Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life.

I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach.

I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best

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your life, then you're in the right place. Let's do this. Hey guys and welcome back to Style Your Mind.

So, real talk, I was super hungover this morning.

Like really hungover, like a bad one.

I went out last night with my brother and it was a long overdue catch-up session.

He had been traveling.

So we met up.

We had some wine.

We had some champagne. We had some cocktails.

And the night went on way longer than it probably should have. But we had a ball. But I woke up this

morning and I felt like I was hit by a Mack truck. You know that feeling where you're just like,

oh God, it's going to be painful today. I really, really try to avoid being hung over because to me it's one of just the grossest feelings ever. It's like you just feel so, like, soulless. I think that's, like, Ryan describes it like that one. It's like you just feel like your soul has been taken from your body. So I woke up and I went through the motions of, like, the guilt and the shame and like, oh my God,

you know, the one good thing I will say is I did not really eat a lot of junky food, which we can all do from time to time. So I was like, well, at least I didn't go eat pizza at 2 o'clock in the morning. But I just felt like crap. And it's not something that I do often. You know, I love wine. and I love to have a drink from time to time.

But really, like, drinking in excess is not something that I do a lot you know, I love wine. I love to have a drink from time to time, but really like

drinking in excess is not something that I do a lot or that I really enjoy doing. It just never

makes me feel good. But we all make mistakes and sometimes the night goes on longer than planned

and kind of wind up where I was at this morning. So I woke up and I realized immediately that I was

starting to feel that sense of guilt and that sense of shame. And I knew I had two choices. I could either snap myself out of it or I could wallow in it. And I knew I didn't want to wallow in it because I knew that wasn't going to serve me. I woke up and I actually looked at myself in the mirror and I said, Kara, how is the guilt serving you?

And my response was, it's not. So I knew I needed to move the fuck on and get over it and get in

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