Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jilkovsky. I'm an author,

speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love

yourself. Hello, my self-lovers. I feel like it's been a while since I've done a solo episode, and I'm so

excited to give you this summer body pep talk, especially since right now we're headed into

not only summer, but also what I think is going to be a litty-titty summer. I think post-pandemic, lots of people are

exploring, traveling, partying, doing things with people. And as exciting as that is, I'm wondering

if it's bringing up any body image concerns for you or if you've had any moments of,

oh my God, what do I wear? I don't look good in this. And I'm about to see all these people that I may not have seen for a while or I don't know about you, but I just feel a little bit out of practice socially.

And as we're getting back into it, like, I'm about to spend three weeks

in Spain the first week hosting a self-love retreat and then the next two weeks just traveling

with my fiance. And not going to lie, I'm a little bit like rusty when it comes to extended

traveling. And I feel like I used to do it quite often before the

pandemic, but now it just feels really unnerving to be away from home for so long and to be

living out of a suitcase and packing and figuring out what to wear and all of that. And I'd be lying

if I said that I didn't bring up some body image concerns for me, especially as

I'm figuring out what to wear in the warmer months, you know, summer shorts and dresses and

swimsuits and all of that I feel like can just be a lot. So before I dive into this summer body pep talk, I want to mention

that as you're listening to this, I'm actually at my self-love retreat. And I have been thinking a

lot about how I'm going to move forward with retreats and like a sustainable way. And if I'm going to be doing

another retreat this year or in the near future. And the answer to that, after months of

thinking about it, the answer is yes, I will be doing another retreat in 2022. It's going to be at the end of this year

in the beginning of December. I'll tell you that much. It's a location that I've been at before

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