Girlfriends, episode number 375, How to Stand Up for Yourself.

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 and family living.

This week we are talking about standing up for yourself, why it's

important, and what exactly do we mean by that? Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for being here today. How are you doing? How are you holding up during this what is often a crazy time of year? Your kids may be done with school or they might be getting done with school. Here in the Northeast, school goes pretty late it goes through almost

almost all the way to the end of June but not quite so we're still just finishing up here but

I know many people finished last month or you know even earlier than that some of you in the south

have a different schedule but this is a time of transitions like time of year, there are a lot of sacraments.

There's lots of weddings. There's graduations. There's like that end of sports kinds of things

going on. So May and June every year can be just a really difficult time for families because

there's just so much going on and every weekend seems to be packed. So I just,

I wanted to start out today before we dive into today's topic, just reminding you to give

yourself a little grace, like whatever's going on in your life right now, however busy you

find yourself, or if you're just making the adjustment from school year to summertime routines,

like give yourself the space you need to do that. And maybe,

maybe just be a little gentle with yourself, maybe a little gentle with the people around you,

the fact that we've all got a lot of things going on can really add to people's stress levels

and can lead to potential conflicts or just feeling kind of burned out and wanting to give up kind of feeling. So just no,

you're not alone if you're kind of struggling with a level of activity that you're not accustomed

to or a level of change is feeling difficult for you. So just know that. Anyway,

just wanted to give you that little reminder at the start of today's show. But this week's topic,

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