154. TITMYBWF

First, there was IGTBO (It’s Going To Be Okay). Then, there was YGYSYDG (You’re Good, You’re Safe, You’re Doing Great). Today, we’re thrilled to bring you our latest affirmation in the form of an acronym: TITMYBWF (listen for definition).

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Nora: I’m Nora McInerny and it’s going to be okay.  We are a people who love acronyms here at this podcast, which we call. IGT CBO  inside our company. And honestly, I’ve seen a lot of you call it that too, possibly because it’s our Instagram handle, but still we love acronyms, especially when those acronyms are an affirmation. We will say IGT CBO. To one another, when we mean it’s going to be okay. 

Whether or not we are discussing the podcast.  When we text each other. Why G Y S Y D G. We know it means you’re good. You’re safe. You’re doing great. Which is one of our affirmations. And one of the most popular episodes of this podcast. So one night.  I’m out of dinner with my friend, Amanda and I noticed that she is wearing a friendship bracelet with those letter beads on it. And it’s an acronym. I’ve never seen before. T I T M Y. BWF altogether T I T M Y BWF. I’ll let her explain it. 

Amanda:I recently had a therapy appointment and my therapist gave me this mantra to say, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for. No matter what you’re doing to just realize that all this work until now has led you to this place. I love that saying so much that I thought about getting it on a tattoo.

Instead, I put the acronym onto a bracelet. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. The acronym actually kind of looks like TIT, my buff on my wrist, but I love it. 

Nora: First of all tit, my buff.  This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. Amanda’s therapist says it to himself as he builds his patient’s insurance, because at one point he was waiting for the moment where he would even have clients to bill for.  Amanda says it when work and life are pulling at her, because at one point she dreamed about the career and the family that she has now. And I say it to you wherever you are today. Because there is.  Possibly and probably some thing. About today that you waited for.  If you are at the DMV. Maybe it’s just the fact that you have a car. 

If you’re in a fight with your partner, maybe it’s that you found a partner worth fighting for, or you realized you fight too much in your done. And maybe this acronym doesn’t do anything for you in this moment, which is also okay. Because we always have more of them.  I GTB O Y G Y S Y D G.  Or if you like it.  Tit my buff.

I’m Nora McInerny. 

This is it’s going to be okay. This is a little group project guys. Every day. We’re going to bring you an okay thing, something. Okay. Big picture things are not good. Worldwide. Bad. Not the best. So we’re zooming in. We’re finding one small, good thing to share with you. Every weekday.  It’s going to be okay. 

As an independent podcast, it is made possible by you, by people who listen to this show who rate it, who review it, who share it with your friends.  It is a part of an independent podcast production company called feelings and co we started it when, uh, we took terrible. Thanks for asking independent. 

When I say it’s independent, I mean, we have not taken. Any money from any investor and you bank. Anybody. We’re just a bunch of people working in the feelings factory to bring you stuff like this. So thank you for being here. Our team at feelings and co is myself. Marcel Malekebu.  Michelle plantan, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer.  And, uh, shit.  Grace Berry.  This episode was mixed by Amanda Romani.  

Our theme music is by secret audio. 

And I did these credits off the top of my head.  On a really chaotic day where the power went out. I really underestimated the length of time. It would take me to walk to the coffee shop, which then turned out to be closed. And then I walked all the way back. Power is back on. And I get to record this. 

So truly tit, my buff, baby.