Ms. Shannon reflects on seasonal transitions and caregiving, offering a candid mix of humor and practical strategies—rest, recovery, routine—and shares concrete steps she uses to stay flexible while parenting during shifting seasons.
Ms. Shannon opens the Saturday edition with warm greetings, a brief personal aside, and an outline of the show's aim to bring more happiness, flexibility, and joy. This orients viewers to the episode's supportive, conversational tone.
She checks in about seasonal transitions—spring to summer, summer to fall—and invites viewers to notice whether their adjustment process is smooth or wavy. This segment helps viewers normalize uneven emotions during change.
Shannon outlines a caregiving strategy that combines intentional rest, recovery, and enough routine to preserve skills across seasons. She shares personal struggles with guilt and pride and encourages realistic expectations for meeting one’s needs.
She emphasizes that life is naturally wavy and suggests planning for disruptions so you can 'make it back to shore,' then describes immediate practical steps she’s taking—getting her child comfortable, packing audiobooks, and applying sunscreen. This ties mindset to concrete self-care actions.
Shannon shares her summer content focus (rest, recovery, regularity), mentions an evening gig in Hiawatha, Iowa, and invites viewers to continue checking in. She closes with warm well-wishes and a gentle sign-off.
Hello friends and happy Saturday to you. If you end up joining me on a Saturday, if you end up watching on another day, happy whatever day it is to you as well. I am Ms. Shannon. I'm joining you for this Saturday edition of Comedy Through the Chaos, where we hopefully go over. Hello, Jules. Good to see you. Where we hopefully go over a few things that'll arm you to move into the next part of your adventure with a little bit more happiness and joy and flexibility that's what happens hello hello I appreciate when you call me sunshine I am having one of those perimenopausal acne moments and it's kind of bothering me but I'm gonna get over it the sunscreen will cover it up sunscreen will cover it up And I'm glad to be in a position right now to be concerned about the little things.
You know, this is clearly a little thing. So I'm glad that I have space right now and capacity right now to learn about the little, to do the little things. So I wanted to check in with all of y'all this Saturday as we are moving into a season of transition. I know it's oftentimes when we move from spring in the summer, summer in the fall, fall into winter, all of those things, then the shifts that we have to do can be very complex for us. So I hope that these shifts are going as smoothly as possible.
What I've kind of learned, you know, for us, those shifts It's very, you know, herky jerky quite often where it's like, it looks like it's rolling along and then it doesn't, and then it does, and then it doesn't. So that's very the process that I live within. So I wonder about your process. Like, is it smooth during those transitions or do you also have those waves that you have to ride as things are moving from one season to the next? So what we're trying to do is have a combination And by me as the caregiver and the parent, a combination of rest time, recovery time, and then also enough time that is baked in that has some routine and some regularity into it so that when I do need that in the future, it's not a skill set that we've completely thrown out the window because we didn't do it at all during the summer.
And that's always the hard part, wavy here, okay, I understand that's kind of how mine is too. Because there's some days that having in some of that regularity is easier than others. This morning was one of those just started kind of wobbly, but has kind of course corrected now, which I'm glad. after I get off this, I'm actually going to be heading. I live in Minnesota. I'm going to be heading to Iowa for a gig. It's a quick turn. This is like close Iowa. It's like four hour away Iowa for me. So it's enough that I'm going to go up there, do the event this evening, drive back early tomorrow morning so I can do my radio shows.
But it It was also one of those days where I had to remind myself that this is why you build in certain amounts of flexibility. I was thinking that I was gonna try and get on the road sooner this morning, but then it just seemed that my kiddo needed a little bit more energy placed into him to get him stable so that I will feel more comfortable while I am gone, kind of thing. And I had room to do that this morning. And that's one of the tricks that has helped me continue on this journey and it's also helped me get to those burnout levels less often.
Being able to bake it in and it took honestly years for me to just slowly pry more time into some of these processes, but it also took years for my brain to be able to release whether I was letting somebody down by baking in that time or saying I'm going to be there a little later than I thought. And being able to go, well, this is what was necessary for that to be more successful on the back end. And being able to do that was very difficult at the beginning because I had this sense of guilt that I had to be able to make everybody happy.
I had to make this kid happy. I had to make the clients happy. I had to do all this stuff. But I wasn't being realistic about what it was that I actually needed. So what do you think happened? this person pride and that is no fun. So I for all of us encourage us to understand that wavy is one of the impermanent things that is part of our life. It's part of the thing that makes the life interesting and surprising is that there will be those waves. And with keeping that in mind, knowing that you cannot plan for every wave because you don't know what it's gonna be.
You can plan for the fact that waves will occur, and then having some sort of level setting opportunity to go. Well, here's what I'm gonna do to make sure that I make it back to shore. And I am glad that I am not the only person that deals with that because that'd be kind of weird. So I'm glad it's not just me. So I'm going to go do a few more things to get him comfortable. And then I'm going to start my drive. I have some audiobooks that are prepared and I have a couple of things that I'm going to work on.
But before that, I'm going to put on my sunscreen and my facial sunscreen and try and make sure that this Doesn't stay looking like that. My plan is to be back with you on Thursday at 2:00 PM Central as we check in again and see what kind of positions you may be in at that time. So my goal over the summer is to talk a lot about staying powered and talking a lot about what we do to provide ourselves some resources and some ideas so that we can balance those things about regarding or around rest, recovery, but also that regularity that we all need.
So that's kind of what I plan on. bucketing all of our content in over the summer thank you so much oh okay well I'm going to be in the the I Hiawatha uh part of Iowa which I think is just outside of Des Moines um I haven't been to Iowa in a while so I'm kind of excited so thanks Jules I appreciate that so I'll be hanging out in Hiawatha Iowa this evening at the Prairie Woods Franciscan retreat. They're going to be having a garden party fundraiser and I'm helping support them in that. So that will be lovely.
So I expect it to be a pleasant and hopefully uneventful Dr. I hope that it is the most dull part of my day because I could use a little bit of boredom. So off I go. So everyone, continue to check in, please. let me know what else I can help us navigate throughout the summer, especially since I've mentioned and if you're watching in the replay that we're going to talk about that. blend more than balance. That blend of rest, recovery and then regularity that we need during this season so we can get a lot of things done and hopefully prepare ourselves before we move into the fall.
So I'm excited to do that. I'm always excited to join you. And now I'm going to go sit in the car for a while. So thank you so much for being here. As always, I hope that the day treats you well. If it doesn't, shame on it, not shame on you. I'll see you back here soon.
