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If this had happened to me 20 years ago and you talked to anybody who knew me back then,

the sky would have been falling and I would have dragged everybody come crashing down with me.

Eating healthy or working out was less about me mentally

me emotionally bullying my body into something.

It was about really deeply listening to my body

and letting its intelligence communicate to me what it really needed in any moment

versus me mentally putting it in a box, this is what you should be doing, body.

I revere the body, I believe that it is the soul's counterpart. You learn these things through

trial and error so great to try on I'm to try this workout or I'm going to try this diet but you know it's only through

self-advocacy and self-awareness that you go this testing phase is giving me

feedback and it's giving me information and what am I doing with that information?

Am I being congruent with what is true for me and what really works for me?

Or am I trying to hijack and force myself into something that I think should work for me or I want to work for me, but in actuality it doesn't.

Hi, this is Alexis Arton. I am a licensed growth coach and master embodiment teacher and I'm here on ever forward radio.

You guys recall just a few episodes ago when I had renowned holistic plastic

surgeon Dr Anthony Eun on the show talking to us about the power of

collagen and how he said if we put it on topically it's basically just an overpriced

moisturizer we're not getting all the amazing benefits of collagen

unless we are ingesting it.

It has to go inside the body to work its wonders.

But here's the thing, a lot of other brands

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