okay and that's also okay your authentic self

isn't always your happiest version or all your bubbly parts it's also the normal human parts of

feeling everything you're feeling so I want to come on here today and just open up a little bit more of

some things I've learned, but also some things I haven't got figured out. And I think normally I like

to turn up on this podcast when I've got things figured out. So it was actually my birthday week,

which I think always has this effect because it's almost more pressure to have a good week. And so when anything not so

good happens, we feel even worse or we like question how we're doing. I don't know. But I want to start

with the best part of my birthday week and that was my birthday party and it was

two days before my birthday and I basically invited everyone who I felt comfortable with,

everyone who I loved my people and I actually had a bouncy castle birthday party and the reason

why I did it was because I was so close to canceling not

canceling I was so close to not making any plans my birthday that's what I

normally do I don't tend to have birthday parties because I don't really love the

idea of going out for drinks or making a night out for your birthday because I'm

like oh will everyone enjoy it or I don't know where to go like

I'm not the biggest partier so like to create a birthday party around that I'd feel even more

stress and pressure and that's not what you necessarily want on your birthday and so I just thought

what would make Anna happy what would make my inner child happy and I was like you know what

fancy castles and also like as a kid, I didn't, well, we didn't have too much money. And I would always see like my friends have like really fun parties, like a really cool cake, like all of these things. And don't get me wrong, I'm so grateful for my childhood and I think I'm extremely privileged to be where I am. But yeah, having a single mom, we didn't have too much disposable income.

And so I just kind of treated myself and I was like, you know what? I'm going to create that.

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