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Cassandra Hendon's avatar

Love this Del!! This is so true. Couldn’t agree more- great read! 💕

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

Yayy so glad it resonated 🩷🩷

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Emily Langdon's avatar

Thank god you're done with the 2am WebMD diagnoses!!!!

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

Finally. For goodness sakes

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Emily Langdon's avatar

This is amazing and just a testament to your growth over the past year! I'm so proud of you.

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

I love u soooo much!

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Isabella Benson's avatar

FAVORITE ONE YET. “You don’t need to hustle for health” 👏🙏🩵

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

I’m so glad!!!! It’s true 😌🤍

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Hollin Pritchett's avatar

Love this del ❤️

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

Love YOU!

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Carrie's avatar

Everyone needs to read this!! And such great writing Del!! 😍

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

I’m biased but I think so too! 😉 love you!

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Abby S's avatar

This one del 🙌🏼

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Delaney Langdon's avatar

🤍🤍🤍✏️

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Jasna ✷ Soft Chaos Dispatch's avatar

This post REALLY landed with me. The skipping breakfast, diagnosing myself, ignoring rest, forcing intense workouts. Our bodies know sometimes before our mind that something is wrong you are 1000% right. Beautifully written and said

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Andrew Lynch's avatar

Great list. Number 3 is big for me. I'm still working on this. We (I presume many millions or even billions) have subjugated themselves to perform for others, and this is a deeply self-loathing behavior. It's physical abuse of the self, or it can be. It's sort of like the body version of perfectionism, whereas perfectionism is the narcissistic psychological self-abuse that we indulge in.

Speaking of indulging, #5 is something I've changed my mind about. Cal Newport writes about managing distraction rather than focus and allowing yourself a break (scheduling it). Ramit Sethi brags about checking news and social media first thing in the morning, which is fine, if you have good boundaries with yourself. So I've been keeping apps on my phone during the week more and more, and allowing myself time to indulge during the workday. Sometimes it doesn't work, and that's okay too.

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Priya | The Pretend Poet's avatar

Ignoring the signs that my body needs rest always gets me in the end.

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