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I think I spent so much of my life and even as we're talking about me as a teenager,

I'm thinking about how much I thought like

wow I'm so messed up there must be so many things wrong with me and I look back and I'm like

that is not true like there were a lot of behaviors that I was doing that you know probably were not

the most healthy definitely weren't the most healthy but I really look at that now and see that more as a sign of resiliency.

Hi, y'all.

Welcome back to another episode of You Need Therapy.

One, thank you.

As always, Alex, you know the drill intro music we love it you can follow him at at booth tunes on Instagram you are awesome and remember how much

we love you and two I was so grateful and all I can really say is, wow, to all the awesome feedback that we got from last week's episode.

If you haven't listened to it, stop what you're doing right now.

Go do that first.

You know that I think this, but I think we are all pretty tired of diet culture,

whether we admit it or not. And so the more we can speak truth into that, the better. And that's

what we did in that episode. So go listen to that one, then come back and listen to this one if you

haven't. So we are a couple weeks into 2020. And I don't know about you guys, but a lot of my plans for the year and even just this month have already shifted.

I mean, that's even when it comes to simple things like this podcast in the direction it was going and the people that I wanted on it.

And so I went to lunch with a friend on Monday to talk about some of those changes and

just my feelings around them. And we did this over some kale salads and sweet potato fries from

burger up. If you know, you know. And well, the conversation kind of moved into a deeper

level. And we started talking about all the similarities we were holding and we think that we see

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