Speaker 1: I won't let my body out be outwell everything that
Speaker 1: I'm made do. Won't spend my life trying to change.
Speaker 1: I'm learning to love who I am. I get I'm strong,
Speaker 1: I feel free, I know who every part of me
Speaker 1: It's beautiful and then will always out way if you
Speaker 1: feel it with yours in the air, She'll love to
Speaker 1: the moon. I am there. Let's say good day and
Speaker 1: did you and die out? Happy Saturday? Outweigh fam Amy
Speaker 1: here and I am sitting across from Christie amadio and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have you give us your little bio and
Speaker 1: a second and where you're coming to us from. But
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I just got done watching Christie's ted
Speaker 1: x talk on YouTube and I was like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna watch a little bit here and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do this, And the next thing you know, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: down in front of my computer totally like into the story.
Speaker 1: And I'm just so grateful for people like Christie that
Speaker 1: have used their story and then taken it to others.
Speaker 1: And I know that you're super passionate about helping people
Speaker 1: anyone and everyone all across the world, So thank you
Speaker 1: for taking the time to join us on our way today.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me so tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about you and your story. And obviously
Speaker 1: people may now know that you've spoken. You have an accent.
Speaker 1: I do have an accent. So I'm back living in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. I'm kind of from all over. I was
Speaker 1: born in England, my parents were from New Zealand. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Australia and then I moved to New
Speaker 1: Zealand when I was twenty four, and then after I recovered,
Speaker 1: which i'll get into, actually moved to the States for
Speaker 1: five years, which it's absolutely a piece of my heart.
Speaker 1: Um So you get different accents coming out of my
Speaker 1: mouth all the time. But in terms of my story,
Speaker 1: it's so soulful for me to be able to talk
Speaker 1: about being recovered, because it's not something that I ever
Speaker 1: thought was on the cards to me. I struggled with
Speaker 1: disordered eating and an eating disorder for fourteen years and
Speaker 1: I got told in two different countries that I was
Speaker 1: chronic and I'd never fully recover, and I got taught
Speaker 1: to know in air quotes like manage my eating disorder.
Speaker 1: They said, well, you can still be high functioning. You
Speaker 1: can still you know, have a job and have relationships,
Speaker 1: but you just have to manage it. And I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: if that's what I have to do, like okay. And
Speaker 1: I was never told that I could have a better
Speaker 1: quality of life. And so I think for so long
Speaker 1: nobody knew I had an eating disorder because it was
Speaker 1: so hidden by you know, I exercised that much. My
Speaker 1: career became in the outdoors, so that I was like,
Speaker 1: I could just get paid to have an eating disorder
Speaker 1: and just exercise all the time. Great, And so I
Speaker 1: became an outdoor guide, like working like taking people out
Speaker 1: in the bush and taking people kayaking, And in my head,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that's okay because i can exercise
Speaker 1: all the time and I'm getting paid for it, and
Speaker 1: this is okay, right, And I kind of just kept
Speaker 1: that up for a very long time, and everyone just
Speaker 1: thought that was that's just Christie. She likes to exercise,
Speaker 1: and you know, she's really quote unquote healthy with her food.
Speaker 1: But deep inside, I'd wake up every morning and think
Speaker 1: about how many hours I had to do, or what
Speaker 1: I had to eat, or if I was going out
Speaker 1: that night where I'd have to compensate later on, and
Speaker 1: it just it came to a head where I think
Speaker 1: the eating disorder, I'd like to say it was like
Speaker 1: a termite, and it just chipped away and chipped away
Speaker 1: and chipped away until one day I work up in
Speaker 1: the house and fallen down around my years and I
Speaker 1: was deep, deep, deep in an eating disorder and once
Speaker 1: again being told that I'd never get better. That's a
Speaker 1: great analogy, the termite analogy. I think that that's an
Speaker 1: excellent way to put it, because it chips away. It's
Speaker 1: like you don't realize there's a problem until it's no
Speaker 1: longer sustainable, the until you problem. Yeah, the foundation is
Speaker 1: about to collapse because it's being eroded away and eaten away.
Speaker 1: And the title of your TED talk in case people
Speaker 1: want to search it up, is it's time to do
Speaker 1: eating disorder recovery differently. And why is it that you
Speaker 1: chose to speak on that in particular. Yeah, that's such
Speaker 1: a great question. So what happened is my termite house
Speaker 1: fell down around my ears and I got told in
Speaker 1: New Zealand like, hey, you know your chronic this is
Speaker 1: going to be the pattern of your adult years. You're
Speaker 1: going to have times of doing doing okay and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have times where you're going to be struggling again.
Speaker 1: And I said, I said, well, if that's the life
Speaker 1: you're forecasting for me, then I don't want to live
Speaker 1: it because it's not living. It was existing. And so
Speaker 1: I searched online for support worldwide because I was like,
Speaker 1: there has to be something somewhere. I just had this
Speaker 1: thing inside of me I think that always held onto
Speaker 1: a glimmer of hope even when it felt hopeless. And
Speaker 1: I found this treatment center in America that talked about
Speaker 1: being fully recovered, and I was like, well, that's nice
Speaker 1: for them, but maybe I can just get a little
Speaker 1: bit better, you know. And I called them up, and
Speaker 1: the lady on the phone I'll always remember her and
Speaker 1: she said, Christie said, I don't care how long you've
Speaker 1: had meeting disorder. I don't care how many times you've
Speaker 1: tried to recover. I don't care how sick you've been.
Speaker 1: We absolutely believe everyone can recover. And it just it
Speaker 1: was so foreign, but it out I was so drawn
Speaker 1: to that concept, and long story short, I ended up
Speaker 1: going to America for eating disorder treatment and it was
Speaker 1: just a different world like I was so used to
Speaker 1: Australia in New Zealand, which blessed their heart. I think
Speaker 1: they're doing the very best they can with what they
Speaker 1: know and what they have available. And America has something
Speaker 1: that's so different. And for me, what was different was
Speaker 1: it was a home. It wasn't a hospital. A portion
Speaker 1: of the staff had had eating disorders and had recovered
Speaker 1: every single day. It was like life in recovery. I
Speaker 1: wasn't sitting in a room just being given food and
Speaker 1: that that was the goal. It was like, no, we're
Speaker 1: going to teach you how to recover. We're going to
Speaker 1: go out to restaurants. We're going to go grocery shopping,
Speaker 1: We're going to go to the beach, we're going to
Speaker 1: go to the movies. It was living life in recovery
Speaker 1: and negotiating all of that. And so when I left
Speaker 1: treatment and I started to go back out in the world,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, this just has to
Speaker 1: come out to the world and I want to teach.
Speaker 1: I want to do eating disort of treatment differently of people,
Speaker 1: and I want to take a piece of that. And
Speaker 1: so I started to do that myself and helping others.
Speaker 1: And so what are the ways that you do that
Speaker 1: because I mean that is I have goose bumps thinking
Speaker 1: that getting into or finding a treatment center that believed
Speaker 1: in you and your recovery and that it was possible
Speaker 1: and you having that hope and then going there and
Speaker 1: then yeah, it's not like you leave right away and
Speaker 1: it's like oh a magic wand was waved and suddenly
Speaker 1: you're recovered. But it changed the trajectory of your life.
Speaker 1: You now felt this calling of like, I can help others.
Speaker 1: So what is it that you've developed since you left
Speaker 1: where you were? And um in you're you're helping others
Speaker 1: out in the world. And I think that's such an
Speaker 1: important thing to know. Like so often people say to me, well,
Speaker 1: it's like you left and you just recovered, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I left and I struggled and life happened
Speaker 1: and I had to navigate life into the world. So
Speaker 1: I want to say there was one hund It wasn't
Speaker 1: like I left treatment recovered. I left treatment with hope.
Speaker 1: I left treatment knowing what I had to do. I
Speaker 1: left treatment with with to be recovered, Like I knew
Speaker 1: it and I wanted it. It was like a like
Speaker 1: an athlete going for a goal and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is what I want. You know, it took a
Speaker 1: couple of years after I left treatment to be recovered,
Speaker 1: but what happened is I went back to working in
Speaker 1: the outdoors, which was fantastic to have a different relationship
Speaker 1: with food and a different relationship with exercise, and a
Speaker 1: different relationship with my body. You know. I was back
Speaker 1: being in the outdoors because I loved it, not because
Speaker 1: I felt like I had to punish myself. And that
Speaker 1: was really important to me. And I actually had an
Speaker 1: experience where I fell off a cliff. So I was
Speaker 1: out in the bush and I fell off a cliff
Speaker 1: and I damaged my feet and it actually ended my
Speaker 1: outdoor career. And I was like devastated, and it was
Speaker 1: like what can I do? And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I can eat food and I'm good with people. And
Speaker 1: I actually already had a therapy degree, which I just
Speaker 1: wasn't using because I liked the outdoors. And so I
Speaker 1: decided to go back into therapy and specialize in eating disorders.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to do more than just traditional talk therapy,
Speaker 1: and so I came up with this concept of for
Speaker 1: me going from residential treatment and going back home that
Speaker 1: was hard, and it was hard because I came back
Speaker 1: to New Zealand to a country that didn't understand the
Speaker 1: process I've been through too, and I think when we recover,
Speaker 1: we recover into a disordered world. There's so much out
Speaker 1: there that's in restaurants, it's in family structures, it's in beliefs,
Speaker 1: it's in gym. So I thought, you know, for people
Speaker 1: that either can't go to treatment because of whatever reason,
Speaker 1: maybe they've got four kids and they're a single mom,
Speaker 1: Maybe they can't afford it, maybe it's not in their country,
Speaker 1: I was like, what if I kind of brought treatment
Speaker 1: to people? And so I came up with this concept
Speaker 1: of livings where I would go and live with people
Speaker 1: in their home, and that could be once they left treatment,
Speaker 1: or it could because they could never go. And so
Speaker 1: I kind of I was like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if people would want to do that, but I would
Speaker 1: have really liked that for myself. And I you know,
Speaker 1: went on a woman a prayer to America because that
Speaker 1: was where my I guess, my my chosen family was
Speaker 1: my my recovery family, my community, and it just took off.
Speaker 1: Within a couple of months. I had a year long
Speaker 1: wait list, and I think I went to seven or
Speaker 1: eight different kind trees all around the world, living with
Speaker 1: people in their homes, and I just had the most humbling,
Speaker 1: beautiful experiences where I got to live with people and
Speaker 1: help them change not just within themselves, but look at
Speaker 1: their environment. And it's like, no, no, when when you
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store, you don't park three blocks away,
Speaker 1: you park in the parking lot, you know, and little
Speaker 1: things like that that I think never get addressed in
Speaker 1: treatment because you can't. And just working with the family
Speaker 1: as a whole. It was such such a gift. And
Speaker 1: then the second kind of thread that I started was
Speaker 1: also online because I was starting to get reach outs
Speaker 1: from people in Israel, people in Scotland, people in Denmark,
Speaker 1: and I was like wow, and so I started this
Speaker 1: online piece. I like to say that I started online
Speaker 1: therapy before COVID did. They got people just wanting support,
Speaker 1: people who couldn't get the support in their own countries,
Speaker 1: and people that wanted to work with someone that had recovered,
Speaker 1: people that wanted someone that believed in them, and so
Speaker 1: very quickly that got really busy as well. And so
Speaker 1: I really like to have hold those two threads of
Speaker 1: having to live in support and also having the online piece.
Speaker 1: Where can people access the online piece? Yeah, absolutely through
Speaker 1: the website, so recovered living dot com. Um. So now
Speaker 1: I'm back in New Zealand. Um. I've also got five
Speaker 1: other coaches that worked for me in America. They all
Speaker 1: fully recovered. They're all fantastic. I love them all, and yeah,
Speaker 1: they've We've got clients from all over the world, which
Speaker 1: is fantastic to me. We're on zoom so I can
Speaker 1: see Christie's face and it's it is pure joy bouncing
Speaker 1: back off the computer to me. Because like when you said,
Speaker 1: but you love the other people working with you like you,
Speaker 1: I could tell that was very, very sincere and probably
Speaker 1: the excitement you'll feel coming together collectively all if you've
Speaker 1: got five and then including you, is that six. So
Speaker 1: think of the amount of people y'all are able to
Speaker 1: reach coming together for that. I just I think it's
Speaker 1: amazing because a lot of people are familiar with recovery
Speaker 1: from alcoholism at times and when people have inner treatment.
Speaker 1: I have people in my life that have come out
Speaker 1: of that. I never went to any residential treatment for
Speaker 1: my eating disorder, but I am familiar with addiction to alcohol,
Speaker 1: and you come out of that and you instantly have
Speaker 1: all of the support and there's a a meetings and
Speaker 1: you have a sponsor, and you have like it is
Speaker 1: a rigorous routine because it's again an alcohol is something
Speaker 1: that can be all around you, but you have your
Speaker 1: different things that you have to do to stay the course.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, similarly, food can be an addiction,
Speaker 1: but we also need food to survive, right, So then
Speaker 1: there's this's this very difficult dynamic because you can never
Speaker 1: touch alcohol again and that's the goal. But food you
Speaker 1: have to touch every single day. And even in your
Speaker 1: TED talk, it's like it should be the first thing
Speaker 1: you do every single day, And when you were doing
Speaker 1: your livings with people, it's like, Nope, you wake up,
Speaker 1: you eat breakfast. That's just what you do. Don't put
Speaker 1: off the food, don't start the restriction, don't get busy,
Speaker 1: don't make food the last thing on your list, because
Speaker 1: the minute you start to implement that, you'll start to
Speaker 1: see the change. But I'm kind of rambling here now,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like what you're doing with the
Speaker 1: livings and the online and giving people that support, the
Speaker 1: tangible support, the change, the ongoing because it is ongoing.
Speaker 1: I have been what I would call quote unquote in
Speaker 1: recovery for two years, but I still put myself to
Speaker 1: work every single day to combat different thoughts or old behaviors,
Speaker 1: or when I met with other things from society, I
Speaker 1: have to shut it down, change the channel. Just I
Speaker 1: know some people are new and they might be listening
Speaker 1: to this episode because they're curious to try to figure
Speaker 1: out and I just wanted to share a little bit
Speaker 1: about like some recovery comparison to other things you might
Speaker 1: be familiar with, at least that I feel like I've
Speaker 1: talked about more like alcoholism and a a that's integrated
Speaker 1: into movies and storylines and different things. And we're starting
Speaker 1: to see eating disorders show up. But the more people
Speaker 1: share and get vulnerable and talk about things than the
Speaker 1: more quote unquote normal, it will seem absolutely And I
Speaker 1: think you touched on such an important piece there, because
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, if you struggle with substances, it's like,
Speaker 1: don't take the substances, like that's that's your remedy. But
Speaker 1: I think for someone with an eating disorder, you have
Speaker 1: to eat every single day, and so it's a different
Speaker 1: type of recovery because you really have to heal your
Speaker 1: relationship with food. You don't have to abstain from food,
Speaker 1: you have to heal your relationship with it. And one
Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes, it's about a tiger. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, for someone that's in recovery, they go and
Speaker 1: pat the tiger every single day in the cage or
Speaker 1: they take it for a walk when you're in recovery.
Speaker 1: But when you're recovered, I like to say, there just
Speaker 1: is no tiger. Like I have a completely different relationship
Speaker 1: with food in my body today and I don't feel
Speaker 1: like like I don't have to struggle anymore. I just
Speaker 1: eat food and I live in my body and I
Speaker 1: love my life and it's the greatest gift I can have.
Speaker 1: And I know, and I know when I was in
Speaker 1: my eating disorder, that just felt so impossible. It just
Speaker 1: felt like way too much of a bridge. But I
Speaker 1: want to say to anybody listening, you may not believe
Speaker 1: that you can recover until you're actually there. Like it's
Speaker 1: okay to doubt yourself and go forward anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think that's the truth is you just you
Speaker 1: just have to you just have to start and you
Speaker 1: have to dive in and take that tiger for a walk,
Speaker 1: and one day you'll go to get the tiger and
Speaker 1: you'll be like, oh, it's not there anymore. You said
Speaker 1: that all you need to have, and this is something
Speaker 1: that I have in writing from you, All you need
Speaker 1: to have is the curiosity of what it would be
Speaker 1: like to not have and eating disorder in order to
Speaker 1: start your journey to recovery. Yes, like you just gave
Speaker 1: me goose bumps and there with my work. But like,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's so you don't even have to want
Speaker 1: to recover. You know. I'm talking with clients right now
Speaker 1: that are like, I don't even know if I want
Speaker 1: to recover, And I'm like, that's okay, let's just be
Speaker 1: let's start with the curiosity. Do I even want that? Like,
Speaker 1: let's just start there. Talk about that one a little
Speaker 1: bit more like why would someone not want to recover?
Speaker 1: M hm? So many reasons. I mean for myself, Like
Speaker 1: I put my whole life savings on the line to
Speaker 1: go to America and I still thought it hard. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't turn up with a smile and a hug.
Speaker 1: I turned up like I am suspicious of everybody here,
Speaker 1: And for me, I didn't want to recover because my
Speaker 1: eating disorder was an identity, because it was my safety.
Speaker 1: I was like, who will I be without it? How
Speaker 1: will I cope? Will I be okay? I couldn't envisage
Speaker 1: a life without my eating disorder. And I think so
Speaker 1: many people they're not sure they want to give up
Speaker 1: that control because it's like, well, another thing that I
Speaker 1: like to say is I think people's ability to recover
Speaker 1: is directly proportional to their ability to surrender. And so
Speaker 1: for me, I was all about the I'll recover ninety percent,
Speaker 1: but that ten percent I am hanging onto that, and
Speaker 1: I was huge about that, and it was like I
Speaker 1: just wanted to be safe. I wanted to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on myself. And the truth is that would have
Speaker 1: been a termite that I didn't e write a K
Speaker 1: and in ten years time I would have worken up
Speaker 1: with my house around my ears again. And that last
Speaker 1: ten percent was huge to say, I am surrendering to
Speaker 1: my body set point. I'm surrendering to the fact that
Speaker 1: I don't actually have control of my shoe size in
Speaker 1: the same way that I don't have control of my
Speaker 1: body shape size, body composition, all of those pieces, and
Speaker 1: for me, that was the clincher on being recovered. When
Speaker 1: I can surrender into that and when I let go
Speaker 1: of that ten percent, everything else fell into place. Okay,
Speaker 1: you said set point, So define that for people, because
Speaker 1: I think that's an important thing. So set point A disclaimer,
Speaker 1: I'm not a dietitian, but stet point is essentially, it's
Speaker 1: like our body has a genetic weight range, weight composition,
Speaker 1: weight size, shape that it wants to be. And you know,
Speaker 1: in the same way we have a shoe size or
Speaker 1: a face shape or an eye shape. We can control
Speaker 1: it if we want to our set point, but we'll
Speaker 1: never be truly free. And I think that's the difference
Speaker 1: is because society is so constantly saying you can have
Speaker 1: a flat stomach, can have you know, thighs like this
Speaker 1: or shoulders like that? You can? But at what cost?
Speaker 1: That's exactly what the thought I had in my head.
Speaker 1: If you weren't going to say it, I was about
Speaker 1: to say, but at what cost? Yeah, when you think
Speaker 1: of all that you sacrifice when you're eating, disorder is
Speaker 1: in control. I think of the relationships that suffered so
Speaker 1: much of my life was ruled well, in fact, the
Speaker 1: whole thing. When I was deep into it, everything was
Speaker 1: centered around my eating disorder. But it was all in
Speaker 1: my head. It's not like people knew. But like every thought,
Speaker 1: every relationship, every dinner out, every parties that I missed,
Speaker 1: celebrations that I didn't take part in, you know, amazing
Speaker 1: food that my family cooked that I didn't eat. Nights
Speaker 1: I stayed home alone because I was too nervous to
Speaker 1: go out or felt gross in my body and just
Speaker 1: didn't even want to deal with it. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think having a healthy perspective on what is your set
Speaker 1: point When you're in it, you're we're like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know because I've been manipulating for years. But once
Speaker 1: you get there and you feel the joy and you're
Speaker 1: no longer consumed by all those thoughts, or you can
Speaker 1: walk past a mirror without having to turn and look
Speaker 1: and assess and judge yourself, it's just freedom. You know,
Speaker 1: it will sometimes could rear up, but when you have
Speaker 1: the tools, then you can bust them out from your
Speaker 1: back pocket and be like not today, not today, tigger. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And also there's this piece I think like like two things.
Speaker 1: One having grace, like I turned thirty seven, like a
Speaker 1: month ago, and I was like, I woke up the
Speaker 1: one morning I was like, huh, my body's squishy and
Speaker 1: than it used to be. And I was like, interesting,
Speaker 1: this must happen as you get older. And it was
Speaker 1: like there was no part of me that was like
Speaker 1: I had to change my food after exercise more. This
Speaker 1: isn't okay. There's this grace that my set point, my
Speaker 1: body composition and shape, my size, that's going to change
Speaker 1: over time and that's okay. And I think that came
Speaker 1: with being recovered, and it came with time in the saddle.
Speaker 1: And I often say that, like I feel more recovered
Speaker 1: this year than I did last year, And that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I wasn't recovered last year. It just means that
Speaker 1: I've got more time being human. And so I think
Speaker 1: too with you know, when I was in recovery, I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want my body. I don't want
Speaker 1: my body at that set point. I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I don't see how I can be happy with that.
Speaker 1: I don't see how I can live with that. And
Speaker 1: part of recovery for me was actually living in that,
Speaker 1: not lacking it, but doing it anyway. It's kind of
Speaker 1: that piece of I don't know if I can recover,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to give it a shot. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can live in this body. Like
Speaker 1: there was so many times I would cry to my therapist,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can live in this body, and
Speaker 1: she was like, okay, but let's try. Let's let's just
Speaker 1: give it a shot. And as I leaned further into recovery,
Speaker 1: and then as I recovered, I actually started to want
Speaker 1: the body that I had, And now I want the
Speaker 1: body that I have because this body means I can
Speaker 1: do all these amazing things, like this body with the
Speaker 1: lumps and the bumps and the whatever's that I didn't
Speaker 1: like before. This body means that I have relationships, and
Speaker 1: this body means that I get to travel, and this
Speaker 1: body means that I wake up feeling well. And I
Speaker 1: actually want this body now, whereas when I was in recovery,
Speaker 1: I was like, Nope, I'll recover, but I want my
Speaker 1: eating just a lot of body. It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 1: And so I think the message that I really want
Speaker 1: to give is for me. When I recovered, I started
Speaker 1: to want the body that I had, and that was
Speaker 1: a real changing point as well. Yeah, because we've been
Speaker 1: conditioned to, you know, by all the things, the media, society,
Speaker 1: different things, that this is what the body is supposed
Speaker 1: to look like, when really, uh, we should have had
Speaker 1: no no conditioning there whatsoever. No one should be telling
Speaker 1: us this is what we're striving for. But once you
Speaker 1: build those new neuro pathways and you start to fall
Speaker 1: in love with your body and yet then you just
Speaker 1: don't even think about it. It's amazing what our brains
Speaker 1: are capable of when, like you said, you just start
Speaker 1: doing it. Just start doing it. It's not easy at all.
Speaker 1: But that's why even sometimes I do that with actual
Speaker 1: like food, I know, and the ted X talk you did,
Speaker 1: it talked about like unloading groceries for the first time
Speaker 1: and like all the things like even like I can't
Speaker 1: remember the exact food, but the eggs and the lettuce
Speaker 1: with the cookies, and you had pantry full of things
Speaker 1: things and a fridge full of things. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'll still catch myself with the grocery store sometimes being
Speaker 1: like I'm not gonna get the cookies, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't get the cookies. I'll hear some voice, don't get
Speaker 1: the cookies, and then you know what. I come right
Speaker 1: back and I'm like, you know what cookies are going
Speaker 1: in the basket now because brain don't challenge me. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep buying the freaking cookies until my
Speaker 1: brain knows that it's no big deal. If I want
Speaker 1: the cookies, that get the cookies. If I don't want
Speaker 1: the cookies, I don't get the cookies. But I had,
Speaker 1: I had to build the new neuropathway. You do it
Speaker 1: until it's not hot, and then you just keep doing
Speaker 1: it because you want to write. Well, Christie, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for taking the time to chat with us today,
Speaker 1: and I encourage people to check out more at Recovered
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