Hello everyone welcome back to three girls one kitchen the topic of today's episode is the art of being happy and I have a question for you all can you choose happiness?

I think it depends.

I set aside from having a chemical imbalance which we'll go further into, but just like off the top of your head,

what would your initial answer be to the question, can you choose happiness?

Yes. In any situation? Yeah because it all goes back to the way that you think because a lot so a lot times people that, you know, what triggers like our mood is like the stressors or anything that we have like going on like our mood swings, but it's actually, it's your habits that you create every single day.

So like your daily routine, your daily habits are actually what creates your mood.

So therefore you choose happiness, where you can choose happiness through that.

I mean, I think another way...

Love that answer, by the way.

It's also creating habits and doing things like that, but also who you surround yourself with is choosing happiness.

So you could be keeping someone you've been

friends with for 10 years but they could be toxic and negative impact on you. You

need to choose to be around the people that make you feel the best, that you know really care about you that

lift you up and motivate you because that is choosing happiness rather than be around

you know the comfort of toxic people or people that are putting you down and making you feel

terrible because you can be happy without them and then depressed with them.

I love these answers because they tie in so well to what we're going to go into later in the podcast.

So we're just going to start out with something that's been a huge part of my life since childhood. A lot of people know my sister has schizophrenia,

mental illness rents in my family. I suffer from depression, anxiety, something I think you both can relate to as well.

So although there are times that I have to say

it is very hard to choose happiness,

especially when you have stuff going on in your brain that tells you that you can't be happy.

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