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Time for a mid-year check in! In this episode of Self Love & Sweat THE PODCAST we are bringing it back to our New Year's Goals we set in January. I’m sharing how choosing a Word of the Year can create real change...especially when motivation fades and life gets full.

My word for 2026 is ease.
Not laziness. Not doing nothing.
But alignment.

The kind of ease that helps you notice when you’re forcing life, pushing upstream, or living from the old story that your work equals your worth.

This is about matching your actions to who you say you want to be.

Inside this episode, we discuss:
• choosing a Word of the Year instead of rigid resolutions
• defining “ease” as alignment, not laziness
• spotting the “upstream” feeling that signals resistance
• challenging the belief that work equals worth
• checking your integrity in relationships, leadership, and hard days
• using core values as the rules to your game
• workouts vs work-ins as a framework for real growth
• emotional metabolism and what it means to get “sore on the inside”

If you’ve been feeling off, disconnected, or like you’ve “fallen behind,” this is your reminder that you don’t need to start over...you just need to check in.

Send me a DM on Instagram @lifelikelunden and tell me your Word of the Year and how it’s actually showing up in your life.

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