176. What a time to be alive
Don't you love it when your kids give you a gift of a line?
"What a time to be alive!" Indeed
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Transcript
Hello darling heart, and welcome to this episode of the Drink Less, Live Better podcast.
-:This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring.
-:I'm your host, Sarah Williamson, and I decided to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back.
-:I'm a best selling author, expert speaker, and life coach.
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-:share resources, wisdom, insights and glimmers of hope and joy. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Let's get straight to it. What a time to be alive.
-:This beautiful line was given to me by my 15 year old on holiday.
-:It was in relation to not much really.
-:He and I were walking along a beautiful street in the Netherlands, eating ice cream together.
-:What a time to be alive indeed.
-:He just looked at me and smiled and said it, and I smiled back, and we both knew it was a cheeky little moment, and we turned
-:our eyes forward again and carried on walking.
-:What a time to be alive can be said with a smile and recognizing everything glorious around us and for us, but it could also
-:be said in a slightly negative way what a time to be alive' if you were considering all of the things going on around you that did not feel good.
-:But today we're gonna focus on the what a time to be alive version that my son and I shared on holiday. What made that moment so special?
-:I think, maybe, for a start, the very fact that we were on holiday.
-:The 4 of us, my family, is myself, my husband and my 2 boys who are aged 17 15.
-:It might just have been that change of scene.
-:It might just have been the fact that we had 2 whole weeks together, just the 4 of us.
-:It might have been that our senses were being tried in a slightly different way than normal.
-:We experienced blue blue skies and gorgeous sunshine every day on holiday.
-:That particular son, the 15 year old, and I feel the same about the sun.
-:We enjoy the sun being out, but both of us don't do well in extreme heat, so it was just the right temperature where we were.
-:I I think we'd spent a lot less time on tech while we were on holiday.
-:We did have our phones with us, but actually we'd taken that opportunity to step away from that way of living that creeps
-:into our life so often at home.
-:We were experiencing blue sky, sun, trees all around us and just enjoying something really simple.
-:The ice cream we were eating, it tasted delicious, it was glorious, it looked beautiful, a really pretty cone.
-:We'd both chosen our favourite flavors and we were walking along just listening to the sounds of the area.
-:So, yes, what a time to be alive.
-:We were alongside each other, and I think that's so important in company sometimes.
-:It's really easy to sit opposite each other and give each other that intensity that is face to face contact, and sometimes,
-:intensity that is face to face contact.
-:And sometimes walking side by side where your eyes are both looking at the horizon or looking straight ahead gives us a beautiful
-:space to be able to say the things that really are on our mind, and he felt safe to say, what a time to be alive.
-:He said it with a smile and knew I was gonna receive it with a smile.
-:We were both feeling good in that moment.
-:What feels good for you at the moment?
-:What feels like this is making it a time to be alive that you are truly joyful about?
-:You know, you can always drop me a DM or send me an email at sarah@drinklesslivebetter.com.
-:I'll always send a reply. I'm delighted to hear from you.
-:I hope you are enjoying this August. Thank you for listening in today. Come back again next week. And, PS, I believe in you.
