My morning unraveled in a way I never expected, a poignant reminder of the quiet battles we each face, and just when I thought I had reached my threshold, life whispered a lesson in gratitude. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and moments of vulnerability, this episode is an intimate journey into the challenges that can ambush us on any given day — including the physical agony of endometriosis and the emotional toll of disrupted routines.
In this episode I also pause to reflect on a deeply moving social media farewell from a brave soul who recently lost her fight with cancer, a stark revelation of life's delicate nature that invites us to embrace gratitude amidst our own tribulations. And for those moments when you need a sprinkle of lightness, join us for a segment filled with quick tips for clarity and joy, designed to carve out a haven of tranquility and uplift your spirits amid the chaos. There are no guests in this episode, just shared human experience and the pursuit of thankfulness in the face of life's inevitable storms.
My morning unraveled in a way I never expected, a poignant reminder of the quiet battles we each face, and just when I thought I had reached my threshold, life whispered a lesson in gratitude. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and moments of vulnerability, this episode is an intimate journey into the challenges that can ambush us on any given day — including the physical agony of endometriosis and the emotional toll of disrupted routines.
In this episode I also pause to reflect on a deeply moving social media farewell from a brave soul who recently lost her fight with cancer, a stark revelation of life's delicate nature that invites us to embrace gratitude amidst our own tribulations. And for those moments when you need a sprinkle of lightness, join us for a segment filled with quick tips for clarity and joy, designed to carve out a haven of tranquility and uplift your spirits amid the chaos. There are no guests in this episode, just shared human experience and the pursuit of thankfulness in the face of life's inevitable storms.
Hi everybody. Welcome to the Jenny VIP Thought series. This is just like a little mini-sode series that I've been developing over the past few months. Essentially, I just want to be more in touch and be more transparent and, honestly, more alignment with all of you who've been listening to the podcast. These little episodes are really meant to give you all just real thoughts, snapshots in the moment, things that I think that I'm struggling with or emotions that I'm going through. I want to be able to share them with all of you, because I want you to know that we're all going through this. If you're having a particularly rough week, maybe one of these little mini-sodes might resonate with you, because we all have them. Life has tons of ups and downs and I think it's just important to know that you're not in it alone. This is really what the point of all these are. You won't hear the same topic over and over again.
Speaker 1:
Most likely it's going to be very different from episode to episode. I really hope that you find them helpful and I would love to hear from you on them.
Speaker 2:
Let's take a listen, Hello everybody, welcome to another little mini-sode. I hope you're all having a really wonderful day and that, if my voice is reaching you, that you are feeling in alignment and feeling good about where you are and what you're doing. But with that being said, if you're not, I can understand and relate. I woke up this morning and I was okay when I first woke up. But I shifted my routine a little bit and prioritized podcast work over my usual morning meditation and everything else routine. I did that step.
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That was a little bit off my usual and then it kind of spiraled a little bit from there, very, very lately. I do try to get a hold of the spiral once that starts to happen. But I was having kind of a downer morning. My son was giving me a hard time, which he usually does, but this morning it felt a little bit more exacerbated and then my endometriosis started flaring up and that kind of just added right on top of it and I got very snippy very fast. So I had a little bit of a rough start and then I realized that at this point in the month I'm like a week out from my cycle.
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So, all the things, all the women stuff, that kind of adds onto the whole mental load and anything else that we're dealing with. Literally it all was one on top of the other. The key thing here is I was aware as it was happening, so I very much was like, oh all right, I'm getting upset because of this, and I kept trying to stay to my husband. It's, I'm sorry. Look, it's just this. I was trying to let him know. I'm sorry, I'm being such a pain in the ass Because I was, I was being kind of rude to him this morning. So I was trying to be aware, self-aware, and I was trying to just kind of let him know. Like you know, give me a minute here to take some medicine and to feel okay. So it was all right, but I was still feeling a little bit off and a little bit grouchy. And then, as usual, some content came into my attention, brought to my feed, that made me stop what was going on. And the post that I saw was a woman and it looks as though her, it looks as though she has been sick with cancer and that as part of her final wishes after passing, she had requested that her family do some posts for her. So she, she posted well, not she, her family posted on her behalf, basically a farewell message. And I have to tell you, as I'm, as I'm saying this, I'm getting kind of kind of teary about it, but it it literally I like sucked my breath in and held my breath for a minute reading it because I was like my God I'm, I'm sitting here getting grouchy and pissed off about something stupid, granted the pain from the enemy, true assistance, stupid. But like I Was spiraling a little bit, I'm like at least I'm still here, at least I'm still alive, at least I still have a chance to course correct my day, or at least I still have a chance to Wake up to hug my kids, to hug my husband. And it made me, it made me pause, and so I go.
Speaker 2:
I wanted to repost this because, again, like we're human beings, you know we get caught up in the day-to-day and things get, you know, as I said, like piling up on you and you start to spiral a little bit. And I went to go repost it and before I did, I started skimming through the calm, the comments, and there was, I think, well over 700 comments on this woman's post and it was a lot of people who Didn't know her, and these people were responding and thanking the family and then Saying, like you, you stopped me, you shook me up, like this post made me Shift my mindset. Today, this totally has changed my day and and I was reading through it I'm like my god, I'm like this impact that this woman has had on On at this point in the day pop. Probably thousands of people that have seen this post have been able to take a minute and recalibrate their day and it's huge. It's huge this impact that she has now had on All these people, and all these people are aware of her now, and myself included, praying for her to rest in peace.
Speaker 2:
It's such a beautiful, poignant moment because everybody got this little reminder that there is so much more to life and we really just need to be grateful here. And we do need to be grateful for all these little things that we take for granted, because you don't know what the future holds for you, and so it's intensely important to To just be grateful to be here. And if your situation is dire financially, I get it. I because I go, I've been there and I've gone through that stuff like I Understand that pain and that frustration, that stress.
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Find something little that brings you joy if you're going through a Troubled marriage. Find something small. Focus on this small thing. You know, it's not always going to be these grand moments. It's not always going to be this grand. You know, thing, your husband's not always going to do well, my husband has never done this. My husband's never done this grand Things to show his feelings, because for him he's like I'm daily showing you my feelings, like, which is true, you know, like and then even in life, like everyone's always looking for, these grand gestures May miss not the most important thing. The most important thing sometimes is the small gesture.
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So I just wanted to share that with you. It obviously moved me pretty deeply and pretty profoundly today and Just made me really take a breath and breathe in deeply and be grateful that I'm here and I'm still able to be here. So I hope that this little episode Resonates with you, I hope it means something for you and I hope that After listening this, you do take a minute and sort of reassess and look at your day and Maybe you were having a bad morning and even if you weren't like, let's just take a moment here and be grateful. Thank you all for listening. I greatly appreciate all of you. If you're enjoying the podcast, please, I Hope that you can take a couple minutes to review the podcast, on whatever platform you're working in or, excuse me, listening in. It's incredibly helpful to me when reviews are left, because it helps to broaden the reach of the podcast and I just want to make a difference here for you guys. So, again, I just greatly appreciate all of you and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 1:
Thank, you for listening to Jenny's little VIP thought episode. I hope you did find it helpful and again, these are little mini, quick hits so won't take too much of your day and I hope that it just brings you some Clarity, some peace, maybe some joy and some instances knowing that you know we're sort of all in this together. Check out some of our full episodes which have guests and my co-hosts and you know lots of great things in them. But I hope that these mini, mini so it's are helpful to you. Thank you and take care you.