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Speaker 1: What's going on everyone? Emily body here you are listening

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Speaker 1: to five minute Friday from Hurdle. Happy Valentine's Day. I

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Speaker 1: might be the person, the first person that said that

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Speaker 1: to you today. Maybe I'm not, but I want to

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about my journey with this holiday today.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you the last time that I had

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Speaker 1: an actual Valentine, as in like a romantic partner on

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Actually, that's a lie, I can I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure it was maybe like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. I

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Speaker 1: was dating someone and I came home from work on

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day and he was in my apartment. He had

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Speaker 1: been let in by my roommate at the time, and

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Speaker 1: he was making chocolate covered strawberries in the kitchen, and

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Speaker 1: he had bought me as a gift for Valentine's Day

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Speaker 1: a ladle, which was a practical gift in that I

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Speaker 1: needed a ladle at the time. But in retrospect, I

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Speaker 1: can say that without a doubt, it was not the

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Speaker 1: gift I was that I was hoping for. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I'm just having a time thinking back to this Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day still, Okay, So that was I don't know nine

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Speaker 1: ten years ago, and I have a positive association with

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Speaker 1: the day. Regardless. I know a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: or may feel some kind of way about this hallmark holiday,

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Speaker 1: but I feel as though, what an awesome time it

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Speaker 1: is for us to think on and focus on the

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Speaker 1: good things that love brings into our lives. Especially over

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Speaker 1: the last handful of years. I would say, throughout my thirties,

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Speaker 1: I have come into my own with self love and

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Speaker 1: practically feeling so much appreciation for what it is that

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Speaker 1: I bring to the table and how hard it is

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Speaker 1: some days simply to just show up and be right.

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Speaker 1: Every year on Valentine's Day, I have the same tradition,

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Speaker 1: which is, after whatever morning workout that I do today,

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Speaker 1: I have mile repeats, which I'm not so much looking

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Speaker 1: forward to. After my morning workout, I then take myself

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Speaker 1: to get a donut. And for years it was the

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Speaker 1: same Dunkin Donuts heart shaped donut. Last year I upgraded

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Speaker 1: and I went to a donut plant Valentine's Day appropriate

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Speaker 1: donut if you know you know. And so I do

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Speaker 1: the same tradition every year, and I take myself to

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Speaker 1: get this donut and I either eat it wherever I am,

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Speaker 1: or bring it home and I sit there and I

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Speaker 1: really do intentionally think about all the love that I

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Speaker 1: have in my life. I said this in my recording

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Speaker 1: with Diego earlier this week. If you haven't listened to

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Speaker 1: the Young Quabo episode, I highly highly encourage it. Love

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Speaker 1: is the foundation for so much in our lives, specifically

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Speaker 1: a foundation for aspects of our health and well being

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Speaker 1: as well. If you want love, you have to bring

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Speaker 1: love into your day to day. So even though maybe

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Speaker 1: you're going through something right now, and trust me, we

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Speaker 1: all are. I see you. You are not alone in

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Speaker 1: your struggles, yeah, but recognize that there is light to

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Speaker 1: be seen, joy to be seen, love to be found

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Speaker 1: in every single day. And so yeah, do I think

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Speaker 1: that we need one specific day each year to commemorate that?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I believe that love is a twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven process and thing to embrace. But I value

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Speaker 1: this day because maybe it is a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a reminder, especially in the times that feel turbulent and

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Speaker 1: chaotic and all of the things right. And so my

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Speaker 1: prompt for you this week on Valentine's Day is what

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Speaker 1: is one thing that you love about yourself? And one

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Speaker 1: decision that you've made thus far in twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: that you also love. What is one thing that you

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Speaker 1: love about yourself and one decision that you've made in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five that you love as well? As you're

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Speaker 1: thinking about this today, tag me on Instagram, tag the

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Speaker 1: show over at Hurdle Podcast, and you know where to

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Speaker 1: find me. I'm over at Emily a Body. And before

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Speaker 1: I get into this week's listener question, let's see if

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Speaker 1: dy here's this buried in the episode. A happy happy

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Speaker 1: birthday to my stepmom Kathy A Valentine's Day baby. I

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Speaker 1: love you very very much. And now a listener question.

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Speaker 1: Hey Emily Tory here. I know this is a little

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Speaker 1: weird to ask, but I follow you on Instagram and

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Speaker 1: really feel inspired by your content. My question for you

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Speaker 1: this week is do you ever take a rest day?

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness, I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just

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Speaker 1: genuinely curious. You're always on the move and it's admirable,

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Speaker 1: but I'm wondering how rest days play into your weekly schedule.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, love the show, Toy Toy Toy. It's

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Speaker 1: a great question. Yes, I take rest days. I will

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Speaker 1: say this My rest days are often active recovery days,

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Speaker 1: and so what that looks like in my case is

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Speaker 1: either a super long walk or perhaps going to a

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Speaker 1: yoga class. It is pretty rare that I don't do

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Speaker 1: some sort of movement during the day. I am currently

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Speaker 1: on almost a year long streak of closing my rings,

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Speaker 1: which that excitement about movement encourages me not to be

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Speaker 1: a total couch dweller on a Sunday. My rest days

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Speaker 1: aren't always on Sundays. I have had them on Thursdays

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Speaker 1: or on Tuesdays. It just depends when I holistically sit

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Speaker 1: down and plan my week and look at the workouts

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Speaker 1: what makes sense for me and my body. Right now,

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Speaker 1: my training is four days a week of running and

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Speaker 1: four days a week of strength, and then I slip

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Speaker 1: in a yoga class here and there, and so yes,

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Speaker 1: as you can tell if you can do math, some

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Speaker 1: days I will do both strength and running on the

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Speaker 1: same day. And typically that's a day when I have

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Speaker 1: some sort of an easy run, like it's run a

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Speaker 1: five k, and then do a thirty minute strength workout.

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Speaker 1: And so I pair them responsibly with the help of

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Speaker 1: my strength coach and really dial in on what feels

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Speaker 1: best for me and my body. Now, I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that I reiterate here everyone is different, and

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Speaker 1: so I'm not going to sit here and encourage everyone

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Speaker 1: to handle their rest days like I handle my rest days.

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Speaker 1: I have a very firm understanding of what feels good

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Speaker 1: for me, and some other individuals might feel better by

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Speaker 1: taking a total incomplete rest day one or two days

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Speaker 1: a week, or three days a week, or again, whatever

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Speaker 1: works for you and your body. I would just encourage you,

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Speaker 1: depending on what your goals are, to talk to someone

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Speaker 1: in a one on one capacity to plan out what

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Speaker 1: that structure could look like for you and what would

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Speaker 1: be best again for you and your goals. And that's it.

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Speaker 1: I hope that's helpful. Make sure you're following along with

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Speaker 1: us over on Hurdle and I want your listener questions,

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Speaker 1: so email them over at Hello at Hurdle dot us.

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Speaker 1: Again that Instagram at Hurdle podcast. I'm over at Emily

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Speaker 1: a Body. Happy love day, y'all. I appreciate you. Catch

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Speaker 1: you guys, next time to lay in my hair