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Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

How to Get Over the Blues

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9810 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Are you tired of winter or feeling a little blue? Throughout life, we all experience times where we feel down or lethargic, sometimes for no apparent reason. Danielle offers ideas to “pick yourself up” when you are feeling down. She offers both spiritual and practical advice. Snippet From the Show Prayer can give us the proper perspective on whatever it is we are going through in life. For episode shownotes, text GIRLFRIENDS to 33-777 or visit www.ascensionpress.com/girlfriends.

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0:00.0

Girlfriends, episode number 361, How to Get Over the Blues.

0:08.2

Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living.

0:19.2

This week we are talking about a timely topic for many of us

0:21.8

at the end of winter here, how to get over the blues. I can't wait to start this conversation.

0:28.2

Let's go.

0:41.9

Hey, girlfriend. How are you? So glad you're here. Thanks for showing up for this episode of the Girlfriend's podcast. How's your lent going? Is it going well? Are you off track? This is a good time to

0:48.5

pause. You know, we're a little ways in now. So this is a good time to pause and kind of reassess.

0:53.0

Like, what commitments did you make?

0:54.9

Have you followed through on them?

0:56.7

Have you been imperfect about it?

0:58.9

Do you need to make a change?

1:00.4

I think sometimes we forget that this is an option in our Lenton practices, that we kind

1:05.1

of set a goal at the start of Lent.

1:06.5

I'm going to do this.

1:07.2

I'm going to do this.

1:07.8

I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. And sometimes that doesn't work out for

1:11.0

whatever reason. Sometimes life gets in the way. Sometimes we had no business setting those kinds of

1:15.0

goals in the first place. You know, stuff happens. So I think it's helpful to like part way

1:21.2

through remind yourself that you can just pause and assess where you are in this Lenton season.

1:26.5

Are you headed toward growing closer to God

1:29.6

in whatever practices or penises you've decided to take on or whatever you've decided to give up?

1:35.7

Well, assess that. This is a good opportunity to kind of just hit that pause button,

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