Beyond Distracted
We're Christen and Rachel, two friends who were diagnosed with ADHD as adults. For most of our lives we couldn't figure out why we seemed to struggle more than other people did. But with our diagnoses we had more clarity and explanations for why we do what we do. It turns out we aren't stupid or lazy or "less-than"... we just have ADHD!
Join us as we talk about: all the ways ADHD unknowingly affected us as children, and later as young adults; the coping skills we are learning post-diagnosis and how we are reframing what we think about ourselves; our crazy and hilarious ADHD moments of the week; and the songs we are listening to on repeat (because don't you listen to the same music over and over?) Oh, and we might get a little distracted along the way!
Beyond Distracted
Episode 07: ADHD and Body Doubling
Body Doubling is the productivity hack we swear by, and this episode is all about the joys and wonders of finding your task-tackling twin. From personal tales of conquering the chaos of a cluttered pantry to the sweet victory of meal prep made fun, we reveal how a companion can turn the mundane into the extraordinary. We'll let you in on our quirky kitchenware debates and the unexpected bonding that blooms. As we navigate the nuances of staying diligent, we share the strategies that keep the to-do list and the tasks we've procrastinated complete.
Songs On Repeat:
- Rachel's: Eric Church - Russian Roulette
- Christen's: Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Drop Stop Roll
Items that made life better:
- Rachel's: Ororo Heated Vest
- Christen's: Natrol Melatonin Gummies
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Produced by Rachel Smith and Christen Everett.
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Hey Christen, hey Rachel, How's it going? We're doing great. Should we talk about body doubling today? Yes, love body doubling. We body double all the time for each other. It is probably the greatest thing ever Easily, easily.
Christen:And finding your human to body double with in life is great. It helps when that human lives across the street from you. He does. I just like watch you come over to my house. I want you to get ready to record this episode.
Rachel:Yeah, good time, let's talk about it. Great time, okay. So what is body doubling? It uses peer pressure for good. We found a meme on the Instagram.
Christen:On the Instagram. God bless.
Rachel:It's an implementation intention. That's an interesting way to phrase it. It helps you stay focused yes, 100% and it makes boring work more fun. So we compiled a list of some things that body doubling can help with, and some of those are dishes, studying, reading, journaling, online work, cleaning. You put dishes on this list twice.
Christen:Well, you know for you. I think we have to talk about dishes at least twice per episode, so I was just getting out of it early Dishes are the worst. I ran my dishwasher the other day. It was pretty full, not super full but I was like I'm just going to run it because I can and I needed what was in there the next morning and even though it wasn't completely full and I was like it's fine, it saves water and it's fine, I do that every day.
Rachel:Yes, it's a good time. A couple other things are laundry, meal prepping or something that you've been putting off for weeks, and I would like to say one of the very first times that I had you body double for me was actually with dishes. Yes, I had so many dishes today, so many dishes to do, and they were like the big things that you have to hand wash. You can't just throw them in the dishwasher and I had been putting them off forever and I was like Kristin, you were fun, employed at the time, so you were available.
Rachel:I was like can you please just come over and sit on my island and talk to me while I do my dishes? And you did, and it was so great.
Christen:It was one of the very first times that we had really good conversations and I think it was like the first one of the first times I was like in your house and it wasn't just like a I'm picking something up, dropping something off type thing. Yeah, it was nice, it was the start of our summer fling as core houses. It was the start. It was so great.
Rachel:And I got my dishes done and it wasn't boring because I had someone to talk to and if I stopped doing it you were there to be like are you going to keep going? What's going?
Christen:on. You know, yeah, no, it's. It's wild how much of a difference just having someone there and I even so, you semi not know Mel, but you have now corresponded with our friend Mel because of books. But Mel messaged me the other day and it was this cute book coffee cup thing and it had some type of like quote on it. Oh, it was Tannen and Darna, that's what it was. It was Tannen and Darna and it was a really cute little cup mug thing and I was like that 1000% doesn't look dishwasher safe and I refuse to buy anything that's not dishwasher safe anymore. Seriously, I'm not doing it. I mean it must be Some type of China that someone is giving me that costs a lot of money. Thank you, mother-in-law Cindy, for said China this summer, but like I know, I'm not doing it, it's too much work.
Rachel:Yeah, I one of my best friends, Katie. She doesn't have a dishwasher at her house and has to hand wash literally everything Shout out Katie.
Christen:It's. Allen Ryan's old house was like that in California. It was like an old 50s 60s kitchen and it had been updated, but it was never set up with a dishwasher in mind, and so they actually added a dishwasher, I think like the year or two before they left, but before that, with twins, they were doing everything by hand. No, thank you, every single thing.
Rachel:Crazy. I keep telling Katie to put a dishwasher in her husband's kind of against it, even as not the one who does the dishes, he might change his mind.
Christen:Love you, justin. But give Katie a dishwasher. Does she not even like have one of those like countertop ones? No, they make like countertop ones now.
Rachel:Oh yeah, like an appliance that sits on your counter.
Christen:Yeah, it's kind of like it like how I have a gigantic air fryer. It's like an air fryer, like a giant air fryer.
Rachel:They talked about getting one of those ones that you can like move around your kitchen like a free standing one that you just plug in.
Christen:I don't know, you plug into the wild line somehow, but they never did that.
Rachel:Yeah, so what's? Another time that you have had someone body double for you? Because we talked about me, you came over and body double for me. Have you what? Have you? Had someone come over?
Christen:Yes, so I very specifically, when we moved into this house set up we moved in June, I think was our like closing date or whatever and thank God my friend Anna was on summer break and so she was able to come over for like three or four days once we had like gotten the majority of stuff in and she actually she basically did most of it, but like she made sure that everything in my kitchen was done within the first two weeks and that was such a huge help Like I think I hadn't half of it done, but then she really helped with like the pantry and getting this pantry like physically, like where everything was going to go in the pantry, because I was just like I, I don't care, I had just shoved the boxes.
Christen:I had just shoved the boxes in there. At that point I was like I do not care, I will, I will just eat out of this tub that we have moved all this food from, and it's fine. And she was like no, no, we're gonna like put things away. I was like, oh, my God, okay. And to this day, everything is still in the exact same spot that she put it in.
Rachel:That's exactly how it was when we moved. I said Rose, my husband Corey, who did that, he had been asking me for days and days, like, are you gonna load the kitchen? I'm like, yeah, but I was like going back and forth, I don't know. I'm one of those people that if I have a blank slate it's really hard, but if there's already kind of a structure, then I can, you know, rework things how I think it needs to be. But I have to have that initial framework. And so finally, he was so sweet and he was like, do you just want me to unpack the kitchen? I was like yes, please, yeah, just just take it, just take it.
Rachel:And so we did, and then, like you, pretty much everything's still in the same place.
Christen:Yeah, and Anna also helped with my, so she, so she helped specifically with the pantry, my closet and then also my, my bathroom, and also made me downside some of the stuff that I for my bathroom as well, cause.
Rachel:I good job. This was.
Christen:Anna this was Anna. Well, I've accumulated more things now, so we're doing. Bad job, kristen. Yeah, very bad job, kristen. Yeah, I come back, but it's, it's fine, it's, it's going well. But like, especially with the closet, I was because I went from having a dresser to I just have my closet now because I have some of those built-ins and so I don't have a quote unquote dresser anymore and I was like I have no idea where to start or where to put things or what we're going to do. I've made a few tweaks to the closet, but overall it's been really good.
Rachel:Well, just the other day I had one. We were, you were struggling, I was really struggling. We were going, my husband and I were going away for the weekend and I needed to go to the grocery store, and I hate the grocery store just about as much as I hate doing dishes.
Christen:I don't know what it is.
Rachel:I just I don't like to leave my house. There's too many choices. Can't find things loud?
Christen:You also insist upon going into the grocery store. I know.
Rachel:I know you do the pickup, I do the pickup other than the Aldi.
Christen:But yes, yeah.
Rachel:Well anyway. So I needed to get some food for the weekend, because my mom was coming to stay with the kids. While we were, my husband and I had a little anniversary trip and so I needed to get food. And it was like it was like two o'clock, I think, and we were supposed to leave at 4.30.
Rachel:And I was like I still have not been to the grocery store, so I was like I just texted you randomly hoping that you were available and I was like any chance you could just come to the grocery store with me. No, and you did and we went in and it was infinitely easier just having someone along with you, even though you didn't do anything.
Christen:You just trailed along behind me and didn't even really do much, but you were there with me and that was helpful and I think even when you have that other person there, it even helps with regulating when you hit a hurdle and it just helps it not become so overwhelming, because when you couldn't find that yogurt and there was no yogurt of what you needed for whatever reason, I don't know why- I just sold out of that.
Christen:But I was just like. That would have severely upset me if that was completely out and I was by myself, I would have been. It's that whole thing where your brain just stops and it just can't come up with a solution.
Rachel:What do I do now About?
Christen:yogurt. It makes no sense.
Rachel:It's not necessary, just pick the next one, which is what I ended up doing, but it was just the next best thing is annoying and you can't have the one that you want. Yes, 1,000%, yeah, do you want to talk about when I came over to work in your office?
Christen:Oh yeah, that was a good time. So, as you all know, I'm no longer a fun employed and I have a job, so I've worked from home now for since 2020. Well, I worked from home over the pandemic, but then definitely became fully remote over 2021 and then till now, and so I'm always basically home, which is great. But there was a day we were in the weeds of getting everything going for this podcast and we had to. It was before the launch.
Rachel:It was completely before the launch, but it was like a couple days before it was supposed to launch.
Christen:It was a couple days. It was you figuring out the whole, editing the audio, and it was you had figured it out. But it's that time frame of when you figured something out but you're not fast at it yet, which I feel like is one of the worst places to be, because you know how to do it but you're just frustrated, you can't get it to go faster, because you're like this should not take this freaking long. And so you were like, can I just come over? And you just came over and you sat in the chair, in the reclining chair off to the side, and I had meetings and I made some calls and you sat there with your headphones in.
Christen:Chase was home for some reason I think it was because it was off Friday or something and so he had the day off. But he was like does Rachel do this a lot? And I was like no, and he was like are you sure? She just was just sitting there and you were working. And I was like yeah, and he was like are you good? Like is she good? I was like yeah, everything's fine. He was just very confused as to what was going on Because in his mind I mean, he doesn't need a body double really, and so he's just like, but you guys weren't interacting and I'm like, no, we were just, and I got a lot of work done. It was great you were in meetings most of the time.
Christen:I was in meetings, yeah, and doing some other stuff.
Rachel:You made some phone calls too, yeah. So, but it was great. But and I also think, just being in a different, changing environments, yes, but see, that in and of itself doesn't necessarily work for me, because I could take my computer to the coffee shop and I would still surf on the internet and not do what I was supposed to do. Whereas something about being right, you being right there.
Christen:Like OK, I was a very physical reminder of what you were supposed to be doing.
Rachel:Exactly, exactly, and kind of accountability that if you happened to walk past and saw that I was strobing on Amazon, you'd be like what, that's why you're supposed to be doing. Yeah, it's fine. And so it's kind of this. It's not just an encouragement or like kind of a hand up isn't the right word like a helper, right. But it's also an accountability. Yes, you know, and so it's kind of the two of those combined.
Christen:It also creates a distraction as well. I feel like it just like there's something else in your brain to almost like focus on, while you're also not wanting to. Like you're still focusing on your task, but then your brain is also still, I feel like, getting like little pulls of different things at the same time. Because, like, if, like you're doing dishes, like we're talking about different things, or for you, like you are also then getting to see me work remote for the first time, which you had never really seen in person before, and so it kind of just gives your brain this other little I guess I don't want to say like little backstory, but like a little backstory to like just make you happier about your day.
Rachel:Yeah, well, it was interesting. Yeah, you know. So I was working. Thank goodness for AirPods. I have those new AirPods that have the noise cancel the best.
Rachel:So I had those on, but you know, I could still hear you every once in a while and so it was just kind of like oh that's cool, mm-hmm, you know, Just fun when I was younger back. Oh my goodness, this would have been like 10 years ago. It's 2024 now. So yeah, about 10 years ago, me and my friend Lindsey, we used to live across the hall from each other in apartments.
Rachel:She her husband and my husband work for John Deere both and then, so we lived across the hall from each other and we both stayed home during the days, and so we would often have work dates like that.
Rachel:And it's like it's fun to be in the office with other people because you can like, you know, you get done with something and you have a little conversation or whatever, and so we did that a lot. And then in 2015, she was at my house a lot too, although I was doing wedding photography at the time and I don't know, I don't know if it was just. I think it goes back to like last episode, I think it was, where we talked about not having deadlines for things, mm-hmm. So there was always stuff to be working on for my photography business, but there was never deadline.
Christen:Mm-hmm.
Rachel:So she was really good at like staying on task and doing her job, because she also works from home and I was not she. It was funny, I would watch her and she would just be so productive and I'm just sitting there doing nothing.
Christen:I just, I mean, I remember being in the office and it was definitely a double-edged sword. I mean, I was very lucky that I had a physical office so I could close the door if I needed to, and I was kind of towards the farther end of the hallway, so it wasn't too horrible. But like there would definitely be days that I would just and this was prior to me being medicated and you obviously prior to being medicated when you were doing your photography stuff and I can only imagine how much better it would have been at the same time. So I'm going to go to the office here at the end of the month and that'll be the first time. No, I think it might be the first time. No, it won't be the first time.
Christen:I don't know what I'm talking about. It's still hard to go into the office, even medicated and not used to going into the office. But there is definitely still a difference that it makes to a certain degree and it is nice to be able to kind of like, get up and chat with people, or you know it's like, oh, I'm going to go for a walk around the block and you know, hey, does anybody go for a walk with me and you're just going to be able to do those things.
Rachel:But sometimes I feel like seeing other people working effectively and diligently.
Christen:I hate to use the word shame, but it almost shames me into working properly, or at least pretending to work efficiently, and sometimes I feel like it also depends on where you're at, because sometimes I feel like it can be for me, it can be a good thing, and sometimes I can almost feel like very defeating, like it depends on where my my grit level is almost, because, like sometimes I feel like I'm just, like I like they're, they're on it and I'm not and I don't know why.
Rachel:That's true. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's kind of how I felt a lot of times with Chris or with Lindsey is like dang, she's really good at just doing what she needs to do.
Christen:But I mean it also. I mean then at that point too, it should also be a really good cue Like. For me it's like OK, I need to go drink water, I need to go get a snack, I need to like get up and do something and do that like factory reset. And I also get to do that when I'm at home working, because I do that when I take the dogs for a walk.
Christen:Oh right and I'm able to go do a factory reset when I take them for a walk and I'll listen to a book or listen to a podcast, or you know. I've been trying to also just not listen to anything when I walk, which is honestly horrible. But I think I also need like quiet brain time because I don't get that a lot. Yeah, but you can talk about that.
Rachel:It's funny that you said that because I I often enjoy quiet brain time when I walk.
Christen:Yeah, I don't know.
Rachel:Anyway, the other thing. So this is long the same lines of dishes. But I once had my mom come over. I was like mom, I have to like scrub toilets and I am. That is like a horrible job and I just need you to come hang out. You don't have to play with my kids Well, they'll be entertained on their own. I just need you to like sit and talk to me while I clean toilets. And she did that, and that was kind of the same with the dishes. But it's just like really nice to have somebody there while you're doing hard things.
Christen:Yeah, I what was it? The other day, Chase was fix flipping out my light bulb and in the time that it was taking him to flip out my light bulb, I was so productive because if I can be up, if he's up and doing something, I feel like I can. It's almost like a timer of like okay, well, how much can I get done while he's?
Christen:also being productive, oh right, but if he's gone because he travels all the time or is gone for a frisbee or whatever, and if he's gone, I absolutely hate doing things, because I'm I also feel like I'm almost getting like cheated. I'm like, well, you're not doing anything productive. I would be doing something productive, like I'm going to hang out and it's like, but I go like too far down and I've, you know, tornadoed the whole house and the house is absolutely trashed.
Rachel:Yeah.
Christen:But we've completely gotten off topic.
Rachel:We have gotten very. What is the? Other thing, okay. So what was your song on repeat for this?
Christen:week the song on repeat for this week. I don't remember how it came up, but it was just uh, oh, it was. Oh, it's rainbow kitten surprise, um yeah.
Rachel:Okay, I listen to rainbow kitten, surprise.
Christen:I just think surprise they're so good it's. I was like in their top whatever.
Rachel:It's sad Um but it's not sad because I'm right there with you, with.
Christen:With your boyfriend Eric.
Rachel:Church.
Christen:Yeah yeah, it was stop-dropping role. Is it stop-dropping role? You have the next stop-dropping role.
Rachel:Well, it says drop-stop role.
Christen:It's got, yeah, it is, it's drop-stop role that's out of order and annoying yeah. It's a really good song.
Rachel:Well, mine was also Eric Church, but mine was. We heard it today on the right home. Hmm, it's called Russian roulette, which is weird because, like I, am one million percent anti-guns. But it's about playing Russian roulette with the radio because he broke up with his girlfriend. And it's very clever because he has all these like wordplays. Like I Don't know what the wordplays are, but they're really good and it's one of those songs where it starts out kind of quiet.
Rachel:Hmm, it just builds and builds and builds, and builds and builds until it, just like, hits this Christian no, and then the like Big point of the song and it is so good, mmm, I don't know, that's nice.
Christen:I love him. That's I know you do. It's a good time.
Rachel:Just just be prepared, everybody listening that every week you'll have a new rainbow kitten Surprise in the new Eric Church song. Listen to it's fine. Yeah, it's okay.
Christen:Well, is there anything out to bless ADHD moment of the week.
Rachel:ADHD moment of the week was I.
Rachel:I don't know if you have this issue, but I have a really hard time committing to things like future, future things, like somebody wants to get lunch and they're like trying to find a time and I have a really hard time Committing to something specific. Yes, I don't know why, I'm really good with the like spontaneous hey, let's go to the grocery store in five minutes. Okay, that's great. But when I'm like Planning something out, it's really hard for me. And so my husband and I just went on a weekend trip for our anniversary to Des Moines and I I Hovered over the book now on the hotel for like Minutes, solid minutes, because I'm like we're going, I want to go. This was my idea. I found the hotel. I'm super excited about this hotel, but just clicking that and making it like permanent permanent Was really hard, mm-hmm, which is not like a funny ADHD moment of the week, but it's. I don't know if anyone else has this issue, but I really struggle with that, and so that was something that I I really noticed.
Christen:That's interesting. Do you have interesting? I either again, it's like one under the spectrum of the other, like I'm either all about like making a plan, deciding on it and going, or or it takes forever. Like it's one or the other. So I in February We've unfortunately had to move it, or whatever. But I'm gonna make goulash with a bunch of friends that we do, like this mass Cooking day where we make them gallons and gallons of food and then we freeze it or can it, or whatever. So we're gonna make goulash. It got cancelled, we had to move it. We couldn't move it to January, we moved it to February.
Christen:Of course it ends up on the same day as my book club, because I'm attempting to do a book club Shout out, meredith, it's called the overbooked book club, which I just think is adorable, so that we only meet like a few times every year, like it's very minimal, it's not like monthly, and of course they land on the same day and I'm like, okay, so I'm gonna just have everybody come over and cook at my house. And then I've never met any of these women before for this book club and I was like you know what, screw it, I'm just gonna have him come over here and my friend Meredith like texted me and she was like um, do you think that's a good idea? Like you don't have to host, like it sounds like you already have stuff going on. And I was like, honestly, it's fine, cuz it'll be, it'll be fine, I'll just make sure I'm like prepped for everything, and then I'm just gonna be extremely extroverted that day and it'll be okay. Because I said you're gonna sleep for like a week, it'll be fine.
Christen:Um, but I also said too I said I also can't get so overstimulated that like I just like stop or cancel because everyone's coming to me. I said also, it'll honestly help me too that like I get to be in my own environment simultaneously, because I'm good if people come over to my house, like that's fine. And so I was like no, I think it'll be okay, I think it'll be fine. So we'll we'll round back on that sometime.
Rachel:But okay, I'm not gonna lie. You were saying January and February, and I'm thinking that was like six months ago. What are you talking about?
Christen:it's totally yes, we're in January right now, depending on when this air, for recording this in January oh guys, there's my other ADHD yeah, it's a good time. It's a good time. I don't know what mine was your screen went off.
Christen:Oh, it's okay it's fine, we'll, we'll fix it. Um, my ADHD moment of the week was oh, oh, god bless. Yes, I was with my my favorite nephew. I only have one niece and nephew, so it's easy for me to call it my favorite.
Christen:It's great, um, but I was with my nephew and he loves to sit and cuddle with me I mean, both of them do, but him specifically and I was trying to read and the tv was on, which is totally fine, I can read and have a tv on. But then he also was on his switch and the switch was like talking and making noise and the tv was on and I was trying to read and I was like bro, like I, and so at one point I literally was like I love you, it was like a giant section. I was like I have to go sit over here because, like you, have to listen to your switch, which I totally get, but normally I'm used to them on their iPads and they have headphones for their iPads, oh yeah. And so I was like, oh, no, can you not connect headphones to this name?
Christen:I was like no, and I was like, oh, my god, that's like okay, there's fine you can, though I'm I'm sure you can, but he just doesn't have it like hooked up like. So I was like, okay, it's. So I did what I could, and then I would like also give myself breaks, because, yes, I'm gonna like sit with him and love him and all that kind of stuff, but I'm also not gonna mentally go crazy, because it was the holiday for me too. So, yeah, that was my, that was my moment. Um, yeah, and then, well, and then your favorite thing that has made your life easier you are wearing modeling today.
Rachel:My podcast friends, you cannot see I have my beloved heated vest on. It's a good time, it is amazing I 1000%. Should have bought a second battery, though. I was wondering if that was gonna be a thing. That was a fail because I wear it a lot, yeah, and I wear mine. I have it on high more often than you do. Oh, yeah, I run the battery down pretty quick. Yeah, to charge it every night.
Christen:Well, that could be the thing that maybe Cory gets you, since he also bought it for yourself right before the holiday, and then that's the holiday gift that he got you. Yeah, that was whoops, whoops. It's fine. Oh well, it's fine. Uh, mine is, god bless, the. It's not a role, but it's n? A t r o? L and it's their 10 milligram melatonin gummies. I take those suckers every night, every night, and if I don't take them it does not go well. My daughter takes melatonin every. Does she take? She doesn't take 10, oh, does she?
Rachel:no, she has like a two and a half, oh yeah, but it helps. Yeah, every once in a while she has to um, I think sometimes she stays up too late reading and then it's kind of like worn off a little bit, um, and so every once in a while I give her a second one. But we, we went to our pediatrician and we were like she cannot fall asleep, like she has the hardest time falling asleep, and she said, yeah, you can try melatonin, that's fine and it has.
Christen:It has really helped yeah, I, I'm definitely one of those people I mean I have to have like my routine and everything. But the melatonin is part of the routine and also it's a little sweet treat, so like, if I start getting that sweet tooth like in the evening, for whatever reason, I mean, I generally indulge it anyways. But it's also kind of cool that I'm like gimme, because it's a, I mean just sugar. Yummy, yeah, it's tasty, yeah, so it's a good time.
Rachel:I. I kind of wonder if that is a well, I don't wonder. I think it is a common ADHD thing to not be able to fall asleep. Oh yeah, absolutely. Usually I have to. Um, I have to be really exhausted and I often have to scroll on my phone to fall asleep, which sounds weird. It sounds like it would be distracting, but it's boring enough. It's not like reading a book. I cannot read a book before bed because then I'll stay up till three in the morning finishing it.
Rachel:Yes, books are too interesting whereas Facebook, you know you scroll Facebook or Instagram and after a while it's like the same thing yeah, it's just ads and so worst my brain is finally like oh, this is boring, let's just go to sleep and sit, kind of like when I try to drive yeah, I'm not medicated. My brain says nope, this is too boring, we're gonna go to sleep. Amazing, so love it.
Christen:Awesome sleep Well, great, I love it. We have discussed body doubling and how it helps find your body double. Make sure they live next door to you and your life will be better.
Rachel:Can you imagine if you lived 10 minutes across town? That would make it so much harder.
Christen:Yeah, and it's honestly like it's, yeah it just it changes everything.
Rachel:Well, and I do feel like now that I have words to describe the things that are going on inside my brain, I am better able to ask my husband for help, like he wouldn't just sit and talk to me while I'm doing the dishes, because he's Cory, but he's a quiet, he doesn't talk a lot and so he wouldn't do that. But I can say, hey, can you just like sit here while I do this or can you help me with this? Mm-hmm, you know, I had to do life insurance the one time and it was like this is overwhelming. Can you please just sit next to me and help me go through this? Yeah, it just.
Christen:It reminds me of the thing I first started Instagram the other day, when somebody was like wow, you're doing such a great job and the like, the response was did I have any other choice? Like, or it was like good job, adulting. And it was like I didn't ask for this or something like that.
Rachel:Oh, no, it was the one that says like you're an adult and you're like, yeah, not by choice. Yeah, that's what it was.
Christen:Yeah, Well, so there was that one and then the other one there was another one that I posted the other day and it was uh, yeah, it was. It was, you're doing a great job, and it was like I it was either this or death or something.
Rachel:Yeah, no, they're off. Really Got to figure it out Basically. Basically, find your body double, try it. It helps.
Christen:Maybe you've been doing it, even if you haven't realized you've been doing it, yeah, and if you have a partner that you can now articulate this to let us know, yeah it's a weird name body doubling but it is, but I mean, I don't remember the first time I heard it, but once, yeah, exactly like you said, when the first, when you hear it, understand it and then realize how well it works, you're just like, oh, that makes sense, and you're we're off sprinting with it. So it's awesome, it's a good time. Okay, good luck, friends. Okay, talk to you later. Bye. Follow us on Instagram, facebook and TikTok. At beyond distracted. Write to us at beyond distracted. At genemailcom. If you enjoyed us, please submit a review on Spotify, apple podcasts or wherever you listen. Thank you for your support. Produced by Rachel Smith and Kristen Everett. Please talk to your doctor or primary care physician about any medical questions or concerns.
