This year has been the craziest, most challenging, most rewarding year of my life so far. Maybe a little bit of Stockholm Syndrome, but I'm also very grateful. This episode I wanted to talk about stuff that I've learned this year, and how I'm gonna choose to maybe switch things up for the next one.

Every perfectionist handbook out there tells you to stop checking the boxes - it won't make you happy. But why do so many of us feel the need to? We understand that checking the boxes won't make us happy, yet we get upset when we don't check them anyway. Being in a field where every aspect of your life is going to be evaluated to some extent as the gateway for you to be "successful" in your career, I find myself checking boxes that I don't even want to check. How does someone be happy with working towards a goal while also feeling like they are already enough? Let's talk about it.

Does anyone have a healthy relationship with food? Food had always been a source of pleasure and anxiety for me, and even now it can still be a struggle to truly define a "healthy" relationship with food. I had always felt like the way I was eating was wrong, something to be fixed. It took a long time for me to get to a place where I am comfortable with how food fits into my life, but life can still get in the way. Food is all around us, yet we rarely stop to think about how it truly affects us. This week we talk about how my relationship with food has changed over the years - and where I'm at now.