This week on the gray area, we're learning about how memory affects the stories we tell ourselves and each other.

People tend to remember positive events more from their lives and negative events, but more importantly, when they reconstruct them, they tend to remember themselves more positively.

And then you construct a narrative out of it. Maybe that narrative is that our people

are great. Maybe that narrative is we used to be great and now we're terrible. We need to be great

again. Listen to the gray area wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday.

Megan Rapino here. This week on a touch more. We're getting into the WMBA's nail-biting semifinals,

the heartbreaking end to the Link's playoff dreams, and controversial refereeing.

Plus, Emma Hayes joins us to discuss how she's reshaping the U.S.

Women's National Team through the female lens.

Check out our latest episode of A Touch More, wherever you get your podcast, and on YouTube.

So when I was a kid, I was this chubby kid, and I feel like I was met with the message that,

you know, you're too big and you need to be doing something about it. It's something that

you should just be able to say no and to cut back. When Julia Balluz was a kid, she heard

this kind of message all over the place. It was a message I got in the pediatrician's office. It was a message I got at home.

It was a message I got at school.

And I kind of internalized that, and I thought, maybe I just, you know, I don't have a strong enough will.

Or maybe there's something wrong in my biology.

Maybe I have a slow metabolism.

She tried everything she could think of to speed up

her metabolism. She went on all kinds of diets. She even tried some pills she got from a trainer at her

local gym. I was a teenager. I must have been like 15 or 16 years old. And I took these supplements

and I have no idea. God only knows what was in them. But I had this hope that

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