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Welcome to No Shame in the Home Game, the podcast that cares
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how your home feels, not looks.
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I am Lacey, your, you know what, today
is, that we're recording this, it's
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the first day of Disability Pride
Month, so I'm going to say I'm Lacey,
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your disabled co host, and she's just
fine with it because disabled's not
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a bad word, and it is who she is.
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Here with my delightful and
supportive co host, Sara.
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Hi, Sara.
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Sara: Hi Lacey.
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Thank you for bringing
that to my attention.
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I did not know that it was Disability
Pride Month and I like learning new
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things so I'm glad I learned something new
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Lacey: I made, a video and I made,
a really long threads post, because,
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as I say in it, the disability
minority group is one that literally
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at any moment you could join.
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if that's the only reason for you to care,
I think it's a pretty compelling reason.
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It's, something that I didn't think about
before I was where I am now, and I'm a
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straight, cisgendered, white, middle class
lady with all the privileges in the world,
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and if disability is challenging for me,
you can only imagine how it is for people
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who don't have all those privileges.
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if I can share my story a little bit and
raise awareness, it is the least I can do.
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Sara: that's awesome you are
bringing awareness to it.
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And I think that's all we can
ever do is just be more aware.
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Lacey: yeah, yeah.
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I don't think this comes out until after
disability pride month, but that's fine.
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We can learn any month of the year.
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Sara: I learned after the fact that
the last Wednesday in June Joy Day.
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Lacey: It's our bread and butter.
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Sara: everything is going
to revolve around that.
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So you learn when you learn and
then you adjust going forward.
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That's what we do
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Lacey: Absolutely.
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And I also brought it up because
the topic that we're talking about
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today, the tool we're talking
about, I use as a disabled person.
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It's one of the best tools that Sara gave
me when it comes to, managing my life.
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we're talking about the Good Better
Best tool, and I'm going to hand it
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over to Sara to start chatting about it.
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Sara: That's really interesting that you
said that's one of your favorite tools
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with the disability aspect, because
Lacey signed me up to be a speaker with,
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you say the name of the organization?
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Lacey: Success Society.
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It's a group for entrepreneurs
with chronic illness.
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That
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Sara: aspect to go off of, and I was
like, it's gotta be good, better, best,
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because it's all about flexing with life.
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And if there's a group of people who
have to flex the most, it's people with
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disabilities who don't know what days are
gonna feel like, more so than most people.
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People, what I love about good, better,
best is it allows for life to happen.
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Like I said, it's not.
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Binary.
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It's not on off.
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It is the dimmer switch of life,
which I just came up with and I
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couldn't be more excited about.
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Lacey: was so good.
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I'm over here in my mind,
like, and that's a sound clip.
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So I'm so impressed that you just came up
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Sara: this very much for me is
a response to how I grew up.
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I grew up very much.
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There is a right way to do things
and that is how you must do
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them to be a valid human being.
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So I grew up in this very, like
you're walking a tightrope and you
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can't go left and you can't go right.
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Cause if you fall off,
you'll never get back on.
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But what I love about good, better,
best is it just opens up that.
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That tight rope into this very
large interstate that you get
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to veer all over the place.
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There is, you get to do whatever you need
to do to get to where you need to go.
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So simply put, if you have an idea of
something that needs to get done, it
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could be a meal that needs to happen.
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Laundry, cleaning, eating.
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And I'm coming at it strictly from
home management because this is
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no shame in the home game, but you
get to have your ideal, your best.
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This is, if all things are
equal, this is what I want to
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happen, but you get to flex it.
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you can't get all the way to best
so you can do better and maybe
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a little bit more life happens.
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And you have a little less energy,
so then you shift over to good.
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Or, you can always start at good can
be your starting point, but having
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that framework of how can I level
this up and level it down, and I
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don't even want to say up and down
because there's no judgment here.
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It's just that dimmer switch
of where can I fall on this
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continuum of completing a task.
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The task still gets done.
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I always give the
example of making dinner.
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If your idea of dinner is making fresh
meatballs, having some sauce, maybe doing
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a fresh salad from your own garden, but
then life happens and you're like, okay,
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I'm not going to do fresh meatballs, but
I'm going to use the frozen meatballs.
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I still have the jarred sauce.
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Okay.
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I'll still do the fresh salad.
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Okay, life continues to happen.
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You're way too tired.
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It's the end of the day.
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Everyone's hungry.
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Just get food on the table.
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Good enough.
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All right, maybe it's a bag of
frozen peas and just the meatballs.
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Maybe forget the bagged
salad if you don't have one.
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Maybe forget the sauce.
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it's just going, I didn't fail.
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I simply flexed.
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Good, better, best.
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Lacey tell me about good,
better, best in your
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world.
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Lacey: First of all,
I want, I didn't fail.
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I just flexed on a t shirt.
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So I may be making that later.
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there's so many things that I want to say.
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the first thing I want to say is
the reason why Good Better Best
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has had such an, impact on me is
because it focuses on the good.
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Getting anything done is good.
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It is not a failure.
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It is good.
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So, literally, our baseline
is a positive thing.
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even if you think about high,
medium, and low, low sounds
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bad, I'm an A student, y'all.
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If I get an A I am
unhappy with myself, okay?
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Side note, this is a very lacy thing.
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And in my graduate
program, I ended up with a
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3.99 GPA because of one a minus.
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there's anything about me
in a nutshell, that is one
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Sara: what I'm hearing is you're
not an A, you're an A plus plus.
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that's where you would prefer to be.
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Lacey: but in my mind, anything
that's not an A is a B.
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is not good.
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And that's why good, better, best
is so great because good is an A.
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You did what you needed to do.
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You accomplished your goals.
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You got it done.
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Better.
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you were able to do it a little bit more
and in a little bit of a different way.
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Best is like rock star.
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Like we, the baseline is positive.
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And I think that's something
that we don't often see in our
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world of, doing the bare minimum.
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And let me just say, I don't like the term
bare minimum, but just meeting the goal.
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That is meeting the goal, especially as
we've said in multiple different ways,
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no one is getting an award for living
the most perfect life or being the most
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perfect mom or making the most perfect.
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There is no award for that.
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we just need to be able to
accomplish what we need to
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accomplish to be able to keep moving.
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So that is one of my favorite
parts of Good, Better, Best, is
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that the mentality and mindset
is very positive and not shaming.
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Because we all, as I've shared many
a times, I have shamed the shit
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out of myself over the course of my
life, and it got me chronically ill.
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That's a oversimplification, but really,
it's a big part of my anxiety, and
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my anxiety exacerbated my symptoms,
and it caused all these problems.
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the other thing that I really
like about Good, Better, Best
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is because it is so flexible.
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So something that Sara, talked
about is like using it as
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a scale for a task, right?
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So this is it, you know, getting done.
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This is it getting done
a little bit better.
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This is it getting done,
at the highest level.
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I like to think about it in
the more macro way of, okay,
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I need for this day to happen.
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What do I need to get done for it to
have just been what I needed to do?
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And that is my good.
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And then if, okay, if I have
a little bit more energy, What
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does that better look like?
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And then if we're talking ideal
day, I'm firing on all cylinders.
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That's best.
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So what I've done is I've built into
kind of my calendar system there.
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I have a category of this
task is a good, better, best.
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Now chain time will change
which category it is.
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Right.
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For today, one my things is my kids
laundry is sitting in the hallway.
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The good for me is getting it out of
the current receptacle that it's in.
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And that's, a success.
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Folding it and putting
away is a different thing.
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Separating it's a different,
like they're all different steps.
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when I sat down this morning, I was
like, okay, I want to get this stuff
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done for the Joyful Support Movement.
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This is my good.
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If I can get this done, it's better, So
I use it as a way to really organize.
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more than just a single
task or elements of a task.
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I use it to organize my life
because as Sara said, I can't
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do everything every day.
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Trust me, your girl's tread.
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Sara: Well, It's not just, you're
dealing with chronic illness, which is
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this own wild ride to try to navigate.
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So put that aside.
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life itself just throws curve ball after
curve ball, all of a sudden it's raining
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when it wasn't supposed to be raining.
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So your outdoor picnic
can't be outdoor anymore.
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All of a sudden the dog
is throwing up nonstop.
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Stop.
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So your hour of dinner prep
is now you driving to the vet.
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life just keeps happening.
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And so I feel as though it's essential
to know that at any moment it's pivot.
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it applies in so many different ways.
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And like you said, it's.
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Removing that shame element because I
get that shame has an importance in life.
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I really do.
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However, if we only attach ourselves
to shame, then it just drains our
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energy cup and we don't get anywhere.
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shame has its place.
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However, It's not a long term use tool.
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going back to other examples of good,
better, best, I was just editing our
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episode with Shannon, the nutritionist.
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we have the very similar mindset of just
starting where you are going from A to B,
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not trying to go all the way from A to Z.
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she was saying a lot of times
clients will say, Oh, well, I
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didn't have an hour to exercise.
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So I didn't exercise and her responses.
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Okay.
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Could you take a 10 minute walk?
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If an hour is best, that's awesome.
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If you have a whole hour to devote
to doing weights and cardio and
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stretching, awesome, but don't go zero.
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Again, that's that light
switch of zero or 60 minutes.
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Let's just turn the dimmer to 10 minutes.
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Can you move your body for 10 minutes?
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And it was the same thing when
we were talking about food.
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okay.
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It's not about finding the ideal
preparation to preserve all the nutrients,
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like that's good to know, but it's can you
just get one more vegetable in your day?
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again, it's that giving yourself that
allowance you don't have to either go I'm
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gonna eat everything Organic and fresh
cut and perfect or I'm only gonna eat
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fast food and everything processed and
packaged like there's a whole variety
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in between which Is where we live.
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We live in the in between most of the
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Lacey: I just had another
realization of, it's also a
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pretty solid relationship tool.
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after we had Isaac, Joe and I had a
rough road of adjusting to parenthood
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and everything that comes along with it.
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And one of the things that we
did that was a huge help is we
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communicated what we needed from each
other every day as a bare minimum.
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if you can just get these things
done for me, I will Be able to
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function better the next day.
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one of them became a foundation of our
later relationship is that if Joe could
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do the dishes at the end of the day, so
that I start with a clean slate in the
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morning, it makes a world of difference.
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and so trust me, he had a whole
laundry list for me, it was very nice
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too, because you could also have the
conversation to realize that my good.
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was really his better, and we were
able to see each other a lot better
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in a nonjudgmental way of Hey, this
is just what I need to function.
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And it also creates space of, if
there's a day where he couldn't do
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that, he could clearly communicate.
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Look, I just, it wasn't able
to happen today because this,
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and this, and it's that's cool.
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We know it.
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We're both on the same page.
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We can start new tomorrow.
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So it really could also, one of
the beautiful things of this, it
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gives you a language to talk about
things in a nonjudgmental way.
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Cause if all of it is positive and
all of it is moving us to the place
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that we want to go, it's, we're
just sorting it into categories.
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Sara: that's a wonderful point I had not
thought about is the communication piece.
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because you're so right.
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I think about this conversation
Sara from season one had she was
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talking about Couches with somebody
and she said this expression.
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I'd never heard before which was her couch
Ceiling like her dream couch was somebody
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else's couch floor meaning that was like
their basic throwaway couch But that's
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the same thing is finding again, because
I've learned so much from you about
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communication, how it's so much context
is so much where you're coming from.
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there's so much variability,
so you're right.
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Being able to also communicate.
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This is what my best looks like and
somebody else being like, Oh, my best
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actually looks different than that.
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And then that's a good thing with
relationships, because I think that's one
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of the things I've noticed is that when
we enter into a relationship, we bring
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in all of these, Expectations around
things, around what does cleaning look
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like, what is doing the dishes look like,
what is doing the laundry look like.
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Yeah, and so you're right, this does
have a great communication piece.
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I've had that with my husband before,
where I'm like, why are you only whatever?
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And he's because I thought
that was the expectation.
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And I'm like, Oh, that's
the bare minimum to me.
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And he's Oh, I thought it was maxing out.
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I want to give a wide variety
of examples so listeners can
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start to see how to apply it.
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I was talking with this woman through
a business connection and she also
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has chronic illness and she was asking
me, she's what's your recommendation
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on how often to change sheets?
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And I said, good, better, best.
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Best?
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everything and wash it.
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for me, I'm a two week gal.
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Some people are one week gal do whatever
feels good to you, but let's just say
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you're going to wash everything every two
weeks, but you've got chronic illness,
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so maybe it's not every two weeks.
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you're washing your top sheet
and your flat sheet, once
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every three or four weeks.
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I'm like, but at the minimum,
just pull off your pillowcase.
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And throw it in the laundry and just
buy a bunch of extra pillowcases.
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Cause that's the part where you're
really getting a lot of stuff.
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the part that you really want to
be like, make sure you're washing.
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But I was telling her and I'm like,
and then when you feel good, wash
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all those pillowcases and reset it.
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Hack.
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I went time heard some moms talking
about how they actually put four fitted
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sheets on their kids, beds, and then
they just pull them off one at a time.
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Lacey: Oh, if my kids weren't
still in the, bedwetting stage,
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I would do that in a heartbeat.
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that's literally, if you could have saw
me, my face went wide because that's the
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kind of thing I want to know in life.
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Sara: And all back to, there
is no one way to do things.
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There's no award for doing things
one way you read in a magazine.
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Nobody's getting a prize.
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It's what do you need to get done
to feel good at the end of the day?
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And how are you gonna get there?
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And again, going back to the premise
of this podcast, if we can all
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open up our doors and communicate.
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I only learned about that fitted
sheet hack because I was overhearing
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somebody at a baseball game.
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They were telling their closest friends
and I happened to be an earshot.
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But again, if we just open up our doors.
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And just admit, yeah, I use paper
plates on days where I can't stand
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the thought of having to run two loads
of dishes because I am exhausted.
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can we be honest about that?
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Putting it through those filters
of, this is what I need to do today.
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To get to the end.
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I like that you brought
up when, Isaac was a baby.
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'cause I remember when I was a new
mom and I had very high expectations
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for myself and I quickly, I had to go
to what I called survival days, which
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now I'm realizing would've been good.
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I was like, me and the baby both
eat, if one of us gets a bath or a
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shower, or at least just changes our
clothes, that's all that has to happen.
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when I told myself it was a
survival day, it removed all the
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guilt and shame and expectation.
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I just feel like a huge weight was lifted
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Lacey: You know, it's funny is I loved
those six weeks after, like the first
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six weeks where you're recovering, I
loved those with both of my Children.
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And it's because it is
one time in my life.
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I gave myself to live and
what just needs to be done.
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We lived in three hours spurts of
feeding because I was breastfeeding.
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my main goal in life was to keep this
kid alive, keep us both comfortable and
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happy and to bond as much as possible.
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And so me being able to remove all
of that other stuff and just focus on
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that, I am one of those weird people.
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I could tell you for days how much
I hated pregnancy, but I could
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also tell you for days how that
newborn stage was magic for me.
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I also just think it's like karma
and the universe being like, look,
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we just killed you for nine months.
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So you celebrate not puking every day now.
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but I did, I loved it.
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And the moment that made it hard again
for me is when I went back to work, that's
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when it was like, Oh, cause then all those
regular expectations came back on me.
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but I just, when I break it down
into, oh, that is the one time in
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my life that I'm like, yeah, I'm
gonna watch 75 episodes of HDTV.
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This baby's gonna sleep on my chest.
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what's the easiest food
that I can get myself?
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Awesome.
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Cool.
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Sara: Well, that reminds me to tie
this into the buckets of resources.
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When you're a new mom,
you're energy bucket.
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is not the
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same.
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So good, better, best is also
when you look at, what do I
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have available to draw into?
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And I tell people if you've got more
money to throw at dinner prep, And
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you can pay for those, pre prepped
things, or you can pay somebody
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to come in and prep food for you.
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You can get to better or best if
you can dip into your money bucket.
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you've got time, you can
dip into that bucket.
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But if your time, your energy, and
your money buckets are all scraping the
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bottom, We're going for good people.
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I was just at a talk I was so honored
to join a mom's group and I was
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explaining the relationship between
your resource buckets and good better
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best and the looks on their faces of
clarity aha of, oh yeah, of course,
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like it's a simple, it's simple, but
nobody ever take, I never was sat down
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and had anyone explain this to me.
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I had to fight through the
societal expectations of everything
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should look a certain way.
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It should be home cooked meals.
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Everything should be picked up.
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I worked with a lady who
bleached her floors every night.
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Like I thought for somehow I
was supposed to be doing that.
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I had to fight through this
feeling of failure to realize, it's
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hitting that bottom of the barrel.
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when I was a new mom of going,
I got nothing left to give.
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Good enough is good enough because I
can't actually physically do anything else
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Lacey: I also want to say it's
also about permission, right?
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Because that's something I learned with,
my disability and chronic illness is it,
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for the first time in my life, gave me
permission to not have to do X, Y, and Z.
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And I struggled with that
for a really long time.
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And it's also something that
just now, I'm like, oh, man.
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Poor chronic illness Lacey.
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I wish she could have had that
permission because I genuinely think
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she could have taken over the world.
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But that permission, I never felt it.
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Like I literally had to not be
able to move to be able to give
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myself permission to lower those
standards that were made up.
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Sara: because we, and this is why I
feel so strongly about this podcast is
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because we're having these conversations.
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It is made up.
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They are unspoken societal
expectations that.
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Once we start talking about them, they
lose their grip and their strength.
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With my work, when I started working
with people in home consulting, one
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of the things I noticed right away
was that yearning for permission.
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And it's I know I don't have any
special magical talent bestowed
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upon me to give anyone permission.
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I'm just a fellow human being, but
somehow me giving them permission to
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not pair up their socks or to not do
a freshly cooked meal every night.
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Like somehow me giving, yeah, it's okay.
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that's all they needed to hear.
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I reached out in the, Joyful Support
Village and I've reached out other
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places to ask friends, I need to
hear somebody give me permission
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to, just read a book all day.
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Because somehow inside of us,
some of us, not all of us, if you
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don't have this, that's awesome.
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Lacey: Good for you.
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Sara: of us have that like
guilt, shame trigger inside of
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us where we need that permission.
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So let's go back.
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I would love to do some
more good, better, best.
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I want you to name anything and then
I'm going to good, better, best it.
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And then I'll do the same.
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I'll give you one and then
you good, better, best of it.
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Lacey: A birthday celebration.
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Sara: Oh gosh, this is a great one for me.
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Sara, participant one, that
is one of her talents, is
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organizing birthday celebrations.
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And she loves the theme
and the invitations and the
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handwriting and the calligraphy
and all the little party gifts.
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that is one of her zones of genius.
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It brings her joy.
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So good, better, best.
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Yeah.
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If you have the drive and the mojo
to have a themed and to have the
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invitations printed and then handwrite
that envelopes, like that would be best.
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Little step down from that would be maybe
you can get these like parties in a box,
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like you can go to these different groups
and they'll just send you everything.
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you're still like doing all
that stuff, but somebody's
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already put it together for you.
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And then good enough.
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Honestly, my son's first birthday party.
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I knew I couldn't Pinterest it.
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I was just glad we lived.
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just said, we're having
a barbecue on this day.
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Everyone come.
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I got all the different types
of chips in the grocery store.
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And that was just like
this weird chip buffet.
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And I asked a friend to grill
chicken and that was good enough.
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It was just people at the same place
at the same time packaged food.
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Boom.
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I didn't even do invitations.
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I just like texted people.
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it was just, it was so basic.
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Lacey: It met all the
requirements, for sure.
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Sara: Good, better, best.
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Okay.
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I'm in a good, better, best to Lacey.
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you were talking about laundry.
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So give me your part of laundry.
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Lacey: so one of the things we
found out in the Closed Chair
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episode, is that I only had best.
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I only had everything gets folded.
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Everything gets put away.
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what I've started to do is, good
is everything gets separated.
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Cause I find when things are
separated into person, we can at least
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find what we need for each other.
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I have a potty trained and quote
quotation marks three year old.
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So the amount of times that I need to
find underwear and shorts for her is.
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bonkers.
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So to be able to just separate
hers out to be like, I know that
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this has only Iris's clothes in
it and I can find those quickly.
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Great.
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Wonderful.
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So I would say that's my good.
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My better is everything's
separated and folded, right?
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I'm just trying to get rid of the,
put everything away part of things.
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So I fold Joe's clothes,
but he has to put them away.
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I fold Isaac's clothes, but
he has to put them away.
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00:25:45
I still put away your irises.
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Honestly, that's good.
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Best is I fold and hang
anything that needs to be hung.
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Hanging, for some reason, is
just an extra step that is so
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much for me, and so that's best.
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Sara: One of the things on threads
I see people post about a lot.
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One is, I'm tired of Neil Palin ing,
what are you all cooking for dinner?
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00:26:08
The other one is laundry.
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00:26:09
I'm quoting here people saying, I can't
stand the folding and putting away part.
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And I'm, I go on there all the
time and give people permission.
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00:26:18
I'm like, then don't.
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00:26:20
Put everything clean in a big old bucket.
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Then don't do it.
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00:26:24
if it's driving you up
a wall, don't do it.
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Lacey: One of the most amazing things
that I've realized, and I'm gonna start
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trying to figure this out in my own, in
other places, is Iris has a closet that
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has a bunch of shelves in the closet.
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It worked great for her because if we put
it on a lower thing, she can get to it
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and she's not opening and closing drawers.
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Guess who isn't always
gets her laundry put away?
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Iris.
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Cause all I have to do is
walk over and set it down.
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00:26:53
I'm not leaning over to open a drawer.
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00:26:55
I'm not pushing clothes down I'm going to
be exploring this more of how can we use
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00:27:01
this in a way that works better for me?
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00:27:07
Another thing that you have said
before, and this has stuck with me
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00:27:10
is, do you hate the putting it away
because the drawers are too full?
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00:27:15
And I'm like, yeah, so I've been
trying to keep that in mind.
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00:27:16
right now I'm in a place where I'm
like, I got to go through these drawers.
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00:27:19
Sara: a couple of thoughts.
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first of all, thank you for sharing that.
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That's going to bring
somebody relief listening.
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And to piggyback on that,
I was talking with Corey.
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She was our expert, from in between last
season, So Corey feels comfortable when
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00:27:31
everything in her house is a certain way.
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00:27:33
One of her children's room
is not the way she wants it.
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00:27:36
We talked about just closing the door.
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00:27:38
We talked about a bunch
of different things.
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One of the things was the clothes.
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How the clothes just end up on the floor.
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00:27:44
So I really narrowed down
where are the clothes supposed
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to in quotes supposed to go?
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00:27:50
I always lean into what I
call three quarter bins.
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So it's not a bin on four sides
It's a bin on three sides and then
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the front part is angled out and
I said, okay So what if your child
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just has three quarter bins stacked?
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00:28:04
And one of the bins is
socks and underwear.
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00:28:06
One of the bins is shorts.
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00:28:07
One of the bins is shirts.
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00:28:09
That way they're off the floor.
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They're easily accessible.
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00:28:12
They don't have to open
a drawer or a closet.
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00:28:15
And she's like, Oh, again, I kind of
just had to give permission to break
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that paradigm of using a dresser.
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yeah, when we moved into this
house, they all have, Those bifold
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closets, so they're very shallow but
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wide and they all had
shelves already in them.
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00:28:31
for my son, because he was really
little when we moved in the house,
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I got those three quarter bins and I
labeled them all and he's responsible
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00:28:41
for putting his laundry away.
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00:28:42
He does not put them in
the bin the way I would.
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00:28:46
But he doesn't care if it's wrinkled.
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00:28:49
He doesn't care if he has to dig through,
he separates it and just throws them
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00:28:52
all in his bins and they're clean
and he can get to it and it's easy.
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:
00:28:56
exploring that, yeah, that hiccup
point again, going back to just putting
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it all in a bin, I talked to this
mom in our community, she has Five
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00:29:04
kids they all do a lot of athletics.
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00:29:06
So a lot of socks are
happening in the house.
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00:29:09
And she said, I buy bulk white socks.
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00:29:12
And when I do the laundry,
all the socks go in a big tub
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00:29:16
and they're by the front door.
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00:29:18
No one ever asks me where the socks
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00:29:20
are.
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00:29:20
They're always in a big tub.
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00:29:23
And she's yeah, they're too big
on some and too small on others.
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00:29:25
She's I don't care.
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00:29:26
Lacey: See, I hear that and I'm
like, that woman is a badass.
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00:29:28
I don't judge her.
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00:29:30
I think she's amazing.
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00:29:32
Sara: I was glad I had a conversation with
her because she was, she's very calm and
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00:29:36
I was asking her about all these different
things and she's just doesn't matter.
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00:29:41
She's like, when I get
stressed out about things.
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00:29:44
I'm the only one stressed out.
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00:29:46
yeah, there's always dishes on my counter.
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00:29:48
She's but we make it work.
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00:29:50
she showed me it was mindset.
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00:29:53
And I really took that away.
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00:29:54
I just, I desperately, I
want this to be like a game.
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00:29:57
I want people to call in and
tell me their frustration points.
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00:30:01
And I just like good, better, best it.
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00:30:03
Like I want this like to be a game show
again, if this helps one person and it's
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00:30:08
already helped you, and, It helps me, I
have to remember this tool all the time.
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00:30:13
So if it helps one person listening,
just reframe things, good, better, best,
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00:30:18
how, what needs to happen, what do I
want to happen and what's the ideal.
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00:30:24
And there's all different
chapters in our lives.
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00:30:27
Our job requirements change,
the seasons change, our kids
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age, like it's not forever.
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00:30:33
It's just making that
decision for that day.
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00:30:37
What is the good, better, best look like?
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00:30:40
And then flex, flex.
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:
00:30:42
Lacey: We should probably
do some gratitude.
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00:30:45
I have a lot.
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00:30:46
So I'm thinking through it.
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00:30:48
What do you want?
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00:30:48
Do you have one?
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:
00:30:49
Do you want to go first?
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00:30:50
Sara: This is so funny.
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00:30:53
I told my husband this last night.
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00:30:54
It's going to sound really weird at first.
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:
00:30:56
Okay.
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:
00:30:56
So I was opening up this gate and the
top of the gate was right below my chin.
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:
00:31:01
So towards my face and all of
a sudden there was this noise.
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:
00:31:05
it was a beetle.
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00:31:06
It was not going to hurt me.
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00:31:08
But it was really loud and it was right
by my face and then it like flew by me.
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00:31:13
And what I, what made me happy
was that I actually let out
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a whole spew of expletives.
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But what I loved about it was
just so Like I just loved that.
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00:31:24
I didn't try to hold it in.
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00:31:26
I was so scared for a split second because
I did not know it was flying at my face.
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And I said all these
ridiculous expletives.
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00:31:33
Luckily nobody could hear me.
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00:31:35
but it just felt so pure and unencumbered.
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00:31:38
that is my 45 year old equivalent of like.
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00:31:41
When I was in my 20s and I could go to a
dance floor, party, and I could just dance
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00:31:46
like completely unencumbered, no judgment.
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00:31:48
Like me swearing at a beetle flying by
my face was that moment of utter freedom.
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00:31:56
And then I went over and
looked at the beetle where he
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00:31:58
landed and he was really cute.
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it was full circle, Good.
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00:32:01
Lacey: Good.
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00:32:02
I've never called a beetle cute.
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00:32:04
So good.
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00:32:05
Good for you on that one.
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00:32:07
Sara: I love bugs, that
shouldn't surprise you.
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00:32:09
Lacey: It doesn't.
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00:32:10
So mine is, we're in the middle of
some trips and vacations right now.
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00:32:16
And I want to have a moment of gratitude
for the moment that you reach your
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00:32:21
destination when you're traveling.
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00:32:24
So that moment where like, you walk in
and you set your stuff down and you've
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00:32:29
gotten the hard part of getting there
out of the way and you only have the
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00:32:33
part joy of possibility moving forward.
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00:32:37
I just love that feeling.
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00:32:39
And cause it's like relief and the hope
and everything all wrapped into one.
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00:32:45
So I'm just, I am grateful
for that feeling so much.
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00:32:49
Sara: I love that you highlighted
that because I have distinct memories.
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00:32:53
As a kid, we used to drive to this
beach and it was a seven hour drive
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00:32:58
and that moment where You open the
car door, and you get your feet out,
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00:33:02
and you stretch, and you breathe in
the new air, it like smells different.
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00:33:07
And then you get to stand up, and
you're like, oh, I'm free of the travel
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00:33:12
part.
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00:33:13
Lacey: Yes.
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00:33:13
You got it.
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00:33:14
You got it.
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00:33:15
Yeah.
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00:33:15
I just, that is something
that I've always loved.
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00:33:19
And we'll just say our latest
trip traveling with a three and a
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00:33:24
five year old, even though they're
generally really cool, an 11, 12
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00:33:29
hour drive, not something they enjoy.
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00:33:32
So you can imagine the
relief when you get there.
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00:33:35
And you can say, yes, we are here.
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00:33:39
It added a new level to it that,
yeah, I didn't even recognize before.
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00:33:44
Sara: That is quite the gauntlet
for the three and a five year old.
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00:33:47
When they're really little,
it's a lot different.
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00:33:49
When they get to that age, and they
just want to be moving around, and
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00:33:52
Lacey: Yes.
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00:33:54
Sara: time has zero
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:
00:33:55
Lacey: Oh, don't like,
don't even get me started.
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00:33:57
I could go on that.
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00:33:59
Like one of my things is I posted
this on, on social media of we need
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00:34:03
to not call it family vacation if
the children are under a certain age.
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00:34:08
Cause it's a trip.
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00:34:09
It is not a vacation.
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00:34:10
It is a family trip.
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00:34:13
Cause I can tell you right now, a lot
of that did not feel like a vacation.
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00:34:17
Sara: 100%.
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00:34:18
That's why one of my big platforms in
life I believe moms should get least
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00:34:26
twice a year a three day weekend where
they get to go away on their own.
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00:34:31
Lacey: Absolutely.
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:
00:34:32
Sara: a vacation for mom
where she's not a mom.
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00:34:38
Lacey: yeah.
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00:34:38
So we are, that's where we are.
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00:34:41
thanks for teaching us more about
Good, better, best today, Sara.
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00:34:44
Sara: Thank you for everything, Lacey.