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Finding Happiness & Gratitude this Holiday Season
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Dec 5, 2023
Join Caren and Mel as they tackle finding happiness & gratitude and peace of mind during the holidays. They navigate through overwhelming emotions, and celebrate the small moments in life. With their relatable and honest conversations, Mel and Caren offer insights, tips, and resources to help cope with the challenges we are all experiencing. Tune in to Life Uncorked, because sometimes all we need is a little guidance to find our way. #LifeUncorked #holidayseason #findinghappiness #gratitude #togetherisbetter #over60lifestyle #over70lifestyle #over50lifestyle #MelGreenberg #CarenGlasser 01:13 Anxiety, holidays, peace of mind, new format. 04:16 Talking peace in chaotic and overwhelming times. 08:16 Holidays can magnify loneliness without family. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@carenglasser Subscribe to our Spotify Channel: https://spoti.fi/3oXWCL3 Get up to the minute updates, subscribe to our Instagram Broadcast channel: https://bit.ly/UNCORKEDBROADCASTCHANNEL Check out some of our favorite products in our Amazon Store: https://amzn.to/47PjaPx Listen to the Uncorked Live Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3JXij4K
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hey everybody Welcome To Life on cour
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I'm Mel Greenberg and I'm Karen Glasser
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and we are so happy that you're here
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cheers everyone it's the season for it
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cheers
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cheers so Mel you know we've been
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thinking which is always dangerous but
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we have been thinking specifically about
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the holidays and the overload that comes
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with it right I mean it can be it can
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really like stop you in your tracks so I
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know talking about that in so many
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different ways and what what what's hard
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for me right now is with everything
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going on in the world this dance of it's
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a beautiful time of year it's
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celebrating it's Gathering it's joyful
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and and yet so much of our world is
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falling apart that yeah I I do this
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dance of feeling guilty for being so
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happy or not embracing but yet being in
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the moment and it's overwhelming and I
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worry about I'm sure I'm not alone and
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how to deal with that and when you
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figure it out
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Mel let us know because truly I don't
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think there's a single person on this
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planet right now that is not feeling the
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anxiety of what's going on in the world
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and then we have the holidays right and
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the overload of that so you know the
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question that we want to ask today is
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really like how do we create peace of
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mind and you know we've been listening
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to everyone and you know what you're
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telling us is first of all thank you you
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like us and we love you right back but
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in order for us to be able to be present
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and to give you the best of us we
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decided that um we're moving to a
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different format and we're really
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excited about it we're going to be doing
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short little segments but weekly
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segments how fun is that I know it's
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kind of cool you wanted more so now
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you're
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get for you asked for
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and we gave it to you so we're really
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excited about that and um we hope that
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we hope that you are too um but
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everything really has changed right
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Everything Has Changed right now and so
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what I mean what's going to be different
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in your holiday celebrations or in your
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holiday preparations mail as we go
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through this month of December well for
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me I have an empty nest again and and
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that that comes it's it's um Bittersweet
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I I loved having every body here um I
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also love having my space back right
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we're going to be celebrating at Matthew
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and Heather's new home which will be
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wonderful so it's different it's it's
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like now I'm back to like decorating and
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celebrating for just the two of us and I
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went through that it's like do I do it
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how much do I do and I thought I still
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need to create an environment that gives
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me joy I'm that person I like each
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season I like to have everything the
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candles the decorations and and it just
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makes me happy so I'm trying to focus on
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that and I really am trying to to be
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empathetic and aware but yet still be
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present in my life to where we are and
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what we're doing and keeping it happy
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because you know what else do we have
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yeah exactly what else do we have I mean
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I I'm similar to you um I I am really
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trying to stay focused on the stuff that
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brings me joy and leave the rest of the
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noise out there um but I too normally
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you know there's been just the two of us
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for years so I I didn't I've had
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emptiness for years and years and
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normally we don't have anybody here and
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it's you're right that is the challenge
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do we do something just for the two of
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us does anybody care and to be honest
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and I feel guilty about it I generally
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don't do anything because it's just why
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but this year I'm doing it and I don't
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know if it's because of what's going on
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in the world or uh what's going on
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personally in my family life you know my
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father as you know has been ill and um
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you know lots of things going on and I
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think that I'm starting to live and
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appreciate every single moment and
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making every single moment bring me joy
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so we're celebrating this year for sure
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well and I think you and I talked about
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this and how to how to start this first
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segment and
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peace had such a beautiful connotation
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because I mean I pray for peace in this
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world every day right peace of mind
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peace of surrounding it just it just
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touches tentacles you know touches every
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part of our lives and I
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wonder how how you all out there are
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coping and moving through this time
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going into December and now the holidays
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and which in the best of
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times it's overwhelming and chaotic and
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crazy and emotional and now we're a
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little bit of you know kind of All About
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Us in the worst of times so
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exponentially a thousand times worse how
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do you that but I think we we also have
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to remember that and it's hard not
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everything is bad not everything is bad
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and and that I mean I worry about
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everything and it's a challenge to
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remember you know not everything is bad
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and I find myself when I those thoughts
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come in I don't know about you I
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literally stop and I say okay I need to
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think about something I'm grateful for
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to replace that bad thing that's in my
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head what do you guys think out there I
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mean how do you remove yourself from
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what appears to be a lot of bad and how
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do you create that space in your life
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for good especially right now during the
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holidays time are you going to be
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celebrating with big parties our
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immediate family is not huge right but
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then when we start bringing in everybody
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and friends and and it turns into a big
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Gathering which I love and it's a chance
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to celebrate different holidays together
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and uh different rituals which I also
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enjoy so it's it we tend to yeah we tend
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to to Doo Big you know another thing
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that I think during the holiday time
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that we would be remiss if we don't
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mention and that is mental health and
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the fact that um a lot of people during
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the
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holidays their depression really kicks
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in big time and well that's this is I
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mean that's what it's a it's how you
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walk that tight RPP and not fall off the
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ledge and that's exactly what you're
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saying and it's hard it is it's very
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hard but knowing that you've got
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community around you and knowing that
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you can reach out even if you don't
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you're not used to asking for help yeah
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you should ask for help if you need help
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um you know there's lots of resources
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out there the one that I want to mention
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right now because it's the easiest one
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to remember and that is 988 and that is
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the line it's a short uh phone code 988
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sort of like 911 which is an emergency
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988 is for mental health emergencies
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what is that explain what the
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organization is it is literally a
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National Organization it is a phone
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service and when you dial 988 it goes to
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a central location and you say I need
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help or I need a resource or I need
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somebody to listen whatever that is
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there are people out there and they will
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route you to the right place in your
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state and it's it's really and it's been
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out for about a year and a half right
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now and you know like anything else when
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it first rolled out it was a little bit
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Rocky because they didn't have all the
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states lined up
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yet it really is an amazing uh place and
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you you just call like say you can call
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and say I am I'm depressed I I don't
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have any family around me and it's the
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holidays and I don't know who to talk to
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and they'll they will connect you with a
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resource to help talk you through it
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walk you through it make you um a little
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bit whole well I think that's that's
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really nice and that's really important
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because first of all you may not have
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anyone to talk to or you may not want to
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talk to anyone in your immediate family
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but I think the holidays magn
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ify loneliness yeah whether it's because
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you are missing what you had perhaps as
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a child or what you don't have now you
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you know divorces deaths
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Etc it it just magnifies it all right
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all your emotions and I mean I remember
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being in my 20s um alone in DC and I
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would just I would kind of walk around
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sometimes the streets and they'd be
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empty on Christmas day right because
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everyone's celebrating with their
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families and I was alone at the time and
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and it was a really sad time so what did
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you
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do uh usually I I would go to a
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movie and because it's it's I love
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movies and I would go to a theater and
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you can kind of Escape in there on every
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level so well that works whatever works
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and that is really what we're saying
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whatever works to soothe yourself take
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care of yourself call a friend call a
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parent if you're you're lucky enough to
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still have your parents with you call
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your kids call somebody um 988 call 988
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or call 988 I put it down on the bottom
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on the scroll just so you can write it
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down we we're really happy that you guys
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joined us today um we've got lots and
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lots in store for you right yes we do I
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think I'm I'm excited about the new
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format and I'm grateful for all the
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suggestions that came through over the
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summer because we always take the summer
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off and you all have lots of opinions
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and it's great and we listen and
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appreciate it so keep it coming and as
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we said make sure you check down below
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in the copy we have links to some of the
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things that we talked about and most
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ciao