What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over MacBrows

podcast. As always I am your host Mike Milner and today I've got another solo episode for you. I'm going to talk

about something that I literally just posted about so if you follow me on

Instagram you've probably already or hopefully I shouldn't assume already read this and I'm going to talk about self-care. So this is something

that it's kind of one of those interesting concepts where self-care is one of the most overlooked aspects of any

fitness journey. I would say that maybe sleep and self-care probably go one and two on things that get just kind of glossed over.

A lot of people know that sleep is important, but typically don't put the amount of time

and effort into making sure that they get quality and enough sleep and there's a lot of that that's out of our control.

So I know for people who have crazy work schedules and just you know

babies and whatever else may be going on in your life sometimes sleep is not all

that controllable. Self-care on the other hand is pretty controllable and it's often overlooked.

However, there seems to be, and this is so typical, especially in the fitness fitness industry but I'm just going to say

humans in general we have this tendency to take a good concept and just swing the pendulum

way too far in the other direction.

And that's exactly what has happened with self-care

because it started out as a really important concept, and it still is.

It is still something that like needs to be done. You need to

prioritize yourself. You need to schedule time that's just for you. You need to be selfish. Like those are all things that need to happen.

You need to love yourself, you need to appreciate how far you've come, where you're at right now.

All of those things matter. matter however there seems to be this over rotation

on self-care which has basically brought this concept and made it a built-in excuse.

So an example would be if you decided that,

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