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Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Today, I am very excited about my guest because if you've listened to the podcast, which my guest has, you know that I talk about the importance of mental health all the time and how I've wanted to have a psychiatrist on the podcast for literally years because you really can't have holistic health without having

mental health. And there are so many, you know, intertwinements of mental health into exercise.

And today I have Dr. Margaret Duncan on the podcast to talk about these things.

She is an Evel member.

She is a podcast listener and she reached out to me because she heard me talking about.

I really want to have somebody on the podcast to talk about these things.

And she was like, hi, I'm her. I can talk about all these things. So Dr. Margaret

Duncan, just a quick little introduction. She is a psychiatrist. She's a writer. She writes almost

daily on her substack. It's called Bad Art Every Day. She also is the host of a podcast called How to

Be Patient, which is a mental health

podcast.

And today, we're going to talk about body image and how to improve your body image and her

lens on body image as a psychiatrist and then disordered eating and disordered exercise

and how to kind of identify those things

using exercises therapy, all things that I think, you know, I kind of see some of this stuff

maybe as a spectrum and that's what I want to talk to you about today.

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