we struggle with the dichotomy of how do I want to pursue something more without hating myself.

And I feel like a lot of culture has taught us that to hustle and to grind and to go and to push

and to do all of these things that I used to do,

that we've got to really have an issue with where we are today. And I just, I can't buy into that

anymore. I think that you get a lot further from a place of self-love than a place of self-hatred.

So that's where we have to start with. And when I say fall in love with your

body, I mean fall in love with your body and its functionality, fall in love with your body

and the things it does really well. And not just that, but fall in love with your body and the way

that it looks.

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Hey guys, it's Rachel. Welcome to another episode of the show. I feel like we should start by me telling you that I just recorded 10 minutes of intro and I thought really insightful and beautiful conversation

and realized that I did not press record. So those words are just lost forever. But let me try again.

I would love to start off today's conversation with gratitude. So I grew up in a church. I don't

know if any of you grew up in an environment like this where we used to do prayer requests and praise. You'd have a praise report and a prayer request. And the preacher would say, does anyone have a prayer request? And someone stand up and say, you know, my mom is sick and you all pray for her or, you know, I'm hoping that I'm going to get this job. Can you guys pray over that? And then there were praise reports,

which was when you would stand up and say something great that happened to you. And I think of

gratitude and a gratitude practice, kind of like a constant praise report to myself and to the

universe. And I start every day of my life with a gratitude practice. That's why start

today journal is a thing. But obviously you don't need to start today journal. You can do this

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