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Welcome to RealPod. It's your host Victoria Garrick and this is the podcast where we hold

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Hi, everyone. I'm so excited to do this because I know we are getting into the thick of the holiday

season and that can bring up a lot when it comes to body image, when it comes to food, family.

I mean, a lot of things, but we're going to focus on the first two things in this episode.

And I'm going to keep it short at a nice little like, you know, 30 minute short and sweet so

that you can listen to this, whether it is right before you go to Thanksgiving dinner while you're

exiting the plane and getting to your Uber to go see family, whatever it is, a quick little

listen to help get you in the mindset of feeling empowered, encouraged, and self-aware when it comes

to your body image and your relationship with food. I know that no matter how far along you're on

in your journey, this time of year just does lend itself to more unique situations, whether it's

comments from family, I mean Thanksgiving in general, whether you celebrate it or not, even nowadays,

I mean, there's cookies everywhere, food everywhere and it can be triggering and difficult if you

struggle with that. So that's what we're going to get into this today. I have come up with eight

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