March 16, 2021 • 16 mins
This is Amy’s ‘5th Thing’ (a bonus episode). ‘4 Things With Amy Brown’ comes out every Thursday, but on Tuesdays Amy shares emails from you guys and answers questions y’all have sent in. On today’s episode Amy addresses: food serving/portion sizes, asking people “how are you?,” the tinted SPF she wears every day, an awesome gift idea for a friend that a listener shared...so special.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Fifth Thing, the bonus episode
to the Four Things podcast where I go over emails
that you have sent into me, and we always start
Tuesday episodes off with a quote, and today's is from
Daniel Aman. I follow him on Instagram. He's at doc
Amen d O C A M E N and he
put up a little graphic one day as one of
(00:26):
his main posts that had this quote written inside. Did
you know that practicing gratitude can make your brain work better?
Research has demonstrated that people who express gratitude on a
regular basis are healthier, more optimistic, make more progress towards
their goals, and have a greater sense of well being.
I just thought that was a good quote to share
as we are right in the middle of the Gratitude
(00:48):
challenge for the month of March, writing down four things
we are thankful for every day, make sure y'all share
those with me. I want to see him on Instagram
either at Radio Amy or at Shop s Spua. I
run both of those accounts. E S p w A.
A spaw means hope in Haitian creole, and I hope
that you'll tag so that I can see them and
(01:10):
maybe even repost. All right, The first email is from Leah. Hey, Amy,
did you see that A Million Little Things is back?
Now that's not my question for the fifth thing, but
I did want to make sure that you saw that
the new season has started back up. My real question
that actually could go along with watching TV is about snacking.
I just don't understand serving sizes at times, especially if
(01:32):
I snack while watching something, I might end up eating
three or four servings and I feel like it's what
my body needed, but then I feel guilty because I
ate so many servings. Any thoughts on this possibly something
you and Lisa could break down on outwigh now that
I think about it. Okay, Leah, First of all, I
did see that A Million Little Things is back, and
I've already watched the first episode and it is so good.
(01:55):
So I will say this to everyone. If you're looking
for a show to start, highly recommend that one and
you can go back to season one and have something
to binge your work through. And then second of Aliyah,
I'm going to read you a newsletter that Lisa recently
sent out to her the Well Necessities community, because I
think it might be helpful for you and many others
when it comes to serving sizes. So here is what
(02:17):
Lisa wrote, let's talk about portions friends. Hopefully in a
few minutes, the term portion control will seem just as
ridiculous to you as it does for me. Now anyway,
here's what I know. For a lot of my students,
restriction doesn't resonate with them. They eat. In fact, many
like me during my college years, are the CEO of
(02:37):
the Clean Plate Club, always eating what's in front of them,
regardless of hunger or desire. They say, I don't struggle
with hunger. My issue is portions. I eat way past
fullness things I hear out of the gate. No, Lisa,
my problem is different. You don't get it. I eat healthy,
but I can't control my portions. I just love food.
I always eat more than just one bowl. As soon
as my bowl is empty, I get back up and
(02:59):
refill it up. Sometimes these statements are followed up with
stories about how their parents even said that it's babies,
they had a great appetite, trying to prove to me
how real their issue is. You get the picture. Their
main vocalized issue is the amount of food they eat.
As a retired member of the Clean Plate Club and
someone who also thought their issue was just portions. I
(03:20):
understood this all too well. During those days I was
annoyed by my hunger. I spent a lot of effort
trying to trick my body into not being hungry. Spoiler alert,
it never worked. I was starving by the time I
did start eating. For a while, I too thought the
solution was as simple as just controlling my portions, measuring
things out, weighing food, and simply just eating what I'm
(03:42):
supposed to eat the normal amount that everyone else can
eat without thinking so much about it. This never worked.
It left me wanting more, and my meals continue to
turn into grazes that left me unsatisfied and too full. Well,
it turns out my solution is simple, but it's not
trying to control how much I eat. The solution was
me to realize that there is no right amount to
eat that is perfect for every single person in every situation.
(04:05):
My problem wasn't the portions or eating past the serving size.
It was the underlying beliefs that were ingrained in my
brain that I accepted as fact, like there's a correct,
appropriate amount to eat. That number doesn't change daily. It's
the same for everyone, and eating too much is bad.
We're not to blame for this type of thinking. I mean,
how many times have you been worn to take caution
(04:26):
when dining out? Be where portions at restaurants are huge
and you never know what's in the food. Dining out
should be a fun time, right But okay, I hear you.
Portions at a restaurant can be quote bigger than the
amount we've come to refer to as quote a normal portion.
But sometimes that bigger than normal portion is more than
(04:47):
we need. Sometimes it's just enough. Other times, to the
shocking surprise of many, it's actually not enough. Fact is,
the chef didn't consult with you. They don't know your height,
how fast or slow your metabolism runs, what else you
ate that day, how much you exercised, if you're on
certain meds, or if you're on your period, and they
(05:08):
don't care that box is cereal. That said, the serving
size is three fourths a cup. Also did not consult
with you. Ps fun fact, serving sizes are not based
on what you should be eating. And there is a
lot of other myths about the things we accept as
hard facts regarding how much we should eat when we
recognize how influx our daily demands are. We realize that
(05:28):
it's okay to love food, that it's not a sin.
In fact, it's totally normal to get pleasure from the
substance we need to keep us alive. There's no right
or wrong depending on if you finished all of the
food or not. It just depends. Once we really learn this,
we can find the control we so desperately want, but
it's gonna look and feel differently than the control you envisioned.
(05:50):
Actual control comes from mind body connection, consulting with your
body on what it needs in that moment. We need
to reconnect to the sensations within our body that our
desire ing to help us know exactly what we need.
If we do that, the voice in our head changes
when we overdo it, which will still happen from time
to time. We do clean our plates sometimes, but other
(06:10):
times we leave food behind without viewing one as good
or the other as bad. Suddenly we don't care how
much our friends have eaten in comparison. We don't blink
when we eat more than our partner or whoever we
spend a lot of meals with that we think we
should be quote eating more. We are confident because we
know what our bodies need, Okay, Leah. I pulled that
(06:32):
to share because I loved Lisa's newsletter so much, and
I know you'll get to the point where you know
you'll be okay based on what you ate for your
body in that moment, not what the box told you
was appropriate. And if anyone has questions, then I highly
recommend following Lisa, my outweg co host on Instagram. She's
(06:52):
at Lisa Hame and we have a new Outweigh episode
up every Saturday, so that might be something helpful for you,
because I know it's not as simple as hearing me
read that newsletter to you and then suddenly like understanding
portions and size, especially when we've been told this our
whole lives. Lisa's last name, by the way, is pronounced him,
but it's spelled h a y. I am so at
(07:14):
Lisa hay all right. Next email is from Tiffany. Hey, Amy,
I just listened to the Q and A episode that
you did with your sister. I asked how are you,
and maybe if you others did also, but I wanted
(07:36):
to say that I started asking people how they are
after seeing the Megan Markle interview, not the Oprah one,
the one from a while ago when a reporter asked
her how she was and she was taken aback because
nobody ever asked, and it turned out she was really struggling.
I just think it's a good basic question to give
someone the opportunity to really address how they're feeling. You
never know if someone has something that they really want
(07:57):
to talk about but they haven't had the chance to
because no one brings it up. Could also be a
good answer that they want to share. Maybe someone has
something positive they want to put out there, but nobody's
asked them anyways. Just want to give my reasoning for
the question. If you happen to see it, I hope
you're doing well. And Tiffany, thank you so much for this.
I definitely wanted to share your note because I wanted
(08:17):
to clarify what I meant by bringing up that question
in last week's fifth Thing. I appreciate anyone that asks
how are you? I also ask it two people. I
just think in this last year it's a funny question
because of all the craziness, and I loved that guy
on Instagram is funny real about it. So I wanted
to play that. I also brought it up because I
(08:39):
wanted to share with anyone that was asking for the
real details behind how I am. Now I know that's
not what you were doing, but I do get a
lot of questions that are like, how are you? What's
really going on? And can you give us some details
about what's been happening with you? Stuff like that, And
I'm just not going to share some things publicly at times,
which is a weird place to be because I feel
(09:01):
like I've been such an open book, but I really
actually don't always share everything. But I understand that since
I was open about having a hard time and was
obviously missing work and stuff like that, and that might
be confusing because it was very known that I had
stuff going on. But the reason I wanted other people
to know that I had some struggles was I wanted
(09:23):
them to know they're not alone. Like whatever it is
they might be dealing with, I don't know the details,
but they were not alone in heartache and confusion and
hard times. But the actual details really don't matter. So
I hope that clears some of this up. Because again
I got several notes relating to this question from last
week's episode, and I just wanted to clear the air
(09:45):
and not discourage anyone from asking someone how they are doing.
I appreciate all the notes asking and I do think
it's okay for us to ask people how are you?
But then it's up to that person what they are
willing to divulge from the question, And like Tiffany's that
in her note, you never know the person might share
something good. It doesn't mean that the answer will have
(10:06):
to be something heavy. I also pulled some ways to
take how are you to the next level for relationships
like these are for people that are really in your life,
maybe not someone online, but like family members or friends.
If you know they've got something going on, you can
maybe get more specific and say, how are you today?
Or how are you holding up? I've been thinking about
(10:28):
you lately, how are you doing? What's been on your
mind recently? Is there any type of support you need
right now? Are you anxious about anything? Are you feeling
down at all? Stuff like that, And then maybe you
open up and share with them, because when you speak
about your own experience, you give the other person permission
to share without any risk or fear, because maybe some
(10:50):
people are closed off from sharing they've been hurt in
the past. Just make sure that you check in on
someone if you really do care about them, all right.
Email number three from Arianna hey Amy. Last week on
the Fifth Thing podcast, I heard you talk about your
Zoe skincare routine, and I've heard you mentioned before that
you use a tinted SPF in the mornings, but can't
figure out when that was. To go back and get
(11:12):
the name, can you just share this again? Take care, Arianna. Okay,
I am obsessed with revisions in tel A Shade. It's
an anti aging tinted moisturizer with sunscreen and I have
it up on my Amazon page and this is what
I pulled from the Amazon description outsmart the signs of
aging with this award winning tinted moisturizer that gives skin
(11:34):
a touch of sheer, healthy color of clinical steady. Participants
experienced smoother, brighter, more even skin tone, moisturizes and blends
naturally with the color of your skin. Okay, when it
comes to how I use it, I apply it with
a beauty blender. I run it under hot hot water,
then I squeeze it out and then I apply my
intel A shade again. The intel A shade and actually
(11:55):
the beauty blender. Two are both on my Amazon favorites page.
They're actually side by side, so easy for you to
fine to make sure you're ordering the right thing. You
can go to Radio Amy dot com for a link
to that. It's not a commercial or ad in any way.
I just get questions about this often, and I want
to make sure you'll get the right one because there's
several different products. I personally like the original, but maybe
(12:16):
you have oilier skin and you want to get the mat.
Just no, Ariana, it's revisions and teleshade, and I like
the original, and I apply with a beauty blender and
I wear it every single day, all right. Email number
four is from Aaron hey Amy. My friend Jess gifted
me a gratitude journal. She knows my love for the
Bobby Bones Show and my love for everything the shot forward,
(12:37):
so I was ecstatic to receive it. When I opened
the journal to look through it, I was blown away.
She had contacted the significant people in my life and
had them write notes amongst the pages, memories, words of motivation,
little notes about me and how I've impacted their life.
For what they love about me. She reached out to
my friends all across the country and has been working
(12:59):
on this for months. It's the most thoughtful gift I
have ever received my life, and I can't stop crying
over how kind and full of love it is. Like
everyone else in the world right now, my mental health
is not the greatest that it's ever been, and this
literal reminder of being loved by so many people could
not have come at a more perfect time. Words of
affirmation are my love language, and now I have these
(13:21):
sprinkled throughout my gratitude journal. I wanted to share this
with you because, well, for one, I wanted to brag
about how awesome my friend is, and to to maybe
share that idea with others who might know someone who
would love this idea as a gift as well, and
three to tell you something good. I think the first
thing I'll be writing down in my gratitude journal will
(13:41):
be my extra special gratitude Journal. Aaron. Okay, Aaron, I
love this idea so so much, so thank you for
sharing so that I can pass it along to someone
else that yeah, I might be looking for something special
to do for a friend or a loved one. It
sounds like Jess is an awesome person that you have
in your life. And then quickly, in relation to Aaron email,
I want to throw in a bonus email that I
(14:02):
got from Linda because it's about gratitude and she includes
a cool quote. So we started today's episode with a quote,
per usual, but we're also going to end it with
a quote. Okay, here's what Linda sent in. Hey, Amy,
I ran across a quote in guide Post magazine and
I thought you might like it if you aren't familiar
with guide Posts. It has true stories of hope and inspiration.
(14:23):
It was started by Rev. Norman Vincent Peele, who wrote
The Power of Positive Thinking. Each month, guide Posts includes
quotes from celebrities as well as others. The quote that
I'm going to share with you is from Michael J. Fox,
who has suffered from Parkinson's for the last thirty years.
Michael J. Fox said, optimism is really rooted in gratitude.
Optimism is sustainable when you keep coming back to gratitude,
(14:46):
and what follows from that is acceptance. Take care, Linda,
which I love when you'll send in other positive things
so that I can share it with everybody else listening.
I hope that anyone who is doing the Gratitude Challenge
is able to make it through to the end of
the month, and then it will become a habit of
daily making note what you are thankful for. If you're
(15:09):
just now listening, you're like, wait, what a gratitude challenge.
It's not too late to join. You just grab a
pit and paper or any old notebook that you have
and write down four things each day that you are
thankful for. You can join literally at any time, very
loose rules here with the challenge, and then if you
do happen to want our gratitude journal that supports education
(15:30):
through Project Meta Share in Haiti, then you can go
to Radio amy dot com for links to that or
even four Things dot Com is an easy way to
get there for people to remember. So there you have it,
all right. Hope y'all are doing well, and I will
see you on Thursday. Annie f Downs will be my guest.
She's come on the podcast before. I mean, speaking of gratitude,
I'm just super thankful for her and her gift and
(15:53):
all that she shares with the world. She has a
new book that's out. It's a New York Times bestseller,
and I'm excited to sit down and talk with her
about that, so that'll be Thursday all right. See then
by H
Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Fifth Thing, the bonus episode
to the Four Things podcast where I go over emails
that you have sent into me, and we always start
Tuesday episodes off with a quote, and today's is from
Daniel Aman. I follow him on Instagram. He's at doc
Amen d O C A M E N and he
put up a little graphic one day as one of
(00:26):
his main posts that had this quote written inside. Did
you know that practicing gratitude can make your brain work better?
Research has demonstrated that people who express gratitude on a
regular basis are healthier, more optimistic, make more progress towards
their goals, and have a greater sense of well being.
I just thought that was a good quote to share
as we are right in the middle of the Gratitude
(00:48):
challenge for the month of March, writing down four things
we are thankful for every day, make sure y'all share
those with me. I want to see him on Instagram
either at Radio Amy or at Shop s Spua. I
run both of those accounts. E S p w A.
A spaw means hope in Haitian creole, and I hope
that you'll tag so that I can see them and
(01:10):
maybe even repost. All right, The first email is from Leah. Hey, Amy,
did you see that A Million Little Things is back?
Now that's not my question for the fifth thing, but
I did want to make sure that you saw that
the new season has started back up. My real question
that actually could go along with watching TV is about snacking.
I just don't understand serving sizes at times, especially if
(01:32):
I snack while watching something, I might end up eating
three or four servings and I feel like it's what
my body needed, but then I feel guilty because I
ate so many servings. Any thoughts on this possibly something
you and Lisa could break down on outwigh now that
I think about it. Okay, Leah, First of all, I
did see that A Million Little Things is back, and
I've already watched the first episode and it is so good.
(01:55):
So I will say this to everyone. If you're looking
for a show to start, highly recommend that one and
you can go back to season one and have something
to binge your work through. And then second of Aliyah,
I'm going to read you a newsletter that Lisa recently
sent out to her the Well Necessities community, because I
think it might be helpful for you and many others
when it comes to serving sizes. So here is what
(02:17):
Lisa wrote, let's talk about portions friends. Hopefully in a
few minutes, the term portion control will seem just as
ridiculous to you as it does for me. Now anyway,
here's what I know. For a lot of my students,
restriction doesn't resonate with them. They eat. In fact, many
like me during my college years, are the CEO of
(02:37):
the Clean Plate Club, always eating what's in front of them,
regardless of hunger or desire. They say, I don't struggle
with hunger. My issue is portions. I eat way past
fullness things I hear out of the gate. No, Lisa,
my problem is different. You don't get it. I eat healthy,
but I can't control my portions. I just love food.
I always eat more than just one bowl. As soon
as my bowl is empty, I get back up and
(02:59):
refill it up. Sometimes these statements are followed up with
stories about how their parents even said that it's babies,
they had a great appetite, trying to prove to me
how real their issue is. You get the picture. Their
main vocalized issue is the amount of food they eat.
As a retired member of the Clean Plate Club and
someone who also thought their issue was just portions. I
(03:20):
understood this all too well. During those days I was
annoyed by my hunger. I spent a lot of effort
trying to trick my body into not being hungry. Spoiler alert,
it never worked. I was starving by the time I
did start eating. For a while, I too thought the
solution was as simple as just controlling my portions, measuring
things out, weighing food, and simply just eating what I'm
(03:42):
supposed to eat the normal amount that everyone else can
eat without thinking so much about it. This never worked.
It left me wanting more, and my meals continue to
turn into grazes that left me unsatisfied and too full. Well,
it turns out my solution is simple, but it's not
trying to control how much I eat. The solution was
me to realize that there is no right amount to
eat that is perfect for every single person in every situation.
(04:05):
My problem wasn't the portions or eating past the serving size.
It was the underlying beliefs that were ingrained in my
brain that I accepted as fact, like there's a correct,
appropriate amount to eat. That number doesn't change daily. It's
the same for everyone, and eating too much is bad.
We're not to blame for this type of thinking. I mean,
how many times have you been worn to take caution
(04:26):
when dining out? Be where portions at restaurants are huge
and you never know what's in the food. Dining out
should be a fun time, right But okay, I hear you.
Portions at a restaurant can be quote bigger than the
amount we've come to refer to as quote a normal portion.
But sometimes that bigger than normal portion is more than
(04:47):
we need. Sometimes it's just enough. Other times, to the
shocking surprise of many, it's actually not enough. Fact is,
the chef didn't consult with you. They don't know your height,
how fast or slow your metabolism runs, what else you
ate that day, how much you exercised, if you're on
certain meds, or if you're on your period, and they
(05:08):
don't care that box is cereal. That said, the serving
size is three fourths a cup. Also did not consult
with you. Ps fun fact, serving sizes are not based
on what you should be eating. And there is a
lot of other myths about the things we accept as
hard facts regarding how much we should eat when we
recognize how influx our daily demands are. We realize that
(05:28):
it's okay to love food, that it's not a sin.
In fact, it's totally normal to get pleasure from the
substance we need to keep us alive. There's no right
or wrong depending on if you finished all of the
food or not. It just depends. Once we really learn this,
we can find the control we so desperately want, but
it's gonna look and feel differently than the control you envisioned.
(05:50):
Actual control comes from mind body connection, consulting with your
body on what it needs in that moment. We need
to reconnect to the sensations within our body that our
desire ing to help us know exactly what we need.
If we do that, the voice in our head changes
when we overdo it, which will still happen from time
to time. We do clean our plates sometimes, but other
(06:10):
times we leave food behind without viewing one as good
or the other as bad. Suddenly we don't care how
much our friends have eaten in comparison. We don't blink
when we eat more than our partner or whoever we
spend a lot of meals with that we think we
should be quote eating more. We are confident because we
know what our bodies need, Okay, Leah. I pulled that
(06:32):
to share because I loved Lisa's newsletter so much, and
I know you'll get to the point where you know
you'll be okay based on what you ate for your
body in that moment, not what the box told you
was appropriate. And if anyone has questions, then I highly
recommend following Lisa, my outweg co host on Instagram. She's
(06:52):
at Lisa Hame and we have a new Outweigh episode
up every Saturday, so that might be something helpful for you,
because I know it's not as simple as hearing me
read that newsletter to you and then suddenly like understanding
portions and size, especially when we've been told this our
whole lives. Lisa's last name, by the way, is pronounced him,
but it's spelled h a y. I am so at
(07:14):
Lisa hay all right. Next email is from Tiffany. Hey, Amy,
I just listened to the Q and A episode that
you did with your sister. I asked how are you,
and maybe if you others did also, but I wanted
(07:36):
to say that I started asking people how they are
after seeing the Megan Markle interview, not the Oprah one,
the one from a while ago when a reporter asked
her how she was and she was taken aback because
nobody ever asked, and it turned out she was really struggling.
I just think it's a good basic question to give
someone the opportunity to really address how they're feeling. You
never know if someone has something that they really want
(07:57):
to talk about but they haven't had the chance to
because no one brings it up. Could also be a
good answer that they want to share. Maybe someone has
something positive they want to put out there, but nobody's
asked them anyways. Just want to give my reasoning for
the question. If you happen to see it, I hope
you're doing well. And Tiffany, thank you so much for this.
I definitely wanted to share your note because I wanted
(08:17):
to clarify what I meant by bringing up that question
in last week's fifth Thing. I appreciate anyone that asks
how are you? I also ask it two people. I
just think in this last year it's a funny question
because of all the craziness, and I loved that guy
on Instagram is funny real about it. So I wanted
to play that. I also brought it up because I
(08:39):
wanted to share with anyone that was asking for the
real details behind how I am. Now I know that's
not what you were doing, but I do get a
lot of questions that are like, how are you? What's
really going on? And can you give us some details
about what's been happening with you? Stuff like that, And
I'm just not going to share some things publicly at times,
which is a weird place to be because I feel
(09:01):
like I've been such an open book, but I really
actually don't always share everything. But I understand that since
I was open about having a hard time and was
obviously missing work and stuff like that, and that might
be confusing because it was very known that I had
stuff going on. But the reason I wanted other people
to know that I had some struggles was I wanted
(09:23):
them to know they're not alone. Like whatever it is
they might be dealing with, I don't know the details,
but they were not alone in heartache and confusion and
hard times. But the actual details really don't matter. So
I hope that clears some of this up. Because again
I got several notes relating to this question from last
week's episode, and I just wanted to clear the air
(09:45):
and not discourage anyone from asking someone how they are doing.
I appreciate all the notes asking and I do think
it's okay for us to ask people how are you?
But then it's up to that person what they are
willing to divulge from the question, And like Tiffany's that
in her note, you never know the person might share
something good. It doesn't mean that the answer will have
(10:06):
to be something heavy. I also pulled some ways to
take how are you to the next level for relationships
like these are for people that are really in your life,
maybe not someone online, but like family members or friends.
If you know they've got something going on, you can
maybe get more specific and say, how are you today?
Or how are you holding up? I've been thinking about
(10:28):
you lately, how are you doing? What's been on your
mind recently? Is there any type of support you need
right now? Are you anxious about anything? Are you feeling
down at all? Stuff like that, And then maybe you
open up and share with them, because when you speak
about your own experience, you give the other person permission
to share without any risk or fear, because maybe some
(10:50):
people are closed off from sharing they've been hurt in
the past. Just make sure that you check in on
someone if you really do care about them, all right.
Email number three from Arianna hey Amy. Last week on
the Fifth Thing podcast, I heard you talk about your
Zoe skincare routine, and I've heard you mentioned before that
you use a tinted SPF in the mornings, but can't
figure out when that was. To go back and get
(11:12):
the name, can you just share this again? Take care, Arianna. Okay,
I am obsessed with revisions in tel A Shade. It's
an anti aging tinted moisturizer with sunscreen and I have
it up on my Amazon page and this is what
I pulled from the Amazon description outsmart the signs of
aging with this award winning tinted moisturizer that gives skin
(11:34):
a touch of sheer, healthy color of clinical steady. Participants
experienced smoother, brighter, more even skin tone, moisturizes and blends
naturally with the color of your skin. Okay, when it
comes to how I use it, I apply it with
a beauty blender. I run it under hot hot water,
then I squeeze it out and then I apply my
intel A shade again. The intel A shade and actually
(11:55):
the beauty blender. Two are both on my Amazon favorites page.
They're actually side by side, so easy for you to
fine to make sure you're ordering the right thing. You
can go to Radio Amy dot com for a link
to that. It's not a commercial or ad in any way.
I just get questions about this often, and I want
to make sure you'll get the right one because there's
several different products. I personally like the original, but maybe
(12:16):
you have oilier skin and you want to get the mat.
Just no, Ariana, it's revisions and teleshade, and I like
the original, and I apply with a beauty blender and
I wear it every single day, all right. Email number
four is from Aaron hey Amy. My friend Jess gifted
me a gratitude journal. She knows my love for the
Bobby Bones Show and my love for everything the shot forward,
(12:37):
so I was ecstatic to receive it. When I opened
the journal to look through it, I was blown away.
She had contacted the significant people in my life and
had them write notes amongst the pages, memories, words of motivation,
little notes about me and how I've impacted their life.
For what they love about me. She reached out to
my friends all across the country and has been working
(12:59):
on this for months. It's the most thoughtful gift I
have ever received my life, and I can't stop crying
over how kind and full of love it is. Like
everyone else in the world right now, my mental health
is not the greatest that it's ever been, and this
literal reminder of being loved by so many people could
not have come at a more perfect time. Words of
affirmation are my love language, and now I have these
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sprinkled throughout my gratitude journal. I wanted to share this
with you because, well, for one, I wanted to brag
about how awesome my friend is, and to to maybe
share that idea with others who might know someone who
would love this idea as a gift as well, and
three to tell you something good. I think the first
thing I'll be writing down in my gratitude journal will
(13:41):
be my extra special gratitude Journal. Aaron. Okay, Aaron, I
love this idea so so much, so thank you for
sharing so that I can pass it along to someone
else that yeah, I might be looking for something special
to do for a friend or a loved one. It
sounds like Jess is an awesome person that you have
in your life. And then quickly, in relation to Aaron email,
I want to throw in a bonus email that I
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got from Linda because it's about gratitude and she includes
a cool quote. So we started today's episode with a quote,
per usual, but we're also going to end it with
a quote. Okay, here's what Linda sent in. Hey, Amy,
I ran across a quote in guide Post magazine and
I thought you might like it if you aren't familiar
with guide Posts. It has true stories of hope and inspiration.
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It was started by Rev. Norman Vincent Peele, who wrote
The Power of Positive Thinking. Each month, guide Posts includes
quotes from celebrities as well as others. The quote that
I'm going to share with you is from Michael J. Fox,
who has suffered from Parkinson's for the last thirty years.
Michael J. Fox said, optimism is really rooted in gratitude.
Optimism is sustainable when you keep coming back to gratitude,
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and what follows from that is acceptance. Take care, Linda,
which I love when you'll send in other positive things
so that I can share it with everybody else listening.
I hope that anyone who is doing the Gratitude Challenge
is able to make it through to the end of
the month, and then it will become a habit of
daily making note what you are thankful for. If you're
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just now listening, you're like, wait, what a gratitude challenge.
It's not too late to join. You just grab a
pit and paper or any old notebook that you have
and write down four things each day that you are
thankful for. You can join literally at any time, very
loose rules here with the challenge, and then if you
do happen to want our gratitude journal that supports education
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through Project Meta Share in Haiti, then you can go
to Radio amy dot com for links to that or
even four Things dot Com is an easy way to
get there for people to remember. So there you have it,
all right. Hope y'all are doing well, and I will
see you on Thursday. Annie f Downs will be my guest.
She's come on the podcast before. I mean, speaking of gratitude,
I'm just super thankful for her and her gift and
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all that she shares with the world. She has a
new book that's out. It's a New York Times bestseller,
and I'm excited to sit down and talk with her
about that, so that'll be Thursday all right. See then
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