Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each episode is like a digital

journal entry detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment. I talk about my

journey with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development, and more.

So join me every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first

time and you are still in the beginning of your personal story. Good morning. Welcome back to prologs. First and foremost,

I want to apologize for my voice. I'm sick right now. I was trying to gaslight myself for several

days into thinking I wasn't sick and I pushed forward and I kept working out. I kept leaving my house,

not really in contact with people, but I kept going on walks and walking my dog, you know,

things like that. And of course, that's not how health works. And I think I made myself worse.

And now my body is shutting down and I have been forced to accept that I am sick.

So I had a three-hour recording session booked in the studio today.

I like to do three-hour blocks because I can record a few episodes at a time.

And I had to cancel my session because I just know I'm going to have to pause this recording

about 50 times in order to cough up a lung.

So I'm here.

I'm armed with cough syrup, lozenges, cold and flu

medication, my echinacea, my vitamin C, my elder flower, not elder flower, my elder berry.

And we are going to get through this recording together. I didn't even have a voice two days ago.

This could potentially ruin my voice for the next couple of days, but we move. So I'm sorry

if my voice sounds a little funny on this recording. I've been coughing a lot so my throat feels a bit

raw. We're going to get through this together, you guys, okay? Anyway, welcome back to another

episode of Prologs. I believe this episode is going live. When is it first week of February, I think.

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