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

In this episode, Yakira Apfel — fitness studio owner and mom of four — opens up about a roadthat wasn't always visible from the outside. She talks about the eating disorder that took root inseventh grade and followed her into seminary, the shame of wondering if what she went throughwas even "real enough" to count, and the honest admission that she didn't get help until yearslater. She's candid about postpartum anxiety, a decade of hypochondria, and what it actuallytook to come back to herself — including the role movement and purpose played in pulling herout of it.We also go into her religious journey — how becoming a mother reshaped her relationship withobservance, the moment her family was turned away from a school over a single photo, thequiet grief of being judged on appearance instead of character, and what it meant to finally setdown something she'd been carrying for years.By the end, Yakira lands on what she calls mental agility: not the absence of struggle, but thecapacity to actually feel the hard stuff — the anger, the grief, the fear — and come back from it.A raw, honest conversation about eating disorders, motherhood, faith, and learning to trustyourself.