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When the thought of doing the health habit gives you the ick · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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All right, so you know what you need to do to lose weight or get healthier,
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right? Y'all, if I had a dime for every time somebody has told me this,
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like I know what I need to do.
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I need to track my food. I need to eat better. I need to exercise.
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I need to drink my water. We all can easily recite how to do these things.
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Some of us extensively, like very in-depth, we can do this.
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And we know why we need to do it, right?
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But there is such a huge difference between not knowing what to do and not wanting
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to do the thing you know to do, right?
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And so if you're not careful, you can begin to tell yourself that,
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okay, I know what I need to do. I'm just lazy.
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Something's wrong with me. I don't have time. I'm a failure.
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And these are things that we can recite in our head, like subconsciously,
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like not even realizing it, right? And if you're not careful about.
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And if you don't fully understand the resistance at its depth and why it's happening,
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plus how to change it, right, then you live in this cycle, in this cycle of
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saying, I know what I need to do.
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Maybe I'll try some next week. Maybe I do try next week, but then I give up
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because I'm lazy. I don't, I don't have time.
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I know what to do. You know, like it's a, it's a constant circle if you don't
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get to the root of why it's happening and how to change it.
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So today that's what we're talking about and honestly it's a really good time
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for this for me personally
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because I have dealt with this just recently so my example is after having glory
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which is my middle daughter
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I snapped right into my health habits I blame it a little bit on like I had
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her at Christmas time and so gosh between being pregnant and then also you know
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how after Christmas, everybody is just like, I'm so sick of all the junk. You know, I was both.
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And so I was able to snap right back into all my health habits.
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I cooked healthy. I tracked my food. I exercised.
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Like I went all in when she was probably less than a month old.
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I was back on my weight loss train. Right. But this time around with Evie.
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It took me a lot longer to get motivated.
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So I talked about a few episodes ago, exercise, right? I did.
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I exercised because I had to. There was a need there.
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But the eating part just felt so, oh, you know, like I just could not.
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I was always starving because I was breastfeeding.
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I was exhausted, right? From just the late night, early morning feedings and
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wake ups and all the things.
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But even still, like those things did not stop me last time.
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But this time, I just could not find that motivation. Every single day,
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I would wake up saying, okay, today is when I'm going to start.
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And then every night, we would end up eating like a really calorie-heavy dinner.
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You know, comfort food just always sounded so good with usually like milkshakes
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or some kind of rich dessert afterwards, right? I would just blow it out the
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water, especially by the evening time. So for me, though, I knew that I would
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start eventually, right?
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And that is a bonus for me, being in the space that I'm in, right?
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Like I knew I was going to start eventually. I kind of knew something was happening.
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Something was going on beneath the surface. I was able to give myself this grace.
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And so I knew that once I did choose to get serious, I would lose the weight.
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So really, I was just waiting on myself to get serious, right?
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But for somebody who's not a weight loss coach, I could see how that kind of
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behavior could easily start painting this picture of negativity in their mind, right?
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Like I just said, I'm lazy. I have no discipline. I'm always failing.
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I can't stay consistent. And y'all, when we're building that kind of thought
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process in our brains, like when we're saying those things in our minds to ourselves
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every single day, they are taking root, okay?
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If we are going to think it once, our brain is going to go, oh yeah,
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let's think this again. Let's think this again. It's easier to think the same
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thing that I've been thinking for the past several years than it is to try to
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change my thinking. So yeah, I'm just lazy. I have no discipline, whatever.
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And so today I want to really kind of dive in on number one, why we're resisting.
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And what that actually could mean and then how to dig ourselves out of it to
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truly change the game, to truly change the direction that you're heading in.
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So I want to, first of all, just like remind you that resistance is not always
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a rebellion to the outcome.
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You know, like when we feel ourselves resisting, sometimes we can easily just
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tell ourselves like, okay, I know I need to exercise and eat right,
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but I'm resisting that, right?
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So it must mean about me that I don't want to lose this weight bad enough.
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Like that's what we can tell ourselves. And like other people will actually
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say that too, people who are not very emotionally intelligent.
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Will say that about other people too. Like, well, she knows what to do.
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Why can't she just do it? You know what I mean?
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And so fortunately, Karen, it is much deeper than that, right?
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And so sometimes it's a response to the act of whatever that specific action
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may be. You know, this can go across the board, not just for weight loss, right?
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That goes to say with a lot of my podcast episodes, but it's not a response
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to what the act actually is.
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It's a response to the act of it when you're in a specific season.
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Okay. So in some seasons of my life, right, tracking and cooking healthy have
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been as simple as truly breathing for me.
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Like if you, if you are aware of my program and all the things that I offer
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in there, like recipes are like second nature for me. Cooking is my jam.
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You know what I mean? And then same with exercise, drinking water,
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whatever. Like in certain seasons, it's easy as pie. And I'm sure it's been
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the same for you with certain things related to your health or related to other
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goals that you've had in mind.
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But for this season, it felt like I just did not have the capacity to hold it,
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right? Like, yes, I still love the idea of cooking and I still,
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you know, understood tracking was important for weight loss, right?
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But like the capacity was not there. And now I know you're probably saying,
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well, duh, Constance, like, right, duh. You just had a baby.
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You're exhausted. You're breastfeeding. You got two other kids running around
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like your hormones were crazy. All the things that is so 100 percent true.
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And I'm able to I'm able to look at that realistically about myself.
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And so you're able to say that to me, right, too.
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But do you give yourself that same kind of grace?
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Like, you don't have to have just had a baby to be allowed to,
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like, accept that same kind of grace, okay?
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Like, when you've been busy beating yourself up over habits you haven't kept,
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right, for things that you really want to accomplish,
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have you zoomed out and taken a look at your life's season, right?
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Like, mine's obvious in this example.
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But when any of our clients come to us with these inconsistencies and just like frustrations like this,
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we we ask like we stare back at them and we go okay because we really we get
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to know our one-on-one clients really really well and so it's it's it's stacy
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and i are kind of like sometimes we talk to each other we're like i mean and then i told her like duh,
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because it's like we we know them not just like what'd you eat today we know
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like oh oh, you traveled and went out of town for work last week.
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Oh, it was your youngest son's third birthday and that's super emotional.
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Oh, you had your whole family in town and your mom's a trigger.
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Like we know all these other things that you've told us, right?
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Because we get a full picture story of our clients throughout the week.
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And so when they come to us and they're like, I have just really sucked it up
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this past week and I gained a pound, I didn't lose anything,
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blah, blah, blah. We look at them and we're like.
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Well, you know, like, well, you know, and so it's the same, like, it's the same.
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You're saying to me, well, duh, Constance, you just had a baby.
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Of course, you don't have the capacity to hold it all, right?
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And I'm looking at you going, what is your well-duh moment, right?
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Even if it's not like these big dramatic life shifts, you know,
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like people who change jobs or have like some family troubles or health scares
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or whatever, like that is, you know, pregnancy and having a baby, right?
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Like those are things we easily say, oh, well, I mean, yes, you just you don't
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have the capacity to hold that right now.
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But it's but even smaller things allow for this. Right. Like heavy emotions
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over a child's friendship.
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OK, or my word, baseball season shaking up your day to day.
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Right. Or a deadline at work that's like feeling pretty urgent right now and
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kind of consuming your thoughts more than it usually would.
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More than work usually would. Like these are still things that you need to hold
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space for. Now, hear me, it's not an excuse, right? Because we're always gonna
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have something going on.
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You know, it's a blessing and a curse in this life that we live.
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And we're always going to have something that's going on.
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So it's not an excuse to just say, oh, well, when life gets easier,
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because we all know by now life ain't getting much easier, right?
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But it is worth examining.
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It is worth getting curious about. It is worth looking at and saying,
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okay, this is what's going on.
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And so now how can I move forward in this season that I'm in,
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right? And so if you've been here a while, you know, I've talked about the willpower
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tank for years. Okay? And so...
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A study was done so long ago about willpower, right? And I'm not gonna get into
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it because I think it's the cookie and the radish study. I've talked about it
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a hundred times. I love it so much, but look it up.
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Look up cookie and radish study if you wanna read more about it.
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But basically the conclusion of it is we do not have endless supply of willpower.
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Like some people think that other people are born with more willpower than we
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are, right? And then that, again, that can be an excuse in itself that we just
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say like, oh, well, they have more willpower than me. I'll never be able to do X, right?
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And this study like really proved that to be not true.
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But instead, what is true is that we can all only hold so many things and overcome
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those things before we say, I'm out, okay? Before we say, like, this is done.
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So thinking about, and it's not just for health, it's like across the board, right?
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So, okay, thinking about if this is your day, you woke up late,
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your kids were running around, everybody was in a bad mood, you were trying
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to, like, help everybody do everything and help get yourself ready to to get out the door.
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Okay, that automatically put a strain on your willpower. Like you had to restrain
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yourself from losing it on everybody.
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You had to use a little more energy, internal energy to like get it going and
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not have a meltdown, right? Like there was just so much more effort that had
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to be put forth that that morning, right?
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Then you go to the office and they've brought breakfast, right?
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And it's donuts. And you just told yourself yesterday, I'm going to cut back
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sugar, right? I'm not going to just eat sugar whenever it's available to me.
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So then you skip the donuts, right?
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Even though you've had a really bad morning and you're like,
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golly, that donut would just make my day, right?
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So there you go. You're depleting a little more willpower in your tank,
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imagining it as a full tank that is slowly decreasing, just like that gas tank,
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you know, as you continue driving down the road.
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And so then, you know, your boss comes in and she's kind of being snippy with
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you and like it takes everything you have in your body not to tell her something
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about herself and walk out the door you know so okay your willpower tank goes
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down a little bit more right
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and so things like this start popping up all throughout the day,
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right and so then by dinner,
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When someone says, let's get Mexican, baby, you all in, you know what I mean?
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Because you have depleted your willpower tank.
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Okay. And like it, there is no more willpower left in that tank. You are on E for the day.
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That is how willpower works. If we are not actively working to like fill it back up, you know?
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And so again, I can do another episode on this. I don't want to like dive too
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much into it because I just have so much more today.
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But again, looking into that cookie and radish study so that you can understand
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a little bit more about what I'm talking about and just the general idea that
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willpower is not unlimited.
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We burn through it. We have to fill it back up. And it goes that way.
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It's like a cycle, right? So then now looking at your seasons of life,
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Can you imagine that when, you know, if say you're, okay, we'll use baseball season as an example.
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You used to have all this extra free time in the evenings when practice wasn't
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going on and you had more free time on the weekends when games weren't going on.
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You had more time to rest. You had more time to like pour into yourself.
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You had more time for just like calm and quiet and peace, right?
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So those actions were helping fill back up your willpower tank, right?
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And so now you have less of that time.
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You are at practice, running the roads. You are in the sun, watching game after
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game, not knowing what time your next game is going to be or if you have another
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one, depending on how this game goes, right? Like you're at the mercy of the baseball gods, right?
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And so you in this season of baseball for your children are using more willpower.
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Day-to-day just by having things that are out of your control,
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having less time to pour back into yourself, right?
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And so we need to look at that and own it.
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Like a lot of us want to be like, well, but still, I should just still,
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you know, be able to do X, Y, and Z. I should still meal prep for the weekend.
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And I know these are the things I need to do. Why can I not get it together
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and do it? And I'm sitting here telling you why, right?
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And then to take it a step further, your emotions can also take a toll.
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Okay, so things that you are regularly feeling in this season,
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whether related to your health or not, can directly impact your actions, right?
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Like just the way you're feeling, you know, more consistently,
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right? So this explains like when.
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Like when tracking your food in one season could easily be seen as like an easy
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accountability tool. Like I'm just, I'm measuring my progress and I'm staying
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on track. I'm tracking, right?
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Yet in another season, it could feel like absolute torture and something that
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is judging you, telling you how bad you suck all the time.
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Okay, this, I use this one because this is one I have, we have had clients that
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because I've been around for so long, we'll have clients that come.
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They kill it. they do so well, they lose weight.
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They leave, right? Because the job is done. And then a few years later,
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they'll come back and they'll say, okay, I've had some tough life,
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whatever. I need to get a few more pounds off, whatever.
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And so they rejoin. And then that second time, they're like,
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oh my God, I can't stick to it. I can't do it. You know what I mean?
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And so this is something that really shows up for women.
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It's why when you, it's the foundation of when you say, I know what to do,
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but I just can't stick to it, okay?
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It's the emotion that's at the surface of that.
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And so I'm gonna dive into that a little bit more, but I wanna give you a few
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more examples first, okay?
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So also, it could explain why in one season, exercise feels like your outlet,
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right? And something that makes your whole day better and makes you stronger,
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you feel like, oh my gosh, why have I not been doing this my whole life?
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Like I love exercise. It is my number one, right?
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But then in another season, it can feel like something you have to be a slave
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to in order to change your body or just to keep it the way it is.
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Like you're so resistant to it. You don't want to do it.
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But you keep trying to because you're like, gosh, I used to love this. What is wrong with me?
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You know, or another example is in is meal planning, right?
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Some of us have been in seasons where we're like, okay, meal planning is something
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that have to do. I love it.
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It keeps my weeks on track. It frees up so much extra space for me in the evenings.
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Like it obviously it helps me with my weight loss too.
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But then in another season, you can resent it. And it feels like just another
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thing to do on your to-do list.
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You're like, oh my God, I have to meal plan again.
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This sucks so bad, you know? And then I have to make a grocery list.
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And then I have to shop for it. Or even I have to place my delivery order.
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Like sometimes that can even feel like dread, right?
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And so these examples, and there are millions more, right?
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But these things tell me that it's not the actual behavior that's the problem, right?
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It's the meaning that you've attached to that behavior in the season that you are in.
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So I want you to think about what you've been resisting lately.
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Like whatever it is, exercise, eating right, drinking your water.
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Eating a fruit and vegetable, whatever it is, tracking your food.
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Do you hate the habit itself?
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Or do you hate what you are allowing it to represent for you?
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I'm going to ask it again. Do you hate the habit itself? Or do you hate what
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you are allowing it to represent for you?
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Okay, so can we dig it in a little deeper, right? So what is looming beneath
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the surface causing the resistance?
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Okay, so let's just use tracking as an example.
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If you used to if you're that first that first example where tracking was something
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you like were killing it at and loved it and saw so much success and now you're
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like okay I need to lose weight again I need to track because I know that worked for me,
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but you have got this weight of around tracking,
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and the weight is like I'm being judged right,
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I'm being judged or I can never find the food exactly how it is in MyFitnessPal
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versus, you know, the calories that are on the menu or whatever.
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I can never find the food that I'm eating in MyFitnessPal.
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You know, like if you go out to eat or if it's a recipe your mother-in-law made, you're like, how do I,
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I don't know, she uses heavy cream in this casserole and I don't know how to
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find this casserole on MyFitnessPal to make sure that it's got the heavy cream
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in it instead of, you know, regular milk or whatever.
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Okay, If you are finding yourself just kind of spiraling a little bit about
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that, sounds like you're struggling with a little perfectionism, right?
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And then the next question I would ask you to go a little bit deeper,
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like where else in your life is that showing up right now?
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Where else in your life is the perfectionism kind of shining through?
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And maybe why could it be feeling magnified right now?
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Okay. Or, okay, if it's exercise, if you've been feeling like a slave to exercise, right?
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Are you maybe, this is just a maybe, feeling some shame or resentment towards it right now because,
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you haven't seen as much progress as maybe your friends, or you haven't gotten
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the results that you expected to get, or you just feel like your pants are at a stall?
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You know, you've kind of, you say you love to work out because it makes you
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stronger, but really you were hoping to like lose a couple pounds or a couple pant sizes, you know?
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And then like, where else is this kind of shame and resentment showing up in your life?
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Right? Or the meal planning thing. Okay? Like, if you're feeling a big resistance
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to meal planning right now, are you truly just plain out overwhelmed with all your to-dos in a day?
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And telling yourself, like, I cannot hold space for one more thing.
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You know, like, dial it in deeper. I cannot hold space for one more thing,
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including meal planning.
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And even though we know, right, as mamas who handle the dinners,
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if you are that mama who has to handle the dinners, right, like you're going
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to have to figure it out one way or the other, right? Like we the ones in charge
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are going to be figuring out dinner.
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And so you're so frustrated with yourself because you're like,
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either way, I'm going to be overwhelmed with the idea of having to cook dinner,
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right? But is it just the fact that the act of sitting down to do it is like,
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I literally cannot right now, right?
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So oftentimes, all it takes, like this first little step, is that awareness,
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right? To help you like lighten the load, help you push through,
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help you kind of snap back.
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It's getting curious about yourself. Instead of telling yourself,
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you suck, you're a failure, you can never stick to anything, you're lazy, okay?
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Getting curious instead. Instead of judging the fact that you are not,
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following through on this health habit right now, instead of shaming yourself,
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on the fact that you're not following through on this health habit right now,
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can you really look at it and say, okay, but why am I not?
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Can you look at it from a place, you know, as someone who is objective, right? Why am I not?
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Okay, and so we're going to talk about that a little bit further.
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Like we're going to break it down just even a little bit further of how to do
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that, how to take, how to be aware, how to look at it from a place of this is what's happening.
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I'm not feeling feelings. I'm not shaming myself. I'm not, you know,
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whatever. But this is what's actually happening so that then I can move through
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it, right? Okay, so first we're going to name the struggle, right?
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Just like I did with our examples.
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What is the problem specifically and why are you resisting it?
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Okay, what is the problem specifically and why are you resisting it?
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So let's just use the meal planning as an example, okay?
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Let's say that you've kind of identified Sunday as your meal planning day, okay?
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And so when it's Sunday and it's time to meal plan.
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Where's your headspace? Like, have you just gone to church and like y'all are
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wanting to enjoy like a calm Sunday afternoon before the chaos of Monday hits?
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And the last thing you want to do is like even look at a to-do list, right?
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Or have you over committed yourself on Sundays?
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Like, are you trying to meal prep and do laundry and get all the kids school
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stuff situated and attends church and then small group later and your kids are
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running around all over the place and like, is that what's happening on Sunday?
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So that you're just super overstimulated. Again, go back to that willpower tank.
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Like, have you burnt out on your willpower tank on Sunday by the time it's time
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to do the dang meal planning?
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You know, you're just like totally overstimulated.
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Or could it be that recently you've dived off real deep into Instagram influencers
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and specifically recipe creators,
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and you've made it too complicated, like holding yourself to this standard of
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trying like new recipes and trying healthier things and buying ingredients that
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you've never bought before, right?
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Or are you flat out tired of thinking about food?
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Like truly, like that can just
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be the answer. Like, are you just flat out tired of thinking about food?
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I'd encourage you to like challenge that a little bit further,
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but for some of us, that can be the thing, right? But wherever you land,
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whatever that answer is, the deep answer, like maybe keep going, but why?
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But why? You know, until you get to that deeper answer, that's what you can work with, right?
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So then second, you're going to try to remove that emotion that comes with the habit, right?
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Like once you're aware of it, then you can kind of separate the two.
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Like meal planning doesn't automatically mean life sucks anymore, right?
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You know, like meal planning doesn't have to mean, you know,
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hours of, you know, stressing over it, right? Like tracking does not mean you
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have to get your entries perfectly. If you recognize that, okay, it is my perfectionism.
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I'm seeing this show up in all other areas of my life because I'm just so overwhelmed
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with the demand on me, right?
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So it is my perfectionism. So can I just say I'm still going to try to track,
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but I'm just going to enter what I think works and move on, right?
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Removing that emotion that tries to come up alongside the health habit, okay?
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And like, this is just a side note, but y'all, I believe that Satan has his
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hand in all that, right? Like anytime we're trying to be a better version of
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us so that we can be a better person for the kingdom, right?
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Like he's going to have his hand in it.
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So sometimes it may, sometimes the step may be just looking to your right and
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left and saying, Satan, get behind me in the name of Jesus, right?
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That's just my preaching on the side here, okay?
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But can you just let the perfectionism go and say, I'm just gonna track.
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I don't care if it's 200 or 2,200 calories today, I'm gonna track it,
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right? Because you make the rules.
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Yes, you follow people like me and other people I'm sure that help encourage
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you or give you advice or give you ideas.
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But at the end of the day, it's your life, you have to make the rules and the
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rules have to fit what you can hold, okay?
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You cannot follow through on things that I tell you to do unless they align
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with the way you are able to live and walk it out, okay? And that's the ultimate goal.
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The ultimate goal is that you follow through on the things that you set out to do, period.
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You make the rules, okay? So with that being said, we're gonna change that expectation.
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Again, you may hear me say we need a meal plan on Sunday so we can get our groceries
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bought and have the week ready, but that may not work for you, sis.
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You may, you have Tuesday off work and that may be the day for you,
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right? Fridays, my dietician Stacey does it on Fridays for the next week, right?
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It's whatever works for you. So you change the expectation and you can make
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that habit smaller, right? If you need to make it smaller so it doesn't feel so heavy.
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So meal planning may mean microwave or takeout meals. Baby, it's still a plan.
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I say this all the time on here.
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Pizza on Monday, cereal on Tuesday, Stouffer's lasagna on Wednesday.
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Baby, that's a plan, okay? Drive-through on Thursday. We are winning, right?
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Or you may have to say, you know what? I'm just meal planning for three days a week.
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Like baseball, like I said earlier, got us going crazy all over the place.
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I'm on meal plan. I'm gonna make them real easy three days a week,
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and that's that. We're gonna have to figure it out the other days.
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Right? Or like I mentioned earlier, tracking with no expectation of staying inside your calories.
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Just the act of saying, I'm going to stay accountable to the food I eat, right?
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Period. I'm not going to measure it against the standard of what I should be eating.
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That's another level, right? So I'm just, I'm going to stay accountable to the food I eat, period.
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You can even, if you don't want to use MyFitnessPal, you can write it down instead
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of using that. Put it in your notes because then that takes the overwhelm out
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of finding your mother-in-law's perfect exact recipe in MyFitnessPal.
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It's whatever feels more manageable to think about actually doing and you start there.
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Sure, once you get more comfortable, then you can add a layer.
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We talk about this all the time.
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But the number one goal is to do the dang thing consistently first,
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whatever the dang thing is, right?
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Because not only are you showing up consistently for yourself in that way,
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but you're also training your brain that you are a person who follows through
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on what she sets out to do.
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Instead of this crappy cycle that you've been telling yourself for years that
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you are a lazy person and you can never stay consistent, right?
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You are showing your brain the opposite.
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So you have to give yourself that true freedom of imperfection to get to that point, right?
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The only expectation is that you actually do the thing you said you would.
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We are not grading ourselves. It is just, did I do it? Check yes or no.
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So when you are thinking about it in that context, Make sure that the yes is an easy yes.
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And so for me, back to my example of myself over the past, you know,
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after having Evie, I realized that I had put a lot of pressure on myself,
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right, to lose at the same rate that I did after having Glory.
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Like my mentality all throughout my pregnancy was like, yeah,
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I'm just going to get this weight off, you know, like because it was so easy
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after Glory. I just did the dang thing, right?
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But this postpartum experience was way different for me.
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And so because of my past with losing with glory and because of truly like,
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you know, what I do as a dietician, some, you know, I was telling myself that
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tracking equals weight loss.
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Right. We all do that to an extent. We're like, okay, we know tracking worked
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for us. Right. And we lost weight. So tracking equals weight loss. Right.
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And since tracking was something that I truly did not have the capacity for
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in that season, like did not have the capacity to pull out my phone and enter
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foods because good Lord have mercy.
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Right? It was just too much for me in that season.
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Then I was intentionally overeating each day because I'm like,
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well, I don't have time to track. So who cares, right?
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I would just eat and then go, oh, well, I'll just start again tomorrow.
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You know, it was a cop-out because I had set this standard and this expectation
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for myself. And then in the moments, I'm like, I don't have the capacity to
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meet that standard or that expectation. So like, screw it, right?
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And then I'll just start again tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow.
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Total cop-out because I couldn't go hardcore. I didn't go at all, right?
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Until I realized it. And I pray that this episode is that realization for a lot of you today.
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Until I realized it, right? And I snapped myself out of it and said,
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okay, I'm going to dial it back. I'm going to start slowly.
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And so for me, the ultimate goal was weight loss, right? And so I wasn't,
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and I knew tracking was just not it, not it right now.
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But I did want to lose weight. But even more so, I wanted to like stay full
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because gosh, breastfeeding makes you just hungry all the time.
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So I thought, okay, that's the ultimate goal because if I can stay full,
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if I can eat foods that keep me decently full, then I won't find myself snacking
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all the time and then clearly eating outside of my calories and not losing weight, right?
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Like I kind of peeled back those layers to say, what is the root problem here
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with my behavior? And it was that I was just kind of eating whenever,
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whatever, not thinking about nutrient balance. And then that allowed me to be
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hungry more often and then eating whenever, you know, whatever. Yeah.
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And so for me, I decided, okay, I'm going to try to eat a protein-filled breakfast,
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to fill me up early in the day and then eat a balanced lunch, right?
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Planning dinners was still pretty, you know, whatever for me.
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That was pretty coming pretty easily for me.
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And so protein-filled breakfast, balanced lunch to hopefully prevent me from
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randomly grabbing snack foods all day long. Honestly, I mean,
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my kids were home from summer, so we had like all the delicious snack foods
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too. You know what I mean?
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And so that was my focus every day for several weeks. Just like,
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okay, can I eat something decent at breakfast and lunch? Period.
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And then, of course, as seasons do, it shifted and it changed.
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I was getting more sleep. My hormones were balancing out with breastfeeding, like all the things.
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I had created a better routine for myself. And then I was slowly able to start
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tracking again when I was ready.
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Right? And so the gap there is that by doing this for myself,
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I allowed myself to exhale and not feel this pressure and this overwhelm of
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continuing to say, I'll just do it tomorrow and then wake up tomorrow and not
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do it, right? Like that eats at us.
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Even though we're actively not doing the thing, you know, it still eats at us
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that we didn't do the thing, you know?
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And so I was able to just, that's called grace. Like I was able to give myself
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grace. I was able to just say, okay, this is what I can hold in this season.
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So this is what I'm going to do.
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And so that's my challenge to you today, right? Instead of continuing to fight
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yourself over constantly failing, what if you just got curious instead?
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What if you just spent some time thinking through what we talked about today?
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Let yourself get like uncomfortable with it a little bit and then zoom out and
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look at your behaviors. Look at your season.
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Not just to make excuses for why you're not doing them, right?
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But to help yourself find like some kind of middle ground for starting to get
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consistent with the things you know you want to accomplish right now in this season.
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Instead of saying it has to be perfect when I start, just saying,
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okay, life ain't perfect.
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This surely ain't perfect right now in this season. So what can I do to get started, right?
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Because remember, even if, you know, you're right now trying to like push through
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and the season's crazy, but you're like, yes, I'm going to track because I know
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I need to track or whatever. Like white knuckling only gets you so far before you totally tap out.
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And you know that. I know that, right? When we have gripped something that doesn't
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feel comfortable, doesn't feel aligned, that feels like it's 10 times more work
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than it actually is. You know, that's how it feels.
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Then you tap out. and what sucks is you usually end up running,
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like from yourself for way longer afterwards because you're like oh I don't
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want to deal with that again I don't want to deal with that emotional like
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angst or whatever again so you just run from the idea of tracking or exercise
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or whatever for as long as you can after you've you know killed yourself trying pretty much.
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And so I'm encouraging you to do it different. Try something different today, right?
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Like be gentle, get curious, observe, and then start there with what you find out, okay?
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And so just as I mentioned, even on last week's episode, like if you want help
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grounded, really look at your priorities, figure out, okay, where do I want
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to start? And then how can I show up for myself in that way?
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And it's very intentional about finding the peace in your days first,
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because I believe that everything flows easier when it feels peaceful, right?
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Like think about when it feels peaceful, it just, it's a lot easier.
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And so a lot of this, the summary of what I've talked about today is a lot of
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these things that we're trying to do don't feel peaceful because of the season
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that we're in or because of the things we've been telling ourselves or because
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of the standard we've been holding about it, right?
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So anyway, that is all. If you guys have any questions, concerns,
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comments, I'd love to hear about it. Again, this is just something I'm so passionate about.
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And so always reach out if you want to chat. And as always, remember to say grace.