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Cold plunge thoughts. Some days, it is really hard to get in here.

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I've been up for two hours already, and I just could not bring myself to do it.

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But here I am, finally doing it. And you know what?

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I can handle it. That's the amazing thing.

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I used to live in Fairbanks, Alaska. And while I lived there,

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One of the things that people complained about a lot was that it was so dark in the winter.

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And it was, because the sun was only up from about 10 to 2.30 or 3, something like that.

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And what I learned there, though, was that there is the darkness,

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but the light always chases out the darkness.

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Always. So even if there is a low light, that light was stronger than the darkness was.

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And in fact, in the summer, it never got dark because there was always some sort of light.

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So the darkness cannot overpower the light. The light always overpowers the darkness.

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And that's true in our lives as well. Well, there are going to be times where

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the darkness is pushing us to avoid doing things or stop doing things.

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But any time that we invite the light into our life, then it chases out the darkness.

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That's not a, hey, this is cool. This would be great. That's just a fact.

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The two cannot coexist. exist.

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And I think that that's an incredibly powerful and empowering belief to have.

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No matter how dark your life is, you just need a little bit of light to start

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chasing out that darkness.

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It's all it takes is a little bit. I find a lot of comfort in that,

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especially times when I'm personally struggling.