The 2025 Wellness Girl’s Gift Guide is here, and Dr. Kelsy Vick, board-certified orthopedic and pelvic floor physical therapist, is sharing her favorite wellness-inspired gifts for the year. From thoughtful stocking stuffers to high-quality exercise gear and mindful luxuries, this episode covers it all. Dr. Kelsy dives into her go-to brands like Neap Protein, Safely Sidekick, and luxury toothpaste — perfect for elevating everyday routines. She also highlights fitness favorites such as the Stakt Mat and Lululemon Align sets, both comfortable and pelvic-floor-approved. For skincare lovers, she explores the Higher Dose Microcurrent Body Sculptor Ritual Set, a red light and microcurrent device designed to support healthy skin from head to toe.

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00:00- 00:17 Intro

00:18- 02:08 Introduction to the 2025 Wellness Girls Gift Guide

02:09- 07:44 Stocking Stuffers: Small Gifts with Big Impact

07:45- 08:20 Safely

08:21- 10:12 Exercise Essentials: Gifts for Fitness Enthusiasts

10:13- 11:26 Luxury Self-Care: High-End Wellness Devices

11:27- 12:11 Mindfulness and Journaling: Thoughtful Gifts for Mental Well-being

12:12- 13:54 Memberships and Experiences: The Gift of Community and Adventure

13:55- 14:30 Neap

14:31- 19:27 Personal Wishlist: Unique and Memorable Gift Ideas

19:28- 19:58 Conclusion: Wrapping Up the Gift Guide

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Neap

The 2025 Wellness Girls

Gift Guide is here.

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Welcome back to Wellness Fixes the Pod.

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I'm your host, Dr.

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Kelsey Vic, a board certified

orthopedic doctor, physical therapy,

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and a pelvic floor physical therapist,

and this is one of my favorite.

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Episodes and blogs to write every year

because it lets me pretend that I have

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all the money in the world to gift my

friends, to gift my family, to gift.

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All of those obsessed with

health and wellness in my life.

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So I love putting on this.

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Hat of maximalism to think if I

was gifting one of my health and

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wellness friends, or if I was the

person that I was supposed to buy

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a gift for, what would I want?

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So it's a super fun episode for

me, but I hope it also gives you

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guys ideas and I'd love to hear

different things that you guys love.

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These are some of my favorite videos

to watch of other people, because

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sometimes, and this year actually in

particular, at the end, I'm gonna go

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through some of my, like Christmas

wishlist, or gifting wishlist because

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a lot of the items on my list right now

aren't necessarily health and wellness

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items, which is kind of shocking,

but I think it just goes to show.

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How some of these items I'd

recommend I've had for decades and

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don't feel the need to replace.

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So I think that's really cool that we

don't have to waste and buy health and

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wellness items every year, especially

if the ones that we have we love and

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they're standing the test of time.

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So I thought that's pretty cool too.

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But I would love to hear what

you guys are asking for Christmas

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or what's on your wishlist?

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Because I love watching those videos.

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I love hearing what everyone's

asking for because it also

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helps inspire my own wishlist.

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So this list, is a little more minimal

than some of the previous years

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because I just, I only wanna put.

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Things on here that I

wholeheartedly agree with.

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That's maybe a little bit more current,

but it's my current list and it just

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is not as extensive as some of the

other years, and I think that's great.

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So for stocking stuffers, this is

actually the largest part of my

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list as stocking stuffers because I

feel like there's some really great.

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mini gifts, to do for stocking stuffers.

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The first one is neap protein gels, and

I've talked about these on social media

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before, but they are a protein gel.

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Exactly what it sounds like.

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Female founded 80 calories,

20 grams of protein per pack,

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and I get the variety pack.

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So there's four flavors

and I just love them.

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As someone who travels for physical

therapy and goes to her patient's

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homes, they're wonderful on the go.

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I always had difficulty

having a quick protein option.

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I don't use it as a meal replacement.

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It is a complete protein, but

it's not necessarily a meal shake.

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I use it more as if I'm packing

my lunch or snacks on the go.

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I bring it as my protein option.

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I also use it before or after a workout

if I need a quick protein option.

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So neap.

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N-E-A-P protein, I'll leave all

of the links below, but I highly

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recommend and I think they'd be

such fun, cute stocking stuffers.

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They're colorful and I dunno,

I just think they're fun

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and very useful.

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The next stocking stuffer I have

is actually an upgraded version of

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something my aunt got us probably, gosh,

I was in college so a long time ago.

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It is the safely.

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Sidekick is what the device is

called, the upgraded device, and

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it is a self protection device for

when you're on a walk or a run.

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When I am running solo, I always

keep my head on a swivel and this

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device has five things in one.

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It's got pepper spray, it's got

a spike, it's got a flashlight.

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It's got an alarm.

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And depending on the state you live

in, it also has a kind of a spiky grip.

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It's basically an all-in-one

upgraded version of pepper

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spray and like a safety device.

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My aunt got us an alarm based one

back when I was in college and

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it accidentally went off in my car.

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it was one where you like have to

pull and the alarm accidentally went

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off in my car when I was getting to

work at six in the morning, and it

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was just the loudest alarm ever.

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And I crack up thinking about it,

but at the time my eyes were just

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like, oh my gosh, what is going on?

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What is that?

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And I was trying to figure out how to

put it back in and shut off the alarm.

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But this safely sidekick, I was reminded

of that because of this, and I think

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it's a great stocking stuffer, especially

for girls going off to college or

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girls who are in big cities alone.

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I know I always felt a little bit safer.

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I've been followed and I know

that's not a unique experience.

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I know a lot of us women have been

followed by certain people while

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we're on solo runs or solo walks,

or even walking home from class

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at ut, that's where mine happened.

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So he followed me in his car

straight to where I lived and I.

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Was super freaked out.

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Call the police.

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Like it was a whole, it was a whole thing.

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But if I would've had the safely

sidekick, I think I would've

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felt a little bit more protected.

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And after that we ended up getting

me a device, but at the time,

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the safely Sidekick wasn't there.

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So I think it's a fun stocking

stuffer, but especially for girls

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in college or girls in big cities,

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You might feel a little bit safer to

have a flashlight or an alarm system.

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and pepper spray is great too, but to

have an all-in-one device that you can

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just hold in your hand while you're

running or walking, I think is great.

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The next stocking stuffer is

actually Arame toothpaste.

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And I think I heard from someone,

I can't remember the creator, but

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you can find a great gift by looking

at what the person has in their

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normal routine and just elevating it.

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My parents always would get us some sort

of oral care in our stocking stuffers.

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It was usually a new electric toothbrush

or toothpaste, floss, whatever.

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It was always some sort of

oral care in our stocking.

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And Arame toothpaste is

the luxury version of that.

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So it has all the good ingredients in it.

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It helps to maintain the whiteness

and brightness of your teeth.

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They have just the toothpaste.

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They have a double pack with the

whitening maintenance, I forget what

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they call it, but it's basically it

doesn't whiten your teeth, but it

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helps to maintain the color of it.

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So I think this is just

an awesome option for.

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Those of you guys who want to

elevate a certain daily care,

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part of your loved ones routine.

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This next stocking stuffer is one I have.

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I love the Ollie Rose Pilates socks.

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they're embroidered.

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There's cute little graphics on them.

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I think they are so fun.

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They're slightly expensive, but

I think all Pilate socks are,

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and these ones are so cute.

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I wear them all the time

and I think it'd be fun.

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Socks are typical stocking stuffer,

but again, these are just a little

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more elevated of a sock that she

can use during her Pilates workouts

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or just wear around the house.

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And then the last stocking stuffer I have

are something my sisters both got me on.

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They were jumping on the bandwagon

for this way early on and I was still

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sticking to my tried and true, but

they are the slip silk hair ties.

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And I got these last year from one

of my sisters as part of my Christmas

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gift, and they were incredible.

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They kept talking about

'em, hyping 'em up.

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And I used to be a diehard tele ized

fan that looks like the phone cords,

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but ever since they got me the silk

slip, hair ties, I've been obsessed.

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I haven't had to buy anymore.

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I don't think they do expand, but.

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I think they're worth it.

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I haven't had to buy any within a year.

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Like I've kept all of the same ones

that I've had, so they're at least

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still going strong a year later, and I

haven't had to buy any new ones, even

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though they do stretch out a little bit.

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But I still, I can't tell you

how much I was so wrong about

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sticking to my old hair ties.

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These ones are elite.

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They're the best as far as

exercise necessities goes.

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That's my next category, I think both

of these were on my gift guide last

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year, which just goes to show how.

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much longevity are in these items and

how they will stand the test of time.

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But the first one is the stakt mat.

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It's cushioned, foldable, multipurpose

yoga exercise mat, and I love it.

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I've brought it to a lot of my sculpt

classes, my hot Pilates classes.

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It's the best, especially if you

have like tender elbows or tender

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knees or do a variety of workouts.

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It's not just for yoga.

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You can fold up the mat.

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And I'll use it to elevate my heels during

heel elevated squats with a weight like

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I'll use it in a lot of different ways.

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So it is the perfect yoga mat.

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I actually have a code for that one below.

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I think it's 10% off of anything

it's stakt, but if you use the link

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below, you can get that discount.

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The next one is anything with the

aligned material from Lululemon.

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This is my tried and true it's

pelvic floor PT approved because

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it's a little bit more of a flexible.

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Waistband, it doesn't necessarily

cinch you in and cause unnecessary

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pressure on your pelvic floor.

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So I love that.

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I've also had patients who are

pregnant tell me they work really well.

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if you flip and wear like the butt part in

the front and the front part in the back,

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they work really well during pregnancy

because the back band and the back

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part is a little bit more like rounded.

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And so it is way comfy

over a growing belly.

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So if you don't wanna buy pregnancy

leggings, these will also work.

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So that's another use case I guess,

that I definitely didn't know about, But

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I will be using when that time comes.

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But anything in the aligned

material, I just love it.

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I've had some for over a decade and

there's a little bit of pilling, but

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I will still choose them over and over

again because they are so comfy and.

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They just work for a lot of

different types of workouts.

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I will say they're not great for

the sweatiest of workouts, so high

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intensity interval training, I

wouldn't use 'em for, but for lounge,

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for yoga, for Pilates, for just

movement based ones, they are amazing.

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The next category is a little bit

expensive, but devices and there's

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only one, But one of my goals for

the new year is to start taking

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better care of the largest organ

in my body, which is my skin.

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I have a pretty good like facial

care routine, but I do not do

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very well when it comes to the

skin over the rest of my body.

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I wanna be better about moisturizing

and actually investing in.

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Products and devices that can

help the rest of the skin on

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my body, not just on my face.

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So this is the higher dose

microcurrent body sculptor ritual

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set from higher dose and it's got red

light and it also has microcurrent.

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I looked up the research on it.

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They both fall, the red light

and the microcurrent fall within

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the ranges to help our skin.

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So I'm looking at that.

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It's an expensive device and I would love

to be able to try it first to see, but.

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It is definitely something that I am

looking into as a potential to help

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with one of my New Year's goals of

helping my overall full body skin

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health, the largest organ in my body,

especially as I've gotten older and

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older, I've noticed that my skin heals

a little bit slower than it did when I

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was in high school, so I would like to

invest more into that part of my body.

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The next category being mindfulness

things, and this one is a very

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fancy, very bougie, leather bound

notebook from Louisa Carmen.

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So I've seen it and I don't have

one, but it'd be a wonderful

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gift, especially if you can get it

monogrammed, that would be amazing.

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But it's, I believe it's an

Italian leather, maybe a French

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leather company that does.

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Leather bound notebooks, but you can

exchange the notebooks in between.

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So it's really just a case around,

and they have different sizes,

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different colors of leather,

and it just looks amazing.

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So you can have a gratitude journal,

you can have a dream journal, a

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mindfulness journal, all in one.

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You can have a planner.

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So it's just this beautiful way of

consolidating a lot of different written

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things that you might have in your life.

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In the last wellness category I

have are memberships Because I feel

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like memberships are expensive,

especially for girls who might be in

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college or starting in a new city.

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Memberships are a great

way to meet people.

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It's a great way to try out

different studios in your area.

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So I think getting someone a membership

to their favorite fitness studio, or

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if they're new to an area, getting

them a class pass membership so that

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they can try out a lot of different.

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Studios.

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I think not only does it help them

with their health and wellness, but

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it might also lead to new friendships,

especially if they're in a new town for

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college or for post grad life or beyond.

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I also think it's great for postpartum

moms especially, who are trying to

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get back into their fitness routine.

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So it really is the gift that keeps on

giving, not only in regards to the health

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and wellness, but also to possibly their

eventual community and friends that they

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might meet outside of the fitness studio.

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A few of my recent favorites, I've

joined ClassPass, so I love meeting

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people there, and I love trying

out different workouts and doing a

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variety of workouts around Austin.

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But my mother-in-law and

father-in-law also mentioned

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this as a gift for my husband,

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and by the time this episode

comes out, his birthday will

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have passed, so hopefully this

won't ruin a Christmas gift.

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But they mentioned getting a gift

card for him for his birthday too.

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A paddle facility or padel

facility here in Austin.

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We have been loving playing Padel.

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I mentioned it a few episodes

back that it's a very expensive

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sport to just do on your own.

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So they mentioned getting us a gift card

there as a couple for his birthday just

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to enjoy with our other friends, and

I thought that was a wonderful idea.

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So if.

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He or she's not a fitness studio

person or membership person.

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Maybe if they're a pickleball person or a

padel person or a bouldering rock climbing

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person getting them or a ski live ticket.

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Oh my gosh, that would be amazing if

your ski entire like epic pass was

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paid for, that would be incredible.

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But getting them basically a

membership to whatever physical

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fitness activity that they enjoy.

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And then to end on this fun episode,

just a few things on my own personal

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list, not necessarily health and wellness

related, a lot of things on my personal

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list, as I said in the beginning, aren't

necessarily health and wellness related

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because a lot of the things that I

have withstand the test of time and I

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don't necessarily need to re-up them.

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Which I think is the sign

of a really great gift.

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But a few things on my list just

for inspiration, for you guys if

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you also dunno what to ask for.

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we have a few big trips coming up.

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we have gotten gifts before where

our loved ones help us out with.

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Either a dinner on the trip plane tickets

or a hotel stay that is so appreciated.

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Those are probably some of my favorite

gifts to receive because anytime we

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go on that trip and go to that dinner,

I'm like, you know who gave us this?

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Your parents gave us this dinner.

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This is so wonderful to enjoy it,

and I'm constantly reminded of it.

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I think the same thing could

be said about honeymoons.

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I know , some of our friends,

we could buy dinner for them

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on their honeymoon as their.

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wedding gift, and I think

that's super awesome too.

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So just a few ideas, I guess

if you have travel coming up.

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I think anytime someone contributes

to that travel experience in any

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way, it always reminds me of them

as I'm going through the experience,

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which I think is super cool.

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I'm also just, of course, always building

out my jewelry, and so the next classic

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item on my list is this Beautiful.

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Diamond Flexi, Bengal tennis bracelet.

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I love a Bengal.

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It's one of my favorites.

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And this one's sort of a flexible diamond

tennis bracelet, Bengal, that I love.

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It's been on my list.

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So that is probably the next classic

piece of jewelry that's on my list.

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But I'm really just trying to build

out a classic jewelry set and I need

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a watch, but I'm really just trying

to not spend money on jewelry that

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I know I will eventually get rid

of, but actually spend money and

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ask for pieces that are timeless.

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Another thing on my list, we moved

neighborhoods back in July and our

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neighborhood is very walkable, so there

are a ton of coffee shops nearby, local

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wineries, so a gift card to any of

those places, any of the restaurants

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near us or in our new neighborhood.

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I love that we go there quite frequently.

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So any sort of gifting that meal

or that coffee or an experience

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in some way, I love that.

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If you can't tell, I love

experiences, but I think.

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If you don't know what to get someone,

getting them a gift card to a place

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that they frequent is a great idea.

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Anything embroidered or personalized?

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I'm thinking like thank you.

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Notes for like family.

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Thank you.

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Notes, towels, pillowcases.

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Anything embroidered or anything

that gives this like signature

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graphic or aesthetic of your home.

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I've seen people with like little

bar napkins or little matchboxes

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that they've had personalized

and I think that's so cute.

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And lastly, a few of the things

that I have been gifted that I've

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loved from either my husband or

other loved ones and family members.

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My husband is so great about

getting like little perfumes.

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I usually get like little mini

travel size, and I think those are

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so great, especially for travel, but.

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Also to try out new perfumes if

you don't necessarily have a go-to.

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I also love getting makeup bags.

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I feel like girls in general, like we go

through makeup bags and they get dirty

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and so my two recent favorites I got

last year actually to re-up my makeup

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bag that I had for maybe a decade.

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So they.

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Made an item in my current routine,

a little more luxury last year,

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which I thought was an amazing idea.

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But I love the Stony Clover ones.

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My sister got me like three of

those last year as like different

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sizes and I have loved them.

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And then my mother-in-law

and father-in-law got me one

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that is amazing for travel.

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It's called the parallel one, and

it basically, your products stand

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upright and then when you get to

a hotel, you just fold it down and

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that's like your stand, so you're not.

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Constantly like digging through

all of your products are upright.

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I'll try and include like a

link to it below, but I love it.

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And when we traveled to New York last

year, they gave it to me as an early

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Christmas gift because we traveled to

New York before Christmas and with the

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tiny counters next to the sink, it was

so great just to open it up and have

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all of my products there easy to access

without having to like sift through and

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without it taking up an entire space

in a drawer or all of the counters.

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In the minimal counter space at

the hotels we were staying at.

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A few of my other favorites have

also been those travel pouches,

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like the clothing travel pouches.

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I feel like there's a better name

for it, but I can't think of it.

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But the travel packs to go in your

suitcase, to organize your clothes,

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your socks, your intimates, like all of

the different things that you bring in

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travel, having those like travel pouches,

a massage, and then a weighted blanket.

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I love a weighted blanket.

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There was one year my husband got

me two weighted blankets, and I

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always joke with him that I must

have been really stressed that year.

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If you got me like 25.

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Pounds worth of weighted blankets.

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One was 10 and one was 15, but I

just like laugh about that now.

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But I do love a weighted blankets.

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So those are a few, I guess health

and wellness ideas, but also

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just like gift ideas in general.

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Again, I love hearing what everyone

else wants, so I hope you guys enjoyed

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this fun little girly casual episode

and I'll see you guys again in the next

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episode of Wellness Big is the pod.