Happy New Year! Today on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren dive into the hottest wellness trends predicted for 2025. Is this the year you indulge in a tech-free retreat, embrace the community sauna, or get sleep-divorced? Plus, your hosts share their goals for the new year and a few predictions of their own. Start the new year off right with this episode and let us know your predictions!

Sources:

https://theeverygirl.com/wellness-trends/

https://destinationdeluxe.com/wellness-trends-2025/#:~:text=Longevity%20is%20the%20biggest%20trend,promote%20a%20longer%2C%20healthier%20lifespan.

https://www.brit.co/wellness-trends-2025/

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As the year comes to a close, it's important to look back and reflect. Today on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren are recapping the biggest trends in wellness for 2024. Some we love, some we hate, and some we've participated without even realizing (being boy-sober is a thing?). Listen in to see what you've been subscribing to in wellness this year. 

https://athletechnews.com/classpass-reflects-on-2024-fitness-trends-wellness-insights/

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https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/dec/05/2024-wellness-trends

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https://www.onepeloton.com/blog/wellness-trends/

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Today on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren are joined by Sarah Nicole Landry, aka The Bird’s Papaya, a divorced and remarried mom of four and body confidence advocate, speaker, writer, 6x cover girl, and weekly podcast host. With children spanning from babies to teens, Sarah has experienced all colors of the postpartum journey and is telling us all about it. Listen in for a deeply touching and empowering interview about creating life and then feeling empowered by our own.

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Do we want people to stop commenting on our physical appearances, or do we actually want 1000 compliments? Today on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren respond to a listener advice email. Nothing makes you want to flake on plans quite like feeling insecure in your friend group. But does external validation define our worth? That's a tough nut to crack. Listen in as your hosts dive deeper.

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Okay, we know this might sound spooky and woo-woo, but we promise, it's science! Today on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren discuss the mounting evidence that memories are stored in body parts other than our brains. Listen in as your hosts dive into real reports of memories being shared through organ transplants, the fascination that is epigenetics, and why your grandmother's trauma might be the reason you love cats. Whose memories are you storing in your DNA?

Sources:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53922-x#Sec10

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-epigenetics-and-how-does-it-relate-to-child-development/

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Does the thought of finding a new therapist make you feel in even deeper need of therapy? Today on Good Bodies, your hosts are diving into Emily's wellness check. But first, Lauren shares a harrowing tale of what might be New York's worst slice of pizza. Emily shares about her current search for her next therapist, and it's making us want to lie on a couch and share how that makes us feel. Don't miss it!

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Is it possible for a body-positive environment to offer GLP-1s? Does healthcare require Botox? Today on Good Bodies, Lauren shares a jarring change in Tia Health's marketing strategy. After receiving several emails about their new weight management and skin care offerings, we're feeling a bit triggered. Emily jumps in with her own perspective on the matter, and the two debate the gray area of this new chapter for Tia. What are your thoughts? Plus, tune in for a new segment sponsored by our friends at Angry Orchard!

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Today, on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren drop in for a Wellness Check. Emily shares a lesson in not judging a book by its cellphone wallpaper. Later, Lauren shares her decision to limit her therapy sessions to once a month. Also, does anyone else feel like their therapist is their missing parent? Just us? Cool. Listen in and get personal.

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Can true wellness only be accomplished by traveling to the jungle to scream under a waterfall? For some, that seems to be the case. Today, on Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren are tackling Wellness Tourism. What is it, what are the trending treatments, and do we buy it? Plus, Lauren's "Makeup Nap" sends Emily spiraling. Don't try this at home!

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Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode of Good Bodies, Emily and Lauren give their hot meal hot takes on classic Thanksgiving dishes. Your hosts share their must-haves, their absolutely-nots, and THE recipe for Big Mama's mac and cheese casserole. Plus, are peas allowed at Thanksgiving? And has ANYONE found our waists?? Tune in to find out.

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