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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to five

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Speaker 1: Minute Friday from Hurdle. What's up? It is a hectic

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Speaker 1: weekend here in New York because it is New York

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Speaker 1: City Marathon weekend, and I am preparing for all things fun.

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Speaker 1: I've got my first event. I guess this is last

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Speaker 1: night by the time that you listen to this Thursday

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Speaker 1: night at the Old Man Run Club pop up, which

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Speaker 1: is open through the end of the day. On Saturday,

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Speaker 1: I'm also hosting a shakeout and hang with the folks

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Speaker 1: from Strava and Together at the Lot. Radio will be

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Speaker 1: shaken out at nine thirty am and then we will

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Speaker 1: be having a panel discussion at eleven. I would love

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Speaker 1: to see you there, and of course cannot forget the

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Speaker 1: Hurdler Huddle. It is this morning if you're listening to

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Speaker 1: this in real time at eight thirty am in Flat

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Speaker 1: Iron at Athleta, So come hang, eat a bagel. Top

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Speaker 1: of mind right now. What I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about for five Minute Friday is navigating overwhelm Let's

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Speaker 1: let's be real. I get overwhelmed fairly regularly, but these

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Speaker 1: days I have strategies in place that help me navigate

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Speaker 1: this feeling of being out of control. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: going on. Everything that's happening feels really heavy, I feel anxious,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. One of these strategies is proactive, and one

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Speaker 1: of these strategies is reactive. The proactive strategy I have

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Speaker 1: for navigating overwhelm is starting days that feel like everest,

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Speaker 1: that feel heavy and like a lot with movement. Now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, simply lacing up and heading out for a

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Speaker 1: walk or run is a great thing to do, but

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Speaker 1: on these days that feel really overwhelming, I almost find

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Speaker 1: it more helpful to schedule in some sort of group

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Speaker 1: fitness situation. Maybe that is an actual workout class like

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Speaker 1: going to a Berry's boot camp, or an Orange Theory

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Speaker 1: or a hot yoga class, or perhaps it's simply scheduling

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Speaker 1: a sweat date. But by giving myself a specific time

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Speaker 1: that this movement needs to happen and then adding an

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Speaker 1: extra layer of accountability, whether it be because I paid

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Speaker 1: for a class or I know that someone's relying on

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Speaker 1: me to do this thing at this time, it guarantees

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Speaker 1: that I won't shove this off because of my overwhelm.

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Speaker 1: I know, without a doubt for a fact that I

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Speaker 1: will feel better after moving my body and getting those

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Speaker 1: endorphins first thing in the morning. It really lays the foundation.

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Speaker 1: It's a keystone habit for me to feel better in

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Speaker 1: my body as the day goes on and that inevitable

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Speaker 1: overwhelm kicks in. Now. The second thing that I do

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Speaker 1: when I am struggling with overwhelm, the reactive thing, is

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Speaker 1: I take to my notes app even better if I

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Speaker 1: can take to an actual piece of paper and a

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Speaker 1: pen right, and in the exercise that I do, I

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Speaker 1: write down all the things that I'm thinking and feeling. So,

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Speaker 1: say it's one o'clock in the afternoon, I feel like

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Speaker 1: my to do list is a mile long. By writing

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Speaker 1: down where I'm at and being able to look at

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Speaker 1: my thoughts and feelings on paper, I am then able

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Speaker 1: to tackle one thing at a time to see what

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Speaker 1: is fact what is fiction. It's an important opportunity to

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Speaker 1: then go through the reframe. Rather than saying the sentence

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Speaker 1: I am overwhelmed, shift it to I feel overwhelmed, passing

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Speaker 1: through me right, knowing that it is not a permanent state,

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Speaker 1: that it is temporary, and then you have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: through that state of overwhelm. So my two strategies again

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Speaker 1: committed movement, whether with a friend or a dedicated class.

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Speaker 1: And then the second strategy writing things down, doing some

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Speaker 1: sort of a brain dump, having a moment to let

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Speaker 1: go of everything without judgment whatsoever, separate the facts from

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Speaker 1: the feelings, and then come up with some sort of

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Speaker 1: an action plan on how I can move forward and

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Speaker 1: have grace with myself. Something else that I've spoken about

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Speaker 1: as a cherry on top to navigating overwhelm is a

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Speaker 1: breath work exercise. So I'm a huge fan of the

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Speaker 1: box breath that's inhale for four, hold at the top

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Speaker 1: for four, exhale for four, hold at the bottom for four.

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Speaker 1: I'll do a box breath for one minute. I'll send

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Speaker 1: takes out the guesswork for me, especially when it feels

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to lose it. You don't need to

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Speaker 1: lose it. You've got this. And remember again I said this,

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Speaker 1: but overwhelm is just something that passes through you. It

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Speaker 1: will pass. I cannot emphasize that enough. So know that

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Speaker 1: you are capable of handling whatever's on your to do list,

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Speaker 1: whatever is in front of you, wherever you're at. Know

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Speaker 1: My question for you this week, and I'm really curious

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Speaker 1: with your responses over on social How do you navigate overwhelm?

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Speaker 1: What do you do when life feels heavy? And now

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Speaker 1: a listener question.

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Speaker 2: Hy Emily often talk about your community, your friends, and

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Speaker 2: the people that keep you going, But I was wondering

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Speaker 2: if you ever had a friendship breakup intentional or unintentional,

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Speaker 2: and have you dealt with it?

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Speaker 1: Thanks oh Man. Friend breakups are really challenging. I would

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Speaker 1: argue that they're more difficult than romantic breakups. I had

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Speaker 1: my first friend breakup, I would say about eight years ago,

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Speaker 1: when I found out that someone that I really trusted

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Speaker 1: was seeing the same person that I was seeing and

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Speaker 1: didn't tell me. I had absolutely no idea. It was

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Speaker 1: truly truly wild in that experience. I just let her

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Speaker 1: know that I was really hurt and I was incapable

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Speaker 1: of continuing on in a relationship with her. And despite

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Speaker 1: being really hurt and also knowing what I needed to

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Speaker 1: do for myself, it didn't make the breakup any easier

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Speaker 1: because I missed her in my life. I knew, however,

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Speaker 1: that there would be and that there are people that

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Speaker 1: value me and everything that I bring to the table,

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Speaker 1: and those are the people that I want to pour into.

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Speaker 1: Those are the people that deserve my energy. I have

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Speaker 1: since that first friend breakup had less dramatic friend breakups.

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Speaker 1: Let's say, whether it be that two people just kind

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Speaker 1: of grow in different directions, or perhaps you start to

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Speaker 1: realize that maybe you have different values or priorities than

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Speaker 1: you once did, that the way that you are moving

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Speaker 1: forward is a little bit different now, and that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Know that it can be both. You can mourn the

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Speaker 1: ending of a relationship and also know that it is

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Speaker 1: the right thing for you to do. There are different

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Speaker 1: ways to approach a friend breakup. You can either address

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Speaker 1: it or if you feel as though you're simply growing

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Speaker 1: in different directions. Maybe there doesn't need to be some

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Speaker 1: do it in the way that you would hope someone

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Speaker 1: would do it for you, which means that and I

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Speaker 1: have done this in the past. I have said something like, listen,

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Speaker 1: just going through a lot in this moment, and this

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Speaker 1: relationship isn't one that I can really pour into at

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Speaker 1: this time. I know that's not easy to hear, and

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Speaker 1: it hasn't been an easy thing for me to say.

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Speaker 1: But as difficult as that initial breakup period has been

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Speaker 1: for me in the past, I can say for certain

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Speaker 1: that I am better for trusting my gut and moving

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Speaker 1: forward in a way that is best for Emily. That

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Speaker 1: is the you know, the sentence that I've been working

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Speaker 1: on this year, the question that I keep asking myself

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Speaker 1: what is best for Emily? What is the thing that's

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Speaker 1: going to make me feel better? Sometimes we get wrapped

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Speaker 1: up in relationships because we feel as though we should

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Speaker 1: be doing something, we should be showing up for someone,

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Speaker 1: we should be the person that they can call, even

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Speaker 1: when doing those things doesn't make us feel good, that

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Speaker 1: time has passed, that friendship has perhaps run its course.

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Speaker 1: And so I tell you that, yes, friendship breakups are hard,

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Speaker 1: and yes, you are worthy of people that make you

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Speaker 1: feel full and excited and good and that build up

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Speaker 1: your energy, and that with time, no matter how difficult

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Speaker 1: a friend breakup is, you will recover and you'll be

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Speaker 1: better for it. That's it for this week. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you're following along with Hurdle over on social It's at

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Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcast. I'm over at Emily Abody. I'll see you

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Speaker 1: out there this week in New York, another hurdle conquered.

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Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time