Hello and welcome back to The Unleash Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and I am so excited to have you here with me today.

We're going to talk about the real, real... It's about to get real up in here, right?

If my kids listen to this, they're going to be like, Oh my God, Mom. Are you kidding me right now? Nope, I'm not... We're talking about Deal with the REAL... Sometimes it's hard for people to have faith or hope when they're really overwhelmed with circumstances, especially right now, people are very emotionally charged, there's so much crazy going on.

It's hard to keep up with. I know that for myself, I have to very much emotionally remove myself so that I don't absorb what is going on around me. I have to become an observer. I can deal with things. I can stand up for things. I can support people like in support causes. But if I get too wrapped up in it and get emotionally charged in it, it can really suck me dry, and I feel that that's going on a lot with many people. So many people focus on the negative things that it makes it really easy to lose hope. And when you've got outside circumstances as well as your inner circumstances in your life... It makes it a little bit more difficult, right? So we really have to focus on what is directly affecting us and how to deal with it so that we don't get overwhelmed.

I've said many times before, what you focus on grows. This goes for fear, and it also goes for faith. It grows according to your words. If you speak out of fear, well, you're going to become more fearful, you're going to attract more negative circumstances, and even more so, you won't even be open to be able to see the blessings that you have in your life. When you start focusing on the blessings, you naturally start attracting more positive things, more positive feelings, more positive thoughts.