You're listening to a beautiful mess podcast. Today we're chatting about how and why to do a hundred day challenge

Conquering fears and as always my guilty pleasure is way better than elses

So earlier this year I published a blog post called How I

I Change My Life which told the story of a bunch of healthy

changes I made during a 100 day challenge.

So to begin this episode I wanted to just kind of tell the short version of that post and that experience.

I set aside 100 days to do a series of self-improvement goals.

My goals were pretty random, but they were all things

that I wanted to work on within myself. So there were healthy things that are kind of general

to most people, like I wanted to eat healthier

I wanted to be moving my body more but there were also some things that I wanted to

face that were kind of fears for me one of them was that I wanted to face that were kind of fears for me.

One of them was that I wanted to start getting professional massages,

which I know probably sounds like crazy to some people,

but I hadn't gotten one in years, like 10 years, and I was really afraid to start doing it.

Another thing was that I wanted to start going in to get a yearly skin cancer screening but it was kind of scary to me just

because I had never done it before and I think with anything like that you're

always afraid the first time you do it more than once it's a routine.

Were you scared that you were going to have skin cancer or were you just scared of like

having to take off all your clothes and have the doctor or were you just like I don't want to look up a doctor in my health care network and all that that comes with it? Like what piece of it?

I mean I think that anytime you I'm always afraid I'm going to have cancer have something like seriously wrong right

But I think I was more just afraid of like being naked and like just sort of like just sort of like facing the fear of just going in and making the

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