Welcome. My name is Lauren and this is my podcast A Mindful Life. In these episodes we chat, we talk about life, wellness, sleep therapy and

your mental health.

Some of the episodes are talks,

chats and others are my meditations on sleep therapy and wellness.

This podcast is supported by my Patreon.

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my name, Lauren Ostrosky Fenton.

Thank you to all of you who support me on Patreon.

Now, sit down or lie down comfortably and we will begin.

Hey, thank you for joining me. I have a beautiful cup of strong coffee with me and I have just finished work and come home and I'm moving around in my comfortable chair which I think I've talked about my comfortable chair for years now it has holes it's falling apart like

it's literally rotting as in the fabric is just wearing bare but I love it so

much do you have something that you've had for a long time that's like a comfortable

Teddy that you hold on to that's thread bare and worn? We like predictability, don't we? And we like familiarity, and we like to be able to predict our environment.

And part of mental health is the ability to predict your environment to a point.

Change is eternal.

Every moment is a change. Every moment brings a new experience and new learning. Every

moment leaves the prior moment behind. So there's always change. Within that as human beings, as social beings, we want to

create a level of predictability so that we feel safe, secure, can work effectively within our

environment and have purpose so we know what's happening. We know what time

we're going to bed, we know what we're going to have for breakfast in the morning,

we know who our friends are, we know that our partner is faithful.

It's healthy and it supports our psychosocial being and the community at large.

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