In this episode we explore a potentially touchy topic — feeling like our lives have been at a standstill over the past year. We cover how to check in with yourself to decide if your current vibes are no longer serving you and offer ways to break out of Pandemic Limbo Land. 

We check in with the Educated Messes community to find out how we’ve all been feeling lately, reflect on the best things we’ve done for our mental health, and contemplate if it’s important to move forward in our lives and if so.. how do we do it? Kyla’s back in therapy, Kelsey feels weird about peloton, and we both have been turning to hobbies that force us to be present. We discuss findings from a study on happiness, noodle on building habits to combat perfectionism, and decide that starting now we want to give ourselves permission to create, share, explore, and have fun. 

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• Ep 09: How Do We Become More Resilient
• Ep 15: Why is it So Hard to Make Friends?
• Ep 14: New Year, Same Us (But Growing)
• Ep 07: Are “Shoulds” Making Us Unhappy

• We’re Not Really Strangers Game
• Atomic Habits
• Stacey Abrams TED Talk
• Daylio App (Mood/ Habit Tracking)