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... Good morning, gorgeous. How are you doing today? Welcome to 2026. I hope that this year so far has been beautiful. I hope it started off the way that you would have liked it to. If it's your first time listening, welcome. I'm Dr. Michelle Daff. And on this show, I talk about

womanhood, femininity, marriage, love, self-development, life, and all the things, really,

that encompass the journey that we are on as women. Today is a rainy winter day and it feels so

good to just watch the rain, watch the trees, watch the people be indoors and a nice cozy

warm sweater and just take in where we are. I just wanted to say happy new year

and I thank you for all of your support and your love. So I wanted to come today and just

hopefully give you a word to help you at the beginning of this new year for your own personal

growth. And what I wanted to bring to you

was this idea of shocking yourself. In the new year, of course, it's all about new beginnings.

It's about fresh starts, blank slates, promises that you make to yourself and other people.

And it's a good thing.

I know people will say sometimes, like, don't make New Year's resolutions, don't do this,

don't do that.

Well, I do understand the sentiment behind it that it can be a lot of pressure and difficult to

sustain.

But I think it overall is a positive thing. It's a good thing. It's not

negative. So why stop? Why go into anything with negativity, with defeat? So I have a very

different view about it. I don't necessarily think that you're not going to follow through with

your promises

to yourself, but I want to add something to it to hopefully help you to make a bigger impact.

And that is the idea of shocking yourself. Now, the word shock by definition is a sudden, upsetting,

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