Hey, hey beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick.

You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Rail with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick

tip for building your confidence, honoring your body and unconditionally loving

your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace a reel. Let's get it,

let's go. Hello, welcome back to another bonus episode of the Embrace Real

podcast. I am so grateful that you are here spending some time with me today.

I am about to get you fired up with some real talk. I came across this quote on

Instagram that hit me so hard. It said in the hardest times I destroyed my body for a peace of mind I never got.

And this really got me thinking, like we under eat, we over exercise, we undernourish, we over restrict, we punish our bodies, we hate our bodies, and we

destroy our bodies. But for what? Why do we do all of that? To still feel dissatisfied? To still hate our body? To still wish that it were different?

Because let's be real. That's how we most likely still feel no matter the progress that we've made.

We never had or have a peace of mind.

Before I continue, I have to share the super sweet review. Stick with me. It is such a good one.

Rosie T20 says love this podcast. Okay so I have listened to almost all these

episodes over the last couple months and let me tell you Julie is the real thing.

Thank you Julie for sharing your story with us. The good, the bad, the ugly. I totally relate to the old

obsessive Julie. I used to exercise almost an hour every day, count every little

calorie, bring tuna pouches to restaurants, I was the smallest I've ever been and

had maintained that for several years. But I wasn't happy and my family wasn't either. Some people would even

ask me if I was sick. Well now the scale shows me to be the heaviest that I've ever been, but actually

I'm the happiest. I'm mindful of what I eat and I still love to exercise daily,

but I'm not obsessing like before.

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