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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What Does Self-Care Look Like When You're Stressed? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on Hurdler's Emily Abadi.
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  Speaker 2: Here you are listening to another installment of five Minutes
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  Speaker 2: Friday from Hurdle. I am so happy to be here
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  Speaker 2: in the studio recording this. I had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: stay overseas abroad in between these two work trips that
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  Speaker 2: I have on deck. Well, I guess I just finished one.
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  Speaker 2: I have one more that I'm leaving for on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: And to be completely candid, I was just so looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to having a week of sleeping in my own bed.
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  Speaker 2: It really helps me to reset and repack and have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of time in my own space. I
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  Speaker 2: talked a little bit about this on Instagram earlier this week,
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  Speaker 2: and I got a DM asking me to talk about
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  Speaker 2: what giving back to myself looks like when I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm a little bit overwhelmed and for sure stressed,
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  Speaker 2: and so I figure that that's what I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about today. For me, this looks like really prioritizing
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  Speaker 2: what feels good. For Emily, that question is one that
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  Speaker 2: I have been answering time and time again this year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a huge giver, not only to this community, which
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  Speaker 2: it brings me so much joy to do that but
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  Speaker 2: also to people that I care about, And in doing
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  Speaker 2: that sometimes I have really put my needs on the
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  Speaker 2: back burner. When I don't have a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: for myself. I know what I need to prioritize, and
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  Speaker 2: that is giving back to Emily, because I know that
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  Speaker 2: by giving back to myself what feels good for Emily,
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  Speaker 2: that I can then show up for the people that
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  Speaker 2: I care about. So this week, in practice, what does
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  Speaker 2: what looks good for Emily look like? It looks like
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  Speaker 2: planning things out to take care of myself, and that's
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  Speaker 2: a range of different things. It's when I'm gonna move
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  Speaker 2: my body, what that looks like, how far I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to run, maybe what I'm going to wear when I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it, so I can take some of the
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  Speaker 2: decision fatigue out of the mix. It's who do I
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  Speaker 2: want to spend my time with? Who is an energy
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  Speaker 2: faucet instead of an energy drain. It's thinking ahead to
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  Speaker 2: what I might need when I travel again next week,
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  Speaker 2: and how I can make preparing for that effort feel
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  Speaker 2: a little bit less stressful and candidly, it's coming back
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  Speaker 2: to my mindfulness practice. I have a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: that I'm trying to squeeze into a small amount of time.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm asking myself, how can I come back to
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  Speaker 2: come between interviews and recordings and all of this movement
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  Speaker 2: and appointments. And you get the idea, right, And so
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  Speaker 2: this morning on the subway, I sat there for ten
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  Speaker 2: minutes and I did an open breathwork meditation. If you
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's how I give back to me and
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  Speaker 2: really thinking about the things that bring me joy and
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  Speaker 2: how I can indulge in some of those things. This week,
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  Speaker 2: I know that three of my closest friends have a
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  Speaker 2: birthday this coming Monday, actually Nicole, Carly, Molly, Happy Birthday,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to see them if I can. So
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  Speaker 2: figuring out how to do that, how to spend time
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  Speaker 2: with the people that I care about, scheduling in other
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  Speaker 2: self care like a facial and turning down things that
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  Speaker 2: don't serve me. I was invited to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: events oddly at the end of this week, and I
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  Speaker 2: made the decision that there were just other things that
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  Speaker 2: made more sense, and that's okay. And when I have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more bandwidth, I'll go to the events,
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  Speaker 2: just not these ones. And the last thing I'll say
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  Speaker 2: on this note is that it also comes into play
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  Speaker 2: who you spend your energy on in terms of communication.
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  Speaker 2: If there is a friendship or relationship or a situationship
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  Speaker 2: or whatever you have going on in your life, that
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  Speaker 2: does feel like an energy drain and you don't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time to give extra energy into the
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  Speaker 2: world at this moment. It's okay to be a little selfish,
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  Speaker 2: trust me, it really is. So I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 2: you this week this week's listener prompt, what can you
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  Speaker 2: do for yourself when you're feeling a little bit stressed?
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  Speaker 2: How can you show up for yourself and focus on
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  Speaker 2: giving back to make you feel like you're best you?
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  Speaker 2: And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, this is Manica. I am getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: run my first marathon and I kind of had the
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  Speaker 3: sport brought figure out already, but on these are something
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  Speaker 3: that I have in.
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  Speaker 1: A big trouble with.
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  Speaker 3: So do you have any any go to that you like?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the fabric or specific brands or something that is
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  Speaker 3: comfortable for like twenty plus mile. I will love your
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  Speaker 3: feedback towards that topic. Thank you so much, Have a
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  Speaker 3: great weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Underwear is a very personal preference.
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  Speaker 2: I used to religiously, religiously wear the Woman's Underarmor pure
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  Speaker 2: stretch thong. You can buy it like in a three pack.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally like twenty dollars for three pairs. That used
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  Speaker 2: to be my go to. That and the Lululemon Underreas
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  Speaker 2: mid Rise thong underwear. I'm a thong underwear wearer, but
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  Speaker 2: I would be remiss if I didn't admit that as
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  Speaker 2: of the last year, I haven't been wearing underwear with
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  Speaker 2: my spandex, which I remember when I was younger, I
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  Speaker 2: had friends that told me this and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you are absolutely crazy. I would never feel comfortable doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And this is just a new phase that I've entered.
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  Speaker 2: So those are my two go tos. Those are the
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  Speaker 2: ones that I would recommend, And just like anything else,
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  Speaker 2: make sure that this is something that you experiment with,
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  Speaker 2: not just a pair of underwear that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: go run a five k in and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this feels good. Where whatever you are wearing for a
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  Speaker 2: long run. Two three, as much as you can to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that you feel comfortable in it and it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't cause any unnecessary shaf thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for this week.
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  Speaker 2: It's at Hurdle podcast, I'm over at Emily a Body,
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  Speaker 2: another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch y'all next time.