Hey everybody, it's Emily Schram. I am so excited to be back from me at Hippie Podcast.

As you know, I'm practicing the art of Only Do It If It's Screaming Out of You.

And this one's screaming out of me. So I'm so happy you're here.

I am first and foremost, just extremely grateful for the ability to connect with you guys in a different way, despite the negative of this pandemic and what's happening. I feel like it's opened up a lot of doors for me to hop on to Facebook lives, for me to be a little bit more honest

and truthful because I have more space to do so, to just be more open about something because

we are all in it as a collective. And so sharing is therapeutic for me in a way that I am so

grateful for. And it's also been in turn

that exchange is equal. And I just can't thank you enough for the thank yous and the comments

and the feedback about what I've been putting out there, because it feels the most true to me

and where I'm at as opposed to potentially

the other, you know, I have no issues with anything I've put out there. But there are, of course,

questions on nutrition and fitness. And although those are important and I am more than happy

to answer those things, this is so much bigger than that.

This is a shift that we cannot, we will never forget for sure.

And we cannot come out of unchanged.

And I just feel all of the ups and downs personally.

I wanted to share first that it truly is a day-by-day thing. So I sometimes

have really good days and then I have really hard days. And they tend to go back and forth.

And one of the things that is interesting is I used to think of this all the time. When I used

to do CrossFit and hardcore workouts and competing, it was this feeling of when

you finish a workout and you just felt so badass, so proud of yourself, so amazing.

And the reason it's specific to CrossFit is because CrossFit was so random, right?

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