December 27, 2024 • 26 mins
Join Dr. Allison as she chats about the New Year & staring your new health journey! She discusses the importance of consistency, finding motivation, having peace with being "selfish" with taking time for yourself, and Body Motion's new Wellness Program! If you'd like to sign up for A.F. Wellness & Coaching, here's the link!: https://keap.page/zr443/wellness-coaching-inquiry.html
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to another episode of the Edmond's Mom Term podcast.
I am doctor Allison Felt, your host and mom of
three and entrepreneur, owner of Body Motion Physical Therapy with
two locations, and now the pioneer of our new health
and wellness program, which I'm super excited about.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So on the back end.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Of talking with I think over ten moms this week
alone doing consultations to join our wellness program, which I
am capping at ten right now. However, all at the
end of this podcast, there'll be a link that you
can apply.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It'll just be waitlisted for when.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We enroll the next cohort, if and when I decide
to do that. But right now, we have a really
strong group of women, and it's fascinating because hearing everybody's
story is exactly where I was three years ago. And
I've been doing this health journey for three years and
now it is a lifestyle. It is a consistency in
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how I show up for myself every day, and across
the board, everyone said, I don't know how you do this.
I don't I don't know how you do it, and
I'm just simply signing up so I can see how
you do it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, My goals have had to be stronger than my excuses.
And if there is anything that I can tell you
to make this successful for you, it's have strong goals
for your future self, Like where do you want to
see yourself? How do you want to show up for
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your kids? How do you want to show up for
your partner? How do you want to show up for
your employees or people you work with on your team,
or even just in the coffee shop? Right, And so
I think that's the take home. How do you want
to present yourself to the world? And once you identify that,
you can make decisions in line to get you there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So you know, I am pretty committed to my health
journey at this point, and I feel like I'm in.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A great place.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And I've shared with you guys on this previous podcast
that I track macro nutrients, and I track my food,
and I track my workouts, and I track my steps,
and I track my.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Energy and how I feel in this sleep. And that's
what a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Of these people, a lot of the women that I
have joining the program, they're gonna they're gonna do that too.
Some people feel extremely overwhelmed with tracking macro nutrients. So
I am gonna have meal plans broken down for them
so that they can just choose, okay for my meal one,
I'm gonna have a fat, a vegieta protein and make
that fit their macros.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
With that plan, you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Don't track your food in an app because it can
just be stressful because there's a lot of swapping that
can happen. So that is fun, and then it's a
good way to be like I'm getting in my protein
and protein. It's like, I don't think there are enough
eat enough protein. And especially as women when we are
trying to build our muscles for menopause and everything from
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here on out, we need protein. Like, we absolutely need protein,
and we need carbohydrates so we can build our muscles
so we can have strong bones. And guess what, when
you build your muscles, you increase your metabolism and you
burn more fat. Now, I someone actually said, like, I
think what you're selling is actually weight loss, and this
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program is not a weight loss program. Now, when you
do these healthy behaviors and start to make different habits
and change different habits and make it an everyday situation,
meaning that you are extremely disciplined to be consistent with
these health behaviors, then yes, like will weight loss follow? Like?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Probably? But that isn't the focus? And why isn't that
the focus?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's not the focus because ninety five percent plus of
weight loss fails, right most people.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That lose the slow a weight and regaining that weight.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And more so, I'm not in the I'm not interested
in selling weight loss. Now has that been a really
happy bride product of me investing in my health?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And what? Did I have some weight loss goals? I did?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I absolutely did, And when it was hard as hell,
I kept telling myself.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, then I just got to keep going and.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Like I stuck to my I did stick to some
of those goals. Now I have these goals just to
build my muscles. And you would not believe how much
food I'm eating right now now that I'm out of
a deficit phase. And even when I was in a
deficit phase of not having as much macro nutrients as
fuel for my body so I could burn some more
of my fat stores, when I now I'm out of.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This deficit, I think.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I honestly it was shocking because for Thanksgiving I just
went crazy. I honestly I ate the meal I did
a good job there. I had a bunch of cheesecake
and dessert, and then I came home and I actually
just like I couldn't turn off my eating.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I was like, I'm gonna keep eating.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm gonna have these snacks, I'm gonna have this chocolate,
I'm gonna have this fruit, like whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I just kept eating.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The food and I felt super sick and I completely
overdid it and I was up six pounds the next day.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And it took me four days to like just shed
the inflammation from that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I just then the following day, I just got back
on track onto my macros and you know, started feeding
my body the right fuel and felt a ton better.
And now I feel completely recovered. I felt completely recovered
five days after that. And in the meantime, my coach,
my personal coach, he was like, oh, like that's what
you do on a holiday, and like we're not going
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to like shun you for that, Like this is okay,
and you just go back on track.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And now here we are and he's like, and I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Increase your food because obviously you can tolerate a lot
more food, and oh my gosh, so he just keeps
increasing the amount of food I'm eating.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I think I'm at like twenty three hundred calories right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Now, So I have any a good amount of carbohydrates,
a good amount of fats, and I have a good
amount of protein, and I am super satisfied. So like
the the thought of even actually like overeating or wanting
to binge at night, because that's like my that's my jam,
right if you've heard any of the episodes, it's I
have a tendency to want to binge eat at night.
And that's been one of the things I've been fighting
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since the summer and conquered it and I shared that,
and then I was actually dealing with it again when
that episode came out, and then worked with Jess McEwan to.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Really figure out, like why was I binging again?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And it was because I had wasn't speaking my truth
fully in my opinion, and then that has really curbed,
and you know, had enjoyed my Thanksgiving and just really
really went to down on Thanksgiving too much too that
I just had way too much fuel, my body didn't
feel well. And now that we've recovered, I just and
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I have this increase in food. You know, I feel
super satisfied and I My workouts are just absolutely incredible.
So I'm sharing this because I'm hoping you're taking lessons
and taking notes of I'm sharing things about my journey,
and I could be more excited to go on this
journey with the people that have joined the program. So
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some people do want some weight loss, but really like
the take home message of what everyone wants is energy.
Everyone wants to show up with their kids really well.
And let me be frank with you, I think it
was not Thursday, Love was TI.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was Thursday. So I'm recording this on a Friday.
It's Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This won't come out for a few weeks, but it's Friday,
December sixth, and I think it was like Wednesday. My
kids were NonStop fighting and it had been like accumulation
of fighting from the weekend, and the two older kids
and they're like just egging each other on.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And my one son is just like.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He's vacuming and cleaning in the playroom, which is amazing,
and you might think that's great, but it's like getting
to an obsessive point, and then he's not letting any
of the other kids play in the playroom, and so
when they do play, then he's raging at them, and
so I just lost it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I love.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
On Wednesday night, I couldn't control myself and I just
was yelling at them and so, you know, and it
was because I hadn't been investing in myself and joying
it for myself.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, is that a lot more rare than it ever
was before?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But are there times that I still lose my shit
on my kids?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Absolutely, And it just happens.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And so my husband walked in the door, and thankfully,
he was like, I don't know what's going on with
your energy right now, but I'm gonna take heo my
one son, and I'm gonna take him out to dinner
and then you have the girls. And I was like, okay,
now we can like reset our energy. And it was
like that was I honestly need to thank him for that. Actually,
I probably didn't thank him for that because that was
super intuitive of him to read the situation when.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
He walked in the door and he was like, I
don't know what happened, and I was like, I'm fine,
you know, but I wasn't fine, and he read it
and I was super supportive of him, and so, yeah,
I don't think him enough.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But that was a great move for his on his part,
and so he you know, we change the situation. So
all I'm telling you is like you're investing in yourself
to have energy to show up for your family, to
show up for your kids, of course.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And in the same vein like we are gonna have days.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Where we freak out and yell at our kids, Like
we're gonna have days that were not redulated. I have
bad days and good days, and I choose to see
every I try to see every day as a good day.
But you you know you're gonna have days that you're
totally over extended at work and your energy sources have
gone to everyone else but yourself, and you have to
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pull it back in and take care of yourself and
if you if you can, if you're like but Al said,
I still don't know how you do it, Like how
do you get your steps in?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
How do you get your workouts in? I wake up
at four thirty or five every.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Single day, and even if I had to go to
bed late because I stayed up to watch the cracking
game with my son or my husband, like I am
still I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna hit my workout,
because the deal is, I don't want to walk into
this office and I don't want to walk into my
house that night not having at least put something.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Into my own body, in my own cup.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So it doesn't matter how tired I am when I
wake up, I have to move my body and get
the blood flowing just so I feel a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I might not want to in the moment. And
today at the gym, I didn't want to be there.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I didn't want to be doing any of the exercises,
and I've had a couple of days like that this week.
But once I got going, it was like, Okay, Okay,
I feel good, like I actually want to be here.
Then I was like, okay, I feel really good. I
don't want to stop. Do I have to go to work?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And so it's just that like just get started and
do something.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So a lot of the people in the program, they
are like, we're gonna look at their successes taking a
couple of the habits, like it is a lot to
be like, Okay, now I'm going to food prep and
plan all my meals and get my steps in and
start exercising and doing strength training and doing cardio and
then I'm gonna drink a gallon of water.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Like it's a lot of commitment, right, and we don't
have to start with all of it.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It takes sixty six days to create a habit and
to stick with a habit, and so even if it's
just one, even if we just start with one, and
I think that's really cool. And what I'm excited about
is like, so I am for these first time clients,
Like I'm doing personal weekly check ins with them.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They'll submit a check in and I.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Will send a video back to them and make adjustments
either in their food plans or in their workout plans,
and yeah, and just like check in.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
With how they are doing.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And so that level of accountability and someone who's kind
of making you, not making you, but just guiding you
to continue to show up for yourself and validate it, right,
Like you have to be doing this for yourself, nothing
else matters. Like this is actually equally, if not more
important than your kid's next doctor's appointment in my opinion,
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Like that is the truth, right, because how can you
even make these appointments and not feel totally bogged down
with the schedules that you have to go through of
your daily lives if you weren't putting something into yourselves.
And so that was the theme across the board. It's like,
how are you doing this? How are you getting it in?
And I think that's what I'm most excited to empower
people with.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And it might seem like, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Now I'm becoming selfish, but like, you have to be
selfish to start to feel good about yourself and feel
good about your body and show up with the energy.
Like it's just the reality, and you have to be
disciplined in being selfish if you want to call it selfish.
But I don't call it selfish. I just call it
like I care and love myself, So I am going
to show up for myself every single day.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
End of story.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Anyways, I wanted to take this a little bit in
a different vein because there's one like moral of this story.
I think that is in worked to share if I
can't articulate it the way I want it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
To come across. Mostly we'll see how this sends up.
But when I'm reevaluating my weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So now I don't like my goal is to kind
of maintain my body, improve my strength and sepultivity.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Is that a word, to be super.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Selfle right, like just feel good in my joints, to
not have stiffness, and YadA YadA, YadA. Am I constantly
fighting my own compensations yet absolutely That's why I have
to get pelvic reputee once or twice a month and
I'm seriously overdue. That's why I get acupuncture. That's why
I get multiple massages every single month. Try to get
to a week to be honest with you, or to
body work a week to help keep my compensations at
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bay and help me continue.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
To progress and build my muscles and stay flexible.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Twenty twenty five, my goal, if you saw on Instagram
was is to do the Splitz.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That was my goal in twenty twenty four was to
be able to do the Splitz.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And I have not achieved that, and I have not
put in the practice to achieve that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So obviously I didn't it that bad.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And it's a goal that actually does kind of freak
me out because I just don't know how my hips
are going to do it. But we're going to work
towards it and see what happens. I was working towards
it for a few months and it fell off. I
kept working on my goal to do a pull up
and now I can do seven and I'm super proud
of that. I think I actually did eight on Thanksgiving
up my mom's house, but I can't recall, so it
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was seven or eight, and I'm going to I'm trying
by January first to get to ten.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We'll see how that goes. And so that has been
super fulfilling.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
The other goal that I achieved was getting to a
new baseline weight that I could maintain and that I
felt really good in that I could move my body
with more ease in And that's where I'm at now.
So I do feel good about that. But that is
consistent effort to keep to stay there. But I'm super
committed to it, and I'm in this special phase of
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life where since I've made the commitment, I've worked so
hard to achieve it. I continue to push it because
I and I want to and I want to maintain this,
and now that I have these habits, I don't want
my life without these habits.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Because they make me feel so good and show up
so good.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So there's that when I am evaluating my week and
I'm like, how did I live this week? Did I
have did I get my protein in, did I drink
my water every day? Did I take my vitamins? Have
I invested in my future self? And I'm pretty good
at that part. Pretty good at that part. Okay, I
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am dedicated and disciplined to be good at that part.
So I am constantly investing in my future self. To me,
that's extremely important. I want to live to one hundred.
I want to live to a healthy one hundred. I
want to be happy and supple and just feel so good.
I want to avoid the surgeries if I can. And equally,
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you have to enjoy the current form of your life,
right so you can invent in all the tools to
protect your future self. But equally you need to live
your current life and enjoy your current life. And I
do feel like I am living my current life. But
one thing my husband always says that actually like irks
me is He's like, you need to have more fun
like you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
He's like, you're so serious all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Like looseen not have fun, And honestly, it bugs me
because I know he's right, and so one of the
things I am working on is like just loosening up
and trying to enjoy the moments a.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Little bit more.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And it's a work in progress because I'm so future
driven and I'm so driven and like type A that
I'm like invested in my future. But equally, I need
to make sure that when I'm evaluating the weeks of
did I hit my health plan and my health goals?
Did I also have a bunch of fun and enjoy
the moments? And am I doing every day? So I
enjoy it? Because what is the point of living for
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the future if you're not enjoying the journey?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So that is been a nice reflection that my husband
actually presents to me. I'm actually gonna send him this
episode because I'm giving him a lot of shout outs
and I don't do that with him personally. Probably something
I need to work on. But he, you know, he
really there does bring a lot of value to our life,
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and I often fail to see that unless I'm articulating
it here.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
On a podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So so yeah, that will be part of this, you know,
this constant evolution.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's like, am I too serious?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Am I so binary thinking on my future and invested
in my future that I can't enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And enjoy the moments today?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And one of the things that is actually like weighing
on me a little bit. Is I don't know if
you've I like what you've heard, but I did stop
drinking in August twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I stop drinking. Then no twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, and then in March twenty twenty four, I was like,
you know what we're going on this puplification, I'm going
to try and drink again.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And I didn't enjoy it at all.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I didn't feel good even after just one and I
was like almost off drinking again. This isn't for me.
I don't want this to be a part of my life.
I feel like it kind of lowers my vibration. It
just I don't ever wake up feeling good, even if
I've just had a little bit. And there's that. But equally,
I'm like, honestly, this is what I'm thinking. Tonight is
my favorite day of the year. This is December sixth,
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and my youngest daughter has her Christmas concert.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I live for this concert, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I was actually supposed to be in Boston today and
at a conference where I was like invited to speak
and I had to decline when the Christmas concert came
out with the date and I was like, Okay, I
guess I'm gonna. I had to get my airplane ticket
refunded because I'm like, I can't miss this concert.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It means so much to me and just like it's cool.
And I was like, and I only have.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
One left, Like she only has one more year of
this concert after this year, so we have two concerts left,
and so that's tonight, And I was honestly thinking, and
every night after this concert we go to Asteca and
it's one of my guiltiest pleasures of restaurants. Love Asteca,
like and my husband thinks it's the worst Mexican food
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you can ever have, but for me, it's like I
just grew up going there, so I think it's a
bit of nostalgia and there refried beans are so good.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I just love Asteca.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So we are planning to go to Estecon and I
was like, well, maybe I should plan to have a margrada,
Like maybe part of me really thinking about living for
today is like I used to love Margarita's and who.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Didn't, right, who doesn't?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And equally, do I have to be so binary and
my not drinking that I can't enjoy one margarita and
just enjoy it for that night, and then I won't
drink again for a few months. I don't know, but
that's part of the thinking that I'm trying to get
you to see, and I guess I'm trying to share.
It's like we can't be all in on one thing
without the balance of another, and whether like for me,
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I've been all in on this health and fitness, and
I think I've strayed away from not being able to
enjoy life as much according to my husband, right, So
it's like, how can we balance these factors? And so
maybe for me it is going to be to have
a drink. I don't know, and I don't actually care,
Like at first I was like, well do I aded
to identify as like I don't drink and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's this a whole weird thing because I might have
a drink again in the future.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
My husband kept saying this whole time that I've been
like working on my health so hard, especially for the
last year and a half. It's when like the biggest
investment came in myself. It was actually there since Jala
was born, so it really has been three years. But
since I've had my nutrition on lock it has been
a year and a half, and so he keeps saying, like,
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are you just never going to drink again? And I'm like,
I don't know, but I'm not drinking right now. But
like I'm not saying I'm not in the future, and
I just don't know how to go about that or
navigate that. But I do know that it doesn't make
me feel good in the future, so then I have
a hard time enjoying it in the present.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But will I maybe have a glass of margarita? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You know, this is this conversation that I have with
myself this week that I'm sharing with you has got
me thinking. So hopefully you haven't been totally lost in
this episode and you're able to follow, like, yes, be
super invested in your future self, and yes, be super
invested in your present journey and enjoy the shit out
of it, because this is what we have now, in
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what we have today. So it's just this fine balance,
and that is what we're doing with the Wellness program.
It's like, yes, we are investing in our future spelves,
we are making changes in our health, we are making
different habits, but we are also investing in our mental
health and balancing the physical health, the mental health, the
spiritual health, the financial health. Like we are going to
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have financial conversations. This program is magic. And what I'm
most looking forward to, honestly is our bi weekly conversations
we'll have two times a month, we're doing a coaching
call live, and honestly, it's great because it'll be a
lot of Q and A and like just like collaboration.
But part of me, like you're watching this episode, you're
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listening to the episode wherever you are, And I love
chatting and I love talking, and I love different philosophies
and extrapolations and all of that fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And honestly, like it's like.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What my staff meetings are, right, It's like we talk
high level.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We'll do some high level like balance of life, balance.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Of enjoying and balance of the future or you know,
different aspects of that, and so we'll have like these
high level I don't want to say sermons, but like
where I'm you know, delivering different things I've learned throughout
the week or throughout the month, and that I think
can bring value to my team. And the same thing
will be true in this wellness program. We'll be here
talking and we will be here. You know, we'll be
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doing high level conversations on mindset, on souls, on mental health,
and on fitness and health and physical health and training
and becoming injury free. So we definitely will problem solve
some injuries on these on these calls too, And it's
just really cool and I'm excited to see how it's evolving.
So if you're interested at all, you can. I'm sure
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we'll put in the show notes of a place to
register for the program at least get on the wait list,
and when we open up that next day, we will
let you know.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But in the.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Meantime, I hope that you have very happy holidays and
start giving yourself a little bit of investment in your
future self, but equally enjoying your present moments.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I'm going to end this episode with some of.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
The best the best advice.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And I actually I asked so Angela.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
She is our customer care relations If you call the clinic,
you will talk with her, right And so she actually
last night I asked her because I told her I
was like, I have to leave the office early on Friday.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I honestly didn't even want to work today.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I wanted to be able to go to the spot
and just be super relaxed before I showed up for
for the Christmas concert. But we are super understaffed, and
I was like, I'll help out.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I'm gonna help out.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And so I am seeing some patients today and I'm
really excited to see those patients and it'll be it'll
be a really fun day, but it's a super busy day.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So I asked her. I was like, I sent her pictures.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Of Jala last year and I was like, I'm obsessed
with this every year, and she's like, take me back.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I remember those days so fondly.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Then I said, Angela, what the secret to make the
most of these memories?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
She said to.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm gonna read this multiple times to allow yourself to
be in the moment and feel zero guilt about it.
It's so hard when the world is pulling you in
five million directions.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But she's only going to be three months.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry. I'm like, it was
so beautiful and like I just think of her, like
she's going to be four next year. She was two
last year. Like it is just so special, right, I
don't think I was like this with the other two kids. Like,
but the third, I guess is just like a special
like you know it's your last, like you're not going
to hit it again, something like that. I have no idea,
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so let me read that again.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
This was her advice, and I feel like this is
amazing advice that we can all take into our holiday
memories that we are creating with our children. To allow
yourself to be in the moment and feel zero guilt
about it. So hard when the world is pulling us
in five million directions, but she's only going to be
three ones.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Like come on now, how powerful is that?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I go, I'm messing with the table. It was so
good leaving you with that. I hope you have a
very happy holiday season. I hope that somehow this podcast
has touched you in.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
A positive way. And I wish nothing but the best.
Take care,
Welcome to another episode of the Edmond's Mom Term podcast.
I am doctor Allison Felt, your host and mom of
three and entrepreneur, owner of Body Motion Physical Therapy with
two locations, and now the pioneer of our new health
and wellness program, which I'm super excited about.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So on the back end.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Of talking with I think over ten moms this week
alone doing consultations to join our wellness program, which I
am capping at ten right now. However, all at the
end of this podcast, there'll be a link that you
can apply.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It'll just be waitlisted for when.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We enroll the next cohort, if and when I decide
to do that. But right now, we have a really
strong group of women, and it's fascinating because hearing everybody's
story is exactly where I was three years ago. And
I've been doing this health journey for three years and
now it is a lifestyle. It is a consistency in
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how I show up for myself every day, and across
the board, everyone said, I don't know how you do this.
I don't I don't know how you do it, and
I'm just simply signing up so I can see how
you do it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, My goals have had to be stronger than my excuses.
And if there is anything that I can tell you
to make this successful for you, it's have strong goals
for your future self, Like where do you want to
see yourself? How do you want to show up for
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your kids? How do you want to show up for
your partner? How do you want to show up for
your employees or people you work with on your team,
or even just in the coffee shop? Right, And so
I think that's the take home. How do you want
to present yourself to the world? And once you identify that,
you can make decisions in line to get you there.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So you know, I am pretty committed to my health
journey at this point, and I feel like I'm in.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
A great place.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And I've shared with you guys on this previous podcast
that I track macro nutrients, and I track my food,
and I track my workouts, and I track my steps,
and I track my.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Energy and how I feel in this sleep. And that's
what a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Of these people, a lot of the women that I
have joining the program, they're gonna they're gonna do that too.
Some people feel extremely overwhelmed with tracking macro nutrients. So
I am gonna have meal plans broken down for them
so that they can just choose, okay for my meal one,
I'm gonna have a fat, a vegieta protein and make
that fit their macros.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
With that plan, you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Don't track your food in an app because it can
just be stressful because there's a lot of swapping that
can happen. So that is fun, and then it's a
good way to be like I'm getting in my protein
and protein. It's like, I don't think there are enough
eat enough protein. And especially as women when we are
trying to build our muscles for menopause and everything from
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here on out, we need protein. Like, we absolutely need protein,
and we need carbohydrates so we can build our muscles
so we can have strong bones. And guess what, when
you build your muscles, you increase your metabolism and you
burn more fat. Now, I someone actually said, like, I
think what you're selling is actually weight loss, and this
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program is not a weight loss program. Now, when you
do these healthy behaviors and start to make different habits
and change different habits and make it an everyday situation,
meaning that you are extremely disciplined to be consistent with
these health behaviors, then yes, like will weight loss follow? Like?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Probably? But that isn't the focus? And why isn't that
the focus?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's not the focus because ninety five percent plus of
weight loss fails, right most people.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That lose the slow a weight and regaining that weight.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And more so, I'm not in the I'm not interested
in selling weight loss. Now has that been a really
happy bride product of me investing in my health?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And what? Did I have some weight loss goals? I did?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I absolutely did, And when it was hard as hell,
I kept telling myself.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, then I just got to keep going and.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Like I stuck to my I did stick to some
of those goals. Now I have these goals just to
build my muscles. And you would not believe how much
food I'm eating right now now that I'm out of
a deficit phase. And even when I was in a
deficit phase of not having as much macro nutrients as
fuel for my body so I could burn some more
of my fat stores, when I now I'm out of.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This deficit, I think.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I honestly it was shocking because for Thanksgiving I just
went crazy. I honestly I ate the meal I did
a good job there. I had a bunch of cheesecake
and dessert, and then I came home and I actually
just like I couldn't turn off my eating.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I was like, I'm gonna keep eating.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm gonna have these snacks, I'm gonna have this chocolate,
I'm gonna have this fruit, like whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I just kept eating.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The food and I felt super sick and I completely
overdid it and I was up six pounds the next day.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And it took me four days to like just shed
the inflammation from that.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I just then the following day, I just got back
on track onto my macros and you know, started feeding
my body the right fuel and felt a ton better.
And now I feel completely recovered. I felt completely recovered
five days after that. And in the meantime, my coach,
my personal coach, he was like, oh, like that's what
you do on a holiday, and like we're not going
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to like shun you for that, Like this is okay,
and you just go back on track.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And now here we are and he's like, and I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Increase your food because obviously you can tolerate a lot
more food, and oh my gosh, so he just keeps
increasing the amount of food I'm eating.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I think I'm at like twenty three hundred calories right.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Now, So I have any a good amount of carbohydrates,
a good amount of fats, and I have a good
amount of protein, and I am super satisfied. So like
the the thought of even actually like overeating or wanting
to binge at night, because that's like my that's my jam,
right if you've heard any of the episodes, it's I
have a tendency to want to binge eat at night.
And that's been one of the things I've been fighting
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since the summer and conquered it and I shared that,
and then I was actually dealing with it again when
that episode came out, and then worked with Jess McEwan to.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Really figure out, like why was I binging again?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
And it was because I had wasn't speaking my truth
fully in my opinion, and then that has really curbed,
and you know, had enjoyed my Thanksgiving and just really
really went to down on Thanksgiving too much too that
I just had way too much fuel, my body didn't
feel well. And now that we've recovered, I just and
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I have this increase in food. You know, I feel
super satisfied and I My workouts are just absolutely incredible.
So I'm sharing this because I'm hoping you're taking lessons
and taking notes of I'm sharing things about my journey,
and I could be more excited to go on this
journey with the people that have joined the program. So
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some people do want some weight loss, but really like
the take home message of what everyone wants is energy.
Everyone wants to show up with their kids really well.
And let me be frank with you, I think it
was not Thursday, Love was TI.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I was Thursday. So I'm recording this on a Friday.
It's Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This won't come out for a few weeks, but it's Friday,
December sixth, and I think it was like Wednesday. My
kids were NonStop fighting and it had been like accumulation
of fighting from the weekend, and the two older kids
and they're like just egging each other on.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And my one son is just like.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He's vacuming and cleaning in the playroom, which is amazing,
and you might think that's great, but it's like getting
to an obsessive point, and then he's not letting any
of the other kids play in the playroom, and so
when they do play, then he's raging at them, and
so I just lost it.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I love.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
On Wednesday night, I couldn't control myself and I just
was yelling at them and so, you know, and it
was because I hadn't been investing in myself and joying
it for myself.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, is that a lot more rare than it ever
was before?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
But are there times that I still lose my shit
on my kids?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Absolutely, And it just happens.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And so my husband walked in the door, and thankfully,
he was like, I don't know what's going on with
your energy right now, but I'm gonna take heo my
one son, and I'm gonna take him out to dinner
and then you have the girls. And I was like, okay,
now we can like reset our energy. And it was
like that was I honestly need to thank him for that. Actually,
I probably didn't thank him for that because that was
super intuitive of him to read the situation when.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
He walked in the door and he was like, I
don't know what happened, and I was like, I'm fine,
you know, but I wasn't fine, and he read it
and I was super supportive of him, and so, yeah,
I don't think him enough.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But that was a great move for his on his part,
and so he you know, we change the situation. So
all I'm telling you is like you're investing in yourself
to have energy to show up for your family, to
show up for your kids, of course.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And in the same vein like we are gonna have days.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Where we freak out and yell at our kids, Like
we're gonna have days that were not redulated. I have
bad days and good days, and I choose to see
every I try to see every day as a good day.
But you you know you're gonna have days that you're
totally over extended at work and your energy sources have
gone to everyone else but yourself, and you have to
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pull it back in and take care of yourself and
if you if you can, if you're like but Al said,
I still don't know how you do it, Like how
do you get your steps in?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
How do you get your workouts in? I wake up
at four thirty or five every.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Single day, and even if I had to go to
bed late because I stayed up to watch the cracking
game with my son or my husband, like I am
still I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna hit my workout,
because the deal is, I don't want to walk into
this office and I don't want to walk into my
house that night not having at least put something.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Into my own body, in my own cup.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So it doesn't matter how tired I am when I
wake up, I have to move my body and get
the blood flowing just so I feel a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I might not want to in the moment. And
today at the gym, I didn't want to be there.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I didn't want to be doing any of the exercises,
and I've had a couple of days like that this week.
But once I got going, it was like, Okay, Okay,
I feel good, like I actually want to be here.
Then I was like, okay, I feel really good. I
don't want to stop. Do I have to go to work?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And so it's just that like just get started and
do something.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So a lot of the people in the program, they
are like, we're gonna look at their successes taking a
couple of the habits, like it is a lot to
be like, Okay, now I'm going to food prep and
plan all my meals and get my steps in and
start exercising and doing strength training and doing cardio and
then I'm gonna drink a gallon of water.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Like it's a lot of commitment, right, and we don't
have to start with all of it.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It takes sixty six days to create a habit and
to stick with a habit, and so even if it's
just one, even if we just start with one, and
I think that's really cool. And what I'm excited about
is like, so I am for these first time clients,
Like I'm doing personal weekly check ins with them.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They'll submit a check in and I.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Will send a video back to them and make adjustments
either in their food plans or in their workout plans,
and yeah, and just like check in.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
With how they are doing.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And so that level of accountability and someone who's kind
of making you, not making you, but just guiding you
to continue to show up for yourself and validate it, right,
Like you have to be doing this for yourself, nothing
else matters. Like this is actually equally, if not more
important than your kid's next doctor's appointment in my opinion,
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Like that is the truth, right, because how can you
even make these appointments and not feel totally bogged down
with the schedules that you have to go through of
your daily lives if you weren't putting something into yourselves.
And so that was the theme across the board. It's like,
how are you doing this? How are you getting it in?
And I think that's what I'm most excited to empower
people with.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And it might seem like, oh.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Now I'm becoming selfish, but like, you have to be
selfish to start to feel good about yourself and feel
good about your body and show up with the energy.
Like it's just the reality, and you have to be
disciplined in being selfish if you want to call it selfish.
But I don't call it selfish. I just call it
like I care and love myself, So I am going
to show up for myself every single day.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
End of story.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Anyways, I wanted to take this a little bit in
a different vein because there's one like moral of this story.
I think that is in worked to share if I
can't articulate it the way I want it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
To come across. Mostly we'll see how this sends up.
But when I'm reevaluating my weeks.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So now I don't like my goal is to kind
of maintain my body, improve my strength and sepultivity.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Is that a word, to be super.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Selfle right, like just feel good in my joints, to
not have stiffness, and YadA YadA, YadA. Am I constantly
fighting my own compensations yet absolutely That's why I have
to get pelvic reputee once or twice a month and
I'm seriously overdue. That's why I get acupuncture. That's why
I get multiple massages every single month. Try to get
to a week to be honest with you, or to
body work a week to help keep my compensations at
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bay and help me continue.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
To progress and build my muscles and stay flexible.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Twenty twenty five, my goal, if you saw on Instagram
was is to do the Splitz.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That was my goal in twenty twenty four was to
be able to do the Splitz.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
And I have not achieved that, and I have not
put in the practice to achieve that.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So obviously I didn't it that bad.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And it's a goal that actually does kind of freak
me out because I just don't know how my hips
are going to do it. But we're going to work
towards it and see what happens. I was working towards
it for a few months and it fell off. I
kept working on my goal to do a pull up
and now I can do seven and I'm super proud
of that. I think I actually did eight on Thanksgiving
up my mom's house, but I can't recall, so it
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was seven or eight, and I'm going to I'm trying
by January first to get to ten.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We'll see how that goes. And so that has been
super fulfilling.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
The other goal that I achieved was getting to a
new baseline weight that I could maintain and that I
felt really good in that I could move my body
with more ease in And that's where I'm at now.
So I do feel good about that. But that is
consistent effort to keep to stay there. But I'm super
committed to it, and I'm in this special phase of
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life where since I've made the commitment, I've worked so
hard to achieve it. I continue to push it because
I and I want to and I want to maintain this,
and now that I have these habits, I don't want
my life without these habits.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Because they make me feel so good and show up
so good.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So there's that when I am evaluating my week and
I'm like, how did I live this week? Did I
have did I get my protein in, did I drink
my water every day? Did I take my vitamins? Have
I invested in my future self? And I'm pretty good
at that part. Pretty good at that part. Okay, I
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am dedicated and disciplined to be good at that part.
So I am constantly investing in my future self. To me,
that's extremely important. I want to live to one hundred.
I want to live to a healthy one hundred. I
want to be happy and supple and just feel so good.
I want to avoid the surgeries if I can. And equally,
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you have to enjoy the current form of your life,
right so you can invent in all the tools to
protect your future self. But equally you need to live
your current life and enjoy your current life. And I
do feel like I am living my current life. But
one thing my husband always says that actually like irks
me is He's like, you need to have more fun
like you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
He's like, you're so serious all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Like looseen not have fun, And honestly, it bugs me
because I know he's right, and so one of the
things I am working on is like just loosening up
and trying to enjoy the moments a.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Little bit more.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
And it's a work in progress because I'm so future
driven and I'm so driven and like type A that
I'm like invested in my future. But equally, I need
to make sure that when I'm evaluating the weeks of
did I hit my health plan and my health goals?
Did I also have a bunch of fun and enjoy
the moments? And am I doing every day? So I
enjoy it? Because what is the point of living for
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the future if you're not enjoying the journey?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So that is been a nice reflection that my husband
actually presents to me. I'm actually gonna send him this
episode because I'm giving him a lot of shout outs
and I don't do that with him personally. Probably something
I need to work on. But he, you know, he
really there does bring a lot of value to our life,
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and I often fail to see that unless I'm articulating
it here.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
On a podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So so yeah, that will be part of this, you know,
this constant evolution.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's like, am I too serious?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Am I so binary thinking on my future and invested
in my future that I can't enjoy.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And enjoy the moments today?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And one of the things that is actually like weighing
on me a little bit. Is I don't know if
you've I like what you've heard, but I did stop
drinking in August twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I stop drinking. Then no twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, and then in March twenty twenty four, I was like,
you know what we're going on this puplification, I'm going
to try and drink again.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And I didn't enjoy it at all.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I didn't feel good even after just one and I
was like almost off drinking again. This isn't for me.
I don't want this to be a part of my life.
I feel like it kind of lowers my vibration. It
just I don't ever wake up feeling good, even if
I've just had a little bit. And there's that. But equally,
I'm like, honestly, this is what I'm thinking. Tonight is
my favorite day of the year. This is December sixth,
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and my youngest daughter has her Christmas concert.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I live for this concert, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I was actually supposed to be in Boston today and
at a conference where I was like invited to speak
and I had to decline when the Christmas concert came
out with the date and I was like, Okay, I
guess I'm gonna. I had to get my airplane ticket
refunded because I'm like, I can't miss this concert.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It means so much to me and just like it's cool.
And I was like, and I only have.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
One left, Like she only has one more year of
this concert after this year, so we have two concerts left,
and so that's tonight, And I was honestly thinking, and
every night after this concert we go to Asteca and
it's one of my guiltiest pleasures of restaurants. Love Asteca,
like and my husband thinks it's the worst Mexican food
(19:10):
you can ever have, but for me, it's like I
just grew up going there, so I think it's a
bit of nostalgia and there refried beans are so good.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I just love Asteca.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So we are planning to go to Estecon and I
was like, well, maybe I should plan to have a margrada,
Like maybe part of me really thinking about living for
today is like I used to love Margarita's and who.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Didn't, right, who doesn't?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
And equally, do I have to be so binary and
my not drinking that I can't enjoy one margarita and
just enjoy it for that night, and then I won't
drink again for a few months. I don't know, but
that's part of the thinking that I'm trying to get
you to see, and I guess I'm trying to share.
It's like we can't be all in on one thing
without the balance of another, and whether like for me,
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I've been all in on this health and fitness, and
I think I've strayed away from not being able to
enjoy life as much according to my husband, right, So
it's like, how can we balance these factors? And so
maybe for me it is going to be to have
a drink. I don't know, and I don't actually care,
Like at first I was like, well do I aded
to identify as like I don't drink and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's this a whole weird thing because I might have
a drink again in the future.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
My husband kept saying this whole time that I've been
like working on my health so hard, especially for the
last year and a half. It's when like the biggest
investment came in myself. It was actually there since Jala
was born, so it really has been three years. But
since I've had my nutrition on lock it has been
a year and a half, and so he keeps saying, like,
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are you just never going to drink again? And I'm like,
I don't know, but I'm not drinking right now. But
like I'm not saying I'm not in the future, and
I just don't know how to go about that or
navigate that. But I do know that it doesn't make
me feel good in the future, so then I have
a hard time enjoying it in the present.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
But will I maybe have a glass of margarita? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You know, this is this conversation that I have with
myself this week that I'm sharing with you has got
me thinking. So hopefully you haven't been totally lost in
this episode and you're able to follow, like, yes, be
super invested in your future self, and yes, be super
invested in your present journey and enjoy the shit out
of it, because this is what we have now, in
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what we have today. So it's just this fine balance,
and that is what we're doing with the Wellness program.
It's like, yes, we are investing in our future spelves,
we are making changes in our health, we are making
different habits, but we are also investing in our mental
health and balancing the physical health, the mental health, the
spiritual health, the financial health. Like we are going to
(21:47):
have financial conversations. This program is magic. And what I'm
most looking forward to, honestly is our bi weekly conversations
we'll have two times a month, we're doing a coaching
call live, and honestly, it's great because it'll be a
lot of Q and A and like just like collaboration.
But part of me, like you're watching this episode, you're
(22:08):
listening to the episode wherever you are, And I love
chatting and I love talking, and I love different philosophies
and extrapolations and all of that fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And honestly, like it's like.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What my staff meetings are, right, It's like we talk
high level.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We'll do some high level like balance of life, balance.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Of enjoying and balance of the future or you know,
different aspects of that, and so we'll have like these
high level I don't want to say sermons, but like
where I'm you know, delivering different things I've learned throughout
the week or throughout the month, and that I think
can bring value to my team. And the same thing
will be true in this wellness program. We'll be here
talking and we will be here. You know, we'll be
(22:50):
doing high level conversations on mindset, on souls, on mental health,
and on fitness and health and physical health and training
and becoming injury free. So we definitely will problem solve
some injuries on these on these calls too, And it's
just really cool and I'm excited to see how it's evolving.
So if you're interested at all, you can. I'm sure
(23:12):
we'll put in the show notes of a place to
register for the program at least get on the wait list,
and when we open up that next day, we will
let you know.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
But in the.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Meantime, I hope that you have very happy holidays and
start giving yourself a little bit of investment in your
future self, but equally enjoying your present moments.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I'm going to end this episode with some of.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
The best the best advice.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And I actually I asked so Angela.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
She is our customer care relations If you call the clinic,
you will talk with her, right And so she actually
last night I asked her because I told her I
was like, I have to leave the office early on Friday.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I honestly didn't even want to work today.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I wanted to be able to go to the spot
and just be super relaxed before I showed up for
for the Christmas concert. But we are super understaffed, and
I was like, I'll help out.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I'm gonna help out.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And so I am seeing some patients today and I'm
really excited to see those patients and it'll be it'll
be a really fun day, but it's a super busy day.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
So I asked her. I was like, I sent her pictures.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Of Jala last year and I was like, I'm obsessed
with this every year, and she's like, take me back.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I remember those days so fondly.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Then I said, Angela, what the secret to make the
most of these memories?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
She said to.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm gonna read this multiple times to allow yourself to
be in the moment and feel zero guilt about it.
It's so hard when the world is pulling you in
five million directions.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
But she's only going to be three months.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Oh my god, I'm gonna cry. I'm like, it was
so beautiful and like I just think of her, like
she's going to be four next year. She was two
last year. Like it is just so special, right, I
don't think I was like this with the other two kids. Like,
but the third, I guess is just like a special
like you know it's your last, like you're not going
to hit it again, something like that. I have no idea,
(25:15):
so let me read that again.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
This was her advice, and I feel like this is
amazing advice that we can all take into our holiday
memories that we are creating with our children. To allow
yourself to be in the moment and feel zero guilt
about it. So hard when the world is pulling us
in five million directions, but she's only going to be
three ones.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Like come on now, how powerful is that?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I go, I'm messing with the table. It was so
good leaving you with that. I hope you have a
very happy holiday season. I hope that somehow this podcast
has touched you in.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
A positive way. And I wish nothing but the best.
Take care,
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