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Self-care is important for professionals

Self-care is important for professionals

- Yeah, and I think that's a great segue to our next question and it's about a topic that's unfortunately often forgotten, it's about self care. So let's hear the question. - You have a crazy phase it's really hard to find the right balance, so how did you compress? - Oh My God, I'm going to take this one (all laughing) I want to just focus on the fact that most of our stress and I think we talked about this is tied to our perception right? like of self, and how we kind of seek approval from others. And over the course of my career what I found is that the only way for us we think of self care is like physical meditation That's not all it is, it's actually the cycle between stress and self esteem. And if we can somehow boost our self esteem and then lower our stress at the same time, that is the only way that we will actually be seen 'cause when you're really feeling good about yourself, the same thing that will take…

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