Despite everything going on, I felt relatively stable, grounded, and balanced to a point where even a close friend of mine last night goes, you're really well-boundaried.

And it's true, that's exactly how I've been feeling lately. I hope this doesn't sound as tone-deaf and sensitive or invalidating of your experience if you're going

through a hard time. But I really attribute this spirit that I'm able to maintain to a few

simple yet significant practices, maybe even boundaries with self is a better way to look at them. So today I wanted to share some of

those with you and talk about how to stay emotionally regulated in a messed up world. Hi, hello, welcome

to Mary's Cup of Tea, the self-love podcast for women. Though all self-lovers are welcome here.

I'm Mary. I write and speak about self-love,

and I'm best known for my book, The Gift of Self-Love, and I also host retreats for women.

And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself. And the truth is, the world is

always going to be somewhat messed up. Of course, it feels different right now

in some way. I think we can all agree on that. But it's also not normal for us to know every single

thing that's going on across the globe. This is the first time in history that events have

unfolded before our eyes and are interspersed with like

funny cat videos and you'll see humanity's greatest atrocities right next to some lighthearted

dumb stuff on the internet in short form that hits our brain with dopamine, but also anxiety. And it's just not

normal. So sometimes I question this notion that we live in unprecedented times because I'm like,

are the times unprecedented or is the way that we're perceiving the times unprecedented because stuff has always gone on around

the world. And again, I don't say that to be like, everything's fine. It's not fine. It's of course

not fine. But I think it behooves us, or at least the only thing we can do is somehow find our center. Quick aside here,

if you listen to the previous episode, the one right before this, I actually talked about how

I am probably more anxious than I'd like to admit. And I told the story of something that happened.

I just want to clarify, that went down with my best friend and that

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