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Today we're talking about tiny anchors, those little things or easy rituals that offer

comfort when the seas of life feel rough. This episode is inspired by a cup of Joe blog post

called What Are Your Tiny Anchors from last September? I read that blog post while we were in

the middle of the pandemic and just loved the concept and loved

reading through all the comments to see all the tiny anchors that people were finding during

the hard year of 2020. And so, of course, I wanted to discuss it with you. Okay. So to start,

now that we have a little distance from the most intense part of the pandemic. What were some tiny anchors that helped

you through, whether new ones you developed or old ones that you clung to? I love this.

Okay, this one is really random. But I watched so many shows about the Arctic.

Interesting. She went on an Arctic deep dive. So we binged on the show alone,

and we are still currently binging on the show Life Below Zero. And I think it's because it's this

like escapism. Yes. And they're always so survival based, where it just felt like getting back

to simplicity. It's so very different from

the desert, about as different as you can get. And so like it just, especially in the summertime,

it's really nice to watch it and almost like makes you feel cold. Right. So I don't know what it has

been about that, but it's been, you know, not controversial, not, not, you know,

suspenseful or things it just felt like stressful to watch during the pandemic, but just such

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