Countess Luann talks about moving past stress by staying in motion, using positive self-talk, and treating each day as a fresh start. She warns against getting stuck in negative thought loops and says resilience comes from both action and the conversations you have with yourself.
If anyone has overcome publicly any kind of obstacles, you have, you've been the queen of overcoming them with grace, elegance. What is your tip for someone watching right now or listening to us that is still a little stuck and they have a hurdle in front of them?
That you've gotta keep it moving no matter how many times you fall. And God knows I've fallen many, is that you have to get back up. And you know what I do and what I've done to motivate myself is I listen to a lot of positive affirmations. The talk that we give ourselves is so important, which is that pep talk that you would give to anybody if they were feeling down. You could say, hey, come on, it's gonna be all right. Today's a new day. My father used to say, every day is a good day if you open your eyes. And I think that's so important because we only have the moment, we only have today, and you can't wallow in your misery. You have to get out of your own way. I think a lot of people are stuck because they're stuck in their own mind. It's really about getting out of your mind and diving deep into just being. And that's being a human being, which is— makes mistakes, which doesn't always do the right thing, which needs to change path. And I think that's really so important, is really about how we talk to ourselves and giving ourselves our own pep talk.
