This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

I always think starting off these short but sweet episodes speaking from a place of gratitude.

And as we are nearing the end of 2021, I am really delighted and excited to say that we are very close to a million downloads on this podcast. And I want to thank you, the listeners, for all of your love and support. It has been a

slow and steady climb. And my podcast has really become one of my favorite aspects of being an

entrepreneur, absolutely one of my favorite aspects of being a entrepreneur, absolutely one of my favorite aspects of

being a human, being able to connect with what I feel to be some of the best and the brightest

minds and spirits in the health and wellness space. So thank you, thank you. I can't wait to

share with you what my team and I have conjured up as a celebratory thank you when we hit a million downloads,

but we are almost there. Next, I want to talk about something I'm loving. I have been a solid

core devotee for several years. I was able to get my husband doing it as well over the past

year. And when we moved to our new city in June, I continued my practice.

And then when we moved into ultimately our new home, the studios were a little far from where we

were. And so I kind of convinced myself it wasn't important and that I would find a studio closer

to my house or start doing a variation of solid core more akin to Pilates. Well, alas,

in our new city, there are just not a lot of options beyond Solid Core or Pilates that are close.

So I have renewed my interest in doing Solid Core every week. And I've really been enjoying that

and actually one of my favorite humans. Ironically, it came down to this new area to open up several new solid core studios.

And so it's been a joy to be able to see her on mornings that I take her class and she kicks

my behind. And for if you're not familiar with what solid core is, it is essentially a way to work your body with slow controlled

resistance-based movement. And you're doing this while you're on an unstable environment. So you

really have to depend quite a bit on your core. And for any of you that know this, it is far harder than it appears to be.

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