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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Are You Digesting Your Life? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone?
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  Speaker 2: Emily Abadi here, you're listening to five Minute Friday from Hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: I am feeling all sorts of ready for a Memorial
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend in which I have absolutely no real plans.
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  Speaker 2: I mean literally the things on my bucket list for
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  Speaker 2: the weekend to do list. I suppose spend some time
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  Speaker 2: by a pool. Check going to happen today on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: clean the apartment check, probably going to do that on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: go to the beach check, going to do it on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: and find some sort of barbecue moment perhaps Monday, keeping
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  Speaker 2: it low key. I feel as though I have been
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  Speaker 2: a little bit all over the place with good reason.
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  Speaker 2: I feel as though things are kind of rolling into
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  Speaker 2: one another, that the projects that excite me, one thing
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  Speaker 2: happens and then it's immediately onto a call, a zoom,
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  Speaker 2: some sort of strategy thing for the thing that's happening
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  Speaker 2: the following weekend. And it's lovely, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: But something that I've really dialed into lately for myself
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  Speaker 2: is understanding what it is that I need to do
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  Speaker 2: to appreciate what's happening when it happens, Because when life
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  Speaker 2: is coming at you fast, like that classic quote from
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  Speaker 2: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you miss things right. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking the time to write things down. I'm taking
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  Speaker 2: the time to set aside time to be with myself,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm traveling a lot, I'm often alone. But it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing to be alone and mindlessly watching some sort
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  Speaker 2: of a television show or maybe even enjoying a book
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more productive use of time. But it's
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  Speaker 2: another to actually be sitting with your feelings and asking yourself,
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  Speaker 2: how do I feel right now? How did this feel yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: What was a moment that really stuck out for me?
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  Speaker 2: What was one thing that I tasted, one thing that
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  Speaker 2: I said, one thing that I heard, one thing that
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  Speaker 2: I smelled that I really appreciated. How can you be
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  Speaker 2: more present with what is happening on a day today?
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  Speaker 2: And as things have been pretty hectic, and I've been
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  Speaker 2: trying to do the best I can with what I
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  Speaker 2: have and navigating all the emotions that go hand in
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  Speaker 2: hand with feeling slightly stretched thin that exercise that I
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned the five senses touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste,
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  Speaker 2: and I added said reflecting on one thing that really
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  Speaker 2: stuck out to me, stay out to me in each
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  Speaker 2: of those areas really helps me come into my body,
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  Speaker 2: be present with what's happening, and do that next critical
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  Speaker 2: step the digest. Let me give an example of how
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  Speaker 2: this showed up for me recently. A couple weeks back,
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  Speaker 2: I had a big event that I hosted along with Birkenstock.
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  Speaker 2: I have a campaign that is coming out with Birkenstock
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  Speaker 2: in the near future that I'm amped on, and that
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  Speaker 2: event was on a Thursday evening. I marked off my calendar,
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  Speaker 2: blocked off my calendar on Friday morning until noon to
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  Speaker 2: do the things that I needed to do to reflect
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  Speaker 2: on that experience, to really digest that experience. I know
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  Speaker 2: that by taking this time to digest the experience, not
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  Speaker 2: only can I be a better partner to perhaps the
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  Speaker 2: brands that I work with, or a partner to my community,
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  Speaker 2: but I can also feel more confident on how to
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  Speaker 2: show up and do it yes again, but also do
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  Speaker 2: it better the next time. It helps me be a
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  Speaker 2: better me. And so this concept of are you digesting
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  Speaker 2: your life? You're not just being present, You're not just
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  Speaker 2: showing up and paying attention and giving others your all,
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  Speaker 2: not staring at your phone in public. You get the gist,
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  Speaker 2: but then are you taking your experiences and really paying
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  Speaker 2: attention to what's going on, how they're impacting you, and
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  Speaker 2: how you can use the knowledge the information that experience
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  Speaker 2: to your advantage to inform your best self moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Something to think on. My listener question for you this week,
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  Speaker 2: what is one experience from the past seven days that
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  Speaker 2: you want to take time and have a post mortemon
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  Speaker 2: What is one experience from the past seven days that
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  Speaker 2: you want to take some time to digest and have
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  Speaker 2: a post More tom on and now a listener question.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Emily, this is Leah in New York City, longtime listener,
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  Speaker 1: first time caller. I know you've addressed burnout and when
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  Speaker 1: to listen to your body when it's saying it needs rest,
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  Speaker 1: But how do you mentally get over that hurdle pun
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  Speaker 1: intended of being okay with resting. I am someone who
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  Speaker 1: tells myself every week to take a rest day and
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always end up that way because then I feel
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  Speaker 1: bad about it. I feel like these days there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of outside pressure to always be going harder or
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  Speaker 1: running more miles, getting in those workouts every day, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see how you combat those external factors
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  Speaker 1: and just be confident in a rest day without feeling
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  Speaker 1: like your progress is stinted or that your body actually
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need it, or you just feel bad about not
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot for a day. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for always being so open and honest with us, and
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  Speaker 1: have a good one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Leo. What's ironic is I took a rest
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  Speaker 2: day today and it's been a minute since I have
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  Speaker 2: gone to bed the night before a day where I
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  Speaker 2: don't have a strength workout and didn't think to myself like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I still have a run tomorrow, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: to yoga tomorrow or whatever. No, I woke up today
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  Speaker 2: and knew that the only thing that I was going
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  Speaker 2: to do to move my body was to go on
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  Speaker 2: a very nice, leisurely three mile walk with some coffee
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  Speaker 2: around my neighborhood. What you're saying, however, is entirely understandable. Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's this external pressure that we're always supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: doing something. But I would encourage you to reframe the
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  Speaker 2: way that you're thinking about a rest day, and you
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  Speaker 2: can do this in two ways. The first thing is
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  Speaker 2: a rest day doesn't mean that you are entirely off
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  Speaker 2: of all forms of movement. You want to be moving
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  Speaker 2: your body in some way throughout the day, even if
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  Speaker 2: it is something as simple as closing your rings. If
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  Speaker 2: you happen to wear an Apple watch, so that means
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  Speaker 2: you're standing up over the course of ten hours at
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  Speaker 2: some point right you're moving your body, walking a certain
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  Speaker 2: amount of steps that make you feel good. You're getting
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  Speaker 2: in those thirty minutes of exercise. And I say the
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  Speaker 2: word exercise here in air quotes because exercise on your
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  Speaker 2: rest day could be, just like I explained earlier, a
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  Speaker 2: nice walk in the morning. It could be if you
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  Speaker 2: happen to live in the suburbs, I'm like me parking
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  Speaker 2: farther away from a store that you're going into to
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  Speaker 2: run an Errand it might be taking your afternoon meeting
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  Speaker 2: with your boss off of a zoom and walking around
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  Speaker 2: the block, or even just some light stretching. Whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: Reframing the way that you think about the word rest
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  Speaker 2: to encompass the fact that you're resting from what otherwise
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  Speaker 2: you may associate as your go to way to sweat.
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  Speaker 2: So your rest day maybe the day that you don't
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  Speaker 2: go for a run, or you don't lift weights, or
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  Speaker 2: you don't go to the Dan cardioclass that you've been
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  Speaker 2: loving on for the last three months. Instead, ask yourself,
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  Speaker 2: what is a nourishing way that I can move my
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  Speaker 2: body that gives back to myself, that feels good, and
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  Speaker 2: that is the new rest day. The other thing to
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  Speaker 2: take into account on a rest day is that you
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  Speaker 2: are doing something kind for yourself. You are giving your
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  Speaker 2: body a gift, and you're also enabling yourself to take
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  Speaker 2: the time that otherwise would be spent perhaps working out,
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  Speaker 2: and invest that in other things like your family, like
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  Speaker 2: your work. Remember that a day of rest also allows
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  Speaker 2: your body to repair tissues that are damaged from exercise.
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  Speaker 2: Not to be alarmed, it's a normal part of exercise.
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  Speaker 2: There are small micro tears that happen in the muscles
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  Speaker 2: that naturally repair themselves over the course of forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 2: So with that said, by giving yourself this time to
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  Speaker 2: allow your body to heal, you are actually allowing and
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  Speaker 2: helping yourself show up better in the long haul. There's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a point, and candidly, I felt like I
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  Speaker 2: was there last night when I was running over the
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  Speaker 2: Williamsburg Bridge. I went to go support a friend an
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  Speaker 2: event that she was hosting and involved a run and
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  Speaker 2: then some really awesome breath work shout out to Christina Centenari.
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  Speaker 2: And I was running up the bridge and I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I had nothing to give, and it was a
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  Speaker 2: blaring signal. It was like, Emily, take a second, It's okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so I went to bed and I woke up
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  Speaker 2: today and I embraced the rest day. Again. It's not easy, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I understand that societal pressure that you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: but remember you only have one body, and in order
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  Speaker 2: to do the things that excite you, in order to
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  Speaker 2: move the way that you want to, you need to
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  Speaker 2: prioritize recovery to be a better you. Now, make sure
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