A weekly conversation about the messy, meaningful reality of caregiving, told with humor, honesty, and the occasional slightly ridiculous life metaphor. Come laugh, reflect, and leave with a little more grace for yourself and the chaos we’re all navigating.
Miss Shannon greets viewers, describes her background as a comedian and caregiver, and explains that the series explores caregiving challenges through humor. This orients new and returning viewers to the show's tone and topics.
She examines the common hope of returning to 'normal,' asking what normal even means and noting it constantly changes. This segment reframes normal as subjective and potentially limiting.
Using a current busy week and an anticipated quieter week, she explains both busyness and calm are part of her normal. She encourages self-compassion and acknowledging adaptability across changing seasons.
Miss Shannon describes her indoor DIY projects and creating an indoor greenhouse to nurture plants through winter. This concrete example shows how she plans to create more space and soothing routines.
She invites viewers to plan for more room to handle tasks and emotional ups and downs, reminding them they've managed before and can do it again. The segment celebrates caregivers' resilience and pokes fun at exhausted self-care.
Miss Shannon thanks viewers, mentions upcoming livestreams and available resources, and promises to return with updates about her child. She closes with a lighthearted farewell and encouragement to take care.
Hello, good afternoon friends, and welcome to this Thursday edition to Miss Shannon's Comedy Through the Chaos. I appreciate all of you. Nice to see you. If you are new to Comedy Through the Chaos, I am Miss Shannon. I am by trade a variety of word related things, including a comedian and a corporate speaker and a voice actor, an event emcee and a benefit auctioneer. By heart, I am the proud parent of an adorable teenager who happens to be high sports on the autism spectrum, and he had a much better day school today.
That is good to know. And so we have a variety of conversations about navigating these different challenges as a caregiver. Challenges, triumphs, all of the things and trying to do it from a position of how humor can help refuel us. And I was thinking earlier today about the concept of a statement that I think we say to ourselves a lot. And so what I heard myself say in my head was, I'll be so glad when things are back to normal next week. And then I'm like, you know what? What does that even mean?
Why do I even say that? What is back to normal? You know, is that even something that I can define? And the answer for me is not really. You know, normal is always changing. Normal is something that by definition is different for each of us. And normal is something that I think we do that also limits us in a way. And by that I mean that Whenever we have this concept of normal, I think we have to be careful about whether we are using somebody else's definition of normal, or if we're grasping for something that actually won't fuel us.
You can hear my dryer going on in the other room, because it is a day of all the things that need to happen. And then I started thinking about, well, what is it that I'm really looking for next week? And so what it is is that there is more space to get everything done. less things that are popping up in this particular season of my work life. So I have more time to get things done and not feel like I am moving from one thing to the next so quickly. And the thing is that both of those situations in reality are normal for me.
The busyness that I have on weeks like this, but also the more space for peace that I have next week, they're both normal. It's not like the kind of things that I'm dealing with this week have never happened before. It's not like the challenges that I've had with my kiddo this week haven't happened before. It's not like they haven't happened on a recurring basis. So this is a little bit of normal. And the thing I need to give myself credit for more often is, you know what, you navigate this variety of normal just as well as you do the other variety of normal.
So giving myself a little more space to rest into that is what I feel as though I will be doing. So next week when I have a little more capacity to do some other things, like finish a little downstairs project, for those of you who are new to Miss Shannon, I am a fan of the DIY project. So I usually have two or three of them going on at the same time. So what I'm doing right now in one of my indoor spaces is I'm making it an indoor greenhouse. So that I can, I found it very soothing to be able to plant some seeds and grow some things here and there.
And so I want to be able to do that into the winter. So I made some space in one of my rooms that I'm going to do that. So you get to see that evolve. And that is what I wanted to encourage you to do this week. Make more space for the variety of things that you get done. So that regardless of where you are in the pinwheel of emotions, that you still feel as though it's normal. So you don't feel like you're such an alien in all of these spaces that you end up hanging out in. So that you don't feel so overwhelmed because you've had practice at this and I'm proud of you.
I'm sure that you've managed to get through these things before and you'll get through them again. So cheers to normal doesn't exist. And cheers to being good at all of the changes and challenges and the hurdles that we go through as caregivers and how we do it with grace and often exhausted bags under our eyes. And that is what I will look forward to next week is to have slightly less bags under my eyes and have time to stay hydrated. So I always appreciate being able to hang out with you. I'm glad that I have been able to join you for these live streams again.
I do plan to be back here on Saturday 00 AM Central for a parenting edition of Comedy Through the Chaos. So I'll check in with you and let you know how things have been going for my kiddo at school. It has been an up and down adventure recently. So we'll just check in together. So I always appreciate all of you as a general rule, we do like you to let us know what we can do to continue to be quality resources for you here in the cadre sphere. There are so many people and we're always adding in more content, adding in more contributors and trying to make sure that we have what it is that you need when you need it.
And so search for it and hopefully we help you find it quickly. So I will see you back here on Saturday for the next edition of Comedy Through the Chaos. And trust me, I won't be so attached to the idea of being normal. Take care of yourself. I hope that the day treats you well. If it doesn't, shame on it.
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