Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened.

We hope you all have enjoyed a very happy start to your new year.

I think Denise and I are still wrapping our heads around the fact that we are in a new year and a new decade.

It feels fast.

Didn't these holidays come very quickly?

They did and a lot of people I spoke with, it didn't feel very festive for a lot of folks.

Some were rushing to get through, some were thinking, how did it come so quickly,

but I think that makes perfect sense with culminating the decade that we just finished up because that's been a bit of a ride for a lot of folks.

Yeah, yeah, it was definitely I think because Thanksgiving was so late

Everything just kind of felt very hurried I kind of like and don't like the time after the holidays if that makes makes sense. I get very sad when all the Christmas stuff is

taken down and there's no more holidays, but then I get really happy as well because all the Christmas stuff is down.

And there's no more holiday stress.

So it's kind of a mixed bag for me, but I do like to use this time as my downtime. I don't feel as pressured by clients and

listeners to respond to ASAP because I feel like people understand it's the holidays I'm home with my family.

I feel that I have more permission to tuck in and spend like I spent an entire day on Saturday

reading a book.

It was lovely.

I haven't done that in a really long time.

And I feel like this is a really good time

where we can give ourselves permission to do that.

And that's sort of our focus for this

week's show. We're going to be talking about the power of the pause, how to use it,

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