Hi, I'm Beatrice. I'm a self-love embodiment coach, a matcha stand, and the creator of the

self-love over codependency program. This podcast is all about helping you move from shame,

people pleasing, codependency, and low self-esteem and fully into alignment, expansion, and unapologetic

self-love through healing the inner child, spirituality, and manifestation. Now, I won't lie in

addition to the last tears and the joy. You may be triggered from time to time when tuning in,

but these triggers will lead to a deep dive into who you really are, all you desire, and the

confidence to demand more out of your life. Welcome to the self-love fix where you get your dose of self-love tips.

Hello and welcome back to the self-love fix podcast. My name is Beatrice and I am your host. How are you

today? How are your energy levels? How is your spirit? How are you? I hope you're doing well.

Today, I'm actually going to be sharing a story around something that's pretty vulnerable and

that is not the easiest to talk about. And you'll understand why in just a minute when we get into

it, but yeah, it's around my experience with a really, really bad burnout episode for lack of

better words, and that led to a major depressive episode and then anxiety and then hospitalization.

I'm okay now. I want you to rest assured. I am very much okay and very much operating like normal,

and I can't wait to share this with you. But before we do that, I want to give you an astro update.

Okay, I should have done this last week, but I forgot to inform you that we are in a mercury

retrograde at this time. So it started on September 9th and will continue until October 2nd,

and mercury is currently retrograding through the sign of Libra, and it will go into Virgo for a

little bit during this retrograde. But as for now, it is in Libra. So this retrograde for you,

what that means is this is going to be a review in your relationships. Libra is rules by Venus,

and Venus rules over relationships, love, pleasure, spending, all the good stuff money. So it really

is going to be a time where you review your relationships. Romantic relationships is usually what

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