Hey, hey, beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick. You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. Stay tuned. If you're ready to embrace a real, let's get it.

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Hello and welcome back to another bonus episode on the Embrace Real Podcast. My name is Julie Lebetter. I'm so

grateful that you are here with me today. Okay, I'm going to start with today's episode with a question,

and I want you to really sit with it for a second. If your best friend, just think about picture one of

your best friends right now. If they called you and said that they were having a really hard day,

they were feeling really down on their self, maybe they missed a workout, maybe you and said that they were having a really hard day, they were feeling

really down on their self, maybe they missed a workout, maybe they said something that they really

regret, maybe they just don't feel like they're enough in this season. Like they just feel like

they're failing in every single part of their life. They're just feeling down, like down and out.

What would you say to her? Like think about that. I want you to really

sit with that. And, you know, if it's your sister, if it's your best friend, if it's someone that you love so dearly and they're just having a really hard day and they call you and they're just looking for some advice, they're looking for some support, what would you say to her? I'm guessing that you'd be super kind.

You'd be gentle.

You'd be patient.

You'd say something. You'd be

patient. You'd say something like, hey, you are doing so much better than you think. Like one hard day

doesn't erase everything. Like you are doing incredible. And you would hype her up and you would say like,

girl, like, shake, I'm going to shake you, right? Like, you got this. I'm going to be your biggest hype girl. And you would, in whatever way you know would hype her up, that's what you would do. Now, here's kind of my follow-up question. When was the last time you did or said any of those things to yourself. For most of us, the answer is rarely or honestly

never. Like, and that gap right there, that's what we're going to be talking about in today's

bonus episode because so many of us are walking around being our own harshest critic. We say

these things to ourselves internally that we would never be caught dead saying to someone that we love.

And we do it without even thinking. It's like automatic, right? It's the background noise of our

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