Introducing the Show: What to Expect

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This is a Stereo Forest production from StereoForest

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.com.

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Information, resources, and opportunities to support the show

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and connect with others are available at StereoForest

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.com daily reconnect.

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This podcast is for informational and educational purposes

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only and is not a substitute for medical

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advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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If you have specific mental health concerns, please

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consult with a qualified health care professional.

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In this introduction, I'll cover what to expect

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for this ongoing resource and what other things

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are available to you as part of this

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project.

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So, welcome to the first episode of The

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Daily Reconnect.

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I'm your host, Janda Han, and these short

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episodes, which I'll start off delivering Monday, Wednesday,

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and Friday, will help you reconnect to the

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present when you feel disconnected or dissociated from

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the world.

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Together, we will try to re-engage with

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our bodies and our minds to reconnect with

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reality and the world as much as we

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can anyways.

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This is especially important now that we're living

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in interesting times.

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Maybe isolated times in a rapidly wildly changing

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world.

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So, what you're feeling, whatever that might be,

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makes sense.

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We all handle difficulty and stress and change

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and isolation and disconnection in our own ways.

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For me, particularly because I'm quite physically and

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socially isolated, stress often results in this feeling

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of an odd disconnection.

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It's really hard to describe, but everything feels

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and to a certain extent even looks unreal.

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Maybe partially because of my Groundhog Day existence.

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Sometimes we might disassociate on purpose, just to

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cope.

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But stressful situations, which can vastly differ amongst

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all of us, often result in these similar

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kinds of experiences.

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And any and all of this is entirely

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valid.

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So, it's important to mention I am NOT

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a professional in mental health or anything like

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that.

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Which is, well, I'll add that little preamble

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before these episodes start.

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But I am a human and human connection

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can help.

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And that is the fundamental purpose of this

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project.

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There's often no one that's coming to help

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or save us, but we can try to

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reach out and help one another.

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So the episodes, which I expect to be

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roughly 10 minutes in length or so, we'll

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see what feels right over the coming weeks,

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will contain two main sections.

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The first part will help you re-engage

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with yourself.

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We'll do this in a bunch of different

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ways, primarily using simple exercises that I'll walk

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you through.

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The second part will be designed to motivate.

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Many, or even most of us, we can't

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count on anyone from that place of power

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coming to save us, like I mentioned, right?

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Especially in our world now.

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So we need to come together as individuals

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to help ourselves, so we can work together

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collectively in action to make change.

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And when that's sustained, it can be quite

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powerful and strong.

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Being disconnected doesn't help us or others.

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Reconnecting to ourselves and then others might.

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I won't include toxic positivity or blind optimism

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or ignore the reality of the vast variety

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of our unique situations.

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I'm a lifelong skeptic with a desire to

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have hope when I can, and I thrive

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on those deep dives and facts, and I

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really dislike assumptions.

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I understand that there's so much variety out

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there in things around access, capacity, and culture.

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So I'll try to keep everything fairly high

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level as much as I can, so you

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can hopefully apply these exercises and the motivation

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to your own situation.

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I know everything that I say, it won't

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work for everyone, but I'll do my best,

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and I welcome conversation and input, of course.

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So if you want to get involved and

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feel connected to other listeners, Stereo Forest has

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a Discord server, and I'll link the channel

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in the show notes that will be dedicated

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to the show.

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The link will go right to that channel.

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So you can use that to connect with

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the show, with me, and with each other.

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We are real humans, and we need human

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connection during this time.

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There's power in connection.

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It's active.

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It helps during difficult times, and some form

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of connection helps us carry on and get

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the work that needs to be done accomplished

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during hard times, like now.

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So that's what to expect for The Daily

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Reconnect.

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We will get started in the next episode

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with visualizations and exercises, and see where this

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takes us together.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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Thank you for listening to The Daily Reconnect.

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Episodes are released on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

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every week.

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This show was created, written, hosted, edited, and

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produced by Jenda Han.

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Links to contact information, ways to support the

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show, transcripts, the free newsletter, and our community

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Discord can be found in the show notes.

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This is a Stereo Forest production.