Hello, and welcome to pursuing health.

I'm Dr. Julie Foucher Brown, family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.

Here, I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine

and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Now let's get started with this week's episode.

Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode. Hey there. Thanks so much for tuning in. And I'm excited about sharing a little of my own

experience and story to use as a springboard. And I don't know about you, but having an overactive mind and really

big emotions can be very challenging, right? When our mind is going, when I'm feeling big

emotions, it is hard to do almost anything else. And it's really hard to shift out of that state.

I remember before I really went down the path

of meditation, someone coming to me and saying, oh, just meditate. I do it twice a day for 20 minutes,

and it made a really big difference for me. And I remember looking at them and thinking,

have you ever been inside my head? Do you know what it's like in there? How quickly my mind is going,

I can't just sit and meditate for 20 minutes. If I do that, I'll be on my phone checking emails within about 60 seconds.

But I will never forget an experience that I had where I was introduced to a new technique

that really helps me with my overactive mind and these big emotions. And it's something

that I still use today. And I'd love to share it with you. So I was staying in a hotel and I went

downstairs to the lobby and thought I'm going to get some work done on my computer. And I don't

even know what the inciting event was, but I remember feeling very overwhelmed.

My mind was going crazy.

I was feeling really overwhelmed maybe by everything I had to do.

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