I was going to title this episode “Care Less”, but I figured that would just piss off a bunch of people who didn’t need any more to be pissed off about. Because it’s not about not giving a shit, but understanding where our egos stir up distress when there really doesn’t need to be any. Caring less about things that don’t matter when we have so much going on that does.

Raise your hand if you ruminate over wrongs done to you and then concoct your perfect response to the wrongdoer. Go ahead. My hand is up. Because this is a very human response to an affront. We don’t like what was done to us and we don’t like how we handled it. And I would like to tell you that we are making a big deal out of shit that really doesn’t matter.

Let's talk about how we need to set boundaries with our ego and remind it who is really in charge. xo

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