Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Gen Z Girl podcast. My name is Abby Asselin. If you are new to this podcast,

I'm so excited to have you guys here and listening today. First of all, I wanted to say I'm so happy to be back

on a microphone and not recording on my phone. I only did that for like two weeks, but it felt like forever.

But my mom shipped my package of like things that i forgot at home

and finally have my microphone back with well my new microphone and it actually works so that's amazing

and secondly i just want to say if my voice at any point just like sounds annoying or weird my allergies

have just been a little whack because i react pretty poorly to like sounds annoying or weird my allergies have just been a little whack because I react

pretty poorly to like ragweed pollen and it's been really high in Toscaloosa the last few days

so if my allergies sound bad it's because they are but anyways I'm excited for today's episode

because I feel like it's just so needed for me to talk about right now just with like the way

my life's going right now. And I feel like a lot of you guys might be relating to it too.

So I'm going to be talking about redefining self-care today and just kind of like the

modern version of what self-care is and how the term has just been kind of used wrongly and

incorrectly, I guess, and now it's sort of toxic and how self-care really should be and ways that I

kind of fail in self-care and ways I want to get better with it and everything like that.

So I'm just going to talk through that with you guys.

And I am just honestly not having the easiest time adjusting to grad school and getting back in the

swing of things.

You know, I did have my online internship, but I haven't like studied or done schoolwork since

March, it feels like even

though it's been since April but it just feels like it's been so long so getting back in that

swing of things has just been hard and it's a lot honestly just like everything I have on my plate

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