Let's make a pact to disconnect from any negativity and prioritize our mental health. Make some bread, hug a tree, unplug that television. Let's find some peace and make some art.
Welcome to DAY EIGHTEEN of our new 30-day COMMUNITY PROJECT where we make something with our hands every day in order to improve our mental health. We all realize that creativity heals...it's time to put that knowledge into action.
These episodes will exist here, marked with the days numbered, in order for you to follow along at any speed that you like. Miss a day? Doesn't matter. Just pick up right where you left off and keep making things. These episodes will give us all some accountability, but if you need more, pair up with a partner. It really does help!
Join our creative community by making something today, whether it's for five minutes or several hours—your brain will thank you. Let's do this thing together and turn all of this sh*t into something beautiful!
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Episode Transcript
protect your peace, prioritize it.
Almost nothing else mattersright now.
It's time to disconnectyourself from anything that
feels negative.
Remove the social media appsfrom your phone, put your phone
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down, turn the news off, findpositive people to surround
yourself with and, if you can't,go on a walk alone in nature
I'm talking to myself, but I'mrecording it.
I take back anything I said inprevious episodes about needing
to stay aware of what's going onright now and stay on top of
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things and stay informed.
You don't need to be informed24-7, and especially not right
now.
Take a break, take a breath.
Go feel the sun on your skin.
Breathe some fresh air.
Go have some fun.
Breathe some fresh air.
Go have some fun.
Surround yourself with joyfulpeople, people who uplift you,
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people that you can uplift.
There is a mind virus out thereand it can't reach you.
If you're not on the socialmedia, if you're not watching
the news, if you're not takingin all of that hateful stuff,
the mind virus cannot reach you.
They want us to hate oneanother, they want us to argue,
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they want us pitted against oneanother.
They want us fighting.
Don't do it, just walk away.
Go find your peace, prioritizeit.
Make a piece of art, make aloaf of bread, go swimming, go
walking, go running, go playpickleball, go write in your
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journal, go read a book, go situnder a tree anything but taking
in all of the negativity thatis being sent out to us over the
airwaves.
My entire reason for doing this30-day series was to heal,
finding ways to heal.
If you haven't alreadydownloaded this app it is called
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Insight Timer downloaded thisapp.
It is called Insight Timer andit's a meditation app.
It's free and it has all sortsof meditations on it.
It has like the kind wherepeople speak to you and lead you
through it.
It has Sarah Blondin, who Ihighly, highly recommend for
anyone who needs somethingthat's going to touch them and
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get you through a difficult time.
They have a sound bath, healingmeditations.
They have all sorts.
You can just kind of likesearch through it and find the
types that connect with you.
But Insight Timer, that is anapp that has really, really
saved me and brought me to amore positive place when I've
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been feeling inundated with.
You know the world affairs,nature is one of the most
healing things you can giveyourself, even just sitting on
grass, sitting under a tree ongrass, grounding yourself for 10
minutes, huge, going on a walkif you can, if you have the time
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, if you have the space, feelingsunshine on your skin, if it's
available, breathing the freshair with the sunshine.
I don't even know if I'm beingparticularly helpful right now.
I just feel this urge to sayprotect your peace, prioritize
it, focus on it and if youhaven't written down that list
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of the seeds that you're lookingto plant, do it today.
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