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You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl.

Hello, as promised, I am back and I'm so happy to be here with you today.

We are going to talk about choosing to find me time. On the last

episode, I ranted a little about life, about running on fumes and carrying all that heavy

weight. There's the forever epic responsibility of being a good mom or dad through every stage and every age.

Or maybe you're a parent to an adult kid who still needs a lot of, let's just call it,

guidance. And we're trying to figure out how to do this.

We're trying to stay connected with our adult kids as they're leaving the nest,

but also knowing, you know, we've got to let them fly.

So yeah, figuring out that whole new rhythm, that whole vibe, take some work.

Perhaps you're all the sudden facing having to be a completely different kind of parent like me to an 83 year old who used to be my parent kind of thing,

which requires a great amount of love, yes, but also patience, so much patience, like all the patients

sometimes. But you know, in your bones, that's what you need to be doing. Oh, and then there's

the relationships. They are work. A commitment to grow alongside with your person, whether you are together or apart is a lot of work.

You have to give that time or it will just fizzle and you will grow apart.

And we don't want that to happen.

Or maybe it's just all the hoops, all the hoops that you've been jumping through, trying to hustle your

schedule so that you can do all the things. But it got me to the root of the point. There isn't and

never will be a 25th hour. That's the deal. So how do we actually make time for ourselves within our currently

existing 24 hours? First things first, it starts with choosing to get just as serious about

caring for yourself as you are about any other thing in your life. That's it. But here are some of the

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