Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friend, how are you? We are pretty much delivering this episode a day or two after I recorded. Why is that? It's because my husband and I just returned from a three week break in France, which was very pleasant. You can imagine what it's like coming straight back into work,

straight back into all the things going on. In fact, I really enjoy it. I love to have a rest and I love to be busy. I feel as if there is beauty in both things and one isn't necessarily better than the other.

But I pre-recorded episodes before we left and now we're back and I'm

recording some more. It's very nice to be with you again I have to say. I have so many

new pot ideas inspired by my break and by my rest and one of them the

one that I wanted to record first was this it's about something called Living in the Middle. Now what is that? I got that expression

from Christine Carlson who's been on the podcast. Please check out that episode if you haven't already

She's the co-author of the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series

And she said to me during our interview that the older she gets, the more she cares about what she calls living in the middle.

So what that really means is not chasing high highs, not allowing yourself to get too

too low, but just living in the steady present, not feeling up, not feeling down, just feeling calm. Just feeling

steady. I never used to appreciate this when I was younger. I was constantly chasing highs

looking for excitement looking to hang out with new people absolutely going out

drinking alcohol and there's something wrong with any of these things, right, depends on your lifestyle and your choices.

But I know that there is almost like a fatigue and a never ending thirst when we're chasing highs. I agree with Christine because sometimes we confuse a

high with happiness. They are not the same thing. Happiness is absolutely a steady living in the middle. The day-to-day, the humdrum of life, not dealing with a crisis,

waking up, going through your routines, spending time with people that you love.

Highs are very alluring, aren't they? They're enticing, they can be addictive.

That's why we talk about sugar highs, right? Or highs when it comes to drugs,

illegal drugs, recreational drugs.

It's a very special time in your life, I think, when you realize that highs aren't happiness and I can tell you even with a three week break

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