Hello dear souls, welcome back to the Balanced Bond podcast, Soul on Fire.

I'm recording this intro from New York, which is really exciting because I love it here.

The energy is so magnetic in New York and just so on another level of anywhere else and I wasn't able to come to New York for so long due to my health.

And it's just an exciting trip to be able to celebrate, being healthy again and record some podcast episodes with some awesome people.

Today's guest is a dear friend of mine. This was recorded in LA, Olivia Nassita. She is such a light. You guys are absolutely going to fall in love with her.

If you don't already follow her or maybe you're a fan of Olivia, which is what brought you here. So thank you, regardless, for being here.

Olivia, on Instagram is Olive Eats. She is a wellness blogger, but she's honestly so much more than a wellness blogger.

I don't even know how to begin describing Olivia. She's a speech pathologist and a creator. She's a writer. She writes on her blog.

She writes beautiful, beautiful pieces. She's just all about the realness, all about writing about real food, fitness, mental health, friendship, breakups, relationships, all sorts of things.

She also took a year off of social media, which is something that we get into in this episode.

And more recently, she started sharing breath work with people. She shares breath work on her Instagram. She's really, really, really calming and grounding.

Her presence is something that ari types like myself really crave and need. So she shares breath work on Instagram that I am such a fan of.

So I asked her to share some breath work in this episode, which she did. So you guys are in for a treat.

If you listen through to kind of like the middle, we do a little breath work session, which got me more into my body.

And it's just such a reminder, such a powerful reminder, how important it is to breathe.

So beyond all of the amazing things that Olivia does in her life, she's a dear friend of mine that I truly can't imagine my life without.

We became friends via Instagram of all wonderful things, the app that connects so many of us and our friendship has just grown so deep, so quickly she's someone that I turned to.

When I just need to talk about something, we have fun together. She's just an all around incredible soul, incredible person.

And I'm so excited to share her with you today. I'm just so happy that she came on and it made me so comfortable.

This was one of the very first episodes that I recorded after my hiatus or should I say kind of during my hiatus.

So it made me so comfortable to have a close friend on the podcast that I could just be myself around and know that I didn't need to prepare or read up because I already know her so well, which is always very special.

So we will get this episode started ahead and I'm going to go spend the day in New York. I'm about to record a segment for TV for Fox TV about Lyme disease, which will be really cool.

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