Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher, family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.

Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between

fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self. Thank you so much for

joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode. Hi there. Welcome back to pursuing

health. This is my first episode of 2025, and I thought this would be a great

opportunity to try something new here on the podcast and deliver a solo episode. So you just get to hear

from me today, whether you like it or not. And I thought today would be a great chance to share

a little bit of my process and what I went through with my family over the new year to set

some intentions and goals. And just start a conversation about what you all do when thinking

about goals and intentions in your own life. I also want to call out that we are starting

2025, which is the 10-year anniversary of the pursuing health podcast that we will celebrate this

summer. And so it's just another great opportunity to step back and one, express my gratitude

for all of you for tuning in whether you check out an episode here and there,

or whether you have been faithfully listening to episodes for the past 10 years.

You really are why I do the podcast and what makes it so meaningful for me.

So this is another opportunity just to pause and step back and ask for your feedback and your

insights about what direction we go with the podcast this year and in the following years. So let's try

up this solo episode thing and let me know what you think and we'll go from there. So when I think

about setting intentions and goals for the new

year, this year I followed a little bit of a different process. And, you know, there's always so

much stress in the holidays leading up to the holidays, you know, trying to finish out the year strong and then have a,

have a fun holiday, right? Planning holiday festivities for family, buying gifts, all of those

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