Emily McDonald

I think we, we, you know, our own thoughts can be just like our own, the way we're treating ourselves can be just making it that much worse.

And it makes it so much more important that we do need to be our own sort of best friend.

And in the beginning of my journey, like, and even now at times, like, okay, like if my best friend were to call me up and tell me about this right now, what would I say to her?

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What would I say to her?

And you would usually give them grace, show them understanding and validation.

Maybe be like, hey, no, maybe you should have done it this way, but there's no point in beating yourself up now.

Just go do it different next time.

That's the journey.

And just that's the way we talk to our friends, right?

We don't beat them up and tell them, oh, no, I can't believe you did that.

That's just not how we treat people.

our friends and so that isn't how we should treat ourselves either and so just on that note of kind of regulating our nervous systems like it really is so important like that's one of the most important things that we can do is to treat ourselves like our own best friends and it might be kind of a i don't know a cliche at this point but just really truly love ourselves and um i didn't used to you know love myself in that sense but just literally the other day i was driving in my car and i looked at my arm and i was like wow i love my arm hairs

And it was so random, but it was just one of those moments of like, wow, like the work is so real because I'm finding the tiniest little thing that maybe I would have hated or criticized about myself.

And I'm just like, wow, like that's so cool.

And so that's kind of on one note.

I think maybe one other thing that we hadn't quite...

touched on, especially in the kind of realm of nervous system regulation is discipline and how discipline really is a form of nervous system regulation.

And I know a lot of people, maybe the spiritual side of things don't necessarily want to hear that.

But discipline is showing, is creating a sense of safety inside of yourself.