Hello, hello everybody. I'm Lexi Lombard, the host of the at Lexi Podcast. I want to give a quick thank you to anyone that listened to the last episode. I was having a hard day.

It led into a hard week and I feel really, really special.

A lot of you had sent me messages on

Instagram just saying that the episode meant something to you you know that you really

enjoyed it that it was it was a good one and that is reassuring because I definitely

Definitely hesitated posting it there was more than one time that I thought should I go back to the studio should I do another episode

It's not even that sad. It's not the energy that I would ideally want to bring to an

episode. However, it was the energy that I had and I wanted to show up as I was and I'm happy that it was received well and I wanted to thank you for the kindness and support as for usual.

I feel good now. I feel really good happy Monday everybody I want to take a couple breaths though

couple deep belly breaths so if you're cleaning your room right now if you're in the

car please join me in just a really big

inhale hold and then we'll exhale so breathe in Breathe in. Hold.

Drop your shoulders.

We're going to do it again and breathe in. Hold. Ain't that so nice? So good. The more I breathe, the more I realize I think I spent

five years in my life holding my breath. I think about 18 to 24 like were we breathing especially those are also my insecure years I didn't know how to feed myself I definitely had the height of body

insecurities during those years and I think because of that I was

sucking in my stomach as often as I possibly could even when I was alone you know I'd

be driving a car no one else in the car.

I'm still like, oh, I can't possibly relax my stomach.

Horrible.

Horrible.

If that's the phase that you're going through, if you

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