mindfulness like meditation in general can be so helpful because a lot of the work is actually

about self-awareness. Part of it is learning how to turn to ourselves with compassion,

even when the things we're experiencing make us feel like we don't deserve that kind of love and

care, right? So I think that in a society that sort of glamorizes smaller bodies and having to

appear a certain way, a lot of the PCOS symptoms can make you feel less than and not worthy of the

kind of love and self-care that you really truly need in order to be yourself and to shine.

Take control of yourself, join a sister and a mister.

Welcome everyone to another episode of a sister and term mister. Today we have Lauren Bell Castro

here on the podcast with us. Welcome Lauren thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having me.

We are so excited to have you because this is going to be a very relatable topic about

anxiety depression and its relationship to PCOS women and how so many PCOS women struggle with

it. So we're so excited to share some of your tips, some of your tricks, some of the things you

have up your sleeve as a licensed social worker as someone who is really experienced with working

with women who have anxiety and depression. So please start off by telling us your experience

with PCOS and its relationship in your mental health journey.

Such a great introduction, Talian. You're like getting like tonight's show experience levels right

now. That was great. So I'm as someone with PCOS, I'm also someone who has experienced anxiety

and depression and I sort of came across your Instagram. I think at that point you only

had like a thousand followers or something and this was long ago. Wow. Wow. Yeah, it was like really

a long time ago. So I was really excited to come across your page because I definitely felt

really discouraged with my own PCOS journey and when I was first diagnosed with PCOS I didn't really

have it in a severe form. So it was really quite mild because I was already naturally kind of doing

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