Hey, hey, Emily here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. I'm feeling really silly today.

It's been, I think I'm feeling silly because I haven't had a ton of the human interaction this week.

I got home on Monday night. I traveled for like literally 24 hours. It was the longest Monday I've ever

had. I left my hotel at like almost 9 a.m. Japan time and I got home just shy of 9 p.m. Eastern

on the same day, which is just, it's just wild. But I have been owning my

no this week in a way that I haven't done so in such a long time. And I really have no

hesitation. I'm not apologizing for it. I'm just really dialing in on the question that I've

been working on asking myself for the past, gosh, a few years now, which is what's best for

Emily. And I know that what's best for Emily right now is getting to a place where I'm sleeping

normal hours, which is pretty successful so far.

I've had something like eight or nine hours the last three nights, which feels very successful.

And getting on East Coast time and just getting back into my routine, like getting my feet back under me.

I mean, I'm running a

marathon in just over two weeks, which is really crazy to say out loud. And that always brings

about a fair amount of anxiety and feelings, but it definitely brings about extra anxiety and

feelings when I haven't been in my normal routine for the past two weeks. So I just feel this

pressure that I'm putting on myself to really get back into the swing of things and feel good in

my body. And so I'm really owning my no. And it's so interesting as a recovering people pleaser,

because for so long, for so long,

I always, always, always put everybody else's feelings ahead of my own.

I wanted to make sure that everyone that I cared about was taken care of, even if that meant

putting things that were

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