keeping promises to yourself is a declaration of self-worth. Hi, hello, welcome to Mary's

Cup of Tea, the self-love podcast for women, though all self-lovers are welcome here. I'm Mary. I write and

speak about self-love, and I'm best known for my book, The Gift of Self-Love, and I also host retreats for women.

And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

Real quick, before we dive in, I want to make sure you know about my book, The Gift of Self-Love.

It's a workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to love who you are.

It's available anywhere books are sold, thousands of people, and learn to love who you are. It's available anywhere books are

sold. Thousands of people have it, love it, and have told me that it has greatly benefited their

self-love journey, and I hope it'll do the same for you. And now let's get into the podcast.

I just got back from getting an MRI scan done. And why didn't nobody tell me how scary that was?

I didn't think I was somebody who would be claustrophobic. But dang, once they slid me into that

machine, I had to press the panic button. And then I had a moment and everybody was trying to calm me down and a sweet, sweet, sweet grape of a radiologist offered to hold my head as they put me in the machine. Like she literally caressed my head on the other side. And that just helps so much so thank you Tina I appreciate that greatly you

have no idea I'm just an anxious grape when it comes to medical stuff like that I don't know

really where it comes from the only thing I can think of is that I used to randomly faint as a kid

it's happened maybe like five times before throughout my adolescence,

and they vaguely called it vasovagal syncope, which literally just means unexplained

fainting. Never really figured out what that was. I kind of just grew out of it, but whenever I

get that panicky feeling, I'm always scared that I'm going to lose consciousness. And I have like passed out and hurt myself before. Speaking of hurting myself, the reason why I got an MRI is because I've been having really bad lower back pain for about the last six months. I think I complained to you about it on the podcast before,

and it got better for a couple weeks briefly, and now it's back with a freaking vengeance.

So I decided to start seeking answers and figuring out what it is. Right now, I'm sitting on the

floor kind of reclined, and this is inspired by

a conversation that I had with Hillary Hahn over on Instagram. We were chatting in the DMs,

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