WEBVTT - How to actually become a ‘morning routine person’

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, they're Healthy Ish listeners. Thanks for joining us today

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<v Speaker 1>and welcome if this is your first time tuning in. This,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, is the daily podcast from Body and Soul.

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<v Speaker 1>I am Felicity Harley. Do you feel that everyone else

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<v Speaker 1>has a morning routine sorted but you, Well, that's simply

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<v Speaker 1>not true. Joining us today is Emma Maidman. She's a

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<v Speaker 1>yoga and meditation teacher, author and co founder of Flow

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<v Speaker 1>States Studios, and she's going to share her tips for

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<v Speaker 1>sneaking in some early morning habits for a better day ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>If you do like what you hear from Emma, tune

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<v Speaker 1>find your flow state. You can search for that wherever

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<v Speaker 1>we get your podcasts. Emma, nice to have you back

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<v Speaker 1>on the podcast. How are you.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good. Thanks for having me back. It's been a

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<v Speaker 2>little while.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and well done. Well back with a new baby

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<v Speaker 1>and a new book.

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<v Speaker 2>In many ways, yeah, it's a whole new media coming

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<v Speaker 2>to you this time around.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, good, Well, let's talk about I just wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>focus on one thing in your book, build a perfect

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<v Speaker 1>morning routine or a better morning routine, because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>in my eyes, there's no perfect morning routine. It just

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes happens. It sometimes doesn't talk to us about well,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps firstly about the importance of having a good morning routine.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I think we know that the things that

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<v Speaker 2>we come back to, the routines that we have, create habits,

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<v Speaker 2>and when we're in those habits, we you know, they

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<v Speaker 2>become a little bit more healthy habits that we can

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<v Speaker 2>instill into every day. However, it really depends on what

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<v Speaker 2>season of life you're in. So I know, for myself,

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<v Speaker 2>before I was a mum, I had like an hour

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<v Speaker 2>and a half mourning routine that was super lush and

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<v Speaker 2>now feels like a lifetime away before I get to that,

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<v Speaker 2>and now as a mom with you know, two young children,

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<v Speaker 2>it looks very very different. However, the way that we

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<v Speaker 2>set ourselves up for the day it actually has like

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<v Speaker 2>from a scientific point of view, a massive impact on

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<v Speaker 2>our brain. So one simple thing that we can do,

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<v Speaker 2>as you know, to to start a more healthier morning

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<v Speaker 2>routine is to not pick up your phone first thing.

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<v Speaker 2>And that is because when you wake up in the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>your brain starts to move into a FATA state, which

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<v Speaker 2>is like the deeper relaxation kind of semi conscious. There's

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of creative insight in that brain wave state,

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<v Speaker 2>or the alpha state, which is kind of like awake

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<v Speaker 2>but relaxed or a bit more passive. And so what

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<v Speaker 2>that state, what those brain waves are doing, is essentially

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<v Speaker 2>opening you up for this amazing window of time where

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<v Speaker 2>you're more creative and you're more able to access flow state,

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<v Speaker 2>You're more able to be, you know, in alignment with

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<v Speaker 2>what you desire to bring through and manifestation and all

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<v Speaker 2>those beautiful fairy words that we hear. But when you

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<v Speaker 2>look at your phone, what this does to your brain

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<v Speaker 2>straight away is it takes it from that beautiful creative,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, anything's possible state and pops you straight in

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<v Speaker 2>to essentially like the doing brain waves, the beta state,

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<v Speaker 2>which means that you know, you're alert and you're just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like ready for action. What that means is

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<v Speaker 2>is that you miss this kind of beautiful moment of

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<v Speaker 2>manifesting your day, of being creative, of having beautiful ideas

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<v Speaker 2>pop through. And so, you know, we often think of

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<v Speaker 2>morning routines as needing to be this big long thing,

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<v Speaker 2>but a simple morning routine could be do something else

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<v Speaker 2>other than look at your phone for that first little

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<v Speaker 2>like half an hour window that you wake up. It

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<v Speaker 2>might mean that you grab your journal or even just

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<v Speaker 2>spend a moment in time just being with whatever creative

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<v Speaker 2>impulse is arising within you. It's such an incredible window

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<v Speaker 2>to access that. But if the first thing we do

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<v Speaker 2>is grab our phones and jump into our emails, we

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<v Speaker 2>miss that window of opportunity.

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<v Speaker 1>It's hard. I mean, it's hard, isn't it, because you often,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I often have to check my phone just

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<v Speaker 1>to see if you know, and if there's anything come

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<v Speaker 1>up from my kids' school. And I know that's an excuse,

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<v Speaker 1>but it is really hard to put a barrier up

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<v Speaker 1>against that phone. First thing, How do you do it?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, is it just a practice, a habit that

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<v Speaker 1>you're in that you don't touch it in the first

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<v Speaker 1>half an hour an hour?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I think it's the awareness piece around it. Like

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, look, you can go the full hob of

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<v Speaker 2>putting the phone in another room on charge and having

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<v Speaker 2>an alarm clock behind your bed or whatnot, but ultimately,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, for me, I have mine as my time,

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<v Speaker 2>so I'll just kind of, you know, see what time

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<v Speaker 2>it is, Okay, Yeah, six o'clock in the morning. I

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<v Speaker 2>can hear the kids who are awake it's time to

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<v Speaker 2>wake up. But then it's having that discipline to just

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<v Speaker 2>go it's six am. Nothing needs me right now, Like

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<v Speaker 2>I can check that in twenty minutes time, half an hour,

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<v Speaker 2>it's not going to make a huge difference if you

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<v Speaker 2>find out that school's canceled that day or whatever, that

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<v Speaker 2>little window of time is not really going to matter.

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<v Speaker 2>And so it's then going, Okay, that's a discipline to

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<v Speaker 2>put that down and to move into some other activity

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever you're doing in the morning, and then come

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<v Speaker 2>back to that very very intentionally. And when you bring

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<v Speaker 2>awareness to it, that's when you start to make the change,

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<v Speaker 2>because then you notice, hang on, I actually am in

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<v Speaker 2>this habit of the last thing I do is look

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<v Speaker 2>at my phone. And the first thing I do is

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<v Speaker 2>look at my phone. What is that doing to my brain?

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<v Speaker 2>How could I actually create more for me to access

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<v Speaker 2>this internal flow state those simple little things. It just

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<v Speaker 2>starts small. Maybe it's like, Okay, I'm totally addicted to

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<v Speaker 2>this for the first fifteen minutes of my day, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not looking at my phone, and then I can pick

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<v Speaker 2>it up and then you know, build it up. So

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<v Speaker 2>that you're getting that first little twenty minute half an

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<v Speaker 2>hour window that your phone free, that you're in that

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<v Speaker 2>kind of flow state and you're able to experience that

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<v Speaker 2>before you then intentionally pick it up and go. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm with intention using this device to check what's coming

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<v Speaker 2>up for my day.

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<v Speaker 1>What are some of your other fundamentals when it comes

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<v Speaker 1>to building a good, solid morning routine.

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<v Speaker 2>For me, one of my non negotiables is having a

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<v Speaker 2>meditation practice, and in an ideal world, it's doing it

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<v Speaker 2>in that first kind of window of the morning when

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<v Speaker 2>the brain is still in those beautiful creative states you're

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<v Speaker 2>able to meditate and then move out into the doing

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<v Speaker 2>part of the day. So for me, that's the non negotiable.

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<v Speaker 2>And then now that I have kids, every other part

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<v Speaker 2>of my morning routine is very much integrated around them.

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<v Speaker 2>So I love doing like Hwasha because I am not

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<v Speaker 2>getting much sleep, So I'll grab my gwasher as I'm

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<v Speaker 2>you know, making the kids breakfast, and I'll be doing

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<v Speaker 2>that on my face. Or simple things like I like

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<v Speaker 2>to wake up and drink a warm glass of water

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<v Speaker 2>to get my digestive system moving. All of those little

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<v Speaker 2>things make up a routine of moving from the sleep

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<v Speaker 2>state into the awake state. So having that glass of water,

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<v Speaker 2>doing my guasher, getting the lymph moving in my body,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you know, ideally sitting down to do my meditation,

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<v Speaker 2>and then moving into the day. Obviously, not every day

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<v Speaker 2>looks like that. You might have a kid that suddenly

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<v Speaker 2>vomited everywhere and you're doing loads of washing at six am.

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<v Speaker 2>Like it's it's being fluid within that, but just having

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<v Speaker 2>small little things that you can do consistently that it's

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<v Speaker 2>those things, those little habits that stack up that actually

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<v Speaker 2>create well being rather than it needing to be. Oh no,

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<v Speaker 2>I missed my whole hour long routine. Now my day

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<v Speaker 2>is ruined. It's going. Okay, some of that didn't go

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<v Speaker 2>to plan, but I can still you know, for me,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like I can still do the guasher, I can

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<v Speaker 2>still drink the warm water, I can still have that

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<v Speaker 2>moment of meditation to pause. I can still try not

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<v Speaker 2>to look at my phone straight away. That stuff's to

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<v Speaker 2>set me up for those healthier habits heading into the

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<v Speaker 2>rest of the day.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's a really good point because often we

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<v Speaker 1>can scroll Instagram and or TikTok and people have these

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<v Speaker 1>amazing morning routines where they meditate for twenty minutes and

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<v Speaker 1>they drink some water, and then they go for a

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<v Speaker 1>walk and then they listen to a podcast and they

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<v Speaker 1>do this and I'm like, excuse me, that does not

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<v Speaker 1>happen in my world. So just putting a few tiny

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<v Speaker 1>habits and then you can still feel like you've achieved

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<v Speaker 1>something of a you know, semi perfect morning.

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<v Speaker 2>In some ways, it's really about honoring the season of

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<v Speaker 2>life that you're in and going, Okay, that's nice that

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<v Speaker 2>that you know, twenty one year old influencer has the time,

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<v Speaker 2>because that was me, you know, many many years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>That was me with the two hour long morning routine.

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<v Speaker 2>Every day in the morning. What are you doing? There's

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<v Speaker 2>definitely reels the way back. I'm like, this is my smoothie,

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<v Speaker 2>this is my the and now it's like I wake

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<v Speaker 2>up with my children as an alarm, you know. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's going, well, it's the season of life that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in, and then what are the things I needed

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<v Speaker 2>to do to support that season through those routines. Because

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<v Speaker 2>if we want to experience this beautiful life and flow,

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<v Speaker 2>it's if you think of it like how water works,

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<v Speaker 2>it needs a container. It needs the structure, and so

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<v Speaker 2>often we think like, oh, just flow with the day,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you lose the structure and everything turns paar shaped.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you're a parent listening to this, you know

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<v Speaker 2>that if your kids missed a little bit of their structure,

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<v Speaker 2>you get them their breakfast a little bit too late

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever, things turn pair shape. Really quickly assessing what

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<v Speaker 2>season of life am I in? What is realistic? Because

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<v Speaker 2>if it's not realistic for you to do ninety minutes

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<v Speaker 2>of yoga at four am, you're not going to do it,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you're going to be setting yourself up for failure,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're feeling worse about yourself and spiraling, and it's like,

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<v Speaker 2>what's the point. So going, Okay, what is realistic? What

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<v Speaker 2>can I actually achieve? And then maybe you start achieving that,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you start adding.

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<v Speaker 1>On like, yeah, great advice, Emma, thank you for coming unhealthy.

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<v Speaker 2>Ish worries, thanks for having me.

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<v Speaker 1>Well there we go, folks. You don't need to necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>do that one hour, rigid routine. You can just take

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<v Speaker 1>a few little moments you're in there for yourself to

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<v Speaker 1>set yourself up for a healthy is day. Emma's new

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<v Speaker 1>book is called Find Your Flow and it is out now.

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