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What's going on? Emily Boddy here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle.

What a day that I'm having. I feel like there are so many things that are going through my brain right now.

I was on my run this morning. And like many of you, I am sure movement is a time where I process a lot of the things that are buzzing in my head. And so I'm on this run. And the thoughts flying were abundant. I'm thinking about egg freezing and the cost associated and how it makes more sense to pay up front

so that I can use my credit card because if I do installments and that needs to be ACH and why would

I miss out on the benefits of doing something with the payment of that size? I'm thinking about

the weekend and the plans I have and the friend I'm going to meet for a comedy show later on.

I'm thinking about my Amazon list on what I need to add to it. I'm thinking about what's in the

fridge and what I'm going to make for breakfast. I'm thinking about my first meeting of the day

and the contract that I need to update. And I'm buzzing. I'm buzzing. And I don't know about you,

but when I am buzzing like this, there are two things that I always need to do. The first I was in the act of doing, which was

moving my body. For me, when I take a moment to move, that is my opportunity to reclaim space.

It's my time to be with my thoughts, to let it all flow

without judgment. Was the abundance of thoughts a tad overwhelming? Of course, for sure. Yes,

definitely. But it also helps to give myself the time to have all of these thoughts, the time for me to be with myself.

The second thing that I must do when it feels like there is just so much happening is then

the debrief. So what I did the second I got home was that I wrote down a lot of things. I sat down with my journal

and I wrote down maybe the things that I was worrying about, the items that I contemplated

putting on my to-do list, I updated my Amazon shopping cart. You get the idea. So at first,

the movement portion is my opportunity to process,

and then I get home and I shift into action. Understandably so, sometimes when we're feeling

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