E047 Getting Out the Door: You’re Finally Out, So Why Are You Still Rattled? How the Morning Follows You Into the Rest of Your Day

Have you ever finally made it out of the house, got into the car or onto the train and realised your mind is still back at home? You might be replaying the goodbye, thinking about school drop-off, going over the conversation you just had or wondering how you barely remember the trip because your mind was somewhere else.

This episode continues the Getting Out the Door arc by looking at what can follow you into the next part of your day. If mornings like this leave you feeling rattled, short-tempered or close to losing it, the free guide 5 Things You Can Do Before You Lose Your Mind gives you five simple nervous system resets you can use when the clock is ticking and someone still needs something from you.

E047 Getting Out the Door: You’re Finally Out, So Why Are You Still Rattled? How the Morning Follows You Into the Rest of Your Day

We pick up from the front door in episode 046 and step into what happens next. We look at the flood morning that turned a five-minute school run into 40 minutes, the decisions the journey added, what happened when I reached work, why your mind can keep replaying the morning, how a difficult goodbye can follow someone into the workday and why reaching the next place does not always mean you feel ready to begin.

📋 What we covered:

• How this episode picks up from the front door moment in E046
• The flood morning that changed a normal school run before we had even reached the car
• Why a five-minute drive became 40 minutes of detours, closed roads and changing plans
• What happened at school drop-off, on the next part of the drive and when I reached work
•  How patient drivers and an understanding team helped take some of the pressure off 
• Why traffic, drop-off, delays or an unexpected change can add more decisions after you leave the house
• How your mind can keep replaying the goodbye, the drive or the conversation even after you arrive
• What the looking glass and Connect can show you about what happened behind you, within you and ahead of you

📘 Free Guide:

5 Things You Can Do Before You Lose Your Mind

A practical guide with five simple nervous system resets for the mornings when the clock is ticking, someone still needs something and you can feel your patience disappearing. 

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🌟 Key takeaways:

• Getting through the front door doesn't always mean the morning is finished
• A school run, commute, traffic delay or difficult goodbye can add more decisions before the day properly begins
• You can arrive at work and still be thinking about what happened at home, on the road or at drop-off
• Sometimes a pause, a conversation or a few minutes alone helps you feel ready for the next part of the day
• Connect helps you figure out where the pressure began, what the journey added and what support might help you next time

🔁 Episodes referenced in this episode:

E046 Getting Out the Door: Why Does Leaving Take So Much Work? What Happens Before You Reach the Front Door

E004 Self-Care: Beyond Bubble Baths – Nurturing Your Nervous System

🎧 Related listening:

E037 Presence & Perception: How to Feel Like Yourself in a Room Even When You’re Running on Empty

E011 Mum Guilt Explained: Reframing Rest, Guilt and Self-Care for Mums

 If you have ever arrived at work, school drop-off or an appointment and still felt rattled from the morning, this episode will help you see why. You’ll notice what the journey added, what your mind kept replaying and what helped you feel ready for the next part of the day. 

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Okay, so this is episode 47, and we're starting with a hook. How good can it feel the second you're finally at that front door? Is that where your morning ends though, or does that part still follow you? In this episode, we're finding out what happens once you pass that threshold, so by the end you'll have a clearer understanding as to why you can still feel rattled, short-tempered, or completely off long after you've left the front door. Close hook, start episode. Hey lovely, welcome back to the J Warners podcast. Wherever you are in the world and whatever this day has brought you so far, I hope this gives you a little moment for yourself, however that looks for you today. Okay, I need to ask you something. Have you ever finally made it out of the house, got into the car or in the train, and realized that your mind is still back behind that front door? Literally the one you had to walk through to start the day. You might be replaying the conversation you just had, mentally going back through everything you just did before leaving, or still having a whole argument in your head with someone who no longer is there with you anymore. Then the journey gives you something else to think about. How did Drop Off go? Did they have everything they needed? Why didn't they hug or kiss me goodbye today? One thought leads to another while you're still trying to get to wherever you need to go. Then you pull into work, arrive at the appointment or reach the next destination and think, how did I get here? I barely remember that trip because my mind was somewhere else. Now, of course, while your mind is still going through everything that happened before you left, the trip itself can also add something more. Traffic, closed roads, a missed train, a difficult drop-off, or something completely unexpected can change the morning again. Now, depending on the day, that time might give you a few minutes to breathe or leave you changing plans before you've even arrived. Yeah, that's basically where we're going today. What comes through the front door with us, what happens along the way, and why reaching our next destination doesn't always mean the morning feels finished. Okay, quick heads up if you're new here. This is the second episode in a three-part arc called Getting Out the Door. You can absolutely start here, but today's journey will make even more sense if you've listened to last week's episode first. So if you haven't, I highly recommend going back and having a listen when you can. Okay, last week was a bit like one of those movies that opens with a scene already in progress. You can see what's happening, but you have absolutely no idea how everybody got there. We started the morning at the front door, right at the pointy end of it, and then worked our way backwards. We went past the kitchen, through everything that was happening around the house, all the way back to the edge of the bed. By the time we returned to that front door, we had a much clearer picture of everything that had brought us there. That's where the looking glass came in. Behind you was everything that morning had already asked of you. Within you was how you were feeling after all of it. Now ahead of you was whatever the day was expecting from you next. Today we're picking up from that exact moment. This time instead of retracing our steps, we're moving forward. We're opening the front door and stepping through the looking glass to see what happens on the other side. Hmm. Does that sound a little mysterious? Hopefully you thought it does, because there's definitely a reason for that. Okay, now remember at the beginning of last week's episode where I told you that there was a morning that I opened the front door and found something I wasn't really expecting. Well this is it. This is the story we've been making our way towards. Now, before I tell you what I found, I really want you to picture me standing inside the house right at the front door. Now, as far as I knew, this was going to be a fairly normal morning. Ellie needed to go to school, I needed to get to work, and we were really just having a normal morning, just maybe a little bit more behind than usual. Now we had torrential rain overnight, literally the kind where you're lying in bed, listening to it and thinking, OMG, that's a lot of rain. And then I just rolled over and then just went back to sleep because you know that's gonna be a tomorrow thing. Now by morning, everything inside the house still felt familiar. Ellie was getting ready for school, I was getting ready for work, I was saying the usual things I was saying, like put your jacket on. Now by the time we were ready to leave, now we were already running late, and I knew I had rain, but I had absolutely no idea what that rain had done behind or beyond our front door. When I opened it, I stopped in my tracks. There were tree branches everywhere. Now I mean everywhere. It looked like a storm had torn through the street overnight. Roads that never ever flood were completely underwater. I remember standing there for a second thinking, okay, what on earth happened while I was asleep? That was the moment the front door became my looking glass, a little like Alice. I was stepping through something completely familiar and into a version of my own neighbourhood that I barely recognised. Now we would normally have walked to school that morning. Our usual route takes us through the parklands, over several bridges and past the creeks. After seeing all that water and the mud, I didn't want Ellie to make her way through it obviously and myself either. So I decided to drive her instead. At that point, driving felt like the most sensible option. And I mean it's normally a five minute trip. Barely worth starting their engine over on an ordinary morning, and I thought, you know, like what could go wrong? That five minute trip ended up taking 40 minutes. I'm not joking. Ellie was completely fine in the car. She was chatting away like she usually does and seemed fairly unfazed by everything happening outside. Now looking back, that part kind of made me smile because she is such a rules-oriented kid. Her main concern was mum, because we're late, I'm gonna need a late slip. That was it. Very laid back about the whole thing. Meanwhile, I was staring at all the cars in front of us, thinking, why is this taking so long? This is supposed to be a five-minute drive. No road rage at all, clearly. Now the drive really tested my patience because the cars just weren't moving. It became okay, let me try this road. This one's not working. Okay, try something else. I changed my plan for getting her to school five or six times. That's honestly why I took 40 minutes. It was detour after detour after detour. What I didn't know at the time was two of the main arterial roads near us were completely impassable. Everyone in that area was basically being funnelled into the same handful of side streets at once. A couple of the bridges we'd normally cross were flooded as well. The nearby lakes had come right up to the top, and I mean I had never seen that before. While I was trying to find another way through, I was also doing the maths on how late Ellie and I were both gonna be. One of those main roads was the same road I was gonna need to take to then get to work and after I'd taken her to school. So I still had to work out how I was going to get to work. So I sent my team a voice message along the way to let them know what was happening and that I was gonna be running late. Now by the time we finally reached the school, I discovered that our usual kiss and drop was completely closed. I found a safe place to park, which was a little bit further away, and Ellie and I walked towards school from there. That's when I saw why they had closed it. There was mud everywhere, with branches scattered across the road and footpaths. No wonder it was closed. It made completely sense while I was standing there looking at it, but from the inside, like the car, I had no idea what was happening. Once I dropped to Ellie safely off at school, I gave myself a few moments before beginning the next part of my drive. I put on my favourite podcast, took a breath, and gave myself a moment to decompress before working out how I was gonna get to work. Now the flooding wasn't behind me yet though. The rest of the drive still involved finding my way through roads that were underwater. At one point I s I actually saw the main arterial road for myself and it was completely submerged. I literally couldn't believe it. I had not seen anything like that before. But honestly, seeing it made the scale of what happened so much clearer. Now something else stood out throughout the journey and it really surprised me. The drivers I encountered that morning were lovely. People were letting others merge, waving each other through, and making space where they could. Now that was a level of patience I have never ever seen in normal Adelaide traffic. Nobody was beeping, nobody was cutting anyone off, it was strange, but in the best possible way. What I loved about this is because everyone was dealing with the same clothes, rows, detours and uncertainty, there was a level of compassion for each other. Now, you know me, I wasn't going to keep thinking about these drivers without finding out research to explain what I had seen. And funnily enough, I actually could find some research. John Drury and a team of researchers interviewed 17 residents after the 2015 floods in New York and sorry we say this again. John Drury and a team of researchers interviewed 17 residents after the 2015 floods in York in the UK and research explored something called emergent shared identity. Now put simply that means people who may have seen each other as strangers before can begin to feel part of the same group when they realize that they're facing the same situation. During those interviews, residents described a growing sense of we and spoke about supporting people they hadn't known before the flood. Now that research can't tell me exactly why every driver on the road was thinking or why they were doing what they were doing, and it can't prove we'll say this bit again because I kind of went on a tangent. So I'll say this bit again. Now that research can't tell me why every driver on the road was say this bit again. Now that research can't tell me what every driver on that road was thinking, and it can't prove the way that they were behaving the way they did or why they behaved the way that it did, but it does give us one possible explanation for the cooperation I saw that morning. We were all looking at the same flooded roads and closed bridges and we're all trying to make our way through. So the feeling was almost, oh you two, alright, off you go. Now eventually I made it to work. Although I was definitely a little bit flustered by then. I'm not gonna lie to you. Once I started telling my team what happened, I felt so much better. I'm a talker, clearly. So sometimes I just need to talk it out. Now my team already knew that I was gonna be late, and they knew that my area had coped some of the worst of the flooding. So when I arrived, they understood why I was flustered and had compassion for what the f for mourning for me and what the flooding had involved. A few of them even shared some of their own stories as well about times when flooded roads, traffic or something else completely unexpected had disrupted their commute. At the time, I didn't really think about why that conversation helped. I only knew I only say this bit again. At the time, I didn't really think about why that conversation helped. I only knew that I felt differently after talking about it. Now this is where the conversation becomes bigger than my flood story. A difficult morning can follow someone into the next part of their day for very different reasons. Mine changed the moment I opened the front door and saw what happened outside. For one of the women I spoke to, the journey itself was fairly ordinary. Her mind was still back at the goodbye with her son and had been anxious about her leaving. She kept wondering back whether she could have handled that moment differently. Now we'll come back to her experience shortly, including what was still going through her mind when she reached work. But before we do, I want to save my flood morning just a little bit longer because this is where the load we spoke about last week continued beyond the front door. Now when I say load, I'm talking about everything that happened that morning and what you might still be thinking about. Now I unpack the different types of load and how that can show up in the real mornings in detail in last week's episode. So if this is your first episode in this arc and you want to understand that piece a little bit more, that's a really good place to go back to after this one. For me in particular, that journey added even more load because I was choosing new routes, watching the time, checking whether roads were safe, and thinking about Ellie getting to school and working out how I was eventually going to get to work. Now, before I'd even gotten to work, the journey had created more decisions, more uncertainty, and even more demands on my attention. That flood made the different parts of the morning incredibly easy to see. There was what happened before we left, what the roads added along the way, and what I still needed before I was able to begin working. Now most mornings obviously don't involve flooded bridges and tree branches everywhere. That's hardly a standard school run. Smaller disruptions though can still change the way you reach wherever you're going. It could be a different school procedure, heavier traffic, a delayed train, a queue you weren't expecting in the car park, which is now suddenly full. Each one can take more time, acquire another decision, or leave you wondering whether you're going to arrive late or not. Now that place that you're trying to reach to can vary as well. It might be work, an appointment, study, or somewhere you need to be there or for another person. Maybe you work from home though, and your computer is just a few steps between the kitchen and the room to open your laptop. So the front door is only the first threshold. School or childcare drop-off can change that plan again. The drive, train ride, or walk can also bring its own delays. Once you get there, someone may already be waiting to ask you something about a proposal or a project, or you might reach an appointment with seconds to spare, or walk straight into something else that needs your immediate attention. That brings us back to the question from the beginning. When does the morning actually end? Seriously, now for me, it began to feel finished somewhere in the conversation with my team. For someone else, that mourning could come a lot earlier or a bit later. That's when the immediate problem starts to feel like it's being dealt with. But parts of the morning can still keep going through your head. You might be replaying what happened on the road, how drop-off went, or how the conversations happened or how they went before you were leaving. Last week I spoke about a woman who could feel dread before she even put her feet on the floor. Her mind was already running through everything the day was going to require. We also looked at research suggesting that the body may have been preparing of the demands. Say this bit again. We also looked at research suggesting that the body may begin preparing for the demands someone else expects of you before the day can begin or before you begin the day properly. My flood morning shows us another part of that picture. Those responses can begin before we leave, change as the journey changes, and still be present when we arrive. The timing and intensity can look different for every person and every situation. This is where the nervous system science can help us understand what may be happening. Okay, your stress response involves say this bit again. Okay, your stress response involves more than just one system in the body. The sympathetic nervous system can act quickly, increasingly say this bit again. Okay, say this bit again. Okay, your stress response involves more than one system in the body. The sympathetic nervous system can act quickly, increasing awareness and prepare you to respond to what's happening. The APA access works more slowly and includes the release of cortisol. Now how quickly those systems respond and how strongly they respond and how long that response continues can vary between people, situations, and environments. We actually chatted about these systems in more detail way back in episode 4. So if you'd like to understand more about how they work, that's another episode you can go back to. In my situation, I obviously wasn't taking my pulse or collecting saliva samples between school drop-off and work. Now I can't tell you exactly what's happening inside my body that morning, but what I can tell you is where my attention was for those 40 minutes. It kept changing between the water, the roads, Ellie's safety, the time, my message to my team, and whatever route I have to try next. So it was literally for me one decision after another. Now by the time I reached work, Ellie was safely at school and I found another way through. I was still feeling flustered by doing all of that. So those stress response systems help me understand why we may be more alert while dealing with a problem. The next question is what happens when we arrive and our mind is still going back through everything that happened. So researchers use the term preservative cognition. Yep, I said that right. I'm gonna go back and say it again though. Okay, so researchers use the term preservative cognition to describe continuing to worry about or replay a stressful experience after it's ended. It sounds very technical, but the idea itself is fairly simple. A major review of this study found evidence that this kind of repetitive thinking can prolong the emotional and physical response associated with stress. So in other words, the situation can be over, but your mind's still going back through it. You may be thinking about what happened, what could have gone wrong, or whether you handled it properly. This may also help explain why the first ordinary question at work can sometimes feel more demanding than it normally would. You're now at your desk, but part of your attention is still retracing the school drop-off, the drive or the conversation that you had before leaving. Now for me, talking to my team helped me stop going over the morning in my head. They understood why it happened and why I was late. Now once we've spoken about it, I could turn my attention towards work. I'd worked through say this bit again. I'd walked through the office, say this bit again. I'm gonna go back and say that whole bit again. For me, talking with my team helped me stop going over the morning in my head. They understood why was happening or why I was late, and once we spoke about it, I could turn my attention towards work. I'd walk through the office door, took several minutes say this bit again. And I'm gonna remove that other bit. Okay. For me, talking with my team helped me stop going over that morning in my head. They understood what happened and why I was late. And once we spoke about it, I felt quite comfortable to just then start working. Now, the moment I mentioned earlier had a very different journey to work. Her drive was okay and safe, but her mind was still back at the difficult goodbye with her child. So her son experienced real anxiety about her leaving. Right at the point of separation, she's trying to help him through it. She'll say things like, Okay, let's look around. Can you find something green in the room? She'll give him one specific thing to focus on while he deals with the fact that she's about to go. Once she has helped him through that moment, she still has to leave, get to work, and then step into a completely different role. And then by the time she's sitting with a colleague, she's expected to listen, answer questions, and make decisions as an employee. As she described it, technically, my head is still recovering from what has just occurred. So on the outside, she's nodding and listening, and inside, these questions are still going through her mind. Did I set him off in a bad way? He didn't give me a cuddle that morning, was he angry with me? How could have I done that differently? But I have to be here now. She also has financial worries and mum guilt alongside everything else that she's thinking about with her son. So all of that is going through her mind while her work day has really just. Begun. The colleague sitting beside her has got no idea about everything that she's internally going through because for her it just looks like it's just a normal conversation. Now her experience brings two parts of this conversation together. We've spoken about how stressful experiences can keep running through your mind after the immediate situation's ended. Her story shows that this can look say this bit again. Her story shows what this can look like when the concerns begin at home and continue into the workday. Researchers often describe this broader influence of family experiences on someone's thoughts, feelings or responses as say this word bit again. Researchers often describe this broader influence of family experiences on someone's thoughts, feelings or responses at work as family-to-work spillover. A researcher team from Eremus University Rotterdam collected 366 daily surveys from 108 working patients. They found that problems or frustrations at home reported on one day were associated with parents continuing to think about those concerns the following workday. In particular, their study looked at concerns reported the previous say this bit again. In particular, their study looked at concerns reported the previous day rather than something that happened during the same morning drop-off. So we can't use this to experience say this bit again. Actually, I'm gonna get rid of that bit there as well. I might go back and say that paragraph graph again and then take that bit out so then it does actually flow as one continuous um one continuous block. Okay. A research team from Eremus University Rotterdam collected 366 daily surveys from 108 working parents. They found that problems or frustrations at home reported on one day were associated with parents continuing to think about those concerns the following workday. In particular, their study looked at concerns reported the previous day rather than something that happened during the same school drop-off. So these findings do support the broader idea that concerns from family life can remain mentally present during the workday. So you can answer the email, not through the conversation, and still be wondering whether your child is okay. A colleague sitting beside you may not have any idea about your morning or about everything that's still running through your mind. That is one way arriving at work can feel. Another one of my ladies told me that for her, going to work can bring some relief. Once she's through the office doors and into the staff room, she feels like she can finally breathe. She describes that as the weight coming off her shoulders because once she's left home, she can't control what's happening there anymore. The staff room gives her somewhere to pause, decompress, and work out what she needs to do next. Now a third woman described arriving at work differently again. If she's had a rough morning, she can feel very emotional when she gets there. She needs a few minutes before she feels ready to talk to people or begin working. Now from the outside, all three women have reached work. One is still thinking about her son, one feels some relief when she enters the room, the third needs a few minutes before she's ready to speak to someone. They've all reached the same point in their journey, but the conversations, decisions, and emotions leading up to that moment can be different for each of them. That helps explain why those first few minutes can feel so different as well. What the experience shows us is that reaching work can change the load without bringing it to an end. Some parts of the morning may follow you through the front door while other parts begin to feel easier, may begin to relax over time. The place you've entered can also bring new demands of its own. The woman's son may say this bit again. The place you've entered can also bring some demands of its own. The woman's son may be safely at school, but their goodbye could still be going through her mind. For another woman, entering the staff room gives her a chance to breathe because for a few minutes nobody's asking anything of her. At the same time, work may have deadlines, questions and people waiting for answers. Now think about those first few minutes can look like in your own day. You might walk straight into a conversation about that proposal or project. You might arrive at an appointment with seconds to spare. You might need a few minutes alone before you're ready to do anything. If your mind is still back at that goodbye, the traffic, or whatever happened before you arrived, that first demand compounds on top of everything else you went through already. That's how you can still be thinking about your morning long after your first coffee has gone cold. Now, the looking glass from last week helps us map out this change as well. At the front door behind you I say this bit again. At the front door behind you was everything that happened at home. Within you is how you're feeling about it, and ahead of you was the drop-offs, the commute, and wherever you were heading to next. Now you're standing at another doorway. Behind you is the goodbye, the drop-off, and whatever happened during the journey. Within you is whatever you're thinking about and feeling right at that particular moment. Ahead of you is that first conversation, appointment, deadline, or task waiting for your attention. You have physically reached the next place, but that doesn't mean that every part of you feels ready to begin. The nervous system science we spoke about earlier helps to explain why walking into another building may not immediately change how you feel. This is also where the looking glass and the three-part pattern from episode 46 came together. The looking glass gives us an image of moving from one world to another, and Van Gemp's pattern follows the same movement. Say spit again. This is also where the looking glass and the three-part pattern from episode 46 come together. The looking glass gives us an image of moving from one world to another. Van Gemp's pattern shows the movement between them, separation, the liminal stage and incorporation. Episode 46 brought us into separation at the front door when we left the family. Say this bit again. Episode 46 brought us to separation at the front door where we left the familiar place behind. Today we've followed the liminal stage through school drop-off, traffic, flooded roads, trains, and everything else that can follow along. Arriving at the next place bring us to incorporation when we enter that environment and begin taking part in whatever's happening there. Together, the looking glass and the three-part pattern help us understand the difference between reaching a place and feeling ready to begin. That's important because the clock might say that the workday has started, but you may still need time, a conversation, or breathing room before you're ready to answer that first question. Okay, so say this bit again. Okay, do you know what became really clear when I was talking to the say this bit again? Okay, do you know what became really clear when I was talking about those mornings with my ladies? Each woman could have summed up her experience by saying, I had a hard morning. But once we unpacked each experience, we could see so much more. We could see where the pressure began, what happened along the way, what was still going through her mind when she arrived and what helped her get ready for the next part of the day. We've done the same thing with my flood story. We didn't stop at the school run was a nightmare. We traced what happened before I left, what I found on the other side of the front door, the decisions, the journey added, and why I was still feeling flustered when I reached work. Talking with my team then became another part of the story because that's where I felt ready to start to begin. That is the process of what I call connect, and it's the first part of my calm pathway. Connect is where we pay attention to what our body is telling us, the thoughts running through our mind, the emotional state we're operating from, and what is happening around us. We then start connecting, see that, those pieces together. Things like your racing heart, impatience, tears, relief, or difficulty concentrating are all signals your body gives you. So the difficult goodbye, the traffic, the questions waiting at work, and the person who gives you a moment to breathe. Once you bring all those pieces together, your response begins to make more sense. You can see why the morning was difficult and pinpoint where the pressure grew and where it starts feeling more manageable. That gives you a more clearer steer. Say this bit again. That gives you a much clearer starting point for deciding what support you may need next time. This is why Kinect comes first. It gives us a baseline, which is simply a clearer picture of what is happening before we start changing the routine, the environment, or the way we respond. This is what my ladies were doing as they shared the experiences with me, and it's what we were doing together throughout this episode. Now, if you've been listening and thinking, yep, that sounds exactly like one of my warnings, my free guide, five things you can do before you lose your mind. It's a simple place to begin. It gives you five practical resets for those warnings when the clock is ticking, somebody still needs something, and you can feel the patience disappearing. They're the same kinds of resets one of my ladies used with her daughter when she was trying to decide what to wear. You can download the free guide through the link in the show notes. Okay, lovely, let's bring this together. Today we asked one question. When does the morning actually end? What these stories have showed us is that the morning can finish in stages, and that point can be different for each person. For me, it began to feel finished when I was talking with my team. One woman felt some relief when she entered the staff room. Another needed a few minutes before she was ready to speak to anyone. For the woman with the anxious son, the work day had already begun while the goodbye was still going through her mind. My flood story showed how quickly the world outside can change what a morning asks of us. The closed roads, the detours, adding more decisions, uncertainty and time pressure. The patience of the other drivers and the understanding I received from my team also showed how the people can meet us along the difficult journey and sometimes make it a little bit easier. The research help us understand why reaching the next place might not immediately change what we're thinking or how we're feeling. The immediate problem can be over while part of our attention is still back on the goodbye, the drop-off, or whatever happened on the road. This is why Kinect matters. It helps us with more detail behind the words hard mourning. We can see where the pressure began, where the journey added, what followed us into the next place, and what helped take some of the pressure off and it made it easier to manage. This is why Connect Matters. It helps us put more detail behind the words hard morning. We can see where the pressure began, what the journey added, what followed us into the next place, and what helped take some of the pressure off to help it feel easier to manage. Once we can see those pieces, we have a much clearer starting point for deciding where support may help. This gives us somewhere to begin with next week because leaving say this bit again. That gives us somewhere to begin next week because leaving home is only half of the journey. Eventually the direction changes and you approach the same front door but from the other side. Behind you is the work day, the appointment, the conversation, and the journey. Say this bit again. This gives us somewhere to begin to working with because leaving home is only half of the journey. Eventually the direction changes and you approach the same front door from the other side. Behind you is the work day, the appointment, the conversations, and the journey home. Within you might be tiredness, relief, or something that happened during the day that is still going through your mind. Ahead of you is home and whatever's waiting for you on the other side of that door. We've followed the looking glass outwards. Next week, in the final episode of this arc, we're turning around and stepping back through it. We'll also stop at each point of the journey and look at small practical ways to make leaving, traveling, and arriving and coming home just that little bit easier. Until then, stay happy, stay curious, and as always, I am so glad you're here.