What Does It Actually Mean to Be Mentally Healthy? | Yakira Apfel)

<p>In this episode, Yakira Apfel — fitness studio owner and mom of four — opens up about a road</p><p>that wasn&#39;t always visible from the outside. She talks about the eating disorder that took root in</p><p>seventh grade and followed her into seminary, the shame of wondering if what she went through</p><p>was even &quot;real enough&quot; to count, and the honest admission that she didn&#39;t get help until years</p><p>later. She&#39;s candid about postpartum anxiety, a decade of hypochondria, and what it actually</p><p>took to come back to herself — including the role movement and purpose played in pulling her</p><p>out of it.</p><p>We also go into her religious journey — how becoming a mother reshaped her relationship with</p><p>observance, the moment her family was turned away from a school over a single photo, the</p><p>quiet grief of being judged on appearance instead of character, and what it meant to finally set</p><p>down something she&#39;d been carrying for years.</p><p>By the end, Yakira lands on what she calls mental agility: not the absence of struggle, but the</p><p>capacity to actually feel the hard stuff — the anger, the grief, the fear — and come back from it.</p><p>A raw, honest conversation about eating disorders, motherhood, faith, and learning to trust</p><p>yourself.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>