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Welcome back to mood with Lauren Elizabeth. I'm your host, Lauren Elizabeth.

There's probably nothing worse than having to do a podcast and talk to yourself for like an hour

straight when you have a cough. So this is going to be rough apologies. And as you can tell, like,

we are still not doing well. I mean, what has it been like two episodes in a row now? Is this the

third or is this the second? I don't know. But I am still not over this like cold that has now

turned into a sinus infection. So the whole like your immune system is a lot weaker when you're

pregnant is no joke. But I went on antibiotics yesterday. So I'm praying that by next week we're

like totally in the clear or as Taylor Swift would say out of the woods. But I don't want to be a

Debbie Downer just because I'm sick and not feeling well and sound like crap. So let's jump into

best mood and worst mood of the week. My best mood this week I think is something to really

remember to especially when you're kind of going through it a little bit. And that could be something

small like having a sinus infection or something way bigger. But I think for me it's really easy to

beat myself up as we know when I'm physically not feeling well. And I think that you know my anxiety

or my fears take advantage of like when I'm kind of like not on guard as much and being able to do

all the self-care stuff. And so my best mood was really kind of like talking nicely to myself in

my head and like calming myself down and being gentle with myself. I think especially with the

hormones right now and this like second trimester it's so easy for me to get worked up the past few

weeks because I can just start like crying easier. I mean I can't even imagine how much I would be

crying if I wasn't medicated. I'm like anti-depressants. No no joke. But it's true like I just feel like

I'm in that pregnancy fragile state plus like add on a sinus infection and I was even crying at like

a tick-tock. And it made my sinus so much worse like it was so bad. But not just like random cries

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