Sep 23, 2026 · 44 min · 16 segments
Aly and Erica talk the “honeymoon phase," rest, “soft life,” the importance of our language, body image and beauty standards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
Ali FrenchHostAnd like, you know, as again, like when I can, I'll talk a lot about it on the podcast, probably towards the end of the year.
I do feel it's like the maturity and the knowledge of being a woman in her late 30s, you know, who's like approaching 40.
But with this, like, I think this like freedom comes with that knowledge, too, of like, wow, like I'm the youngest I'll ever be.
How do I want to live? How do I want to enjoy it? And it's interesting because, you know, for the rest of the year and we'll be talking about this soon, but, you know, we're going to go through some transitions with the podcast and all this stuff.
And, you know, as as I think about how I want to spend the rest of my year and moving forward into next year, I'm kind of taking like this this season to like and I'm going to use these words because I'm going to talk about like my feelings about these words, but like to be soft.
right like I just want like this like soft life where I'm really gentle with myself and you know I am I'm you know I'm I'm working hard but I'm also honoring rest and doing all these things and it's so interesting because I recently been seeing reels and TikToks that talk about these things that I feel and that I want but sometimes how they're actually loaded and like patriarchal messaging that kind of keep women small and so I've been trying to balance that like I am really in this place where you know like even like my therapist was saying like she listed everything I've been through in the last two years and it was like a whoa moment I mean honestly like the last six years but she literally listed like everything I've been through in the last two years and she was like one of those things is enough to like
There's a reason that it hasn't knocked me down, but she was like, you need to rest.
But But you like basically like that's her prescription for me is like you need to rest.
And like, you know, as again, like when I can, I'll talk a lot about it on the podcast, probably towards the end of the year.
I do feel it's like the maturity and the knowledge of being a woman in her late 30s, you know, who's like approaching 40.
But with this, like, I think this like freedom comes with that knowledge, too, of like, wow, like I'm the youngest I'll ever be.
How do I want to live? How do I want to enjoy it? And it's interesting because, you know, for the rest of the year and we'll be talking about this soon, but, you know, we're going to go through some transitions with the podcast and all this stuff.
And, you know, as as I think about how I want to spend the rest of my year and moving forward into next year, I'm kind of taking like this this season to like and I'm going to use these words because I'm going to talk about like my feelings about these words, but like to be soft.
right like I just want like this like soft life where I'm really gentle with myself and you know I am I'm you know I'm I'm working hard but I'm also honoring rest and doing all these things and it's so interesting because I recently been seeing reels and TikToks that talk about these things that I feel and that I want but sometimes how they're actually loaded and like patriarchal messaging that kind of keep women small and so I've been trying to balance that like I am really in this place where you know like even like my therapist was saying like she listed everything I've been through in the last two years and it was like a whoa moment I mean honestly like the last six years but she literally listed like everything I've been through in the last two years and she was like one of those things is enough to like
There's a reason that it hasn't knocked me down, but she was like, you need to rest.
But But you like basically like that's her prescription for me is like you need to rest.
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