Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Welcome to the show. You know, summer's coming, and I'm hyper, hyper aware of that. And so, you know, these topics are always topics that apply sadly in some ways for the duration of our lives. And we bump into certain things more so at certain seasonal time.

So, you know, I'm talking more about our relationship to fitness and exercise.

And tonight we're going to talk again about a relationship to our bodies, but it's going to be

something that involves also looking at our relationship to food.

Sometimes this is a difficult conversation. I want people to really center their own experience of these

topics and it can be really hard to realize that maybe you have some disordered eating or some

disordered exercise habits. The first step in between, excuse me, the first step of behavior

changes awareness.

Awareness as to what I'm trying to work on.

Awareness as to how I am.

Awareness as to what it is I'm trying to work towards.

And then slowly you start to step into it.

Awareness is the most powerful thing we have.

Mindfulness.

Most of us, again, move through the world very unconsciously, not mindful of anything.

Watching people eat while they're on their phone. They are not mindful of anything that's

happening around them. They're not mindful of the food or the taste. We're always kind of

distracted and disconnected. I work with clients who even when they're being intimate on all the

different levels are paying attention to, am I doing it right how do I look what are they thinking we don't

bring a lot of mindfulness um it's rare and and you can see moments of it when someone's in in the in the

flow you see that a lot with athletes such a narrow and and targeted um lens apply to what they're

doing where they hear and see nothing but their opponent or the tennis

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