00:00What gets me out of bed in the morning is God's grace because as horrible as I've treated myself
00:08along the way and as negligent as I've been to my body and as crazy as my self-talk has been
00:16it has really been grace that has gotten me through the violence and harm that I've visited
00:23upon myself. So the mere fact that I have another day I'm excited now that I know better and now
00:29that I do better to get up every morning. Yeah that's exciting to me. What fills my cup when I'm
00:36depleted? A couple of things. I have my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren on my phone so sometimes
00:43I just thumb through there. The other thing is Haagen-Dazs coffee ice cream and my body products.
00:50I make soap. I can do that all day every day so when I'm really depleted I'll go and I'll make a
00:56batch of soap. The couple of mantras that I use that really keep me going. The first one is
01:01there is no thing to fear. Just no thing to fear. If I could just etch that on everybody's brain
01:10to understand there's no thing to fear. Just keep moving, breathing. Of course my favorite mantra is
01:16breathe because when people get upset they stop breathing. Another one is all things are lessons
01:24that God would have me learn. That thing right there. Ooh that has saved me when I really want
01:31to bite somebody's face off. I'm learning a lesson here. And then finally I think for me today I begin
01:37a new life. Doesn't matter what happened yesterday, last week, last month. Today, right here, right now
01:43in this moment I begin a new life. You know I'm doing 30 cities this spring and summer to come out and
01:51touch people not on the screen but to be with them. And so I'm hoping to see as many people as I can.
01:58They can go to IonLeVanzantLive.com and get information about the schedules and the tickets.
02:04You know what? If I'm bringing my old tired self out, y'all need to come see me.
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