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parents nationwide. Welcome to Thursday's solo episode. My name is Renee and I am the host of the mom room.

I never say that, but welcome. My name is Renee. I wanted to give a little bit of a life update. I feel like the solo

episodes have been a little bit topical lately and so I haven't just been like sharing about what's

going on in our lives, things that I'm struggling with, things that I'm loving, you know,

and I'm also not sharing as much on stories on Instagram because to be quite honest,

if you're a creator that is constantly storying throughout your day, which like I wasn't,

I was pretty much like that, like felt like I always had to be storytelling or documenting everything

that I was doing. And in 2024, I was like, I want to be more

present. I don't want my phone in my hand 24-7. So I started putting my phone away for long periods.

And then what happened after doing that for a while was that I just kind of lost the need to story things,

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