Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of Living Well with Janet, where we explore

what it means to live well.

I'm your host, Janet, a yogi, meditator, plant-forward eater, and all-around wellness enthusiast.

I'm also a second-generation Asian-American woman, an experimenter and a deep thinker.

Join me in my conversations and contemplations on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual,

and environmental aspects of Living Well.

This summer season, I have been hearing and seeing the term Healing Girl Summer everywhere.

So, in today's episode, I want to dig into this concept. What exactly is Healing Girl Summer?

How do I relate to this concept in my own life at this very moment?

And I'll share with you some specific Healing Girl Summer practices that I'm doing.

So, Healing Girl Summer is a concept of taking a season to focus on tending to yourself

for yourself. A couple of summers ago, you might remember the term a hot girl summer,

that was the it term. And, you know, I was thinking about why those past summers were

hot girl summer and why this summer might be a Healing Girl Summer.

So, I think Hot Girl Summer was kind of this reaction to post-COVID times, right?

We were all isolating and people were just ready to get out, like, almost compulsively wanting

to go out onto the beaches, go to pool parties, go to social activities, get together.

It was all about yourself and relation to other people, giving off your hottest, most confident

vibe to others. It was very external and extroverted. But once we got all that pent-up energy

and needed to socialize and party out of our systems, it's now the morning after.

And as we're cleaning up those empty cups, tossing out the pizza boxes, maybe nursing a hangover,

we find ourselves back at home, party of one, just us and our thoughts, and an opportunity to go

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