Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build

happier habits into your daily life.

This week we'll discuss why we should treat ourselves like a toddler and why being in an

I'm right, your wrong conversation can be a real happiness stumbling block.

I'm Gretchen Reuben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister, the sage, Elizabeth Kraft, who's my happiness

guinea pig and questioner.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and I refer to Gretchen

as my very own happiness bully.

Lovingly.

And this week our try this at home tip is to treat yourself like a toddler.

We've all been around toddlers and you pay a lot of attention to is that toddler hungry,

or thirsty, or too hot, or too cold, or in uncomfortable clothing, or needs more time

to make a transition.

And the fact is, you know, we know that toddlers need this stuff, but we need this stuff too.

And I realized that I need to treat myself like a toddler and make sure that I'm not too

hungry and I'm not too cold and I have enough time between transitions because I could crank

you in irritable and tantrum prone just like your average three-year-old.

Yeah, I mean, I relate to this one, Gretchen, because as you know, I'm type one diabetic,

which means if I don't watch my blood sugar and make sure that I eat something, you know,

every so often, I could crash and be sweating and shaking and all of that business.

So it's like I have to always know where am I in terms of my food scale.

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