🎉 Welcome back to Chasing Brighter! This week, we’re diving into relationships and how they shape our happiness and longevity. Are your connections energizing or draining? Let’s talk about creating meaningful bonds.

✨ What’s Inside This Episode?

• 💡 Why quality time beats quantity every time.
• 🎧 Tips for practicing active listening.
• 💔 How to let go of draining relationships gracefully.

🛠 Action Steps for This Week:

• Schedule time with a loved one.
• Have a phone-free, heart-to-heart conversation.
• Reflect on which relationships align with your values.

📚 Resources Mentioned:

• Check our episode on one of our favorite books: The Good Life
• Related episodes: Friendship Guide and Making Friends

💌 Follow Us:

• Instagram: @ChasingBrighter
• Chasing Brighter Blog

🎉 Happy New Year!

In this episode, Kelly and Jessica dive into discussions about personal transformations and upcoming plans. Kelly shares her excitement about getting hair extensions to feel more comfortable and embrace a new look despite past surgeries and scarring. The conversation transitions into beauty treatments, like microblading and tinting eyelashes, and the importance of feeling good about one's appearance in midlife.

They also touch upon the complexity of planning family travels, dealing with different preferences and schedules, and their upcoming travel itineraries. Jessica shares about her daughter Gabby's college visits and softball camps, while Kelly explains the challenges she faces with her family's travel plans. They swap ideas on potential travel destinations, balancing family desires, and finding personal joy. The episode wraps up with a discussion on the positive impact of looking one's best and feeling good, emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between the two.

What are your big dreams for 2025? What small joys make your heart sing? Whether it’s starting a gratitude journal, trying mixology, or planning a trip, take one step today toward living fully.

🎉 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Kickstarting 2025 with intentional living.
• Reflecting on your values and aligning them with your dreams.
• Balancing big bucket-list adventures with the magic of small, everyday joys.
• Ideas for micro-joys: local coffee shops, Friday night takeout, and even chocolate tasting!

🌟 Quotable Moment: “Happiness is not the goal. It’s the byproduct of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

📚 Related Episodes:

• Intentions Setting in the New Year
• This Week's Superwoman Diaries

Follow Us:

• Instagram: @ChasingBrighter
• Chasing Brighter Blog

🎉 Happy New Year!