Tap this. And other deep thoughts.

Today’s minisode is a shorty but a goodie where we talk about one sure-fire way to get into a better headspace when you're trippin' on your stories.

This is what I call one of my little Chatty Kathy minisodes. I'll be posting these once a week in between my longer conversations with my lovely and amazing guests.

They're meant to encourage you, brighten your day, give you a little lift or a laugh or a, huh? What the...? Enjoy!

Coming up next week: Kat Courtney, The Afterlife Coach. Kat is an enthusiastic advocate and passionate messenger for reverent and safe plant medicine experiences. She works as a ceremony guide and a psychedelic integration coach, and is a certified Death Doula. Curious? If all that sounds new and weird and mystical to you, be sure to tune in. It's an interesting and magical conversation.

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Transcript

Tap this.

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Kathy: Hey guys. Welcome back to the podcast. This is what I call one of my little Chatty Kathy [00:01:00] Minisodes, or sometimes I call 'em my Little Golden Nugs, which, or my little Golden Keys. I don't know. I don't know. We're gonna find out what these are called. But for now, these are my little Minisodes, and I will be posting these probably once a week and, but no pressure on me. But it'll be in between my longer conversations that I have with my lovely and amazing guests. Because number A: it's fun and two, I just have thoughts sometimes that I feel I need to share, so I just pop on my phone, record them just for you. 

Take a quick listen; they're meant to encourage you, brighten your day, give you a little lift or a laugh or a, huh? What the...? So I hope you enjoy Chatty Kathy's Little Nugs. I don't know, maybe you can help me figure out what we're gonna call these. Enjoy and we'll talk again soon. 

This might seem really kind of silly, but at the same time, it just [00:02:00] felt profound this morning. no, I'm not stoned but, this morning I was going through my, my little morning ritual that I do, which involves lemon and water. My husband calls it my tinkle time.

We'll talk about that another time. I was turning off and on our new faucet in the kitchen and I realized what an amazing thing it is to have a faucet that I can flick a little handle one way and the other, and have running water in my kitchen. 

It felt so significant because recently our faucet actually broke and we had to use a little pair of, well, a big pair of pliers to turn it on and off.

It was a pain in the ass actually, because the pliers were old and funky and they would pinch your skin sometimes, and you have to reach down inside and grab hold of this little nut and then pull up. And if you didn't pull carefully, the faucet would go on full blast. Then you had to mess around to try to get it to the right pressure.

And then try to turn it hot and cold. If you're a cook, you know, being able to flick the faucet off and on quickly while you're in the kitchen, [00:03:00] um, is sort of crucial. 

So to have to grab pliers and do that anyway. I know it's, you know, all first world problems here, but you know, everything's relative.

The faucet was broken for, I mean, they weren't able to get a plumber here for maybe two and a half weeks had to use pliers for the kitchen sink and it's one of the beauties of living so remotely, there's like one plumber. Well no, there's probably five plumbers, but only one who shows up.

So we got our new faucet last week. I find myself in these moments of, oh my God, it's so easy to just turn this faucet on and turn it off and then turn it on again and turn it off. I don't have to leave it running and wasting gallons of water.

It just made me think about how, you know, there are little moments, like, it was a pain in the ass to have the sink broken and it was a time to practice cuz there were times when it would irk me and irritate me and I would be whiny about it. Then I would stop myself and say, hold on, just be with what this is, this is your normal for right now-- Oh, I hate that phrase. I'm not even gonna [00:04:00] use it. I'm cutting that from the record...

 All right, so I kept it.

Just be with what is right now and don't make a big deal out of it and just notice it. and be with it. So I, I'm not gonna say I relished it or loved it, but now with my working faucet, I'm so grateful for it. So I look back on that experience of inconvenience and recognized how incredible it is to have something so simple as a tap in my kitchen for water.

And of course we could extend that to people around the world who do not have a tap, who have to walk for miles and miles to get water. And yes, that still exists. So, which, you know, that in and of itself could be an amazing thing. I mean, who knows? Everybody's experience is their experience. 

But um, yeah, so it's just something to contemplate when you've some disruption in your life that you want to dive into and wrap yourself around all the stories of how painful that is.

To stop and ask, what have you come to teach me? And try to just be with that while it's happening, [00:05:00] knowing that one thing we can always count on is change. So one way or another, that experience could morph into some other experience.

There will always be retrospect and always be something to look back on where you can say, oh, now I see. Or, wow, now I so appreciate this new situation. 

So anyway, just thoughts that help me... to just have a more appreciative heart, you know, a heart of gratitude and, and just something to think about. I dunno, it's entertaining, right? 

Anyway, I hope that sparks a little something for you. And I hope that you have a great day. Talk again soon. 

 If you enjoyed this episode, please come back for more. I've got some really interesting and inspiring guests on tap for upcoming episodes. 

I've got award-winning authors, plant medicine people, nervous system experts, just a smorgasbord of goodness and curiosity. 

Coming up next week, Kat Courtney, The Afterlife Coach. Kat is an enthusiastic advocate and passionate messenger for reverent and safe plant [00:06:00] medicine experiences. She works as a ceremony guide and a psychedelic integration coach, and is a certified Death Doula. Curious? If all that sounds new and weird and mystical to you, be sure to tune in. It's an interesting and magical conversation.

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