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Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women

all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.

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Welcome.

I will be joined shortly by Chrissy Powers, LMFT.

She's a marriage and family therapist and a creative career coach, writer, wife, and

mother of three. And through her work, she encourages others to live their fullest life through

unfraising patterns of trauma and fear and shame. So we'll be joined by Chrissy shortly. We will be talking about self-care and

selfishness. So is self-care, selfishness? And one doesn't cross that line. So if you have any

questions about self-care or selfishness, you can just put them in the comments. I'll be happy to

answer those or have

Chrissy answer those once she joins me. Chrissy, where are you? Hi. Hi, Chrissy. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. Good. I was just asking people watching what they've done today for self-care.

And we have went to therapy, eating, eating and nourishing lunch, walked outside, worked out.

So way to go, everybody. Good. So today we're talking about, is it self-love or selfishness or self-care or selfishness?

So let's define like what is, how do you define self-care?

That's a good question.

So I think self-care looks like paying attention to your body and understanding what you're

feeling, number one.

But it also can look like a routine

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