Hey guys, welcome to Monday and my Mindful Mondays podcast series. I'm Sarah Frazier. Many of you know me,

of course, from my pop culture news and crazy life podcast that I host on Wednesdays called

Hey Frayge. But Mindful Mondays is all about taking a look at some of the things in our lives that we

were never taught.

How about like the crazy diet cycle and loving your body?

No one seemed to teach me that when I was in high school.

I was on crazy diets.

Or about relationships.

I don't know about you guys, but I definitely for years had the perception that my relationship and the men that came into my life were

absolutely going to be like the movies and it was going to be an ongoing episode of my best

friend's wedding or one other crazy romantic relationship.

That's not really how real life works.

That's what I found out, folks.

That's what I found out is relationships are a lot of work, which no one really seems to tell

you or your parents seem to forget unless they've been divorced three or four times,

which, hey, I can relate

to that too.

Anyway, we're in the throes of an eight-part series with my emotionally focused couples therapist

Lee Conan.

She works here in Falls Church, Virginia.

She's incredible.

And I kept getting into a cycle with past partners and my current boyfriend, Dan, where

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