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We are Helene & Christina. We are on a mission to teach you to CELEBRATE YOU! In this episode, we challenge you to see yourself as an AND rather than an or.  We dig deep into realizing life is not black and white, rather we are evolving.  This is such a fun episode where we discuss how to celebrate how we are mult-faceted individuals and we can learn to celebrate all our different interests and likes.  

In this episode, Helene opens up about how she has used AND in her life- valuing both her career and her family.  She gets vulnerable in how she didn’t give up what she loved about herself and worked to be flexible, which led to incredible empowerment!  Christina talks about how you can have joy and heartache in an experience.  They also talk about the power of the evolution of relationships, whether it be family, ex’s, or current life partners.  

This episode is one that all need for healing AND creating a great New Year! Join us as we celebrate one of the most powerful words in our vocabulary “AND!” Share this episode with those who need this and maybe you listen to it a couple times because it is that powerful!

Wishing you an AND week of growth! 

Love H & C

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Hey Friends! 

We are Helene & Christina! We are on a mission to empower you to be your authentic self.  This episode is jam packed with gifts for you.  We go through each episode, highlighting the gifts that are presented and discussing how YOU can use them in YOUR life!  This episode is all about YOU, guiding YOU to live your best life- finding joy in the messy middle and laughing along the way! 

Join us on this final episode of the season for some lighthearted fun as we round on 2024! We are taking a quick break for some R&R including good coffee, time with our fave people, and holidays in the mix.  Don't worry friends, we will be back the 1st week of January, ready to continue the party of LIFE with YOU! 

If you are missing us, find us on social and come find out what we are up to on break.

With love 

H&C

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We are Helene & Christina! We are on a mission to empower you to celebrate yourself each and every day! We know holidays are all about gift giving so we are thrilled to give you this episode- SANITY during the Holidays!  As Thanksgiving arrived today and the biggest shopping day of the year- tomorrow- you need this episode to help you focus on what matters, let go of what doesn’t and find the joy in the messiness of the holidays.  We are here on this journey, with YOU, our friend and hope that this episode helps you to take a breath, relax and know that you do NOT have to do it all!

Gifts in this episode:

1. Laughter around all the crazy things we all do to keep traditions
2. Determine what matters to you and focus on that
3. Set realistic expectations for yourself and let go of the unrealistic
4. Be flexible because the holidays require you to step out of rigidity
5. Stay true to what you NEED for sanity- whatever it is- especially self care!

We are truly wishing you a holiday season that is filled with peace and reality- by doing what you need to ensure YOUR Sanity!

Happy Holidays,

Helene & Christina

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We are Helene & Christina. We are on a mission to empower women to celebrate themselves!  This episode is something that many women feel very anxious about- MONEY! Christina shares about how scared and paralyzed she has been about money over the years.  We are joining you on this journey- It is time for all of us as women, to learn your money story.  

We have our friend Jacqueline Crowley, CPWA, Private Wealth Market Leader and a strong advocate for women understanding their money!  We ask her some tough questions and she gives us some jaw dropping answers!  Join us and you will receive SO MANY amazing gifts:

Understanding asset vs liability with money

1. Knowing your money’s purpose and what it does for you
2. Learning not to compare yourself
3. Learning how you want to tell your story with money after you leave the earth
4. How to create your balance sheet, asset list and cash flow
5. Overcoming the fear to ask the questions you need answers to and choosing your professionals
6. MANY MORE! 

This episode is a MUST LISTEN for all of us who interact with money… wait! That is ALL OF US! So, take a deep breath and join us in a judgment free zone and allow your mind the opportunity to learn about money and make wise choices!

Happy Birth Day, Friends!

Love~ 

H&C

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We are Helene & Christina, 2 mental health practitioners with combined +35 years experience and we are on a mission to empower, teach and remind YOU to celebrate each day as YOUR Birth Day! In this movement, we are your friends- not your therapist.  Picture us sitting at your table and encouraging you in life.  

This episode is raw and real as we discuss something we all do to well- compare ourselves to others.  Whether you do it about your body (like Christina), your genetics (like Helene) or something bigger, we need to talk about this dirty not so secret thing we all do and it is unhealthy!  We are not here to add to your shame, rather we want to help you free yourself of the comparison game so that you can heal the hurt and misconceptions that are driving it.

We hope you find these gifts in this episode:

1. Understanding what the comparison game is and where it came from for you
2. Realize how it is not helping you or those around you
3. Make a choice of where you need to work to stop comparing yourself
4. Know that when you gift yourself this gift, you have the ability to appreciate the gifts that life DOES give you 
5. Learn how to celebrate gifts that life gives others, even if they are not gifts you get

We both know that this can be a tough one as it is so engrained in who we are as a culture and humans. It is time to stop this behavior as it is toxic.  So join us, as your friends and lets work together to heal this unhealthy part of life and do better! Let’s make it our mission to see our good, strengths and more so that we can lift ourselves and those around us!

Wishing you a week of healing, realizing what gifts life has given you and more!

Chat soon,

Helene & Christina

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We are Helene & Christina- on a mission to help YOU live YOUR best life with actionable tips, life stories, laughs, tears and through it all- podcasts that meet you in life with your messy middle moments.  We are here to support and encourage you as your friends, not your therapists… although we are mental health practitioners with +35 years combined experience.  

In this episode, we are taking a totally different spin on anxiety.  What if we treated anxiety as a friend?! We know… you are thinking we are crazy, but don’t delete quite yet.  We mean it- let’s see anxiety different- as a friend.  In this episode we talk about why anxiety needs to be your friend as well as how to use it to help you in life.

You will walk away with these gifts in this podcast episode:

1. Seeing the good in anxiety
2. Learning how to accept anxiety
3. Realizing how anxiety can help you in life
4. Using your anxiety to make your life better

We can’t wait for you to join us on this journey of treating anxiety as your friend and letting it work for YOU!  With that said, if your anxiety is blocking you from living life- whether affecting you at work or home and it is severe, then please get help.  This episode is all about every day common anxiety, not debilitating anxiety.  If it is debilitating- then seek professional help of therapy, meds or a combo of both.  

At It’s YOUR Birth Day! We are excited to share this and all of our podcast episodes with you.  We hope that you will gift others with this episode and other episodes so that we can ALL work to empower, teach and remind each other to celebrate ourselves through life’s messy middles and life’s celebrations! 

Fondly,

Helene & Christina

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Helene & Christina here! We are SO SO Excited about this episode because it embodies everything about our mission to empower, teach and remind YOU to celebrate YOU! In this episode, we talk with you about ways that we have worked with others and on ourselves to ensure that we are all dating ourselves. We also talk about how it can be hard and the feelings that may block us from doing so.  We know that we are taught to put ourselves last on our to-do list, which is unhealthy.  In this episode, you will find these gifts:

1. Understand what dating YOURself looks like (HINT: it is different for each person)
2. Understand why dating YOURself matters
3. Reflect on what dating YOU looks like and how to do it regularly!

Friends, we genuinely LOVE you and want YOU to care for yourself. Dating yourself is the ultimate form of self care.  When we can date ourselves, we get filled up which allows us the opportunity to be our authentic self.  

We hope this episode speaks to your heart and motivates YOU to live YOUR best life! We want you to love yourself and date YOURself in a way that only YOU can do! 

Love,

Helene & Christina

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We are Helene & Christina, on a mission to empower, teach and remind YOU to celebrate YOURself! We come to you with 35+ years of experience as mental health practitioners… however, with It's YOUR Birth Day, we come to you as YOUR Friends, not your therapist.  

This episode is a hard one. We are here to talk about the uncomfortable, but unavoidable topic of Grief.  If you are in the midst of this now and it is too raw for you- please give yourself permission to not listen to this episode- you can save it for another time.  We want you to listen to this episode if you are needing this, but not if you are not ready.  

In this episode we talk about the hard things associated with grief.  We get it- we have had grief in our lives too.  We can appreciate that most think of grief as loss of a human, but the reality is grief is in lots of life.  The gifts this episode are:

1. Understanding that grief is bigger than the loss of a loved one. 
2. Appreciating the word AND in your grief work
3. Understanding Kübler Ross/Kressler stages of grief
4. Seeing the deeper connections- may be with YOURself and with others that come out of the hard work of grief
5. Reassessing what your life can look like now, in light of this loss
6. Finding the gifts in moving forward in life after this loss

We know this is tough- whether your loss is a person, a situation or something about yourself- we are so proud of you for doing the super hard work of grieving.  We know this SUCKS and YOU also have an opportunity for growth.  We honor YOU in processing this and learning from it, to become YOUR best, authentic person.

Hugs our beautiful friends! We are here with you and supporting you during this messy part of life.

Love

Helene & Christina

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We are Helene & Christina, on a mission to empower, teach and remind YOU to celebrate yourself! In this episode, we dig deep into talking about the power of friendship- having your tribe of people who support you! Whether it is a group of girlfriends, a few or a smattering of all people, we all need a social circle of our own to live life with! So grab your drink of choice (Christina’s is often iced coffee when recording) and maybe a friend who needs this episode with you and let’s listen! 

In this episode, YOUR gifts include:

1. Understanding the bond of friendship and how it can be different- depending on the role someone plays in your life
2. Creating realistic expectations for your friendships
3. Appreciating the many gifts of living life in community

We genuinely hope you embrace this episode. After all, the Harvard Happiness Study talks about the greatest key to happiness is connecting with other people.  So time to appreciate your friends and also realize the gifts that you give in friendships.  

And always, if you LOVE this episode, please share with your friends and family.  Find us on Social at FB, Insta or LinkedIn in the links below! We want to be friends beyond this podcast and would love to encourage you, so please leave us a review wherever you listen to us and comment on our social pages! 

With Love, 

H&C