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Are you busy looking after everyone else? Too busy to look after yourself? .
To thrive in your career and life, and to be able to give fully to others, you must look after yourself first. Yet for so many women this feels counterintuitive, impractical, impossible.
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I love the analogy of the oxygen mask ... thank you Tracy @brightyellowcoaching 🤩..... you must fit your mask before looking to support others. I’ve lost count of the number of retreaters and friends who have told me over the years that they feel as though their lives are “out of control” busy. They wish that things could be different...: but they never make any changes. They never make any time for themselves, they never prioritise their own health and wellness. .
It’s easy to begin to wear your busyness as a badge of honour and yet with so many of us managing our competing priorities of family, career, friends, fitness and goodness knows what else, it’s clear that proper, re-focusing, self-reflecting “down-time” has become unjustifiable indulgence in many people’s lives. But self-care is a vital part of your wellbeing and it’s importance cannot be underestimated.
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So it might just be time for you to think about fitting your own mask first .... and making time for self care rather than waiting, wishing, wanting and hoping that someday something changes.
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How often do you make time to reflect on what you are grateful for? Research shows us that grateful people are not only happier but healthier!!! They have better sleep, they have better pain threshold, they have better mood, they have better energetic levels, they have higher self esteem. I don’t formalise my gratitude, I know that some folk use gratitude journals and if that works to get you started or keep you engaged then that’s great.
For me I’ve made it a practice that most mornings (I’m not going to lie there are some mornings I’m throwing myself from bed like a whirling dervish..🤪) but most mornings I spend a moment of stretching, looking in a mirror, I smile at myself and I reflect on the good in my life .... of which there is such a lot.
I feel almost spoilt for choice.... am I one of life’s lucky ones to whom no bad things happen????? No way!!! But I am someone who always looks for the good... the more I look the more I find. .
So stop scrolling for a moment.... and just think about what you have to be grateful for and give thanks that it came into your life. 🙏🏻
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Much of life's pain stems from the gap between expectations and reality. “I wish I was taller, smarter, thinner, richer.... (insert your thing here)....than I am, and I'm miserable that I'm not. It's no use anyone telling me that I'm taller, smarter, thinner or richer than other people. That's irrelevant and no comfort to me at all.” Why isn’t good enough good enough?
Think about it for a minute, quite a lot of your current stress prob alt comes from your internal dialogue. So what if you changed it. What if you accepted less than perfect.... what if you closed the gap .... not by trying to be perfect but rather in lowering your expectation?? How would that feel? .
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There are four things that can give us energy, Food, Water, Rest and Movement.
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So why is it that when we feel ourselves power down that we only seem to rely on one of those power sources to recharge?
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Time and Habit. .
It’s just so easy to reach for a caffeine and carbs to give you a quick boost ... unfortunately the boost doesn’t last and you find yourself needing more frequent tops.
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Next time you feel yourself slumping try one of the other embers boosters instead. It won’t be as convenient in the short term .... but you’ll feel the positive impact for much longer.
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Are you hiding from your truth? .
Before I Burned Out I started to absent myself from my nearest and dearest. I didn’t want to answer the question “how are you” ... I was tired of giving the glib “fine/ok/not too bad” ... when actually I felt miserable, wired, a little bit broken. .
I didn’t want yo disappoint my friends and family, I wanted them to think I was living my best life. So I shared stories of nights out, new purchases, anecdotes from work .... anything but talk about me.
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Soon I’d much rather just come in from work, eat my ready meal, drink my wine and enjoy a few hours of mindless telly nonsense. .
Not a bad way to spend an evening .... but every evening, every weekend, turning down invites in favour of a duvet day!!! Something is off.
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If you have found this type of behaviour creeping up then it’s time to allow yourself to be seen.
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Firstly don’t judge yourself, you haven’t been doing anything wrong, you’ve slipped into survival mode that’s all. Now it’s time to choose to thrive not simply survive.
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Start off by talking to just one person, it can be someone you know well or if you aren’t ready for that then a complete stranger is good too. .
Start off slow, share a little, allow yourself to be honest, allow yourself to be seen and heard. .
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