Welcome to the Move with Heart podcast. I am your host, Melissa Wood-Teperberg, and I am so

honored to have you here to have these enlightening conversations to help you see the power

within yourself, this magnificence that we all hold.

We just have to stay devoted with our practice and doing the work

and open our hearts and our minds to the infinite power of possibilities.

Continuing the spirit and the energy around simplifying your life, whenever I say that,

I just immediately go to, I wrote it here actually, do less. Less is more. And just bringing that level of intention and

energy into everything that you're doing really makes you realize where you want to put your time.

And one area that I definitely realized,

I was going to say in this last year, but honestly it's been these last three to five years,

if I'm being completely honest and transparent, where my head has been down so much to the point that I have let certain

relationships in my life dissipate. And there is nothing that you need more than your girlfriends when you need someone there for you.

But if you are one of these people who kind of loses yourself in a relationship or you start

dating someone and you forget about your friends, like, I've never been like that, but I do think

like once you're married and you have kids,

like your life just changes so much to the point where you feel like, I feel like at times, like,

there's just not a lot of space for a lot more stuff to be added to my plate.

And I find myself not spending as much time with my people,

with my friends. And the other night, I went to a dinner with my girlfriends and just like those

deep belly laps. Like, we need these relationships in our life. Like, there is one thing about me,

and that is that I'm so hyper-independent to the point where I can get to this place where,

like, I feel like I need nothing from anyone to a fault. And I actually did this astrology reading through the

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