We believe in functional mental wellness, a holistic approach to mental health. We know that there's hope for those of us who have experienced trauma, even profound trauma and that's why we created the universe is your therapist podcast, we believe whether you call it God, the universe, source, unity or love that there is something much greater than us that conspires for our good, we envision a world of healing and connection, and we teach you simple but powerful practices that integrate your mind, body and spirit so that you can come home to your highest self and your truest identity. You are not broken, you are loved, and you can heal. My name is Amy Hoyt, and together with my sister, Lena, we will take you on a journey of healing and self discovery. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode, we are really excited for our last episode of this month's theme, which is movement and mental health. And specifically this week, we're going to be talking about resilience, and how we can build resilience through micro movement challenges. So this builds on some of our other episodes this month, as well as goes into the new and upcoming evidence based on resilience and how we can basically inoculate ourselves from feeling the full weight of some of the hardships that we go through. But before we get into the episode, we want to check in about our movement challenge that we issued, and 30 days of moving our bodies for one mile every day. So how's it going? Lena? It is going slowly. But surely. And I'm hanging on to the thing that I said in the last episode, which is consistency is more important than length of time. So I am now practicing doing some walking outside either in the evening when it's not as hot or in the morning when it's not as hot. And I found a couple of benefits to that. One is that just being in nature, and being outside and living in this small town in Missouri that we live in, there's so much greenery and shrubbery and so many trees. And so walking outside is beneficial for me in a couple of ways, just getting my movement in being consistent in my habit or pattern, and then also enjoying the beauty that I see as I'm walking. How about you? I did better this week more consistent, going a little bit more than just the one mile which is the goal for me is to just get over that resistance and keep going. So I am feeling like this is helping me form a habit. And it's going to continue, which I'm really excited about. That's great. Good job. Thank you. Thanks, mister. Okay, so today's topic is really fun. And we've been researching this quite a bit the last year, because that this is one of the core tenants of our program. The whole health lab, we talk a lot about building resilience because one we're humans and as humans, hard things happen to us. And two, we know for a fact that hard things will continue to happen in our lives, that's just inevitable. And so resilience is actually the ability to recover from stress quickly and efficiently. And secondly, resilience helps increase our threshold for stress so that we can deal with it more effectively. And so, obviously, resilience is kind of like a superpower. And I feel really excited to dive in. Me too. I'm excited about talking about some of the concepts that will go into this podcast, I think they're great. Okay, so what do we know about resilience? Besides the basic definition? How does moving our body actually help us build resilience? The things