Hindsight Thoughts: Belief System

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What's up guys.

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Welcome back to another episode of healing.

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In hindsight, your no B.S source for thriving with

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diabetes Taylor, Daniele here.

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Hope you guys are having a good week, day, month.

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We're heading into spring, which is really nice.

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I think after the Texas freeze, I am looking forward

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to slightly warmer weather.

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Not.

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Hot summer weather, just slightly warmer weather.

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So it's nice to kind of see the sun a lot more and see things bloom.

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So today I really wanted to talk about belief systems and

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the reason why I wanted to.

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Bring that up is because, over the past year with the pandemic and having to

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pretty much be at home for majority of the year, it really called to question

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what I believe in and what those beliefs do in terms of how they affect my

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life, my goals and where I want to be.

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And so it also really brought up, some thoughts and feelings around

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my beliefs towards my health and how utilizing my beliefs.

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Can drive me to the right goals or maybe even sometimes the wrong ones.

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So I really want to dig into that today and just kind of talk through

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how our belief systems can really be the heart of our resilience

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and being able to push through, to meet the things that we want to do.

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So let's get into it.

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Beliefs.

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I feel like we have to yeah.

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Kind of start with just the raw definition.

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And so, a belief is an acceptance that a statement is

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true or that something exists.

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And the other kind of definition that are found was, trust faith or confidence

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in someone or something, which.

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Makes a lot of sense, and it is understandable how we can have

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so many beliefs because as we go through life, we witness things

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that, suddenly become truth for us.

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It's our reality.

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And so that can be something that we believe in.

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And the reason why I wanted to bring this up is because I feel like when

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we think about the things that we feel or, trust that is something

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that exists or someone it shapes how we move forward on certain goals.

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So as I was doing a lot of deep inner work on myself and really trying to

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pin down where a lot of the things that I feel about my body and my

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health come from, I had to dig deep into what I believe and part of why I

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think that it's important is because, your beliefs can push you forward.

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And when you truly believe something, your actions follow.

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So.

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It's a mental discipline, if you will.

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And often we allow our bodies to dictate so many things, from a hunger craving to

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tired to pain, all these different things.

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And.

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It's oftentimes those feelings in our bodies that actually

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drive what we choose to do next.

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And so I found that mastering your mind really does open yourself up to

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being able to do and push past those physical limitations if you will.

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And so it's what makes your belief a reality.

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And if I'm just going to have to pick an example, like if I believe that

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I'm going to have, The business of my dreams with constant abundance

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and it will happen as long as I believe in it and take action on it.

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Right.

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It doesn't mean that there won't be challenges or that what I

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believe, won't have more weight, when it comes to resistance.

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But essentially it is taking that thought and making it

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reality through my own actions.

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And so it really brings you to question of like, okay, What's more important.

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What I'm feeling in my body right now, or what I believe, and don't get me wrong,

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there's definitely a fine balance between listening to your body and knowing when

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it's like a signal for, Hey, I truly need rest, or I just don't feel like doing it.

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But it still is to me, a good indicator of how we can push past something.

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So I'll just take exercise for example.

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I, I do believe that exercising will help me reach my goals.

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And it is oftentimes my bigger belief that if I exercise, I won't see results

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that actually keeps me laying in the bed.

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That if I go to the gym that everybody's watching me and everybody

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is, going to come by and correct me if I'm doing something wrong.

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I recognize that I believe that more than I believe that going to the

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gym is just naturally good for me.

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And I seen that through my actions of how many times I've been to the gym.

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And thinking through the insecure thoughts that kind of plagued my mind at times.

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When it comes to that when I'm laying in bed and it's early in the morning

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and I've reserved my mornings to be able to do those types of things

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and I'm laying there, I'm like, Oh, but sleep feel so much better.

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Sleep feels so much better.

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And it's kind of like this repetitive mantra that I'm playing in my head

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that soon convinces me that, sleep is better and going to the gym.

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Isn't I believe that sleep was more important than the gym.

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And so I took action on it by.

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Going to sleep or back to sleep.

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So it's, it's such an interesting, psychological thing that we go

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through when we really start to think about everything that we believe.

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I think we often try to look at the positive beliefs and then the negative

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beliefs kind of just stay by the wayside.

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We try not to acknowledge them because by acknowledging them, it shows that

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we are playing a role in our own.

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Progress not to say that there aren't outside things that, caused trouble, but

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initially it boils down to what you value.

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What do you choose to do?

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And.

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I hear that a lot of times.

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And I've seen people who are just so burnt out and they feel so

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defeated by, someone else that says, well, you just gotta do it.

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You just got to get up and you just gotta do it.

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And you just gotta, make sure that you want this bad enough.

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And a lot of times people really do want it bad enough, but they're

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internally paralyzed because they don't understand what those negative

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beliefs are that are holding them back.

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And so I've found that by working.

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Through my subconscious beliefs, the things that, I don't realize I pack away

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and allow to kind of work through me unknowingly and that addressing some of

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the insecurities that I have around some of those beliefs that I'm actually able

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to make the right decisions at the moment.

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So I'll use this morning, for example.

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I actually woke up on time at D's restroom and it was right, like maybe nine or

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10 minutes before my alarm went off.

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Mind you, my alarm goes off at 5:00 AM.

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And so I use the restroom and then I go and I climb back into bed

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instead of staying and doing, getting starting to get ready, starting

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to Put on my workout clothes and get ready to go drive to the gym.

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Instead I get back in bed because it's almost habit because I usually get

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up in the middle of the night anyway.

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So I didn't realize it.

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It was almost getting ready to be 5:00 AM until after I got in the bed.

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And I looked at my phone.

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But even still, I started to feel sleep hit me again.

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And it was in that moment that I had about five to 10 seconds to really

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decide if I was going to get up or not.

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Now I will say I'd been staying up pretty late over the last couple of weeks.

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So am I asleep patterns have been really off because I tend to fight my body in

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the evenings when I feel myself getting tired and instead of winding down and

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going to bed so I can get up at 5:00 AM.

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I usually push past it to edit that one last thing or do this one more thing.

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Instead of finishing, I'm still working on it.

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I'm not perfect.

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Okay.

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So I ended up falling back asleep for a little bit and I have.

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I got quite, yes, I do.

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I'm that person that has like five alarms back to back that are, five minutes

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apart and they each are labeled something like, no, I really need you to get up.

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Now.

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I like to give myself grace in the mornings simply because I know sometimes

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5:00 AM is just unrealistic for me.

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So I allow myself to go back to sleep.

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And then I'll wake up again around seven 30 and that's when I truly got

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up and started kind of moving around.

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And I decided right then and there, because I knew that getting some

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form of movement in, in the mornings is really beneficial for me.

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Every time that I work out or do something that just gets my blood

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flowing in the mornings, my days.

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Go so much smoother.

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I know that to be true.

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That is my belief because I've done it so many times and every

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single time, my days have always just kind of fallen into place.

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So I instead because I didn't drive to the gym, I did 15 minutes of yoga.

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I love the down dog app and that really.

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No, I did like 20 minutes actually.

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Yeah.

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About 15, 20 minutes of yoga.

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Just really good deep floor stretches.

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I like it because you can customize what type of, session that you want to have.

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And so, I've been dealing with my shoulder.

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I've got frozen shoulder.

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If you don't know what that is, look it up.

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It's not fun.

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And it is a diabetic thing.

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But so my shoulder has been really difficult to move lately.

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And so I was.

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Wanting to do something gentle, but involved a lot of stretching

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to help kind of, get some rehabilitation in the shoulder.

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So.

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I did that.

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And after I did it, it didn't feel like I lost a lot of time.

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Which sometimes is something that comes up when we burn out

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when trying to be consistent with our health is I don't have time.

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And I decided I wasn't going to work against that.

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I couldn't spend an hour working out because I chose to sleep in a little bit

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more, but I could give 10 to 15 what, 20 minutes to kind of stretch things

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out and that's better than nothing.

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And so I did it.

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I felt really good afterwards.

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And then that just like snowballed into getting ready for the day,

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starting work and feeling good.

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I ended up, making sure I had a good breakfast and actually sat

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down with no distractions and just ate and enjoyed my breakfast and

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then started answering emails.

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So it's one of those things where.

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It does take some work.

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And, we tend to beat ourselves up whenever a belief system that we have

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gets trumped by a stronger belief system that sometimes is rooted in a lot of

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deep inner work that we, should explore.

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But I think in knowing this, there there's definitely ways that.

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These belief systems can help.

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When we do this type of inner work, oftentimes our beliefs are

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defined by our families, society, or experiences and those influences

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can be hurtful and helpful.

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And it's up to us to choose which one we believe and continue

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reiterating that into our lives.

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So that way, the cycle can Really turned into a habit.

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That's kind of the best way that I can see it.

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So, one thing that I realized that I was telling myself which I didn't realize

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that it was an unconscious belief, is that I'll pick on my partner is that,

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I don't understand why he is physically attracted to me outside of Memphis.

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Cause I know the face is flawless.

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I do, I do.

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I'm I have no problem believing that I'm from a faith standpoint, beautiful in

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that sense, but with my insecurities, with my physical shape and him being so

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ripped and defined and muscular, there are times where I'm like, I don't fit.

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I don't the picture doesn't make sense, shoulders up.

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Sure.

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But from, from, shoulders down, I, my body type doesn't seem to flow with

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his, and it really started to make me think about all of the imagery that we

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consume about what is an ideal couple physically and how often we like, Oh, I

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wouldn't put them two together because we tend to match like likeness and

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aesthetics when it comes to people dating.

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And so.

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When I really started to think about that.

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I started looking at the, all the imagery that I was consuming.

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I remember we were talking texting back and forth about something

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and it's when I was in one of my upswings of like, yeah, workout.

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And I want to get to a point where I can work out with you because

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I, I ha I'm really weird about working out with guys that I date.

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I feel really weird and because he is more advanced in the workout realm,

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he really could be a personal coach if he chose to I get nervous and

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I feel like I get really defensive and like, don't tell me what to do.

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If my form is off, because sometimes I don't feel my form as often I can be,

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I can be stubborn because I'm afraid.

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And so I, would.

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Get to this space where I'm like, I would love to be, be able to do like

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acrobatic yoga with you, or like, you see those fitness couples where

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they're doing these partner exercises and the guys like lifting girl up

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and doing all these crazy things.

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And so I remember sending him different pictures of, Aesthetics

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that I would like for us to have.

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I didn't realize that that's what it was.

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I'm thinking, Oh, these are motivational images of the life

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that I want to have with you.

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What I really was doing is I was actually sending a, him and myself, a

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subconscious belief that this is the visual that I think that we should have.

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And it plagued on me because that started to lead more into

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my insecurities of I don't fit.

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This look.

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And so I had to really bring that forward word and address that with myself.

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And so it actually led to me doing a lot of inner shadow work.

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It, it led to me like I ended up working with an intimacy coach to

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really come full circle with being okay with my body as it is right now.

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And so.

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I ended up on following a bunch of accounts on Instagram.

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I ended up changing the things that I looked at on Pinterest.

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Cause Pinterest will suggest stuff.

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And so if I'm looking at stuff that creates that same imagery,

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it's going to keep suggesting it.

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So yeah.

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Why am I bringing that up?

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Obviously there are some beliefs that kind of like define nature, but overall

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what you believe and what you consume along with that belief is going to

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be the inner driving force on how you take action on things in your life.

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So for example, if Lowering your A1C, right?

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I'm still in the midst of Lauren, my A1C, after that,

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spike to 8.3 for my last round.

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Right?

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So when I reverse engineer, what that looks like for me, I realized that I

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needed to understand what my levels are as much as possible insert my CGM.

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Right.

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This thing is the piece that I was missing to make sure I'm making

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the right decisions about what.

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I should or shouldn't be eating, which, I even hesitate to use that verbiage,

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but I just couldn't really get an accurate understanding of how my food

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is affecting me throughout the day, how my movement is affecting me throughout

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out the day where my lack of movement is affecting me throughout the day.

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And so even though I've met resistance and challenges, because

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I believe that I can lower my A1C.

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And that is something that is way more important to me than, anything

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else we'll say for right now I did not stop until I got of CGM.

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So what did that look like?

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I started testing myself with my, strip neater way more often to kind

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of prove like I'm having to burn through all of these strips, just

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to kind of get an accurate read.

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I started, reaching out to all different types of companies who will check your

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insurance for you and all these things to see if I can order a CGM online.

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There are some places I know this is more prevalent in Europe.

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Where, as long as you have the money to buy a CGM, you can buy it.

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But here in the States, insurance has to approve it.

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You have to be a certain type of diabetic.

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I tried to apply for a Dexcom, but because I'm not an insulin taking

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diabetic, they would not approve me.

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Insurance typically would rather you stick with just the standard glucose

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meter that you prick your finger with because it's the cheapest thing.

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And they don't really see why a CGM would be more valuable

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than a regular glucose meter.

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I think they got it backwards.

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I think the glucose meter, strip meters should be, if you're off

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medication or, you're doing really well.

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And it's, it's really not necessary to have, a CGM to

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really know where you're at.

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24 seven for me though, since I've been uncontrolled for so long,

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like I need to know, because I feel like my medication is doing okay.

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I feel like my eating for the most part is okay, but I don't know what

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things that I'm eating are spiking me.

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Cause you know, everybody's body is different.

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I realized, yes, I can tolerate moderate carbs.

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I.

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Can't do stuff like keto.

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I can't go super heavy into fats.

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It sends my numbers skyrocketing, and I really tried with keto.

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I really did.

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And I didn't advertise it very much because I do have friends who do

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keto and it works great for them, but for me, it just seems something

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that I needed to have for myself.

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And every time that I tried to do it, I was having crazy numbers.

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So.

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Everybody's different.

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But at the end of the day, I really want to lower my A1C.

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And so I did everything that I could and eventually looked up with, my

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dietician being able to get me a CGM and then getting my doctor to approve

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for the prescription for a sensor.

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And I've spent more time in range than I have probably in the last

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two years now, again, I could have probably still been in decent range.

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Now my A1C still reveals I wasn't, but even so, like, I understand that

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my morning numbers might be spiking higher, but now I can look at,

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okay, what was my numbers at night?

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If I, if need be now with the freestyle Libra, which is what I

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have you do have to keep scanning.

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And that's something that, is a little bit different.

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I feel like the Dexcom is one that's like constantly monitoring monitoring,

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and that would be the ideal, but even so just knowing that I have it

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and that I, at any point in time, I'll do it at any point in time.

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I can just.

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And I know where I'm at and I'm good.

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Right.

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So it's really cool to just be able to do that.

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And I'm not having to prick my finger every five seconds

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just to see where I'm at.

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And it lets me know if I'm staying, even if I'm turning up or if I'm turning down.

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So right now I'm at one 30, two.

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And I'm staying even, and that's because I had breakfast about an hour ago.

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So my expectation is that in another hour or so, I start to see that go down.

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And if I don't, then I can evaluate what I ate to see.

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Okay.

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What within that might keep me, even, or is keeping me in

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this higher numbered range.

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Ideally, I'd like to drop down back to like the hun, a

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hundred nineties, whatever.

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So.

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I having that has, it's been super helpful.

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I really feel like diabetics should always have the choice to be able

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to go straight to a CGM or not.

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Or if they want to try a glucose meter first, I know it can be kind of scary.

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But it's something that just, it's just so much more helpful to have.

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And I really feel like the more information that we have, the

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more we can make better choices.

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So bringing it back around.

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Your belief system, whether that be, positive or negative has a huge effect

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on how you make choices for your health.

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And so it's up to us to start to dig into what they are and

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understand what they are and see.

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Do I need to change this?

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Do I need to adjust this?

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Do I need to, kind of, look at.

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Where did these things come from?

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Why do I feel like I have to finish my food no matter where I'm at?

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Oh, that's because, back when I was little, my mom would get really upset

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if I did not clean my plate, even if I was full, like I had to finish all

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the food that I got, stuff like that.

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There's so many things that we don't realize are buried within us and our

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experiences and our memories that are the driving force on how we operate

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and deal with our bodies today.

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Now I can go on a whole side tangent on.

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The idea of just accepting your presence, self.

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That's another episode for another day.

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Maybe I'll do an ID live on it or something, but you know, it

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starts with what we believe in.

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It starts with how we think something is true about ourselves.

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So if you believe that you are deserving of a healthy functioning body and that you

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can really get ahead with your diagnosis.

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And be able to do the things that you need to do to take care of yourself.

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Then constantly remind yourself of that.

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Surround yourself with visuals and mantras and affirmations

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that play right into that belief.

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And then you'll start to notice yourself taking actions.

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And if you come up with something that resists that

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belief, then dig deeper into it.

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Understand why is it that I'm resistant to that?

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Why is it that I am not able to really come to terms with that?

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And I think you'll discover a lot.

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So, hopefully that was helpful.

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I think that it is really important to know what our makeup is, know what

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makes us do what we do and and ends up creating this opportunity for us to be,

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deeper and understanding with ourselves.

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And that's the most important thing is that we love and

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accept ourselves as we are.

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And our belief systems can really help with that.

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I hope today's episode was really helpful.

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It's.

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It's there's so much more that we could talk about with it.

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Belief systems are such an interesting topic because the psychology behind how

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our mind works, the things that we absorb and consume, internally and externally,

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like it really does help to make up how we are and how we treat ourselves.

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So.

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Know, I just figured I'd share my thoughts on it and how it pertains to me.

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And hopefully, you'll go home or as you're taking your walk, you'll start to

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think about how your beliefs affect you and maybe start to shift those beliefs.

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So that way they can better your health as well.

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It really is our driving force and our North star.

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Whenever we make decisions for our health and wellness and the more

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that we can fine tune our beliefs to ensure that we are being the best

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version of ourselves the better.

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So thank you so much for watching.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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If you're not able to be at a screen to see my face I'll catch you guys next.

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time

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Coming up next time on healing and hindsight.

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I think it's, it's really important to understand that

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diabetes affects not only like what you eat and, your, your, how much

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you use the restroom in different things, but also your mental health.

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And for me it's important that I keep that at the forefront.

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You know what I mean?

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There's been times where I have been trying to run my Instagram.

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And, and my business, and make sure that glucose gang has everything

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that it needs as far as, what guests I'm booking for a live or coming up

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with the sign and different things.

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And there are times where I'll feel burnt out and I will have to mentally

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step away from social media or mentally step away or recalibrate the things.

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What am I watching?

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You know what I mean?

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Am I listening to something that might be a little bit more discouraging to me?

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You know what I mean, am I, am I w what am I surrounded?

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What am I taking in just as a whole, you know what I mean?