Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

I think I said that at double speed.

So if you're someone who listens to this at double speed, it's going to be like four times speed.

You're welcome.

This episode is going to be all about mindset, aging, fear of aging, the impact of exercise on aging, and

menopause. And you might be thinking, well, I'm only 22. Great, good for you. But we are all going

to age, so this is relevant no matter what age you are. And if you've ever told yourself that you're

too old to do X or that it's all downhill from here or, oh, these were the good old days,

this episode is for you. So listen in. This was triggered by a question I got from a client which was

along the lines of how do I handle this kind of stuck mentality and this fear of aging that I have

around perimenopause and I feel a little bit like a lost cause, which I think

is very relatable and then it kind of spiraled into a huge life mindset and aging brain dump.

So this is quite a long solo episode or or I think it will be, because I'll

probably go on some tangents as well, aside from the few bullet points that I've made. Anyway,

the fear of aging is not silly or anything to be embarrassed about, and I think anyone,

I was going to say over the age of 25, but I actually think everyone feels it to an extent,

not children, obviously, but the only way that you're going to avoid aging is dying.

So you may as well embrace it or at least accept it because there's no point worrying about

what will inevitably happen. And something I heard Ryan Holliday say on a podcast this week was in relation to acceptance

and it really, really hit me and it was, like, I will definitely misquote this, but it was something along the lines of,

like a lot of people struggle with acceptance and when you think about it

it's a little bit it's bizarre because whether you choose to accept something or not it's happening

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