I am Sarah Jane Case, and this is Anya Graham and Coffee.

Hi friends, happy Wednesday. Welcome back to the podcast. Today, I am answering questions texted

in from you. Questions like, is the Anya Graham Christian? Can therapy change your Anya Graham

type? Is it possible to not have a wing and more? But first, today's rosebud and thorn.

Okay, so my rose for today is that back at Christmas time, I did our Christmas decorations,

and for the first time in my life, I got candles just for the season so that our house would smell

like gingerbreadty and Christmassy, and ever since then, so twice now, I have replaced the old

candles at the beginning of the new season. So we just did our spring candle re-up, which means

I got to pick a new scent for this season. And this is really fun for a couple of reasons. One,

I used to be kind of a candle hoarder. Like, I wanted to get candles, but I didn't burn them

because I have like poor kid syndrome where I'm scared of using the things that I buy because I'm

scared of not being able to buy them again. And so seasonal candles kind of has helped me to

really just use and enjoy this really small kind of luxury thing. That's one reason this is

awesome. The second reason this is awesome is that our scent is so deeply tied to memory.

So if you buy the same candles all the time, you aren't getting to create like a specific

sensory memory related to that time period. But yesterday, I still had one Christmas candle left,

and I lit it and just smelled it. And I was like, oh my gosh, this brings me right back to what

Christmas was like for us this year, which is a really good time. And so just smelling that smell

took me back. And that is a really fun way to get to experience life a little bit more deeply

for those that are curious because I'm nosy and I would be curious. Our spring sense, I did like a

citrus mint situation. So all of the candles we got have some form of like citrus bright mint

lemon orange kind of deal. Okay, my thorn right now is that every once in a while as a person,

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