Shutting Up Your Inner Eeyore (Learning to Float on Life's Puddles)

Ever feel like you're drowning in a mud puddle while acting like you need a life raft? Yeah, me too. In this episode, I'm tackling that gloomy voice in our heads that sounds suspiciously like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh—you know, the one convinced everything is conspiring against us.Here's the thing: COVID turned us all into Eeyores somehow, normalizing a victim mentality where we're waist-deep in water calling it an ocean. But I'm here to tell you how pink inflatable birds became my spirit animal when negativity reared its ugly head. So grab your metaphorical floaty and join me as I figure out how to be awkward, imperfect, and unapologetically fabulous—even in the mess.01:00 - Meet Your Inner Eeyore (He's the Worst)02:00 - COVID Turned Us All Into Depressed Donkeys03:00 - Are You Bringing Sunshine or a Complaint Convention?04:00 - Your Words: Medicine or Straight-Up Poison?05:00 - I Created a Flamingo Cult During Lockdown06:00 - Meet Tilly: Our Pink Mascot of Chaos07:00 - I Became the Oprah of Flamingos (You Get a Flamingo!)08:00 - People Swimming in Mud Puddles: A Springfield Love Story09:00 - Job 11:16 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Puddle10:00 - You're Not Drowning, You're Just Dramatic11:00 - Find Your Floaties (No, Really, Find Them)12:00 - Put a Flamingo on Your Problems13:00 - Prayer for Hot Mess Flamingo People14:00 - Two Songs: Pick Your Soundtrack (Eeyore or Fabulous?)Amber Weigand-Buckley is an Amazon #1 bestselling and multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and the founding editor and art director of the multi-award-winning Leading Hearts magazine. She's the #shortyellowpencilgirl living in a neurotypical world — navigating life with a beehive brain, a lot of sticky notes, and an unwavering belief that God wired her exactly right.Host of #RandomDevoThoughts — where she unpacks the Jesus heart from the ADHD mind — Amber brings raw, relatable, and often hilarious insight to faith, mental health, and neurodivergent life. She's also co-host of Coffee Chat with Amber & Lisa.Her newly released book, #SisterhoodoftheShortYellowPencils: Mental Health Mayhem, One Sticky Note at a Time, is out now — a humor-packed, gut-punch honest look at her own mental health journey that's equal parts laugh-out-loud and life-changing.Follow her @barefacedgirl and @shortyellowpencilRX for the real, the raw, and the ridiculous.