Welcome to Sleep Meditation for Women Three Hours. I'm Katie Kramizos. I'm the creator of the

Women's Meditation Network and your guide here.

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show notes. Hello and happy September I usually try to get these episodes out to you at the beginning of the month, but life has been happening and here we are.

So I hope you're doing really well as you're listening right now from wherever you are in the world.

I hope you are taking a moment to take a deep breath and just be right here.

I've been thinking a lot about how much time I need to spend by myself in order to feel like myself lately.

So I wanted to share a little story with you about my thoughts about alone time.

Wow, you're going on a solar retreat before you're burnt out? My friend exclaimed.

I'm so proud of you.

We both laughed, remembering the dozens of times in the past nine years of being a mom that I've called her on my way out of town,

my emotional tank empty, exhaustion running through my veins,

excited to have some rejuvenating time by myself.

Solar retreats have been a part of my mental health toolbox for a long time before I was a mother, long before I was a wife.

In college I would venture out on my own in my little white for despire

that we nicknamed the Weavito because it looked just like a big white egg driving for hours that sometimes turned into a weekend

exploring parts of my home state that were foreign to me. In my 20s I moved to Florida and began doing the same, stumbling upon the keys and declaring it my little

sanctuary of peace that I would often escape to anytime adulting felt like too much.

There was no amount of stress or emotions

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