I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

Now in this podcast you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

Welcome back.

We are here with our friend Kathy Smith

and having such a good time but we're going to get

really serious on an issue that devastates many people, especially women.

Do you want to introduce it?

I do.

And Kathy, thank you so much for being here.

And I know you have touched so many women's lives in a very personal way millions of women actually me included I mentioned

when we first introduced you in our first podcast with you that you touched me in a very difficult

time in my life and something that you know I've just recently started sharing with people

it's not always easy to be vulnerable for us women I used to have that you know the disease of

perfectionism I suffered severe depression I grew up very poor. I learned how to use

exercise as medicine and you were one of the people that I used to exercise too

especially during very difficult times in my life. But I had this idea of what I should look like and it wasn't being overly

thin for me it was being muscular but being perfect and there was this body

image and you know this idea of who I needed to be that when I didn't measure up I

would beat myself up and it was pretty toxic and women end up getting emotional

because I have a 13 year old daughter now and I am so cautious you know fortunately I've done a lot of

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