Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Empowered Couples podcast.

Today you're going to be hanging out with just me, Jocelyn, in one of our solo episodes that we do once a week.

And today I'm going to share about our daily and weekly mindset habits so we show up even better for each other.

And I thought of this topic after really receiving some vulnerable,

authentic DMs from people sharing about their mental health challenges, feeling down,

feeling, you know, just like they're not their best and it's even showing up in their relationship.

And so number one, know that you're not alone

if you have felt like it's been more challenging

to manage your mental health

and to feel encouraged and to show up your best, right?

We're all really going through probably one

of the most challenging times

that we'll ever experience in our human life, just everything

that's been going on in the last year. And while it's all super important what's happening in,

of course, different ways, what I feel it's showing for the human experience is that we can't

let outside circumstances determine our mindset, our focus, and that

really we must be vigilant about our mental health. And it even made me think back to one of the

other hardest times in my life, not even our hardest time, my hardest time in life. And many of you probably

don't know this, but about, let's see, I'm probably going on eight to nine years ago now.

I actually fell down a flight of stairs and I broke my back. Yep, I know that sounds pretty intense,

but I did. It was an early morning. I was going downstairs for a cup of coffee at my ex's place. And I was wearing socks and it was really slippery. I just, I wasn't awake. I wasn't thinking about it. And so I slipped and bam, I broke to vertebrae and it was very painful and I went to the hospital and all the things and it was a shock.

And at the time, I was in a completely different profession.

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