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. Welcome back to the podcast, we are really excited because this month, we are starting kind of a new framework for the podcast where we are going to be diving into a particular theme each month, and introducing the theme. And then going into a little bit more detail throughout each episode of the month. So the first month is going to be about how moving our bodies helps our mental health. And this episode will kind of give us a general overview of why movement is positively correlated with better mental health outcomes. And then we're also going to be issuing a challenge and each month, we're going to have a new 30 day challenge so that we can create some actual change for ourselves and our listeners. And so this month, we're challenging each of us, including ourselves, to move our bodies for one mile every single day. And that is going to do a couple things. One, when we are able to take small steps of positive health, it builds confidence. And two, we're going to gain the actual effects of the positive mental health outcomes by moving our body. So this is we're kind of employing a little bit of an action step for now on in the podcast. And that's something that we're really excited about.