This episode features Sally Shaver DuBois and her book "Keeping Your Head Above The Water." She gives practical tips on how to live a healthy, joy-filled life in a world full of unknown variables. Partial show notes: How did you come up with that title? And what made you write this book? Well, I think the book has been inside of me for many, many years. But I have been a teacher. I've worked with a lot of people in the health and wellness profession. I started the book before the pandemic, and then once the pandemic yet I'm like, I have got to finish this because everybody is needing some stress relief. And so the idea is, you know, when we're, if we're drowning, literally we're down below the water. It's, it's going to kill us if we don't get our heads above water. And stress is sort of like that. It's sort of sneaky. Sometimes just like you know, if you think you're out swimming in the ocean, and the next thing you know, those rip tides have taken you away and you don't realize it. That's sort of how stress can be you might just be on the roll in us women a lot of times or caregivers we give and give and give and give and we forgot we forget to do the self-care things that things that you talk about. And the next thing we know our own health is starting to suffer. The book is all about some ideas and tips and techniques of some, I think, practical ways that we can reduce stress. And I know you are all about our relationship with God and although this is not a Christian book, I do mention that that is important to me. That's ultimately that's how we get our joy is because we have God we let him be in control. But beyond that, there's some tips in here to help people with their stress. Tell us a little bit about the the principles of LEARN Let me just review quickly and then maybe we'll talk about the laughter because you mentioned that. So LEARN acronym, these are the five tips or techniques that I found that helped me and I think will help other people, whether you do one of them or all of them. Laugh. We'll come back to that one. Exercise is so important getting up and moving that there's a lot of research that shows how exercise reduces stress, stress, an attitude of gratitude and giving back and I know you've had a previous episode on gratitude. So you've talked about that one, relax, reflect and recharge, and that's being quiet and that would be for me, that's my quiet time in the morning with God my prayer but also just putting away devices and being able to be mindful of who we are in the moment and the last one they add is for nutrition and looking at food as our medicine. We'll come back to the laughter one, then you mentioned that and yes, in the Bible, it talks about the importance of laughter, and Proverbs 17. I use that verse a lot. I don't remember the exact verse. But it's in that chapter about how the laughter or joy is medicine to our bones. And it really is, I mean, you've talked about that. We can feel it but there is research out there that shows that laughter has a lot of the same physiological and emotional effects that exercise does it and most importantly, it reduces that stress hormone cortisol. So when we're stressed when we're running around, I mean, sometimes we need to be stressed because like we to get things done, or we just be hanging out on the couch all day. But when we're stressed cortisol goes up inside our body. So if we don't have a method for reducing that somehow, which is part of this Learn acronym that is not good for us because our blood pressure goes up. It can cause a lot of other problems in our bodies physiologically and as we found in the last two years, emotionally, we our mental health. Find Sally's book "Keeping Your Head Above the Water" on amazon https://amzn.to/3583kEH Contact Sally Shaver DuBois on Facebook and LinkedIn For journaling your emotions: https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-TRACI-WILLIAMS/e/B09HCQHN75