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Hello and welcome to the therapy edit podcast with me psych therapist Anna Martha.

I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your emotional well-being.

Welcome to this week's episode of the therapy editor.

I'm just going to take a moment to reflect on something I say quite a lot.

Do you ever find yourself saying, oh it is what it is?

It is what it is. Well I say that quite a lot and the other day I was talking to my mum on the phone and she said oh you know when

people say it is what it is sometimes that's really sad and I was like what I that. I use that turn a phrase all the time and I see it

it's a really good thing. And I realized that we were both using this same phrase in a very different way and both interpreting it in a different way.

So I wanted to reflect on that today and think about the times when we say, well it is what

it is and how that might be a really good

really wonderful thing to lean into and also how actually sometimes maybe we need to be thinking, you know what, maybe it doesn't

and shouldn't be this way.

So the way I tend to use is what it is is in those moments of, for example, when I'm in traffic and I'm late and I'm stressed and I know that every turn of the lights every time that I don't get through I just that little bit later and it's stressful and I can feel the tension in my body and I can feel like I'm getting wound up and I start huffing and puffing and just yeah being

frustrated you know that feeling and then I might say to myself oh well it is what it is. I remember when we were at the airport. We were at the

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