Miles Between Us
Take a listen about two sisters taking on business, adventures, life and all the miles between together!
Miles Between Us
Seasonal Slowdown
December pulls in two directions at once—every calendar square is packed, while our bodies quietly ask for less. We lean into that tension and share a gentler way through the month: align with winter’s energy, trade resolutions for recognition, and treat rest as essential, not earned. From cozy rituals and warm, seasonal foods to simple nervous system resets, we unpack how to slow down without guilt and why doing less can actually deepen meaning.
We dive into compassionate year-end reflection with prompts that help you honor who you became, not just what you checked off. You’ll hear honest talk about comparison culture, the invisible work behind visible wins, and the relief that comes when you stop measuring yourself against someone else’s highlight reel. We also get practical about modern distractions—double-screen dopamine, phone habits, and the reflex to fill silence—and offer doable boundaries, like single-task evenings and 15-minute tidy sprints that end on time.
There’s room here for real life: starting slow at the gym after setbacks, asking for safety in shared spaces, and remembering that quiet can surface feelings you’ve been outrunning. That’s not failure—that’s capacity building. If you’ve been craving permission to pause, consider this your sign. Pour a warm drink, let the lights blur, breathe a little deeper, and join us in choosing recognition over resolutions and kindness over comparison.
If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a softer December, and leave a quick review—what’s one thing you’re saying no to this week?
Look at the proof. You saw the last one, Cleveland. We're missing some boom arms, and these are just props today because I cannot figure my shit out. But that's okay. That's okay. It's all right. I'll figure it out next time. Yeah. But these just look nice. Now we know what to do with our hands. All right. Welcome back. Miles between us.
SPEAKER_04:I'm Misty.
SPEAKER_02:I'm Melissa.
SPEAKER_04:Whoo, today's episode. So we're gonna talk about seasonal slowdown, finding quiet in the loudest month of the year. Yeah. It's it is why does December make us feel like we need to do everything and nothing all at the same time?
SPEAKER_02:It's a weird, humming, chaotic, but underlying resting.
SPEAKER_04:Right. I don't know. Yeah, it's um it's like finishing the chapter of a book you're not even sure you've read.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Because it's all just coming to a close.
SPEAKER_02:I thought we were starting from scratch. From the very beginning? Oh, yes, the whole three seconds. What do you mean? Okay, start over. All right, Celsa. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04:All right, so today we're going to hit on some great topics. So we're gonna do tapping into winter energy and what that actually means and kind of what's going on with all of it. Honoring the truth, recognizing instead of resolutions, because who needs any damn resolutions at this point? Let's just deal with the here and now. Modern problem. People don't know what to do when nothing is demanding their attention. So, like a lot of people are gonna have some time off, and what do you actually do during that? Yeah, making space for quiet. That's really tough. And we want you to join us as we are gonna talk about slowing down and how to really make it through this month. So the first thing is gonna be the tapping into winter energy, Melissa.
SPEAKER_02:That's on you. Oh, I like this one. I like it because I think I'm new to it. Like, I really don't think I've tapped into it until recently because everything does slow down, hibernate, like the time changes. We all know that when we've talked about it. Nights get colder, longer. You can just feel nature itself just kind of shut down and get to the bare bones of what it needs to preserve itself. And I think we should do the same. I think it's a bit convoluted that nature as a whole is doing that, and then we're trying to be new year, new us, January 1. And it's not natural for the cycle, cycle of the seasons and things like that. So I I too am trying to lean more into it and rest more. Like this past weekend, I did a whole lot of nothing. It helps that it rained on.
SPEAKER_04:That's really tough. You know, when you feel like there's all these events and all the stuff you need to go to, and there's this festival and that festival.
SPEAKER_02:That's what I think makes it harder too. And the the bustle of the season is there is something to do every single weekend, every final day.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, seriously, I think it's every day, every night there's something going on. So yeah, I like the fact that nature should really set our pace, right? So summer is my season, like it's long days and it's warm, and but but winter, I think, brings us into maybe what we really need. And that's that oh, I need to relax a little bit. I need to take a little bit of a break.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's meant to be the recharge that we all need and lean into that.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and I think we've missed it. I think we've all missed it for so long.
SPEAKER_02:We've overbooked, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:We push, push, push, and then all of a sudden we're like, oh, it's the we've gotten through December. Now it's the new year. I gotta do all this new stuff, and maybe we should just wait till I don't know, spring.
SPEAKER_02:But even also, I've been guilty of it where what is it, December 9th that we're recording? And I feel like I'm behind, and though I haven't gotten any of the Christmas gifts, so that is valid. I am behind on that. What am I behind on? I decorated my tree, like it just feels weird.
SPEAKER_04:So that's really what it's about. I mean, and I think maybe it's just American culture, honestly, where we put so much pressure on ourselves and and we just we have to achieve all of this stuff. We've got to be perfect, we've gotta, the decorations have to be right, you know. Like I decorated early this year. I really did. I got on to you, but I I did decorate a little well. Um but then I also got to a place where I was like, huh, I'm done. I don't care that there's not lights on the roof. I don't care that the blow-ups aren't out.
SPEAKER_02:Like, I'm good. Well, because I think you're taking that moment to then enjoy what you've already done. Yeah. Rather than be like, more, more.
SPEAKER_04:I love sitting at night and staring at the Christmas lights. No, it's so peaceful. And maybe that's part of the like slowing down.
SPEAKER_02:My favorite is when you kind of you know unfocus your eyes a little bit and then they're like the nice tweezing. Yes. Yes, I stare at my Christmas true grass eyed often.
SPEAKER_04:I love it. I love it. Yeah, so I like the focusing on fewer but more meaningful tasks. Without guilt. Yeah, I think we're all having to learn that. Like, how do I feel guilty for, you know, not feel guilty for saying no to this, or I really should go to that, or they're expecting me here. And, you know, gosh, why do we make each other feel guilty? Why can't we just like honor each other and be like, oh, you've worked really hard. You've been super busy, you're raising a kid, you're that's an interesting topic you're talking about right now.
SPEAKER_02:Because what did you just do to me probably 30 minutes ago? What did I do to you? Try to make me feel guilty, AF, for not trying to go tonight. Well, I mean, I did want to go tonight, but that was because I wanted somebody to go with. So take your own advice, ma'am. Working on it, working on it. That's all we can do.
SPEAKER_04:All right, so let's talk about honoring the truth. Oh no, no, no, no. I'm not done yet. Oh, sorry, just King just got a lot to say.
SPEAKER_02:Well, not a lot, but back to like the nature thing. This is newer for me too, since diving into the Chinese medicine is really getting into seasonal foods, things like that.
SPEAKER_04:Warm.
SPEAKER_02:Not even just warm, but like there, it's really big on root vegetables right now. So those hold the most nutritional value for this season. So diving into literally what nature's intended to give you at this time. But then also I'm a harp on my warmth because that's changed my life. I'm telling you, warm lemon water with ginger or whatever little bit you want is amazing. But then warm teas just we don't get as much, I mean, it's cold a little bit. We don't get it as much up north, but it's still cold. And eating the warm foods just one brings us comfort and coziness because that's what we crave. But then it's true, we can't do it.
SPEAKER_04:Coffee and hot chocolate are really the only warm things that I like.
SPEAKER_02:Love me some hot chocolate.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, love it.
SPEAKER_02:I have a hot chocolate bar. It's so cute. Thank you. Yes, but you can dive into our next little topic now.
SPEAKER_04:I'm done. Okay, okay. So we're gonna talk about honoring the truth. Recognition instead of resolution. So this is kind of what we were talking on in the beginning, that it invites reflection into kind of what what's gone on? What's the year been like? As I'm coming to the end of the season, have I achieved what I want to achieve? Am I satisfied with where I'm at? What would I change? You know, it's it's hard because it's not always peaceful, it's not always easy. Like I think all of us have a few regrets when we get to the end of the year of the city.
SPEAKER_02:So I wasn't saying necessarily regrets, but more so missed marks goals we didn't exactly achieve. But I think it's better to, you know, reflect with compassion.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, the no judgment. You know, that was really important because again, we set such high standards and goals, and I'm about that, right? Like I want to achieve, I want to go above and beyond and because where are you without your mile marker?
SPEAKER_02:Like you have no clue if you did or did not achieve certain things if you don't have goals.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. But again, I think that none of us are perfect. Shit happens. It does. This was a tough year. It was a tough year for us personally. It was a tough year for a lot of people, you know, and everybody says it like, oh, you know, the days go go slow and the years go fast, and the numbers like, oh, they go faster when you get older.
SPEAKER_02:But they do, they really do. Mine since having a kid, which is naturally I am older, it doesn't make week.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and it does feel like the closing of a chapter when you get into December, like we are closing out the year, and so we're closing that chapter. We can't go back and rewrite it. We've got to focus on like the best moments that we want to take out of it and what we really are proud of. I think that's something that we need to do, you know, is to say, hey, like maybe this didn't go like I wanted, but I really did this well.
SPEAKER_02:I think that's the perspective shift. So kind of being more having more gratitude.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I mean, and I think that you need to just spend some time saying, you know, what did we survive this year? Yeah, today. It's really important. And who did we become? Because each of us changes. And so, you know, did I read a book that brought me a little more insight? Or did I pick up a new hobby? Or was there something that I cut out of my life? You know, so focusing on that, you know, that's what we're doing this podcast for, right? So we talk about it being unscripted, unedited real life. And, you know, people are they're just searching for am I alone? Am I the only one going through this? Am I the only one feeling this? How do I compare to somebody else? And so maybe what we're saying today is don't like, don't compare yourself to somebody else. Like you are perfectly and wonderfully made.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I think we also forget there's so much, it's so easy to pee see people's downfalls or successes. There's like high peak or very low moments, but you don't see all of the tiny little moments that build up to it. So comparing yourself to one another, it just doesn't add up. It's not comparing apples to apples. You have no clue what each person has gone through to get to where they are. And journey is different.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, that's and that's a big thing, right? Like you see people that are an athlete that's super successful. Okay, but did you see the early mornings, the grind, the the injuries, the, you know, all of that? And so again, you know, I think that we just need to let's just be kind to ourselves and to other people. That's really what a large part of it is. Because I don't know that I've always really known how to be kind to myself. You know, I think that I've put a lot of pressure to achieve, to do, to, you know, go to that next level. And so December helps me to say, no, it's okay. And I'm I'm good where I'm at right now. Yeah. So let's talk about modern problems. People don't know what to do when nothing is demanding their attention. I think I struggle with this one big time.
SPEAKER_02:Do you? I, if you can't tell, I'm a list girl. I list everything to-dos, like even on the weekend, I'm like, okay, what am I gonna do this weekend? Holidays, what am I gonna do? Like certain things I want to hit, whether it's movies I want to watch, whatever. So when I don't have my own to-dos or whatever that may be, I struggle and I'm like, what am I gonna do today? What I have a hard time with it, and I don't know why. I don't know if it's just because I've always been like, you gotta go, go, go, yeah, whatever it may be. Because I don't really recall us growing up and not being at the ballpark or like being somewhere.
SPEAKER_04:No, we were doing something, there wasn't a lot of quiet sit and do nothing time. There was craft time that I remember. So there was movies, that was the movies with dad, that type of thing. But yeah, and again, I think it's part of our culture. I think that we are just built on this. We we've got to experience everything. We've got to go, go, go.
SPEAKER_02:And not even just that, but like the to-do around the house. Like, I need to do the laundry, I need to do the dishes, I need to.
SPEAKER_04:I've gotten really good at being like, nope, I can't. It's a you know, it was an adjustment. I mean, because again, I have a big yard, right? I have an acre, I've got a pool, I've got all this stuff I need to do and take care of. And so I think just prioritizing. I like the idea of setting the timer. You know what I mean? Like set the timer, give yourself 15 minutes, and whatever gets done gets done. And if it doesn't, it doesn't.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I feel like I struggle with this, like in order to feel satisfied, I have to feel productive kind of thing. And so having laziness does not match productivity, but really it's not laziness, it's seasonal right now.
SPEAKER_04:Well, and it's not laziness, it's self-care. Yeah, it's self-care and it's enjoying the moments with the people that you love. I mean, that's I am better about it when it's when it's just me and my son.
SPEAKER_02:I feel like I need to do stuff around the house or whatever. But when it's me, my husband, and my son, then I feel less guilt and more like I need to spend time with my family.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, we can we can take the time to just kind of chill. I think it's more when you're alone.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:You know, I think that's a I think a lot of people are kind of, you know, I if you're watching this or listening to this, I think that we have a lot of viewers and listeners who who struggle with that complete silence of being alone because that's when you hear your inner thoughts, the feelings. You cannot run for them. Yeah. God bless all of you that do meditation. I can't get my brain to shut off long enough to stop talking for me to meditate and hear nothing.
SPEAKER_02:That's the hardest part when I do my acupuncture, is you are laying there flat on the table for 45 plus minutes and can't move because if you twinge, then you'll feel the little that thing hurts if you move and then it goes in the muscle, whatever. That's the hardest part is just sitting there because you will find yourself going down so many different rabbit holes. Like I wish I could be taking notes of every place my mind touches in those 45 minutes. But everything I keep seeing is like the key to everything is meditation to where you are controlling your own thoughts.
SPEAKER_04:Well, and I think that that's what we have to start learning. And so that's really what today was about was like recognizing it's hard to be alone. It's hard to be alone with your own thoughts. This time of year, there's feelings of like loneliness and you know, the time change, seasonal depression's real. But again, even in those storms, sometimes of the moments of being alone, I think when you make it through those, there's such a relief of like, oh, like I really just learned something about myself, or I realized there was, you know, something that I enjoyed, or I just wanna, wow, like you can feel it in your body. So for me, you know, it is it is stress, it is high energy, it is, you know, it carries tension 100% of the time. And when I stop and do nothing, it takes a little while, but I can feel the muscles in my body relax. I mean, I really can. My jaw doesn't hurt, I'm not clenching, you know, my eyes aren't tired because I'm not looking at a computer screen for hours. And, you know, I think one of the things that everybody's I struggle with this, and so no judgment. But what I find us all doing more and more is filling the quiet time with the phones.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, for sure. Yeah, that's a great segue to kind of like the last topic is making space for quiet. I think I I can't remember what somebody called it, but it's essentially like double dipping on the dopamine, but it's really canceling it out because you're scrolling on your phone while watching something on Netflix behind you, and the way it is overwhelming our nervous system is nuts. So I've actually consciously gotten better about that. I will not be scrolling while something's on the background.
SPEAKER_04:It's been one week, but I have put my phone like aside five, six hours, completely ignored it. And and you know what? Like nothing imploded. Yeah. So it was fine. I didn't need all that information in those five or six hours, you know. So yeah, I mean, I love the connection, and you know, we're glad that you're probably watching us on your phone. Um, but there's a time and a place for it, you know, there really is a time and a place for it. So again, I think this is a great time to go outside, you know, look at the leaves, feel them, you know, uh the the sound of them crunching beneath your boots. I just say it. I do like it. Like you said, that that making space for the quiet time and really figuring out like, what do I need to change? What am I what am I tired of? What do I want more of? What do I want less of? Like, how can I remove the distractions that bring no value to my life?
SPEAKER_02:Because I think that's what it is, though, is the phone is the biggest one. But when we aren't able to sit with ourselves, quite literally, if you left this room right now, my instant reaction if I wasn't recording on the phone would be okay, let me grab it and scroll. Because what else do you do? Right. Stare at the wall. Like, I don't know, but we used to not that long ago. What was it, 10 years ago? Yes, 15 years ago.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:It was very normal to read the back of a shampoo bottle or something like that.
SPEAKER_04:Read a book, do a puzzle. Like, you know, it doesn't have to be anything. I mean, I get it's hard to sit still because we have been trained to keep moving, keep going forward, achieve the next thing, accomplish the next thing.
SPEAKER_02:Well, when you slow down, is when everything you've been suppressing or running away from find you. Oh gosh. So I think that's why a lot of us don't, because it is a little bit heavier. It's hard lately. I think everyone kind of has their own struggles. And so it's it's nice to feel like you're running from it and it can't catch you.
SPEAKER_04:This sounds crazy, but I got all my Christmas shopping done, and I hate it because now I have all this downtime where I don't have to go shopping.
SPEAKER_01:Like I don't have to now you can watch your homework movies. I know, but it's that downtime that we don't be liking. Yeah. Trying to fill the void. Yeah, there's something about like shopping, retail therapy is real.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it is real. It's real when you got the money because I'm very big on buyer's remorse. Like I've always got to be a lot of people.
SPEAKER_04:Alistair puts more stuff in her cart and deletes a cart than anybody I've ever seen in my life. I am a damn good window shopper.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, I am. Oh but you take it in the couch. Facebook Marketplace, holla. It's amazing. Yeah, it's so cozy. Yeah, I am stoked on that one just because I don't think it's worth the actual. Retail price I've been looking at buying, so I filmed it.
SPEAKER_04:Okay, why is all furniture crazy retail price?
SPEAKER_02:They're all like three grand and up now.
SPEAKER_04:Like, y'all, they're not handmade in North Carolina like they used to be.
SPEAKER_02:I've never bought a couch before, so this is like another step into adulting. I'm wet. It's right. Your husband had to move his couches. He's had his whole adult life out. Yeah, these couches are 20 years old. And they're amazing.
SPEAKER_03:They still look great, they're so comfortable. But they're wrapped having she got this really, really cool sectional.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's just like a modular sectional.
SPEAKER_04:And it is like, let's all pile up on it together because there's room for at least three or four adults to lay on it. For sure.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. But yeah, it's just funny having another mile marker into adulthood of things I've never had to do before. And so who knew? Yeah. Who knows how expensive?
SPEAKER_04:Not to get on a tangent about couches, but No, but it's exciting because again, you know, as we're getting It's cozy. Cozy. That was the point. I came over to her house the other morning. It was like a Sunday morning. Screw the raining out of me. I didn't scare her. She thought she thought a burglar had the code to her house, by the way.
SPEAKER_02:But I also just got served papers at my house at 8:30 at night. Zach's about to throw hands. My heart rate. I'm sitting on my new. Let me paint a picture for you. It's raining. I'm sitting on my cozy couch. I have no blinds, so you could clearly see me. The doorbell rings, and Zach answers it. And this person says, Is Melissa Fernandez home? And he's like, No. I'm sitting right there. You can see me through the window, and I'm just sitting, not moving, because I'm like, Am I about to be arrested? I don't know what's happening.
SPEAKER_04:How do you feel like you're gonna be arrested when you know you've done nothing wrong? The law. Listen, the law's weird. I got stopped by a cop one time and my heart wouldn't stop racing, and I it's ready to run. That's what I'm saying. Like straight like police chase. And I knew I'd done nothing wrong. You just proved your own. You're right. You're right. You're right.
SPEAKER_02:So I'm sitting there and Zach is getting mad. He's like, what do you mean? Like this it's 8 45, you're ringing the door. I'm like, he is about to throw hands at this lady. She's like, sir, this is just my job. No, I'm like, should I just go turn myself in? Because I don't know where this is going. He accepts the papers, whatever. But what I was getting at is I just had that happen.
SPEAKER_00:Like, look at let's clarify, it was not even for you.
SPEAKER_02:No, it was wrong. Thank the Lord. Insane. More adulting things. People mess up all the time. And real positions. I think we've talked about this before. In court. Yes. By lawyers. Tangent. Anyways, what I'm getting at is that happened Saturday night. And then Sunday morning at 9 a.m. I have the code thing. So you hear boop, boop, boop. I said, what the? So my mind wasn't with it. Nobody comes to my house early morning.
SPEAKER_04:And I was all over the place. First of all, nine o'clock's not early morning for me. For me. My day's just begun. I had been up for like three hours. Good for you. Yes. Except I had already been to the gym.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. I'm proud of you. Yeah. That's so good. We have to check in on Misty though. When she says she's been to the gym, we have to ask her, Did you work out at the gym? Oh my god. Or did you go to the tanning bed at the gym?
SPEAKER_04:I always work out. I'm starting slower than I did before.
SPEAKER_02:You know, I'm starting slower.
SPEAKER_04:Because I loved it. And then I quit. I quit for a what I thought was a good reason, and it was actually a dumb reason. So if this happens to you, like just say something and don't do it. So I was going to the gym. I was going every day and I really was enjoying it. And I had worked up so well. I could see the change in my body. Like I felt amazing. And then there was a guy at the gym that made me super uncomfortable. It was, it was just, it made me super uncomfortable. I didn't like it. I felt like I was just being watched or stared at. And I didn't go back in at all for over four months. I did not walk in.
SPEAKER_02:I did. I love you. You got this one bitch ass man. I did. You didn't even say a word.
SPEAKER_04:I did. Yes. It was horrible. And I won't do it again. Instead, next time I'll be like, bitch, this is my gym. Get out.
SPEAKER_02:Or also you could straight up go to a management and be like, he's making me super uncomfortable. Yes. Not to be that person, but the gym is supposed to be your safe space.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. So, but I'm I'm back. I am back and I'm super excited. I think last time we talked about it, I had a neck procedure. So again, I've got to take things slowly, which is also very difficult for me to do because I want to go back to exactly where I stopped working out at.
SPEAKER_02:No can do. No can do. My legs be feeling it right this second. But this is good. This is your recognition, not resolution.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, absolutely. I mean, no, I'm I'm excited about it. But I'm doing something for me. And I really, really did enjoy it. So that's good.
SPEAKER_02:That's the best hobby you could do for yourself.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and there's a lot of things that, you know, again, girl, we've had a whole list of all these things we needed to accomplish, right? Like we gotta go see Christmas lights, we gotta go see Santa, we gotta decorate, we gotta, you know, bake, we gotta do it. I wanna know. I mean, we can go see the Christmas lights. I vote we bake at Christmas. Okay, so I want to say to each of you that you are not lazy. You're seasonal. Right? So if it's cold and it's raining out and you want to curl up on the couch and watch a homework, maybe you can do it.
SPEAKER_02:And so we really want to invite you to slow down with us. Not even just us. I think it's the universe's permission to slow down and soften. We should listen to it.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and and really think about what that slowing down reveals to you.
SPEAKER_02:It's what it says! Okay, but you didn't have to slow down your actual sentence. No, you know what? Let me not judge, because I say don't judge people slow down, whatever that means.
SPEAKER_04:Do you, boo-boo? Rest is not a reward, it's a part of being human. So let's learn to do that.
SPEAKER_03:Let's reflect on slowing down and what it reveals to you personally. Some days it reveals that I'm somewhat depressed. I don't want to get up and do shit. And I'm just gonna be a little melancholy. And sometimes it's like, oh, quite good doing nothing.
SPEAKER_02:So you know, speaking of melancholy, I think it's such a cute little word for what it is. Right.
SPEAKER_00:It doesn't really sound like it adds up, but yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So we we are so enjoying this journey with you all, you know. I with ourselves too, and with ourselves, we're learning so much. So, you know, if you follow us on Facebook and on Instagram or the different things, I had a moment the other day that really touched me, and I don't think I got to share this with you. Alright. So on my personal Facebook, because she won't let me do it on our miles between us. I go, I do lives sometimes, and I'll talk about, you know, just my feelings for the day. I just try to inspire. Yes. So I had done this post that is kind of leans into what we're talking about, where it was just put you first. Like just let it be about you for a moment. It doesn't have to be about everybody else, it doesn't have to be about everything that's going on, but it can just be about you for a moment. And I got a message from a really dear friend who has a husband that is struggling with Alzheimer's, and she struggled to put herself first. And she sent me a message thanking me for reminding her of that because she'd heard it from other people, but sometimes you got to hear it more than once. So maybe that's part of what our podcast and and our YouTube is for you. You've probably heard most of this before. Like none of this is new, it's not new, but maybe you need to hear it in a different way, and maybe you need to hear it again. So I think that's exciting, and maybe that's why we're called to do this, or we just like to talk.
unknown:I don't know.
SPEAKER_04:But who's to know? But it's we're on a journey. And we yeah, and so our next episode is gonna be our Christmas episode. And uh we'll be launching into that so you can learn about our holiday traditions and everything that's holly and jolly and bright. And uh, you might even see us dressed up for the holiday spirit because it's coming out on actual Christmas. It is coming out on actual Christmas.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you don't, yes, it'll that's always fun. Always fun. So on Christmas warning, we're gonna make our whole family start their day by listening to our podcast.
SPEAKER_04:That's cute. We really genuinely appreciate you guys. We appreciate you tuning in and we really want you to engage with us. You know, we want to hear how you're doing this December and how you're doing with the slowdown. So let's just keep encouraging each other because that's that's what we need. That's what you and I do for each other. And so we want to do it for you guys too.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we've got each other's back, and I like hearing all the different things and different, like you said, I think that was really good. How literally everything we talked about is nothing new to anybody's ears, but hearing it from different people does sometimes spark a different tune. Yeah, you know what I mean? Especially if you're hearing it from the same people that you always talk to in your circle, and so just hearing it in a different level or you're hearing it from a family member or a therapist or whatever, like we could start to tune them out.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. So it is nice to just kind of be like, oh, those girls said I could slow down.
SPEAKER_02:Cheers to that. Yeah, it says slow down, we're okay with it. Yep. Here's to the slowdown of December and winter, because technically it hasn't even it's not even winter yet. It's December 21st. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Well, okay, that's crazy because I have my U-boots on because it's cold.
SPEAKER_02:So okay. Anyway, we've had a lot of tangents on this one, but I hope you enjoy the up and down.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. Again, give your nervous system a break. Let it reset. Yeah, I think that's what all of us kind of need right now.
SPEAKER_02:So we should all take a big ol' exhale. Yes, do it with us one more time.
SPEAKER_03:Do it on your own when I'm not laughing in your ear. I think that's actually what people spend thought. It's relaxation.
SPEAKER_00:So it's meditation, really. It is meditation. It makes me slow down. Do it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So follow us on Instagram and YouTube and Facebook and Spotify, Apple Podcast. Unscripted.
SPEAKER_02:See, I think we gotta change it. We don't have to change it. A little scripted, a little edited, but absolutely real life.
SPEAKER_00:It is absolutely real life.
SPEAKER_04:See you next time.
SPEAKER_02:Bye, Mouse Sweetest, over now.