Hey, hey, beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick. You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace a real.

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Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast.

I am so excited about today because we're going to be unpacking a topic that might completely change how you see motivation, consistency, and success in your fitness journey, which is self-discipline. For years, I thought being disciplined meant pushing harder, eating cleaner, and saying no to everything that didn't fit my plan. But what if the version of discipline

that we've been taught is actually the reason why we're burning out, we're quitting, or we're

starting to resent the process? For so many women, discipline has been twisted into this self-punishment,

restriction, guilt, and rigidity that it's killing the motivation and the joy of many women. So in today's episode, I want to

completely help you to reframe what discipline actually is and how to recognize when it's coming

from fear instead of alignment and how to rebuild it in a way that feels empowering instead

of exhausting. We're going to be talking about how the fitness world distorts discipline

into this grind culture. The key difference between discipline from fear versus discipline

from alignment. And the simple mindset swaps to make discipline feel empowering again.

And then lastly, how to reconnect discipline with self-trust instead of control.

Before we dive in, though, I want to share this review. It comes from Sarah, mom of four from Montana.

She gave a five-star review and said five stars all day, every day. Not sure if this is a review or

a fan letter, we all love you, Julie. We just wanted to say your listeners missed you over the break, but we're glad that you took some time off recording over the holidays. Every podcast brings me such joy and education. Appreciate all that you do. Keep going. Thank you so much. I'm so grateful for you. Thank you for taking time out of your day to send in this review. It really does mean the world to me. I am so grateful for all of you guys. If you guys could scooch over to Apple Podcasts and leave a rating interview, that would mean the absolute world to me and our team. All right, let's just get right into it. Number one, how the fitness world has really distorted the word discipline. Somewhere along the way, discipline

has gotten hijacked by grind culture. You know the drill like no days off, earn your food,

pain is progress. And for so many of us, especially women, discipline became this thing where

if you stuck to your macros and your workouts, you were doing it right. But if you missed a

workout or you had a treat, you were doing it wrong. And that kind of thinking creates so much guilt. Like you'd punish yourself

with extra cardio after a meal out or you'd push through when your body is clearly tired because

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