How to Find Balance: Fitness, Mental Health, and the Journey to Self-Care

Adulting with Autism

Hey guys, hey, happy Wednesday! It's finally my favorite time of the year, fall. I love this time of the year. The only thing is it's still dark when I wake up. I'm not a 6 a.m. person. I don't ever claim to be a 6 a.m. person. I hate it when the sun is not up. It takes me forever to wake up when the sun is not up. And literally my fiancé has to push me out of the bed to get started.

And I'll be real, I am not an exercise type of person. I need to exercise. And the guest that I interviewed made it sound so easy. I asked him a specific question in this interview. I said, how can somebody get into the habit of a routine of exercise? And he told me, you don't need a gym membership, but this is hard. He said, all you need is 30 minutes, three times a week. And he said, it sounds easy, but it's really hard.

Now, I interviewed this guest a month ago. No, two months ago. And I still haven't done it. I have thought of every excuse in the world of why I haven't started this program. And he said... I would end up doing this. And he was totally right. So, Marc, I have to have him start this program. I'm getting there. I like your studio. I mean, I'm already. No, it's cool. I like it.

Okay, I'm going to get stung at eight. So I can be involved in the team. I promise, I'm not always in my day. I'm getting my body in shape. So I don't feel like I'm running a marathon every time I'm learning. Thank you for coming on to my podcast. I'm sure you're very diseased. Yeah, no, but this is, I love doing this. This is something I love doing. I love spreading the word and hopefully quashing any sort of stigma around mental illness and all the associated things that go along with it. So this is something I make time for, definitely.

So you have said on your bio that there's a personal trainer or a host of the Realty Rumors, the wrong word, podcast. Everybody's also the host of 6am.run. But really, you have to live with it. Don't even go there. 6amrun.com. Because I guess what a lot of people share is, oh, I can go to a therapist and get rid of anxiety and depression. But what you really have to do is hit head-on.

Yeah, no, I appreciate you asking that. I mean, I think that, I mean, perfect example. I mean, I've been doing work. I don't know how much you read through the book, but I've been working on myself for quite some time. And a lot of that was around this struggle with anxiety. And, you know, I think that you can get online and you can see people talking about, like, you know, 30 days it'll be gone or this or that. And I'm not saying that that can't happen to people. I imagine it can. And I don't think these people are lying, but I think that, you know, even if you don't have an anxiety disorder, you know, I tend not to call it a disorder in the book because I think it's just a challenge. To get healthy and it also leads to other extremes. But when you have a, even if you don't have a challenge, you're gonna run up against anxiety, just a normal part of life. Stress and anxiety are a normal part of life, right? So that will always be there. You have a different relationship to it i think that's the key that's what i'm trying to stress in the book is that that's why i keep saying dance all right don't worry about it at all right because welcome to my podcast and thank you so much for coming now my i still have that thank you so much for having me i appreciate it to kind of get busy or run from it or a lot of my power through it and sometimes that's necessary but other times it's maybe just sitting down showing up and go like what's going on what's going on in my body right now like what's my body trying to tell me um is there something that's coming up for me and i think that i totally understand for you know there's so many different there's a huge spectrum of people who struggle with anxiety it will make you feel better you know or disorder as they call it or someone dealing with everyday stress and everything that has been the truth and i don't think this is just with anxiety i think there's other things in life and still going through learn to dance.

The one thing we know for certain is that change will always be present. And if you learn how to dance with that and not, you know, just say, this is the way things are going to be for the rest of my life. And, you know, this is how it's going to be. And I figured out a way to deal with everything. But you're always going to have change in life. So I don't know if that answers the question, but I think it's more of a dance as opposed to just completely getting rid of it from your system. I think it'd be labeled as like an anxiety spectrum versus a disorder. I know there are some people that it'll come and then go away. But for some people, it's a lifelong thing. They've had it all their life and they're always going to end it. Today is my ultimate procrastination days.

I hope you guys enjoyed this episode as much as I did. Remember, it's all about taking small steps and being kind to yourself. Love you guys to death, and as always, keep adulting!

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