Sincerely, Janney: Human and Grateful in Miami, Florida

Hello from Miami, Florida! I’m currently on my book tour for “The Girl Who Sings to Bees,” and I couldn’t be more grateful. Having said that, I want to be honest with you all: I’m also feeling tired and I’m missing home.

Thank you for listening to this episode and for your continued support.

Sincerely, Janney

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Dear beautiful listeners, It's me Janey saying hello to you
from Miami, Florida. I am on my book tour. It's
going amazing. People have been receiving the book so well,
so nicely. The comments have been amazing. And today I
woke up with I don't know if it's a heavy heart.

(00:25):
I'm not necessarily sad. I think you know what it
is is I'm tired. I think I'm just tired and
I miss being in one place since we were gone
for three weeks. And then I jumped right into work,
and I'm so grateful, like we need to remember it's
not I have to work, it's I get to work,

(00:46):
because it's a blessing to have work, to have a job,
it's a blessing. But also it's important to listen to
our bodies. And I'm so not in my routine right now,
which is waking up and meditating and praying and working
out and doing the things that center me. And I
think that's what's kind of throwing me off. And today

(01:06):
during my interview, I cried, and I think it was
just because I'm overwhelmed with joy, Like I'm so excited
and so happy. I didn't even know what to expect
with the book. I just knew I had this desire
and I wanted to talk about these very important topics,
which is bullying and the everlasting love between a mother

(01:29):
and a daughter, like no matter what, because I do
hear a lot of stories about mothers and daughters and
the difficulties that they have, and I know you guys
know because I've shared it so much with you guys,
But this book has helped me heal. So in a way,
it's kind of like, Okay, I'm exhausted, I'm happy, I'm grateful,
but like then I feel guilty because I'm like, oh
my gosh, I should not be this way. I should

(01:51):
be very very grateful. But also I'm human, and I
think this is what I wanted to tell you guys,
Like we are human and we should not ignore our feelings,
but also remember that feelings are just feelings. They come
and they go, and feelings aren't always reliable and thoughts
are the same thing, and that's why we just have
to recenter ourselves. And even though I wasn't able to

(02:12):
pray this morning and do my meditation and work out,
I'm doing it right now. This is part of my
therapy is talking about it and just say, Okay, I'm
gonna breathe. I'm gonna breathe it out. I'm gonna breathe
in good thoughts. I'm going to breathe out negative thoughts
and then just know these are just thoughts, these are
just feelings. It's okay. I know who I am, I
know what I'm doing, like bringing ourselves back to center.

(02:37):
You know. Hopefully that made sense. And here I am
about to drink I'm a little I'm on a little
break right now. I'm about to drink a little coffee.
And I'm in a very very nice like cafeteria looking
place here. I mean Univision, actually the big Univision building
here in Miami. And I had never seen this very
nice cafeteria. It looks like a very like upscale. Anyway,

(03:01):
I just wanted to say hi and let you guys
know how I'm feeling. I let you know that I'm
human as well, and I am very very very happy
with everything that's going on with my book. But also
I can't wait to be home and cook and do
all the things that make me feel like a human
being and make me feel quote unquote normal whatever that is.

(03:23):
You know what is normal nowadays. But I'm excited for that.
Amidio didn't come with me on this trip. Maybe I'm
missing him too. We spend so much time together and
he's not here, so maybe that's that as well. But
we're gonna be all right, and we need to focus
on the positive things and what is in front of
us and not let our thoughts take us in dark places.

(03:48):
That's all. Thank you for listening. I love you, sincerely,
Jinney