Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. I wanted to talk a little bit more about the quote

Mutali shared in the last episode, and that is the extent to which you can admire someone else's

house is the roof. Love that. I'll say it again. The extent to which you can admire someone else's

house is the roof. So often we try to compare our insides to

everybody's outsides. And their outsides look pretty good, but you can't see very much when you're

just looking at the roof. And so I wanted to talk a little bit more about that. The number one person

I've caught myself comparing myself to over the years is

a woman named Tara, who I love dearly, actually, and she has the calmest, most placid kids,

or so it appears. And she's so calm and placid. She's always smiling. She seems like the perfect mom. And I watch them at church. And they sit ahead of us in a pew. And they're just so good. And then I look over at my own kids. There was the Sunday that my daughter, Cora, showed up without underwear. There is always some child lying on the floor, someone whispering,

someone laughing, the boy's giggling. And I think, what am I doing wrong? So I catch myself doing that

and think, oh, I wish my kids acted like this. So how about you? Do you catch yourself

saying, oh, I wish I could do that. I wish I had that skill. I wish I had that talent. I wish I looked

like her. I wish I had her husband. All of these comparisons leave us feeling empty. So what is

the antidote? To look under your own roof, to look at what you do

have. My kids may be higher energy and a little bit more independent and out of the box thinking,

but that is actually going to serve them later. They will be able to do hard things.

They will be able to stand up for themselves when they've made a decision on what they want to do.

And there's always some benefits.

So start to list all the good things happening under your own roof and just stay in that bubble.

In our home, we have been meditating and it has been a blast and so effective. And I love it because I can feel way more connected to my intuition

in that space and I can only imagine my kids are learning to be connected to their intuition as well.

We enjoy board games.

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