Good evening. Welcome to the show. How are y'all doing? We got a great show plan for you.

We're going to be talking about how to hold on to our mental health while also participating in

gym culture. And the reason why this topic is important and I'll be talking more and more about it is because

that season is coming where people start worrying and

thinking about and talking about beach bodies and bathing suit weather and warmth. What? Warmth. I know.

I was talking to family back east and I laugh because I'll say, oh, it's been a little cooler

the weather on the West Coast and they'll be like, yeah, we had snow.

But summer's coming.

And we're starting to prepare.

We're getting our psyches ready.

We are not buying into toxic gym culture, not that gym culture is toxic.

When I say toxic gym culture, I mean the toxic elements of it.

And trying to move away from disordered eating, which has been normalized.

I have a lot of clients that will be talking about their healthy eating.

And what I'm really hearing is disordered eating that we've socially validated and normalized.

Quite profound.

We'll talk about that.

I'm not against working out.

I do it four to five days a week it is part of my uh you know

keeping my bone density of my body fluid and strong helping me be able to move and do the

things I want to do in the world it is also for my heart health in my family we have a history

of heart issues and so I eat a plant-based diet I have a

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