The Summer of Surrender!  

This is the kickoff to our three part series on surrendering.  This series will have us look into how to surrender the need to be in control, surrender to the moment, and to surrender to the truth. 

We are back from Spring Break and have some great new episodes lined up for you.  Today I talk about our trip to Nashville.  I share a few highlights and an odd low , courtesy of a 90 year old man from the hills of Tennessee.  

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It's our one year Anniversary!!!  We take a look back and a look forward today.  And we say thank you! Thank you for making this first year of the podcast so fun and exciting.  

Next week we will hit a milestone here on the podcast, our one year anniversary!  And I want to celebrate but to be honest, celebrating is not something I do best.  Why?  I have no idea but I think life would be more fun if I started celebrating more which is why lately I’ve been celebrating.

Do the work.  That has been my mantra for the past four years. It is how I end each one of my episodes because if you want change, if you want to heal and move forward then you have to put it in the work.  But this year I have added a new mantra to my life: get uncomfortable.   Today we are going to explore how both of these powerful thoughts have shifted my life. 

Two past episodes that explore more of this topic:

https://anchor.fm/amy-gray92/episodes/Lately-Ive-Been-Doing-the-Work-e119kuf

https://anchor.fm/amy-gray92/episodes/Lately-Ive-Been-Using-Tools-e15o4if

Hello Spring!  Hello Spring Cleaning!!  

Let's talk cleaning, organizing and decluttering. 

Looking for a fun idea to get your chores done, listen to this past episode. 

Lately I've Been Racing the Clock

https://anchor.fm/amy-gray92/episodes/Lately-Ive-Been-Racing-the-Clock-e194h0u

The time change is a change in our environment.  It shifts our evening environment from being dark at 5 to the sun being up hours later. This has an effect on our mood, our plans, our day.  There is power in the environment around us, and there are  changes we can make to set ourselves up  for success.  So let's jump in to Lately I’ve Been Changing my Environment.

I have to admit everything I have tried to write, record or post seems so unimportant or small, silly, compared to the war in Ukraine, my heart hurts for them, the world feels heavy.  But I also know that to stop and pour all our attention and thoughts on this war isn’t healthy either so for the next ten minutes or so let's distract ourselves.  Please enjoy my childhood memories of growing up Catholic and attending Catholic School in the 80’s

For the past two weeks we have been running a food drive in our hometown.  We have been posting daily to reach out for donations.  The amazing organization we are collecting for, Operation 143, fights childhood hunger.  The donations will go directly to kids in my community.  I feel very strongly about this cause and you may have noticed that I was posting repeatedly about the food drive.  Posting Posting Posting.  Reminding. Reminding. Reminding. This got me thinking about the power of a post.  Which then led me to do some posting of my own.  Which is the reason why lately I’ve been praying off a post-it.

During lockdown and the pandemic life many of us turned to comfort and coziness as a coping strategy.   We began living in a state of yes, yes to whatever made us feel good.  Food, shopping, social media, binge watching.  But how do we begin to come out of this state, maybe we begin by telling ourselves no.