Be kind to your mind with guided meditations from the Meditation for Women Podcast.

Your mental health benefits from sleeping better, releasing anxiety, and gaining clarity,

all of which are benefits of meditation and since this is mental health

awareness month give yourself the gift of meditations all you have to do is

press play and close your eyes listen to meditation for women on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get

your podcasts.

I used to think that Oprah could save us or really that she could save my mom.

My mom was a forklift operator at a paint and wallpaper factory and things between her and

my stepdad had been rocky for years.

I wanted to change her life. I wanted to clap my hands and give my mom stability.

I wanted Oprah to give my mom a house like I'd seen on her show.

That's not what I think it is.

Yes it is.

It's what you think it is.

You're going to need to pack up your bags and everything else beyond because we're going to make that lifelong dream come true.

We've bought you a new house.

I thought about the letter I would send in.

The sob story pitch I'd make about everything that my mom had sacrificed for me and my brother.

I was only a teenager, but I understood the formula.

The way you have to sell all your hardships struggles in this perfect little package.

I never did send the letter. But we all know this move, right? The reality TV we all love to devour the game shows the talk shows the I guess I'm gonna marry you if I win the show shows a lot of that kind of TV has this trope where like the way to win the game is to use

anything awful that's happened to you. Money troubles, violence, health

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