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Hi friends. Welcome back to the show and welcome to a week of reading. I am a little bit giddy

with excitement to be honest, dive into this week because it feels like a little bit like giving

ourselves a sneaky little gift. Like is it actually a self-care practice to read? Oh,

absolutely in every way it is. So if you already are in the middle of an epic book, you're reading a

lot. I want you to stick with that so that you can continue reading something that you're really

into and that you're really enjoying. If you don't have an active book, a book half

open on your nightstand right now, today you are going to choose your read for the week and

most likely into the future. I don't know how fast of a reader you are. The point of this week

is not for you to finish a book by Friday. Okay. So these practices come with

absolutely no pressure. All right. We're not reading to prove a point. We're not reading to check

something off a list. We're not reading to tell other people that we're reading. You know,

this is not about anything external at all.

I would like for this week to become an opportunity to reawaken that childlike wonder that,

for me, shows up in the world of books.

That for me, it's really, it feels like a childlike experience because we don't get it as often

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