I'm Robin Long, Pallotti's instructor and founder of the balanced life.

Here on the balanced life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between.

We'll cover it all and provide inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create

your own uniquely balanced life and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out.

Welcome back to the podcast.

I am recording this episode from my new and

improved podcast studio, also known as my daughters and sons bunk bed. For those of you

don't know, I usually record podcasts in my closet because it has the best sound and it's the place

where I'm least likely to be interrupted.

But my bathroom is occupied today. So I am in the kids room on the bunk bed thinking that,

hey, this is kind of good sound quality for a podcast, right? I've got the bunk ahead and I'm

sitting on pillows and blankets. So if you ever are curious what it looks like behind the scenes,

there's a little

sneak peek for you. But that's not what this show is about today. Instead, we're going to be

talking about how prioritizing your health and well-being is not only one of the most important

things you can do for yourself, but also those around you. It's so easy to put everyone else's needs before our own. And then we

fit ourselves in in the margins. I've totally done this and I continue to do it if I'm not really

intentional about doing things differently. So let's first start off by talking about where our

motivation to take care of ourselves, or I should say, exercise

or make healthy choices, usually comes from. So many of us have been driven to exercise as a way

to lose weight, tone up, get in shape, primarily motivated by our desire to look better physically

for ourselves and sometimes if we're being

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