Hey guys, welcome back to Inside Anna's Mind. I hope you're well. Today has been a real hustle to get this podcast episode out because I'm basically flying to New Zealand in 45 minutes. Like I've got to leave for the airport in 45 minutes. And I realize if I don't record now, there won't be an episode out next week. So I rocked up to the cafe looking pretty rough this morning at 6.30 a.m. with my laptop.

I just had a cappuccino and some banana bread and was writing some notes out.

Now this topic idea came when I fell asleep last night and I just thought,

hmm, there's probably quite a few things that I wish that I knew when I was younger.

And I thought it'd be interesting to share.

Now, I want to put disclaimer out that I've learned over the years that having compassion towards your younger self is really important.

And I probably realized this at like 21 years old when I started therapy because I used to speak

negatively of my younger self and not very kindly.

And what I learned in therapy was how you talk to your younger self, you're still talking

to yourself like that.

And the things you say about your younger self well your younger self is still within you

so you're just bullying that younger part of you which isn't very nice and so I will be purposely

going around these topics that I talk about in not a bashful way because essentially I wouldn't

be here without my younger self doing the things

that she did exactly the way that she did and she tried her best at every point and that's

what matters. So we're going to go straight into the episode and we're going to go in reverse

chronological order because essentially the things that my younger self probably needed to hear

are probably the deeper things. So we're going to start off a little bit lighter. So what did I wish

I knew at 23 years old? I think starting off light, I'm going to say, girl, if you're going to

run four marathons in a year, just know that you're going to have to take a bigger break because that's not normal.

And if you do that, then yeah, you're essentially going to have to take a break, which again, I wouldn't change anything.

I think it was such an incredible experience to run around the world doing some amazing things.

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