EP 70 – Self Before Service: Reclaiming Energy Through Permission & Prioritization

Welcome to a special summer series  of The Habit Within, where we revisit some of our most impactful speakers from the Feel Your Best Summit. 

In this first episode, we're diving deeper into the personal vitality practices of two powerhouse women: Sadie Nardini and Krista Rivet.

Together, we explore the first pillar of the Vitality Reset — Prioritizing the Woman. What does it really mean to put yourself before service? How do we reclaim our energy in a world that glorifies overgiving and burnout?

In this episode:

• Sadie shares unapologetic rituals for reclaiming energy: sleep, movement, nutrition, and setting fierce boundaries.
• Krista opens up about releasing guilt, reconnecting with the heart, and finding grace through the emotional shifts of midlife.
• You'll hear practical tools for managing stress, calming your nervous system, and honoring your body’s wisdom without shame.

This conversation is your reminder that rest is your right, self-prioritization is sacred, and that true vitality begins when you come back to yourself fully, unapologetically, and on purpose.

If you loved what Sadie shared today and want more of her bold, energizing wisdom, explore her offerings here:

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🌐 www.sadienardini.com
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📘 Facebook: yogaforlife

If Krista’s story and insights resonated with you, you can learn more about her work and approach to homeopathy here:

🌐 www.kristarivet.com
📸 Instagram: @kristarivet.homeopathy
📧 Email: kristarivet@gmail.com

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Transcript

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Welcome back to The Habit Within. In this summer series, we are going to follow up with some of our favorite speakers from the Feel Your Best Summit, where we dove into holistic practices for energy, vitality, and confidence in perimenopause and beyond. Don't worry if you didn't catch the series.

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That's fine, because it doesn't matter. What we really do in this series is I interviewed and went a little bit deeper with each speaker, and I asked, how do you stay vital and on purpose in your own life? Because the women that I interviewed for the summit are truly doing amazing work in the world. And so like, how do they keep a really successful business going? How are they also mothers or caretakers of other people? Like, how are they doing it? And can they teach us? And I love this because it truly shows you the embodiment of what I teach within my programs.

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I really, truly believe that the paradigm, there is a new paradigm for women's wellness, and you guys are at the forefront of it. This is a movement that we put women back into the equation of wellness, of health, and of vitality, because for far too long, as being a medical provider for almost two decades, we were reduced, our health was reduced to these metrics, and labs, and symptoms, and protocols. And so if you're not taking pharmaceuticals, then you're taking supplements.

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I mean, come on, because true vitality does not come from fixing these parts. You know, if we're looking at like an older car, and we're fixing, tightening bolts, and nuts, and all the things that you would do in a car, then yeah, it might make it run a little bit more efficiently, but it's not really honoring the whole thing in its completion. And here's the deal, we're not machines, and that's what medicine has been to this point, is really looking at us as this mechanistic type of being versus the more, right? That we're emotional, we're thoughtful, we're cyclical.

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We are living, breathing beings that change on a moment-to-moment basis. We are constantly healing at a quantum level, at a very, very, very teeny tiny level that we cannot even see, we cannot even fathom. So this really basically means that wellness must be personalized, it must be intuitive, it must be sacred.

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So in today's episode, we are going to look at the first pillar within my Vitality Reset Program, where we really look at how do we prioritize the woman? And I really, truly believe that Sadie Nardini and Krista Revae are going to really kind of help us figure out ways where we can do that, right? Where we can put ourself before service. Because restoring your energy begins with unlearning the belief that you must earn rest. We don't earn rest, we just, we get to rest, it's okay.

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And that we must learn love or worth through overgiving. And it's so common for women to overgive and feel like it's the thing that we need to do. And so what I am saying is that we need to really prioritize the woman, not only in health, but within our lives.

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So join us today as we talk to Sadie Nardini, extremely bold voice in reclaiming unapologetic wellness. She reveals how boundaries, daily movement, and breath are not extras, but essential rituals that help her really show up for a life fully resourced. And she has a thriving business.

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You can check her out on Instagram. She has some amazing resources. Her information is going to be in the show notes.

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And then we have Krista Revae, and she's a homeopath with deep emotional insight. She invites us into the tender terrain of midlife where repressed emotions rise, the inner critic softens, and the nervous system craves coherence, not perfection. Both of these women remind us that prioritizing yourself is not selfish.

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It is absolutely sacred. And it's the first act of healing in a world that has taught us to disconnect from ourselves. If this conversation resonates, know this, this is exactly where we begin in the Vitality Reset.

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We build a rooted, rhythmic way of living that doesn't just keep you going, but really brings you back to life, to your life, where it begins. So let's go ahead and dive right in. Hey, Sadies, I'm so glad that you're here.

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We are doing a follow-up from our favorite speakers from the series. And I know that yours was just such a big hit. We really talked about how we can have a facelift without actually having to have surgery or Botox, or even if you're using Botox, how using this Face Hit program that you've created can build the muscle in case at some point we decide that we no longer want to have Botox.

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So loved that conversation. And today we're asking our favorite speakers if they can share with us how they stay energized and really on purpose and in their own lives. And can you like teach us how you do it? Teach us your magic? Sure.

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I think it's pretty straightforward. I prioritize my health above everything and everyone else. And that sounds selfish.

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And in a way it is. It is self-ish, like selfish. Like I just make enough time for me and the things that keep me healthy and energized so that I can give to others properly.

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It's a gift to everybody around me. I don't neglect people around me. I just prioritize myself first and then I let them know when I'm available.

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I know that's not always possible when you have kids, but it's a lot more possible than one thinks that it is. When you start to think like that, when you reprioritize your health, then you create a bubble around your sleep. What do you need to do to make sure that you're sleeping consistently about the same time to bed, training your body that that's when you go to sleep.

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When you know when you have to wake up, you can back that up. What is your sleep environment? What does it need to be like? If your mind is racing all the time, what do you need to do to handle that so that by the time you go to bed, you can actually sleep better? And are you moving each day? So I'm always asking myself, have you moved today? How are you going to move today? It could be 9 p.m. If I haven't done my workout, I'm doing it then. Because it just helps everything else happen better.

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I will go for a walk most days. That is non-negotiable. And I am someone who works from home so I can nap.

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I nap and anyone will tell you who's worked with me, you could have flown here from Sweden, which my COO did to do a whole course with me, which she did. And we had seven days to get it done. And I'm still going to take a nap.

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1.30, I'm in there napping for at least an hour, an hour and a half. Wow. But if you can't nap for an hour and a half, you can power down for five minutes and that will trigger your brain to wake up as if you have had a longer rest.

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But you've got to make sure that that happens during the day. You prioritize your peace over other people stressing you out. You prioritize solutions over worrying.

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And if you aren't able to move toward the solution right now you try to push that worry to the side and say, I can't do anything about it now, but I will. And I'm writing down how, and I have that plan. So now I can relax a little bit more.

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You prioritize nutrition. Get your amino acids in every day, drink those suckers because that's going to take over for a lot of your protein needs. You hydrate, eat plant-based foods, try for a salad every day.

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That's a great way to make sure you're maximizing your nutrition in less time. And on and on and on, how does life look when you prioritize yourself first and then everybody else wins because you're more awake, you're more available, you're happier, you're more balanced and it all comes from you. So as the core of all your relationships, don't forget yourself.

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You know, yeah. So that's a great question to ask yourself is what would your life look like if you prioritized yourself first? I mean, that's it. You'll find the motivation to do that.

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And as a mom, my husband just came in and I needed to get on like the call with my son's teacher. And I was like, you know what? This is my priority right now. And this is what's really filling me up.

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And I would, so it sometimes can feel very difficult but I know that this is gonna make my day better. So thank you so much for this Sadie. And I think these were great tips and I could actually go into each one of them and ask you like, can you teach us that specific thing? But I'm really curious if you can teach us a little bit more just about the piece when you said remove worry, like just like how can you in just like maybe two minutes or less like share with us, like how do you do that and have you always been a person who's decided that they need to remove worry or they can figure if they can't figure it out now than just, you know.

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Yeah, I'm a triple type A personality. I run really fast and really hot and I have a million things going through my head at every moment. I was diagnosed as a child with ADD.

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I have ADHD. I have to manage my brain all the time or it will just take me over from hour to hour. And I have put some things in place.

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And one of those things is to write a list. I guarantee you, yeah, I have something to write on and a pen right by me at all times because if I can get it out of my head onto paper, I can see that I've got a little bit of a plan or I will write, you can't do anything about this now. So that goes into the later bin in my mind.

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I put things in like the later file later because if I'm worrying about it now and I can't do anything, it's counterproductive. Easier said than done. So sometimes I will put headphones in and I have like abundance meditations where I will sit 10 minute abundance or manifestation meditations.

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I have some hypnosis meditations to come back to a calm state, to know that everything's coming to you, that you're gonna figure it out. Any meditations like that, I will put those on when my brain is going and I'm getting anxious. I will also switch my breath.

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So scientifically, you can switch your central nervous system from stress to calm by doing a breath like this one. You inhale through your nose as much as you can inhale, fill up your lungs and then inhale a little bit more real quick. And then exhale through your mouth like you're blowing out a candle.

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Get your belly to really press in, blow everything out and then pause for a few breaths till you feel like you could do that again. Do it up to three times. And you will notice that you are instantly more calm because it switches your central nervous system from fight or flight over to more calm and balanced.

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And then I handle my effing business. I look, I don't sit and let things come at me. I am the manifester, things come from me.

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So if things aren't going the way I want, I will do manifestation meditations, I'll envision what I want, opportunities will start coming to me and I will see ways that I can solve the issue that is bothering me in some way or that I can move in a different direction from it. And I have cut people out of my life who were toxic, who weren't serving my happiness. I have asked for help, I've delegated things when I know I could do it better.

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And I know I could do it right, but I don't want to do everything. Even if it's a little less done, a little less well than I would have done, I'm not doing it. And then I can get to the things only I can do and I can have a life work balance and find areas of joy and happiness and rest.

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And usually the solutions will come to me in those moments of rest, not the moments of worry. So you have to, yeah, you just have to learn to like be a stress ninja where you just block it. Right when you feel it arising, you do exercise, you go for a walk, you listen to a meditation, you write a list, you think about a solution and then you put it in the later file when you can't do anything more about it, it's out there.

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That was gold, Sadie, absolute gold. In the show notes, you'll have every way that you can connect with Sadie and learn all about her amazing fit HIIT classes. And she also has one that's a full body HIIT class that's coming out very shortly.

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So keep an eye on that too. Thanks so much, Sadie. You're welcome, happy to help.

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Hi Krista, thank you so much for joining the podcast series where we get to follow up with our favorite speaker from the summit. And Krista, I know you shared all about homeopathy, acute homeopathy and chronic homeopathy and how it can support women in perimenopause and beyond. So go to the show notes and look her up.

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She's got some amazing resources. But today what we're curious about is you're a 51 year old mother of four children. Three, I think you said are like in their twenties and one is 12.

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You can fix that if that's not correct. And you have your own practice and you're just so energetic and beaming. You can't see her on the podcast, but just a very vital, healthy woman and successful.

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So please tell us like how do you stay energetic, vital and on purpose in this time of your life? Well, thank you so much. Yeah, I have two of my 20 in their twenties and one 17 and then 12. So kind of a nice stretch.

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But yeah, I mean, that's a great question. I mean, homeopathy of course helps support everything, helping move through what needs to come through. But really, as our kids, when they get to be adults, it's just so different and really just mirroring.

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I mean, I believe our children choose us and to come to teach us more than, we're here to guide them, but they're really our teachers. And so I feel through them, like I'm seeing my daughter who's gonna be 23 and just flourishing and beautiful and stepping into her life. And I don't know, just realizing again, we shared, we talked earlier before about like shame or regret and just realizing again, it's all okay.

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And like, wow, I'm so proud in that she chose me also to go through perhaps the times where I felt I wasn't who I should have been or wanted to be, but she chose that and it's all we're working together. And so just reminding myself to have grace and self-love and the slowing down now, cause we're in the hustle when they're younger and now it's a different kind of busy, but just seeing that time goes by like how fast, they're in their twenties and they're ready to take off and have their own lives and thinking about grandparenting, which is blowing my mind but hopefully that won't be happening anytime soon, but just about that life is short too. And whether this is answering your question, but just where I've held back or afraid to step forward or use my voice, which again, I think in your fifties, we hear that the perimenopausal time is just to express and to be and to not hold back anymore.

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And I think that just lights me up too for them even for what they've seen me do in a later age. I really started my practice when they were older and seeing for them to see me, stick with it and determine and to go through things that are terrifying, like speaking, I never would have thought I'd be doing things like this. So just reminding myself how far I've come and what they're witnessing while I'm doing this.

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Oh, that's so beautiful using your children as a reflection. And so, yeah, you did mention this in the series and I thought it was so beautiful how you spoke about really this time in your life, you didn't have some of the physical symptoms as profound or pronounced to some other people, but you had the emotional piece that came up where you were really looking at your past and you use the word, guilt and shame of maybe some of the parenting decisions that you have made or something like that. And so that's so common, so common for so many women.

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And I know that they can see that and see your story and them. So how do you work through that shame or that guilt that comes up during this stage? Yeah, it's interesting because it's been more recent actually where I was also sharing on the series, big release I had physically, like a lot of tears were shed and really it's always been there, but it felt blocked. And really since working with my homeopath and a new remedy that I just started, again, whether a remedy it's directly, I mean, we always say there's never any coincidences, but allowed me to see things differently, but really helped unlock something that had to come out and I've been more expressive.

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And so truly that just, it helps and it also creates clarity of actions to take of different workouts even and to slowing down or just to honoring what my body is trying to speak to me and because our minds take over, but we don't listen from our hearts. And so, yeah, just really going inward, which might sound cliche and cheesy, but really that's where our hearts, we don't listen and sort of really connect back and trust and to listen to what my inner voice is. I think we disregard that.

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And for me, again, that disconnect of our minds and our hearts and the throat issues that we see and the thyroid issues and where I feel it in my throat and that tight and all the thyroid things I see in women and it's such that disconnect and that's where it physically manifests. So just tapping into that and allowing things to flow and journaling a lot and really releasing in whichever way. And so let's say that you have those days where you're just harder on yourselves and others, like we have all experienced.

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What are some of the ways that you get yourself out of that? You said you mentioned something about coming back to yourself. And I do, I literally will put my hands on my heart and feel and remember how powerful I am. Literally when you feel your heart beating, that it's pure power, literally electromagnetic energy flowing through us.

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And it grounds me and it returns me back because we get outside of our bodies and we're so doing this, doing that, doing that we are, it's chaos and anxious. And so, yeah, returning to that and really breathing, a lot of breath work. I started to do breath work this year, like somatic breath work, it's been beautiful, which really brings you back to your body and also releases.

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So yeah, really being still and journaling more, yeah, just taking, making a conscious effort to sit down and be still and whether it's even like a minute, just to feel my heart, to kind of be like, come back to myself is so important. So not numbing it, we can't just like numb it or- As a human, I mean, sometimes you're like, oh, I'm gonna have a glass of wine or watch Netflix, which you know what, that happens too. And I think that's human.

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You can not, and that's where, again, you don't wanna shame yourself because sometimes you need that. You don't wanna maybe feel it. And you're like, I just need to go right now and watch an episode of whatever.

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And that's okay too. And yeah, I do that too. Yeah, but really as a whole understanding that if you need that right now, go for it.

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But if that's only what you're doing, then we don't wanna be numbing. But a little bit of everything, it's all good. Oh, I love that.

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I think that is so true. It's like, don't ever get on your phone and scroll. Don't ever drink alcohol.

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Don't ever do these things. Sometimes you need it. And it's like, sometimes we do need these releases.

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Well, we're human. And that's again, honoring. And so that's again, releasing self-shame because if you wanna have a piece of cake or have the glass of wine or go out with your friends or maybe numb for that five minutes that you just have to, you have to do what you need to do to maybe you need that right now because you don't have the capacity to go sit or, but yeah, and again, it's all harmony, right? Like that's life.

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Have you always told yourself that or is that a newer? No, I'd say it's probably newer. I think again, maturing, honoring, allowing myself that it's okay to have the fun and not be hard. We get so rigid when you go down the health rabbit holes and that does, so fear-based.

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So realizing, you know what? Like our body is strong, it adapts, it's okay. And again, the intent of what you're doing is so much more powerful than what you're doing. Like eating a donut or a salad, but if you're miserable, like your body's gonna not absorb or if you're fear-based eating something you shouldn't versus enjoying it, then your body's gonna absorb that so differently or digest it so differently.

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So yeah, realizing the power of our intent and where maybe we're stuck in fear. I love that. So what would you tell your younger self about this part, this stage of your life? What would your younger self tell? I'm sorry.

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What would your younger self tell? Wait, what am I trying to say here? What would you tell your younger self about this process of maturing? Yeah. Again, I was, you know, so hard on myself or worrying what people think or just feeling not in my body a lot of times. And it's funny because as you said this, I've done part of this journey in my fifties is like the inner child stuff, almost like nurturing the little girl that is still in us.

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And again, when you like, that's still, again, that's where homeopathy goes so deep to help connect these two parts or all these parts. But yeah, just to almost like give yourself grace, I feel. And just, it's okay.

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And your kids are, you know, again, the energy you're in and fun is so much more than, oh, like, did I make their scrapbook? Did I do this? Did I, you know, like they want to see me have fun and I guess to like lighten up and not be so serious. And, cause that's really what, like whether they're remembering of me of having fun and light or get your shoes on, do this, do that. Which as a mom, yeah, we are running the show and you have to do all this stuff.

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But what, you know, they remember all these little moments of seeing their mom laugh and not worry about what they look like or being health obsessed or physically obsessed or, you know, that it's just okay to be light and yeah, laugh. Yeah, I love that. Well, thank you so much.

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And remember you can find all things about Krista in the show notes. So go ahead and follow her. She has a wonderful Instagram page as well that has a lot of inspiration and motivation and educational content.

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So check her out over there. Thank you. So this conversation is your reminder that vitality begins when you come back to yourself fully unapologetically and on purpose.

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What Sadie and Krista shared today reflects a core truth of a new paradigm of women's health. That you are not meant to serve from depletion. Overriding your body's wisdom or suppress your emotional truth.

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You are whole multi-dimensional beings, mind, body, spirit, energy, and your wellness must honor that. If this episode stirred something in you, if it made you pause and soften or exhale or any of those things, know that this is exactly where we began inside the six week vitality reset. It's not about more hustle or habits.

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It's about creating a life that nourishes the real you. You can learn more or join the wait list by using the link in the show notes. Until next time, give yourself permission to pause, to prioritize, and to remember, you are not here to burn out.

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You are here to burn brightly, my love. Okay, see you next time. Oh, and yeah, in next week's episode, we will continue to tap into our favorite speakers from the series.

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And again, you don't have to have caught the summit in order to get some gems from the summer series. See you in the next one.