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818-572-2910. Good day, good day, good day everyone. How are you? I have to say happy St. Patrick's Day. Amidst all of the chaos that's going on in the world right now, I almost didn't even realize it was St. Patrick's Day. So we're going to talk about more of that in just a second. But FYI, I'm also live streaming this on our Shay in the Bitch Facebook page. I just decided that with everything going on, I just as probably you, just need some connection. So if you're out there and you're listening to this on our typical BlogTalkRadio stream, then feel free to also jump over to our Facebook Shedding the Bits page and join in on the live stream. And if not, then you'll have this live stream and radio broadcast to kind of lean on. Because what I want to do today is getting back to the St. Patrick's Day— I love St. Celebrating St. Patrick's Day, though I don't have a lot of green. It really doesn't go well with my complexion. So I'm actually in blue and navy right now. But I always loved St. Patrick's Day. I've loved going out, having drinks, you know, hanging with friends, just getting in the middle of all the noise and the celebration. And yet, as many of you are probably feeling, it just doesn't feel right right now. Even if you are in a city like Atlanta, we haven't yet shut down our restaurants and bars like some other states have. At the same time, I'm not looking to add to the fire. I'm not looking to put myself in any type of situation, and I don't want anybody else feeling as if they're now compromised either. Although I will make a— public service announcement that if you can get out and you can support your local small businesses, then please do so in any way, shape, or form, even if it is— and this is one thing I'm going to be doing this evening— even if it is taking advantage of many restaurants and bars are providing curbside service. So if they're not necessarily opening their doors to the public to eat in, they are getting very creative, which is something we're going to talk about, but getting very creative and offering curbside service so you can at least get some food and not just the food that you probably have stocked up in your pantry. So that is just something to consider. And then, of course, since we are— if many of us are kind of quarantining ourselves, we also have an opportunity to support support small businesses online. So consider doing that because obviously all of us are going through some topsy-turvy right now, and we're not quite sure where it's headed. But that is really what I wanted to talk about today. Last week we did get into it, conversation around how to kind of transition or shift or convert any fear you're feeling into confianza, because it's totally appropriate to be very concerned right now, but we need to stay logical and grounded, and to do that, we need to be more concerned and plan and prepare as opposed to be fearful and panicking and desperate. And so that's what we talked about on last week's show. Another thing I want to mention too in regards to previous shows, we had a great conversation about 3 weeks ago with Katherine Kerrigan, and she's one of our most popular guests on the program over the last several years. She had just published her 10th book, Reading the Soul, and at the same time she shot me a note this morning which I have shared, and I'll make sure Deborah's sharing it even more so because I think right now, Deborah, FYI, it's on my regular personal page on Facebook. But she came onto the show several months ago, maybe even last year around her other book about the little book of breathing. The Little Book of Breathwork, I think, I believe is exactly what it's called. And she is giving that away free right now in order to help many of us, including myself, to kind of work our way through this state of uncertainty. So, go to my— right now, go to my main profile page on Facebook, Bernadette Boas, but we'll make sure that it's shared out there on Twitter and on Facebook on our Shedding the Bitch pages. And take advantage of it. I had mentioned to you when she was last on the show that I had read it last year, and I actually picked out a few of the breathing exercises that definitely did focus on kind of minimizing stress, minimizing anxiety, that kind of thing. And so, it is a small— just like it's called The Little Book of Breathwork. It is very— an easy read, and she walks She walks you through the exercises and the techniques for each of those breaths. So, take advantage of that. Leverage that because we can certainly all use a nice deep breath at the moment. Then we've had conversations previously in regards to emotional intelligence, which we could all use right now, and the power of habit. Again, very appropriate for right now, which we'll get into all of that. So, just kind of leverage all of those past episodes and the tips and the advice that were provided. We can— we have the time. Many of you, like myself, are, you know, home working. That's my normal state, but if it's not for yours, then there's a lot of adjustment. There's a lot of change, let alone stress and anxiety out there. So kind of leverage as many of these tools that are available to you without getting overwhelmed. We don't want to— you know, you don't want to all of a sudden get paralysis by analysis, you know, get overwhelmed by researching, reading, watching YouTube channels, especially around the current situation and the current pandemic that's going on. That can certainly send you into a— state of just mass anxiety and confusion. So I want to just, you know, make note of that. I do want to say that as much as people are feeling fearful right now, we have talked about it numerous times in the past, but including last week, and we talked about the fact that fear, if you look at it as the acronym of False Evidence Appearing Real, False Evidence Appearing Real, that gives you a sense of comfort in that if you did look at situations, even the one that we're all currently experiencing right now, and we looked at it through the lens of that, is this false evidence appearing real? Now I'm not looking for you to challenge what the professionals are saying, but I am, I am going to suggest that you kind of get very selective and get very discriminate about who you're listening to, what you're watching, what information you're taking in and kind of believing, because there's a lot of noise and chatter out there. That are not only false or wrong, but are meant to kind of create anxiety and create chaos. So we have to be very careful and very discreet about the information and the people that we're taking that information from, all right? Because we've already seen the fear and panic, you know, create empty shelves in the grocery stores, very desperate, very feverish dialogue online. You know, you can feel, it's palpable, the tension that people are feeling. As well as, you know, fights have been breaking out in the streets, in the stores, the minute someone loads up, you know, hand sanitizer on the shelves. You know what, we all just need to take a step back, and we all just need to kind of take that breath. That we talked about in order to work our way through this, because we will get through this. And the reason why I just decided to kind of extend this conversation from last week, as well as go on a livestream, is just to kind of provide that connection, provide that reach out, especially if you are feeling isolated. Maybe you have self-quarantined or you have chosen to or have not had the choice of working from home and it's a whole new experience and you're now feeling isolated and away from kind of normalcy, which we all are. I just wanted to at least provide some sort of comfort, maybe a little smile, and just a sense of connection. Because we don't know what we don't know. And I would even challenge the fact that the experts that are out there don't know what they don't know. Yet at the same time, we need to rely and trust somebody to bring us comfort, to bring us some breath, to bring us some relief in one way, shape, or form. So, however you decided to respond to everything that's been going on, because it's very different even from last week. The conversation we had last week about converting fear to concern is still appropriate, but even things have, you know, escalated multiple times, even from last Tuesday, even from Friday, even from Yesterday when, you know, the president's mandates have been getting even stronger and stronger and stronger. And depending upon where you are around the world, because I did reach out in a post earlier asking those that are outside the United States, those international individuals beyond the states, how are, you know, how is it where you are? How are you handling it? How has it has kind of changed over the weeks or months that you've been dealing with it. Very curious about that and have gotten feedback from Korea, from Canada, and a couple of other people responded that didn't really note where they were located. And certainly they're saying that it's calming. They're saying that it's being managed. But they're also saying that there's some strict restrictions that are being adhered to in order to ensure that people are socially distancing themselves and even quarantining themselves in order to minimize the spread and the impact. So there is absolutely no judgment that will be passed on to you from here, from me or from anyone in the community. And if they— and if anybody in the community does start judging or ridiculing anyone for how they're responding to it. It, you know, there's a simple unfriend, delete, unfollow button that I would be hitting because we need a place and you need a safe place, I would, I would guess, to be able to express whatever it is that you are feeling. At the same time, what I really hope for is that You know, we are realizing that we do need to reach out for support, for help, for advice, for referrals or recommendations, for new ideas that can be used, you know, for ourselves, for our families, for our friends, for our work teams, for our businesses. And therefore, I would hope that things, places like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, they become more about that than chaos and fake news or just news that is intentionally, you know, creating havoc out there. Definitely know that Shedding the Bitch here, our community, if you're part of the Shift to Riches private Facebook group that has been formed about just a few weeks ago and already has over 200 members to it. I want these online communities to be just that— communities, places where you can go and others can go together and really work and support and uplift each other. So please know that, because even with the, even with the swelling of possible fear or panic, The planning and the preparation we talked about last week as a way of converting that fear to concern, which concern then goes to you being able to logically prepare and plan, well, that has created chaos and tension in itself, and not necessarily intentionally, but purposely. So the planning and preparation I'm talking about is, you know, the government, local or federal decisions that are being made around school closings and around even daycares closing, businesses closing, the restaurants and the bars that I had mentioned. Some towns like those in California and up north, and I'm drawing a blank of where, oh, well, part of New York City, are on lockdown, and movement is is severely restricted in those areas. So those are creating enormous tensions and anxieties and fears for people who are losing their jobs or unable to earn a paycheck, who find themselves unable to— even if they can go to work, which is severely limited, but they can't because now their kids are home. Therefore, and daycares are closing, so there's nowhere to, you know, put their kids, or there's no help to bring them into the house, let alone that many of you are dealing with now this idea of homeschooling, which is a very commonplace. Deborah even homeschools her children. At the same time, many of you don't, and schools weren't set up for online schooling. Now colleges might have been, and those online, online educational platforms are, but traditional schools, I'll call them traditional, have not been prepared to all of a sudden within a matter of days, if they were lucky they had weeks, to then have, you know, their whole school system go online and in order to keep up. With their education. So with that, with that, you know, my first suggestion, or not a tip necessarily, but suggestion would be is that we all have to recognize that we are all in this together. I know it feels very self-consuming. It feels very lonely. It does feel like you're isolated on an island all by yourself, and that might involve your kids and your family., but you do feel as if you've just lost all of that connection out into your community, into society. Whether that is simply going to a grocery store, or simply going to, you know, sending your kids off to school, or going into work, or taking the subway, or hailing a cab. I mean, all of those things have been severely, severely restricted, and therefore, many people are going to experience, whether you, you know, recognize it or not, they're going to experience this sense of isolation. So I just want to provide you some things to consider, some ideas, some tips, some recommendations. Many of them are online that you can Google, you know, ideas for homeschooling your kids, or ideas for now working remotely, or ideas for Beyond the 5 things you could be doing to protect yourself against the disease. So there's a lot of things online. Just ensure that you're looking into who is recommending it and are they credible, and are the facts you're following coming from, you know, really key resources or sources of information. But there is a lot of information out there. I just thought I would take a second few minutes to provide you some and hope that it can at least give you some sort of comfort and some sort of community, recognizing that you're not alone dealing with this. Yesterday, just to kind of segue a little bit into a different direction, I guess, even yesterday, I work from home. I am— it was funny, a neighbor of mine said, you know, you're already kind of socially distancing yourself naturally because I, I live alone, I work from home, I'm accustomed to, you know, not necessarily getting out face to face, touch to touch, hug to hug, other than when I play pickleball and go to the gym. However, I even yesterday just felt as if I just got sucked into a vacuum of loneliness because of the fact that I'm taking risks and putting other people at risk. Should I go out to the store? Should I run and, you know, go to play pickleball? The gyms are shut down, so can't do that. And all of a sudden I thought to myself, wow, even with those few things that I am now being restricted, self, I'm doing it, you know, voluntarily, the you know, governor hasn't shut down, um, everything and restricted everything from us. But at the same time, enough to where all of a sudden I was like, oh my gosh. And I didn't get a lot of work done. I kind of piddled and kind of allowed myself to get distracted. And I was watching the— especially before about 11 AM yesterday, I was watching the news far too much. Finally decided, you know what, I need to shut this off. I need to stop listening stop all the noise, stop all the chatter, stop all the bitching and complaining, and the patting on the back that some are doing about how great they're responding to this situation. And never really being able to relate. They were never able to relate to, you know, just common folks who are trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And how they were going to deal with it. And, you know, and then to learn or hear that it's not necessarily a couple of weeks, but it could go on for, you know, multiple months. And I'm not here to add to the fire or to create that fear or panic, and we're not even going to talk about that. We're just going to talk about what things are, what things can we be doing, can you be doing, can I be doing in order to Just make the, you know, make the next several weeks very livable. Because we do not want to, we do not want to all of a sudden go so deep within and into a negative dark hole that we stop living. Because there is a lot of life that can be lived in when you are, you know, self-quarantining or self-containing yourself or you are socially distancing yourself. And there's a lot of new things and creative things that we can all be doing that would allow us to have that community connection. So I thought I would share some of those things. So let's get on with it. So we talked about the fact that we just all need to be calm and compassionate. We all need to recognize that the people out in the stores, the people that are servicing ourselves, or servicing us in the stores, in the businesses of any kind, in the schools, in your workplaces, and having to make these decisions to, you know, cut off access to your income, access to food, access to social life, access to sporting events was a big deal, you know, a few days ago when all the sporting events started getting canceled. I was very depressed about the Masters being delayed. However, we have to realize that there's someone on the other side of that making these decisions. There's someone on the other side of that that is also struggling and anxious and stressed about having to make these decisions. Yes, we're living them and experiencing them, but there's someone else that's also dealing with them. And I don't know— Anyone that would have wanted to deal with this and to have to make the decisions that are being made. So we just all need compassion and understanding and support each other and find ways to kind of work our way through this as opposed to getting angry or testy or, you know, aggressive. This fighting that I'm seeing, whether it's verbally or physically, it's— we just need to We just need to all calm and recognize that we're all in this together. If you have decided that you can't trust what you're hearing or trust what you're reading, whether that's online or on television, on the radio, wherever, then turn it off. Turn it off. Turn it on for, you know, those sources of information that you do trust. That you want to get updates on. You know, look at it first thing in the morning and then late at night, see if anything happened. But I can guarantee you that someone's going to be texting you if a major, you know, decision or mandate comes down or a major change is happening. So very much like the, you know, television behind me, you know, turn it off and keep it off. Maybe put some music on instead. But just get rid of the noise if it's creating stress and anxiety for you. All right? And that includes even things that are meant to be community, like Facebook, Twitter, Nextdoor.com, a place that I've always relied on for community information. Well, right now it's a lot of stress is being voiced and verbalized and, you know, not for productive processing of our feelings, but more of a— just creating more anxiety for people. So, maybe, maybe take a pause and decide that you are not going to be there in those places. And then, of course, for those of you who are faith-based, lean on your faith, lean on prayer, lean on however you process that. You know, just recognize that if you have been on this earth for any given amount of time. You've been through things like this before, maybe not to the extreme that it appears, but— and you will get through it again, all right? Because it's going to be your attitude, it's going to be your approach, it's going to be the words that you're using to others and to yourself that is going to determine how you actually handle this short and long term. And then, you know, do the smart things that we talked about last week. Stock up on all the essentials that you need. You know, be prepared for should you— oh, should you actually get sick. Now, I did hear something which I thought was very simple and very profound, and that was of a gentleman. I shared the video again. It's probably on my Bernadette Boas main profile page if you want to go look for it. You know, he just simply said, "Act as if you already have it. Act as if you already have it." So, do the things that, you know, that you would be needing to do if you were sick. You know, getting that, you know, getting that 2-week supply of the necessary food, the necessary amount of toilet paper, the necessary amount of prescription— make sure you have your prescriptions. I found myself running out yesterday morning for dog food because I didn't realize that, you know, Coco's food level was low, and I thought, oh my gosh, if I can't get to a store, I need to go back out and get that, let alone my prescription. And the essentials that are needed. And if, you know, if you can, resist, resist stockpiling supplies that, you know, are not going to be needed for a 2-week, you know, 3-week type of situation. You're just hurting your neighbors. You're just hurting your neighbors. I left some sanitizer buckets. There was, you know, only about 6 of them. I took 2. It was buy one, get one anyway. So I took 2. I left the other ones there because I could see that there were going to be other people walking down the aisle. And I just, you know, we just need to be smart and need to be supportive. Supportive of ourselves and of other people through this situation. And then also make, you know, make note of the delivery apps that are available out there. Now we don't know what's going to happen with that, but in the meantime, have some delivery apps online, whether it is for prescriptions or whether it is for supplies or it is for groceries. And, you know, if you have to, now I know a couple of them, at least here in Atlanta, they're delayed a couple days. Where you used to get them the same day, they're now saying, you know, it'll be like 48 hours before you were to get your deliveries. Plan. It's all about planning. Then what's really going to be critical is for anybody who's, you know, making these adjustments, working in an office or having their kids go to school and now they're in the house. Be very intentional about this. Plan it and prepare. So if you do, and I'm sure Deborah would have a number of tips in this regard, you know, if you are all of a sudden working remotely, set up an office area, even if it's temporary, you know, a temporary, you know, table that you're using, or your dining room table, your kitchen table. Set it up, you know, if it's with yourself and others in the household, then, you know, purposely and intentionally think about how to set up a work environment, a schooling environment. Create a routine just as you would if you were going out the door for yourself and for your kids and for other members of the family. And stick to a routine, stick to a schedule, stick to just the usual habits and routines that you have. And at the same time, consider the fact that since you are all in a closed, you know, space and environment, Then build in, I shared also a schedule that someone else had shared on Twitter. And it was a schedule, a one-day schedule for those parents that have to homeschool their kids now. So it lays out the fact that okay, they get up, they have their breakfast, you do a certain amount of time for academics, certain amount of time for rest, certain amount of time for activity, certain amount of time for play, outside, a certain amount of time for, again, getting back to academics, another rest period. So come up with a schedule that includes all those different activities. There's time for school, there's time for rest, there's time for family, there's time for play, there's time for eating. So schedule and a routine that you and your family members can be following on a day-in, day-out basis. And remember, outside is kind of free space as long as it's outside with social distancing in mind. So ensure that if you are in a condo or an apartment or in your own home, but you feel like that's the only place that you can go, well, no, you can get outside. You can take a walk, go to a path. Go somewhere where you know that it won't have a lot of people, you know, in it, and take advantage of the fact that, you know, outside, get some sunshine, get some vitamin D, get some air, and kind of break down the four walls. Mine are all cream, you know, so there's no color other than cream. So, you know, you want to get outside and be able to take advantage of that. And with your kids at home, you know, and you're thinking, "Oh gosh, how am I going to keep them busy without being on the computer or their phones all day?" Well, remember, there was a time we didn't have phones and computers and laptops. So let's get back to the basics. Let's get creative. You know, this is a great opportunity to teach them to write letters to some senior citizens in retirement homes. Or, you know, for those that are even more sick than, you know, you— your family hopefully is not, but that your family could be dealing with a situation. There's other— there are children that are in hospitals that are dealing with cancer and dealing with other ailments that aren't part of this whole COVID, and they're still going to have to go on in that environment long after, you know, we hopefully kind of work through this situation and we get back to normal. Their normal is already stressful and fearful. And so, you know, maybe you sit the kids down and write letters or draw pictures or, you know, create poems, whatever the case might be, that you can then kind of throw in a mail a letter and send it out to local retirement homes, local children's hospitals, whatever the case might be. And of course, there's volunteer opportunities out there that aren't necessarily only in person, although for the adults of us out there, there are many, many, many, many, many, many shelters, food banks, things like Meals on Wheels that are desperate for people that have cars, people that can help package things up. And of course, they're only looking for those people who are healthy, and there's a level of you're willing to take a risk in that you would be surrounded by other people, and you would hope, you know, you're just wanting to serve in some way, shape, or form. So get creative. This is a time to kind of go back to basics. Get some card games. You know, when you're out shopping for that toilet paper and those sanitizing wipes, you know, think about picking up a thing of cards or, you know, the Monopoly game or whatever the case might be. And, you know, not necessarily rely just on the electronics, you know, kind of get down to basics again. Now, I do want to kind of point out, I don't have children, and I won't pretend to know what parents with kids are dealing with right now, especially parents with kids who may not have the monies and the resources and the access to Wi-Fi, to a laptop. Yes, their kids are being sent home to school at home, but they don't have the means of getting online. Now I did overhear one interview this morning. It was with a woman. She has 3 kids. She's a single mom, 3 kids. One of them is a special needs child, now home. And she's like, "All I have is this phone. All I have is my phone." She said, "But if this phone is the only way my kids can continue getting schooling and continue doing their assignments and continue doing what they have to be doing,"— then that's what we're going to do. I'll build a schedule around them using my phone in order to get their work done. And she even went on to acknowledge that she had that forethought that, wow, that could cost her a lot of money because many people are on kind of fixed plans, and if you go over your plan, your cell phone plan, then you're paying exuberant amount of money for extra data and extra time on that phone. So she said, "I'll worry about the cost later. Keeping my kids up to date and getting their schooling is more important than me worrying about how I'm going to pay for it later." And then it's a matter of, okay, how do you go and get support, get funding, get donations, get some— some degree of, of relief from anything that's going to come out of this situation, because you know it's going to have to be put into place. We're going to have to be able to not only, you know, protect the mass big companies and the losses that they're experiencing, like the president was even talking about when it came to the airline. I'm sitting there going, the airlines have billions of dollars in profits. We don't need the airlines to be to be protected. We need the small businesses. We need the stay-at-homes. We need the, you know, people that really desperately need the monies to get the funding, to get the support. So I would expect, but I'll continue to pray on the fact that, you know, there is relief that's going to come at the end of all of this for those that are suffering even more so. Than others. Let's see, oh, and then the other thing I would just suggest is during this point in time, like we were talking about, just building a community, whether that is online, but you could even be making a list of all your family and your friends and your cousins you haven't reached out to in a long time, or your coworkers who you're now not interacting with on a regular basis. And you could even kind of put a plan together to reach out to them with videos. Messages, or with a phone call, or with a text, or with a letter like we talked about. My brother actually, me the other day, I have, as many of you know, 11 brothers and sisters, and one of them reached out to me and he's like, hey, you know, I just wanted to follow up and see how you're doing. Now, I won't go into his story, but the last thing he needs to be worrying about is me. Uh, that's all I'll say in that regard. However, I just, I felt very, very loved at that very moment. It almost brought me to tears. And I thought, wow, he's going out of his way, you know, amongst everything that he's already dealing with and will be dealing with long after we get back to normalcy, and yet he, you know, he took the time to make sure that I was okay. And so then he even suggested, he said, hey, I said, what can I do? I said, what, you know, I feel helpless, what can I do? And he just suggested, you know, send Karen and Kyle and Aaron— Karen's his wife, Kyle and Aaron are his kids— you know, a video message just saying hi, you know. And I thought, shit, yeah, I was like, yeah, I can do that. And I think we all can do that. We all can kind of, kind of put our own stuff aside and, and, you know, help and serve and give to others as well during a time like this. Lastly, what I want to say is, because it kind of sums this whole thing up, the fact that we need to be asking for help as much as we need to be helping other people. So one, you need to put your pride aside. You need to put your insecurities or your fears of being judged or ridiculed or or looked down upon, and seek the help that you need, regardless of what it is. If it is just a smiley face on a text, or if it is a phone call, or if it is a few dollars, or maybe many more dollars than a few, then do take care of yourself and reach out and ask for the help and the support that you need. If, you know, there's gonna be some people who can't. Everybody can give a smile, everybody can say hello, everybody can, you know, give a virtual hug. But, you know, if you are looking for more tangible things than that, not everybody will be able to. At the same time, just ask. Because you deserve to, to ask. You deserve to have the help. And anything that we all can be doing to just, you know, kind of live. We still want to live and thrive through a time like this. So, get very creative of how you can do that, how your kids can do that. That's what I wanted to say. I was stalling because I had forgotten the last point I really wanted to make. That was an important point, but this is the more important point. For any of us at an age where we have influence, with amongst this, the younger people, you know, whether that is kids, whether that is teenagers, whether that is even young adults, you know, we are in a position to live by example. Be the example for them. If they see us panicking and fearful and desperate and stressed out and anxious, then that is how they are going to respond as well. That's actually how they're also going to kind of label this type of situation, and when it happens again, that's how they're going to respond because that's how you responded. That's how I responded. So we are an example for everyone around us, whether that is our friends and our peers or it is younger people. And so what we need to do, be, what we need to be is we need to be that voice of reason, voice of logic, voice of unemotion, voice of motivation, inspiration, you know, help. We need to be the voice of sanity and calm. And we need to be a voice and an action that will show that we will get through this. And we will be a better— I'm praying we'll be a better world and community as a result of it, because we are all coming together to support one another, like we have so many other times during very tragic periods in history. So, I will just leave you with that and just hope that everyone does stay safe, that everyone stays calm, stays concerned, But stay informed by the right people in the right places and stay prepared and planned for. And we will all get through this and look back on it and say, wow, you know, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, or I was able to overcome it. I was able to get through it. Or we might, you know, be saying that, you know, there's— our hearts are with those who suffered more than we did. A period of compassion, bottom line. Alright, so for everyone here in the Shedding the Bitch community, I'm going to wish you a healthy and prosperous week, and I look forward to having you right back here next Tuesday at noon Eastern time. Thanks everybody, bye.

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