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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Who Are You Rallying Behind? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello Emily, A body here coming into your feeds
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  Speaker 1: with five minute Friday from Hurdle. This has been a
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  Speaker 1: week filled with a lot of unexpected things, notably my
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  Speaker 1: little bike crash on Monday, which I wrote about in
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  Speaker 1: tay Today's installment of the weekly Hurdle newsletter. I'm sitting
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  Speaker 1: here and my shoulder feels off. I'm like teetering between
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  Speaker 1: getting an MRI and waiting for some more healing time.
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  Speaker 1: And as much as it does feel a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like I can't get a break here between the foot
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  Speaker 1: and the shoulder, I have perspective and I'm great for that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also really really excited, and this is what I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about today, mostly about the Safety and
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  Speaker 1: Numbers event that I'm hosting on Wednesday, November two at
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  Speaker 1: MoMA PS one with different leaders in the New York
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  Speaker 1: City running community to talk about how we can make
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  Speaker 1: strides Tour of safer tomorrow. It's arguably the biggest, let's
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  Speaker 1: call it, hurdle event I've ever thrown. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: spoken in front of large groups of people for different
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  Speaker 1: hosting opportunities, but never have I conducted a discussion in
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  Speaker 1: a room that fills a little more than two hundred people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting for me because in putting this together,
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  Speaker 1: I realize that this is going to be the first
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  Speaker 1: time that a lot of my peers, people that I
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  Speaker 1: see regularly come together to see me do what I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like awkwardly smiling talking about this, but also
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  Speaker 1: feeling like a little anxiousness in my chest. It's definitely unique,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely different. It's definitely intimidating, but it makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel very sure and also very responsible about the nature
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  Speaker 1: of this conversation. I always, always, always take what I
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  Speaker 1: do seriously, but it does feel a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: to think about the fact that this room of my
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  Speaker 1: peers and people in my community, this conversation that we're having.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's just on a different level.
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  Speaker 1: It's of a different importance, and it's something that I
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  Speaker 1: truly feel in my heart that I'm ready for and
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I'm excited for it. So to those
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  Speaker 1: of you that are in the New York area, I
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  Speaker 1: highly encourage you to come. The capacity is what the
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  Speaker 1: capacity is, so hopefully there are some more tickets if
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to this and you want to make it,
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  Speaker 1: are free and the link is in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: But all this to say that it's made me think
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity a lot about how I make an effort
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  Speaker 1: to show up for the people that I care about.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that in this really beautiful moment of
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  Speaker 1: support and togetherness for my community here, that I also
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure that I am supporting and showing
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  Speaker 1: up for others in the things that make them excited
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  Speaker 1: in their pursuits. So maybe that's just the takeaway this week.
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  Speaker 1: The takeaway is show up for your people and hype
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  Speaker 1: up your people. I'm so flattered by, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: simply the reposts of the event info all over social media.
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  Speaker 2: It means a lot to me, and.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that there is no better feeling than telling
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  Speaker 1: someone how much you appreciate that showing someone how much
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  Speaker 1: you appreciate them, And I plan to continue to do
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  Speaker 1: that for others as I feel grateful for the people
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  Speaker 1: that have done it for me. My prompt for you
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  Speaker 1: this week, who you hype it up? Who have you
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  Speaker 1: made it a priority to tell them that you're excited
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  Speaker 1: for them, that you're happy for them, that you want
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  Speaker 1: to support them lately? Who are you supporting in your
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  Speaker 1: life and maybe this is your opportunity to think a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about how you can do that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, my name's Lily, and I have recovered from a
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  Speaker 3: disorder of many years, and I'm just wondering if you
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  Speaker 3: have any suggestions whenever it comes to not fitting yourself
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  Speaker 3: into like the perfect little box. Finally to the point
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  Speaker 3: where I don't think that I'm doing that anymore, but
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  Speaker 3: I want to make sure that I continue not doing that,
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  Speaker 3: like shoving my the perfect little box that keeps trying
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  Speaker 3: to drink and drink and drink the closer you get
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  Speaker 3: to the perfect box. If you're just having suggestions of
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  Speaker 3: keeping a healthy mindset, I'm not obsessing over each little
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  Speaker 3: thing or trying to be the most perfect one in
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  Speaker 3: the room.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Lily, thanks for this question.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's really, really really important that before
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  Speaker 1: I say anything, you know, and I know, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure if you're listening to this, that you also know
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  Speaker 1: that if you are struggling with an eating disorder, I
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  Speaker 1: highly encourage you to seek help from a qualified expert,
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  Speaker 1: specifically a therapist, nutritionist, even a doctor, someone who can
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  Speaker 1: speak to you and your situation and help you get
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  Speaker 1: the help that you need. I really commend you for
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  Speaker 1: making strides in your recovery. And I also want to
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  Speaker 1: say that a really great conversation I had on ED
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  Speaker 1: Recovery was with Molly Seidel the first time that she
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  Speaker 1: came on the show. I'm going to link that in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes so you can check it out. I
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  Speaker 1: hear you, and I know that perfection is certainly something
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  Speaker 1: that so many of us struggle with. Myself included for me,
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  Speaker 1: something that has really helped is really radically accepting that
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  Speaker 1: no one is perfect, and anyone that makes you think
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  Speaker 1: that they are based on whatever image they may be
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  Speaker 1: portraying on social media, I can assure you that they
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  Speaker 1: are not. So having some grace with yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And owning and.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciating all that is awesome about your personality, about who
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  Speaker 1: you are, about what you are capable of, that is
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  Speaker 1: a really, really awesome opportunity. I would say when it
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  Speaker 1: feels like the box is shrinking around you that my
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  Speaker 1: biggest piece of advice is to come back to gratitude
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  Speaker 1: right because by having a gratitude practice, we can appreciate
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  Speaker 1: what is instead of worrying about what isn't. Having a
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  Speaker 1: gratitude practice enables you to appreciate what is instead of
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  Speaker 1: worrying about what isn't. So when that little voice in
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  Speaker 1: the back of your head says something like this.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't good enough, You're not good enough, etcetera, etcetera, etc.
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  Speaker 1: You can just come back and say, but I am strong,
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  Speaker 1: and I am capable, and I insert other rat things
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  Speaker 1: about you here. Start with what is, start with the facts,
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  Speaker 1: and again, move forward with grace, and move forward with love.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for this week. Make sure you're following along
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  Speaker 1: with hurdle over on the Socials at Hurdle podcast. I
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  Speaker 1: am over at Emily a Body another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.