Hey guys, what's going on? Emily Abadi here popping into your feed with another hurdle moment from hurdle, a podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how they've gotten through tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness.

For this week's hurdle moment, I'm talking about something that was a

really, really big hurdle for me. And that's therapy. This isn't something that is really

necessarily openly talked about on the regular. It's definitely a little taboo. But the thing is,

is that it's important. I share endlessly on this feed and on

my social media about running and exercise and the hurdles that I have overcome being an entrepreneur,

but it is so rare for me to get into the mental side of things to break down that barrier.

About a month ago, I started talking to a therapist for the

first time. I've been going once a week. This is my fifth week. And for years now, I wanted to

take this jump and go to therapy, but there were a number of things that were holding me back,

and we'll get into what those were in today's episode.

I'm also going to share a few helpful steps that I took to get over the hurdle of getting

into the office in the first place because if you ask me, that is the hardest fucking part.

Expletive, totally necessary.

So let's make this a conversation, okay?

DM me or email me to talk. It's at

Emilyabody at hurdle podcast, Emily at hurdle.us. And really, the biggest takeaway I hope you can get

from today's episode is that if this is something you've been wanting to do, if it's something you've done,

and you've walked away from it, whatever the case may be, you are not alone.

It's what my mission has been since starting hurdle, but sharing these stories and being

so open and so vulnerable with all of you is that I think about the Emily that was overweight

back in college and she felt so lonely and like no one understood her.

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