Hi everyone is Kaysonger.

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app. Hi my name is Samantha Edo, and welcome to Radio Headspace, and I'm so happy to be here.

As you know, I'm a therapist here at Headspace.

I'll be here occasionally to talk about some things I think you might find helpful or

interesting in the world of mindfulness and mental health.

I've been thinking about hobbies lately. I love hobbies and I really need them. I garden, I do sew in

embroidery and reading. When I don't pay attention to my hobbies, work becomes a hobby and that

is not always the best for my self-care goals. So today let's talk about hobbies as an adult, why you need them, what they can do for you, and how to find things you enjoy if you don't have one. So over the last few years I have

definitely found myself having less hobbies. What really did it for me was cleaning out the closet behind my

office which contains a lot of my hobby machines and so I went in to clean it and then took a look and realized that I had a

cricket machine, two sewing machines, I had a sewing embroidery

machine patterns, like all of the things that would just really make a good

hobby life and realize I hadn't touched any of those things at least in two years and I missed them.

So I decided to just re-ignite my hobby life and I pulled them out.

I pulled out the sewing embroidery room machine first.

I decided to make a graduation stole for my friend because I have not taken the machine off the shelf in so long, I had to come with a

beginner's mind and like be very patient with myself, show myself some self-compassion,

when I wanted to throw the machine out of the window, and my needle

kept breaking, and it was like, oh my, I literally had to learn this all over again,

something that I used to do so easily, it took some patience.

Like the things that I was not, maybe not giving myself every day, like self-compassion

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