What is up, friend? Thank you so much for being here. And when I say friend, I mean it.

Because someday I hope that with all of my podcast listeners, we get to work out together,

have a yummy treat together, and then talk about women's health and mom life and all of

the things that we talk about on the podcast. Someday, we're going to do a meetup someday.

Today we're going to be talking about stress and anxiety and managing those and I'm

leaning a little bit more into stress today. I want to start by saying I am

not an expert at this subject. I am not an expert at this subject. I am not a guru at stress and anxiety management.

I am just like anybody else and I have struggles with it as well among other things. So some of the stuff I'm going to share with you today are things that I'm working on myself. It's things that I'm focusing on and things that I have found helped me personally in my own journey and

I have learned that when I share the things that have helped me in my journey I'm able

to help other people just like when other people share the things

in their journey that they've struggled with,

they help me.

Because the truth is, all boats rise together.

When we share our experiences with others, including our struggles and being real for a moment.

I think sometimes on social media, all we see is perfection, which is why I'm very open about

the fact that I have ADHD. I've had experience with anxiety, I have

stress in my life and you know what I've had bouts of depression I have an

entire episode telling a story about when I struggled with depression and my experience with that.

So I have no shame in admitting some of these things because it actually connects us

as friends and when other people are struggling with this I hope they think back to

this episode and they add in some of the stuff that we are going to talk today about and

the things that I'm going to tell you are actually really simple because my life is crazy.

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