The relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Robert Holden.

Hello and welcome to the Taking Back Your Power podcast.

I'm Isabel Palacios and I specifically created and designed this podcast to empower, inspire,

and help you cultivate a powerful mindset

to build your best life and live out your dreams. May you always remember your true beauty,

your true worth, and your true power always come from within. So get your coffee,

smoothie, or wine ready, and let's get started.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of taking back your power.

I'm so grateful to have you here with me today.

And I hope you're doing well. If you're not, take a moment to unclench your jaw and loosen your shoulders.

Breathe in deeply.

First through your shoulders. Breathe in deeply, first through your nose and through your mouth.

And hopefully for the duration of this entire podcast, you can focus on your breathing and take some time to actually see how you're breathing and feel the way your body's feeling.

That's a great way to become self-aware.

A lot of times we're under stress and a lot of anxiety, and we don't know exactly why,

and we don't know how to cope with it.

And this is actually something I learned from a little post on Instagram and I posted it to my stories

about how we don't even realize that we're stressed out and until we take a moment to actually

feel our body and if we are hunched over, if our jaw is really tight and clenched, if we're grinding

our teeth, if we are just in this negative body language and body space, that's so important

to realize if we are in that negative place. And you'll see that with your body language,

...