Welcome back to mood with Lauren Elizabeth. I'm Lauren Elizabeth and today I'm joined by friend and fellow podcaster Alyssa Amoroso,

also known as T with publicity. She's a former entertainment publicist turned influencer. You probably know her from Instagram, TikTok,

her podcast like I said, Alyssa is putting her phone down and picking up the mic to spill the tea on various taboo topics. So nothing is off limits for her you guys.

From getting ghosted to anxiety to body image, she has tons of amazing guests on her podcast and just gives you such an authentic and inside look at her personal life from her career journey to dating everything in between. She is one of my favorite people to follow on Instagram.

I just absolutely love her and that will obviously shine through in the current mood combo. We just had such a fun conversation. We talked literally just about all of her career changes lately.

There was obviously a little bit of tea, no pun intended, but just really what it's like to change careers and really leave and get let go.

And kind of the mental health and anxiety we talk about spirituality because she apparently believes that dead people are with us all the time, which is hysterical and amazing.

You will hear that from her. And obviously we talk about dating and just growing up and all that stuff. It is just such an amazing conversation you guys.

So you are going to absolutely love it. It's going to boost your mood. But first let's just like make it about me and talk about my best mood and worst mood of the week.

Oh my god, you guys my best mood is just being home. Literally when I recorded the intro to the last podcast, I was clearly not well. It was like I had a first few good days of vacation.

I was just like I'm not a good traveler. I'm not a Europe girl. And I wish I was different. I wish I wasn't like this. It makes me mad at myself.

But it just sucked how much anxiety I had, obviously. And even after the podcast came out, my friends were like, are you telling us actually when you're not okay because of like the intro and stuff.

And I hope you guys enjoyed kind of like the unhinged chaos of that podcast. It was definitely very different. And I think even that gave me more anxiety because I've been having like influencer anxiety of like sharing my life, which I've gotten over in the past like 48 hours.

It's a whole nother topic you guys. But anyway, my best mood is being back at home. I love routine. I've just been absolutely fucking loving like waking up and having a routine and working out and making fucking dinner.

I don't know why I just I love simple shit. I like I said I wish I was different. I wish I was spontaneous. I wish I was a free spirit. And yes, I like to try new things. And I like to push myself outside of my comfort zone.

But your girl loves a motherfucking routine. Love's taking care of herself and needs to to stay sane. And so that is what I've been doing since you heard from me last and since I've gotten back from Europe.

And I'm just like finally feeling settled. And I do really think that having a routine no matter what it is, whether it's actually doing the same things every day or just taking time to do different things for yourself. I really think it builds confidence. And I've had this kind of quote playing in my head. And I actually bring it up in the current mood combo.

But confidence is built by keeping the promises you make to yourself. And that has been really consistently playing in my head for the past couple weeks. And I've been doing a really great job of it because that quote has been playing in my head. And it is true.

Like it's a really building confidence and even just taking care of myself is making me feel my best and building confidence. So really like my best mood is being back in a routine, keeping the promises I make to myself and taking care of myself to build all this confidence.

I have had a great few days. And you know, it's only a few days. But you know, if you just keep fulfilling the promises you make to yourself, I have a feeling it's mood's only going to get better and better.

But obviously my worst mood we all have them even when we do the routine, we do everything right. Nobody's perfect. I got to work it. And it was really, really hard coming back home. I will say first and foremost, you know, the way back is harder with jet lag. I was just completely burnt out. I was my nervous system was completely dysregulated.

I had I was like hysterical on the phone with my therapist literally in the cab on the way home from the airport. Like I was just not okay. And I took kind of like an extra week off to really like regulate my nervous system. And because like you can't even think about what you're stressed out about if your nervous system is dysregulated.

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