Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and

impact over a million lives.

Well, if you're hearing this podcast, it's being recorded about a week prior to Christmas.

And so I thought that it made the most sense for me to do a solo podcast that would

be released on Christmas, given the fact it is such a significant time of the year, not just for

my family, but for so many of yours, people that celebrate Christian holidays, Jewish holidays,

etc., etc. Whether you have a spiritual practice or not,

it is a special time of the year, I think, for so many of us. And by the time this podcast

has been published, I will be on vacation starting on the 26th. And I really want to come

from a place of gratitude when I reflect back on 2024.

I think for so many of my listeners, if you follow me on social media, you know that it has been a year of extremes.

That is how I would describe it.

I was at Rory Vadens in Nashville and talking about strategies for book launching.

And my book won't be out until

2026. And I'd be very clear about that. And we were at dinner and he asked me, what would the

title of the chapter of your year be? And I said the year of extremes. And then I provided

context. So in the context of a year where my children have just grown so much emotionally, physically,

academically, so much to celebrate for them.

And my son, oldest son transitioning into his first year of college and loving it and knowing

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