October 31, 2023 • 13 mins
In this episode, we will explore the wonderful world of self-care. We'll discuss why it's so important to make self-care a daily practice rather than saving it for nighttime. Think of self-care as a holistic approach to enhancing your well-being. We'll cover topics like integrating hobbies and interests into your daily routine, the significance of rest and rejuvenation, and the empowering notion of prioritizing yourself. By the end of this episode, you'll understand how these small, intentional acts of self-care throughout the day can significantly boost your overall happiness and well-being. So, join us, and let's dive into the world of self-care together!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good morning, my Gold Metal Minds, or whatever time of
day you're listening to this. For me, it is first
thing in the morning. I am still drinking my first
cup of coffee, So bear with me as we talk
about this today. But the conversation I wanted to have
was about self care. And I know that for a
lot of people, at least like in my internet feed,
(00:25):
self care has kind of gone away. We've not really
talked about it as much, and if we have, it's
like kind of in a funny, he he, ironic way.
But I really wanted to talk about it today on
my podcast because it is still something that I have
to prioritize, I have to actively think about, and I
(00:46):
am constantly having to like readjust and figure out new
ways to take care of myself because sometimes those old
habits or those old practices they just don't cut it anymore.
They're not recharged, they're not giving me new energy or
making me feel like I'm pausing and taking care of myself.
(01:06):
And so I just got home from a pretty intense
snowboard training camp. We were not on snow but we
were in the gym, we were doing meetings, we were
working on our start gates, which is like where you
pull out of the gate in a race. And so
it was pretty heavy with like using our body and
(01:26):
what kept coming up for me and a lot of
my meetings with my staff, so like in the staff,
we have our pets, we have our strength and conditioning coach, nutritionists,
our snowboard coach. And one thing that kept coming up
for me is I'm like, I am tired all the time.
I don't know how to rest. I don't know how
to take care of myself. I know how to rest
(01:47):
and recharge on a whole day if I'm like, Okay,
today is going to be an off day and I'm
going to just breathe for a second. But one thing
that I struggle with that I'm sure so many people
do is pausing throughout your day. And I have been
playing around for the last few weeks on different ways
to recharge, to take care of myself, to have a
(02:08):
self care practice beyond just at night. I feel like
it's so easy for me to just be like, Okay,
it's bed time. Now, I'm going to do a skincarerouteine
and breathe. It's gotten routine for me and I no
longer feel like I'm recharging with that, so that doesn't
even help me. What I'm trying to do now is
find ways to take care of myself through the day.
When the day has a million bajillion things on my
(02:31):
to do list and I feel like I only have
three minutes of time to accomplish it all, how do
I pause and take care of myself. One thing that
I'm really working on is setting alarms. I am an
adhd girly. I love my alarms. I have alarms for everything,
but one that I've been really leaning into is like
(02:52):
twenty minutes of work, ten minutes of recharge, twenty minutes
of work, ten minutes of recharge, thirty minute lunch, minutes
of work, and then I mean twenty minutes of work.
And if I know a task is longer than twenty minutes,
I'll do like thirty to forty five minutes, and then
I'll add whatever difference that is to my rest, So
(03:14):
like thirty minutes, it'll be twenty minutes of rest. And
so I just try to like make sure I am
pausing and even if even if I like don't stop
and rest, when that alarm goes off at that time,
it like brings into my awareness of like, hey girl,
you have been doing this for you know, twenty minutes,
(03:34):
you've been doing this for thirty minutes. You need to
like give your brain a second. And I have been
practicing this. I think I'm on like a month at
this point, and it's easier said than done. But what
I have noticed, because I haven't quite figured out yet
how to fully disengaged, I'm still working on it. I
think one thing you guys should know about me and
(03:55):
I really want to be like authentic about or like
true about, is like I'm also working on all of
these things that I talk about on my podcast. There
are some things that are second nature, but there are
a lot of things that are a conscious effort. It's
ever evolving. I'm relearning, I'm refiguring out maybe something worked
for me for a really long time and now it doesn't.
So everything that I share on here has been something
(04:16):
that I've worked on or am working through. So with that,
what I've noticed this last month of like really setting
these timers, being conscious of like where my time is
going throughout the day is that I rarely took breaks.
And because taking breaks throughout my day is not second nature.
(04:39):
When I was at my snowboard training camp. By the
time three four o'clock rolled in, I was grumpy. I
was tired, I was pushing through. I'm an athlete, but
like I was over it. Because even at the training camp,
when I had fifteen twenty minute break, I went and
did something that I needed to do for social media,
(05:00):
or I was like, oh, I want to go jump
on the trampoline and play. Now. All of these things
are really great things, you know, maybe ones being productive
the other one's joyful. But regardless, I didn't give myself
the time to recover, and so I want to kind
of pause here. Where I'm going with this next piece
is not counterintuitive, but it is another way to look
(05:23):
at self care. So in my everyday life, I have
a few ways that when my timer goes off to
take a break, here are things that I do A
I actually take a break. I go sit on the couch,
maybe I crochet for a minute, something quiet that can
quiet my brain. Sometimes all get on social media. Social
(05:45):
media has yet to actually make me feel recovered, so
keep that in mind, but I go do something quiet.
Another thing that I try to do is a hobby.
This summer has been the year of leaning in to
hobbies things that mean absolutely nothing except for my enjoyment.
In the past, any hobby that I had had some
(06:08):
kind of link to my career. I'm mountain bike as
a hobby. Oh, it's gonna help my snowboarding. I do
pole fitness as a hobby. Oh, it's going to make
me stronger and help my snowboarding. Oh. I do crusfit
as a hobby. Oh guess what, It's going to make
me stronger as a snowboarder. This summer, I said, you
know what, I want a hobby that literally means nothing,
that is a waste of money, is a waste of time.
(06:29):
Like that is how I want. I want to look
at my hobby and be like, if you were on paper,
that would be a waste of time. But it's not
a waste secon because I love it, right But anyway,
So I've leaned into sewing, I've leaned into crocheting, I've
leaned into gardening my plants. So those are my hobbies.
(06:50):
So when my timer goes off, if I feel like energized,
I feel like I could keep going into that task
that I was doing for another three hours. That's my hobby.
Time I'm like, all right, ten minutes to do the
sewing piece and just sew this together. Don't get me started.
When I mess up and I have to seamrip. That
is not a fun hobby time. But I make sure
(07:12):
that my self care isn't just a skincare practice. It's
not just a wind down. It's also looks like doing
things that bring you joy that mean absolutely nothing except
for bringing you joy. Another one of my hobbies that
I mentioned was crocheting. So if I'm kind of in
that like in between piece of like I'm really tired,
but like I also just really want to do something
(07:34):
for myself right now, Crocheting has been that piece for
me because I can literally like lay down or sit
down and kind of zone out and do some stitches,
and you know, you feel that like gratification when you
finish a row or something. But I really wanted to
kind of like put that in here, because self care
isn't just a nice hot bath. It isn't just taking
(07:57):
a nap. It isn't buying something that brings joy. It's
also having hobbies that mean nothing except for your own enjoyment.
Now I want to kind of go back to before
we talked about hobbies and where I shared about like
the actual resting period and like the recovery as an athlete.
One of and especially as I get older, one of
(08:18):
the biggest pieces of my performance is how well I recharge,
how well do I stop, how well do I slow
down and do those boring, annoying stretches. And what I
have done is I take that same exact practice of
like I'm going to take a ten minute shut eye
(08:41):
and breathe for a minute, or I'm going to just
do like a ten minute stretch routine right quick because
my body hurts. I take those practices and I apply
them into my daily life of like, okay, I'm going
to give my brain a second to catch up. Like
our brain is a muscle, and our brain works harder
than anything any other body part. I swear I can
(09:04):
be so exhausted at the end of the day and
all I did was sit on my computer and use
my brain. And if I'm not recovering it and recharging it,
I'm not gonna have time for myself at the end
of the day. I'm not gonna have time for my
family at the end of the day because I didn't
take care of myself. And so sometimes those ten minutes,
I'm closing my eyes and I'm being mindful, I'm just breathing,
(09:26):
I'm going to go for a walk. I'm gonna just
close my eyes because I know as an athlete, that's
where the races are really one. You win by how
well you take care of yourself because that avoids burnout,
You don't start to hate it. Your love for things,
stay loving for things right Like, it doesn't feel like
(09:49):
a job anymore. It feels like a part of life
that you get to be a part of. And so
that is one reason that I'm a huge advocate for
self care. Guys. Oh my goodness, I feel like I
talk to everyone in my life and I'm like, okay, well,
how well are you recovering? How well are you taking
care of yourself? How well are you this, that and
the other? Because it's so easy to overlook and it
(10:12):
feels so selfish, Like especially with the hobbies for me,
like the rest, the skincare, like all of those things,
the hot bath, whatever it is, it just seems easier
and less selfish because I mean there's really no like
financial spending towards it. You can easily see your return, right,
(10:34):
and it's a return on your investment towards your work,
right taking a breath. Okay, now I can work longer
hours tomorrow, or like, okay, now I can spend more
time in my family. Right, Like when you take a
break in the sense of like resting, it's easier to
rationalize you're not there's no other like. It's just less selfish.
(10:55):
It feels less selfish. I don't know how else to
explain it. However, when when you start doing hobbies that
you spend money on, like sewing or crocheting, or plants
or gardening, that's when you really start to feel like, okay, wait,
maybe self care is a little selfish. Like I just
spot this and there is no gain for my family,
like there is no gain for my career, There is
(11:16):
a no gain for my sport. There is a no
gain for anything other than the fact that I freaking
love it and I'm having so much fun. And that
in and of itself, especially for people who don't really
spend time on themselves or money on themselves, can feel
so wrong. And I am here to tell you, over
the last few months of me leaning into hobbies for
just myself and no other gain. It has been the
(11:40):
best thing I've ever done for my mental health. It
has been the best thing I've ever done for my family.
It has probably been the best thing I've done for
my sport because it's allowing me to break away. It's
allowing me to recharge in a way that's like motivating,
in a way that I'm like, yeah, I actually do
really like this again. I want to go back to it,
(12:00):
because before I would just hyper fixate. I would hyper
focus and I would just do what I needed to do,
and then I would be spent. At the end of
the day, I would have no time to just enjoy life.
So I know that was a lot. I really just
wanted to share with you guys self care, where I'm
(12:20):
at today, what I've learned, what I've seen through these
new practices. I would love for you guys to try
the timer thing out for yourself, Like I want to know,
Am I the only one? Like I can't be, But
I want to know if you do it, maybe what
is your self care practice? That's what I also want
to know, because, oh my goodness, one of the best
(12:40):
things that I love about going and doing speeches or
Q and a's is after I get to talk to
the audience and learn like what they do for themselves
and those specific topics, and I learn so much. I
always feel like, oh my gosh, I have like a
whole new set of tools that I'm gonna try. Thank you, guys,
So please feel free to share reach out on my Instagram.
If you loved this podcast, leave some stars, leave a review.
(13:04):
I love your feedback. I really just am enjoying taking
some time sharing what I've learned and what I know
to be true. And I can't wait to show up
on the next episode. We have one more episode for
season two, and so I hope that you're ready because
I'm going to bear my soul as I always do
(13:25):
every Tuesday. But regardless, thank you. Take care of yourself today.
Set your timers. Find a hobby that brings you joy.
It is not selfish, and even if it is selfish,
honestly you deserve it. So thank you and I will
see you guys on the next episode. Bye.
Good morning, my Gold Metal Minds, or whatever time of
day you're listening to this. For me, it is first
thing in the morning. I am still drinking my first
cup of coffee, So bear with me as we talk
about this today. But the conversation I wanted to have
was about self care. And I know that for a
lot of people, at least like in my internet feed,
(00:25):
self care has kind of gone away. We've not really
talked about it as much, and if we have, it's
like kind of in a funny, he he, ironic way.
But I really wanted to talk about it today on
my podcast because it is still something that I have
to prioritize, I have to actively think about, and I
(00:46):
am constantly having to like readjust and figure out new
ways to take care of myself because sometimes those old
habits or those old practices they just don't cut it anymore.
They're not recharged, they're not giving me new energy or
making me feel like I'm pausing and taking care of myself.
(01:06):
And so I just got home from a pretty intense
snowboard training camp. We were not on snow but we
were in the gym, we were doing meetings, we were
working on our start gates, which is like where you
pull out of the gate in a race. And so
it was pretty heavy with like using our body and
(01:26):
what kept coming up for me and a lot of
my meetings with my staff, so like in the staff,
we have our pets, we have our strength and conditioning coach, nutritionists,
our snowboard coach. And one thing that kept coming up
for me is I'm like, I am tired all the time.
I don't know how to rest. I don't know how
to take care of myself. I know how to rest
(01:47):
and recharge on a whole day if I'm like, Okay,
today is going to be an off day and I'm
going to just breathe for a second. But one thing
that I struggle with that I'm sure so many people
do is pausing throughout your day. And I have been
playing around for the last few weeks on different ways
to recharge, to take care of myself, to have a
(02:08):
self care practice beyond just at night. I feel like
it's so easy for me to just be like, Okay,
it's bed time. Now, I'm going to do a skincarerouteine
and breathe. It's gotten routine for me and I no
longer feel like I'm recharging with that, so that doesn't
even help me. What I'm trying to do now is
find ways to take care of myself through the day.
When the day has a million bajillion things on my
(02:31):
to do list and I feel like I only have
three minutes of time to accomplish it all, how do
I pause and take care of myself. One thing that
I'm really working on is setting alarms. I am an
adhd girly. I love my alarms. I have alarms for everything,
but one that I've been really leaning into is like
(02:52):
twenty minutes of work, ten minutes of recharge, twenty minutes
of work, ten minutes of recharge, thirty minute lunch, minutes
of work, and then I mean twenty minutes of work.
And if I know a task is longer than twenty minutes,
I'll do like thirty to forty five minutes, and then
I'll add whatever difference that is to my rest, So
(03:14):
like thirty minutes, it'll be twenty minutes of rest. And
so I just try to like make sure I am
pausing and even if even if I like don't stop
and rest, when that alarm goes off at that time,
it like brings into my awareness of like, hey girl,
you have been doing this for you know, twenty minutes,
(03:34):
you've been doing this for thirty minutes. You need to
like give your brain a second. And I have been
practicing this. I think I'm on like a month at
this point, and it's easier said than done. But what
I have noticed, because I haven't quite figured out yet
how to fully disengaged, I'm still working on it. I
think one thing you guys should know about me and
(03:55):
I really want to be like authentic about or like
true about, is like I'm also working on all of
these things that I talk about on my podcast. There
are some things that are second nature, but there are
a lot of things that are a conscious effort. It's
ever evolving. I'm relearning, I'm refiguring out maybe something worked
for me for a really long time and now it doesn't.
So everything that I share on here has been something
(04:16):
that I've worked on or am working through. So with that,
what I've noticed this last month of like really setting
these timers, being conscious of like where my time is
going throughout the day is that I rarely took breaks.
And because taking breaks throughout my day is not second nature.
(04:39):
When I was at my snowboard training camp. By the
time three four o'clock rolled in, I was grumpy. I
was tired, I was pushing through. I'm an athlete, but
like I was over it. Because even at the training camp,
when I had fifteen twenty minute break, I went and
did something that I needed to do for social media,
(05:00):
or I was like, oh, I want to go jump
on the trampoline and play. Now. All of these things
are really great things, you know, maybe ones being productive
the other one's joyful. But regardless, I didn't give myself
the time to recover, and so I want to kind
of pause here. Where I'm going with this next piece
is not counterintuitive, but it is another way to look
(05:23):
at self care. So in my everyday life, I have
a few ways that when my timer goes off to
take a break, here are things that I do A
I actually take a break. I go sit on the couch,
maybe I crochet for a minute, something quiet that can
quiet my brain. Sometimes all get on social media. Social
(05:45):
media has yet to actually make me feel recovered, so
keep that in mind, but I go do something quiet.
Another thing that I try to do is a hobby.
This summer has been the year of leaning in to
hobbies things that mean absolutely nothing except for my enjoyment.
In the past, any hobby that I had had some
(06:08):
kind of link to my career. I'm mountain bike as
a hobby. Oh, it's gonna help my snowboarding. I do
pole fitness as a hobby. Oh, it's going to make
me stronger and help my snowboarding. Oh. I do crusfit
as a hobby. Oh guess what, It's going to make
me stronger as a snowboarder. This summer, I said, you
know what, I want a hobby that literally means nothing,
that is a waste of money, is a waste of time.
(06:29):
Like that is how I want. I want to look
at my hobby and be like, if you were on paper,
that would be a waste of time. But it's not
a waste secon because I love it, right But anyway,
So I've leaned into sewing, I've leaned into crocheting, I've
leaned into gardening my plants. So those are my hobbies.
(06:50):
So when my timer goes off, if I feel like energized,
I feel like I could keep going into that task
that I was doing for another three hours. That's my hobby.
Time I'm like, all right, ten minutes to do the
sewing piece and just sew this together. Don't get me started.
When I mess up and I have to seamrip. That
is not a fun hobby time. But I make sure
(07:12):
that my self care isn't just a skincare practice. It's
not just a wind down. It's also looks like doing
things that bring you joy that mean absolutely nothing except
for bringing you joy. Another one of my hobbies that
I mentioned was crocheting. So if I'm kind of in
that like in between piece of like I'm really tired,
but like I also just really want to do something
(07:34):
for myself right now, Crocheting has been that piece for
me because I can literally like lay down or sit
down and kind of zone out and do some stitches,
and you know, you feel that like gratification when you
finish a row or something. But I really wanted to
kind of like put that in here, because self care
isn't just a nice hot bath. It isn't just taking
(07:57):
a nap. It isn't buying something that brings joy. It's
also having hobbies that mean nothing except for your own enjoyment.
Now I want to kind of go back to before
we talked about hobbies and where I shared about like
the actual resting period and like the recovery as an athlete.
One of and especially as I get older, one of
(08:18):
the biggest pieces of my performance is how well I recharge,
how well do I stop, how well do I slow
down and do those boring, annoying stretches. And what I
have done is I take that same exact practice of
like I'm going to take a ten minute shut eye
(08:41):
and breathe for a minute, or I'm going to just
do like a ten minute stretch routine right quick because
my body hurts. I take those practices and I apply
them into my daily life of like, okay, I'm going
to give my brain a second to catch up. Like
our brain is a muscle, and our brain works harder
than anything any other body part. I swear I can
(09:04):
be so exhausted at the end of the day and
all I did was sit on my computer and use
my brain. And if I'm not recovering it and recharging it,
I'm not gonna have time for myself at the end
of the day. I'm not gonna have time for my
family at the end of the day because I didn't
take care of myself. And so sometimes those ten minutes,
I'm closing my eyes and I'm being mindful, I'm just breathing,
(09:26):
I'm going to go for a walk. I'm gonna just
close my eyes because I know as an athlete, that's
where the races are really one. You win by how
well you take care of yourself because that avoids burnout,
You don't start to hate it. Your love for things,
stay loving for things right Like, it doesn't feel like
(09:49):
a job anymore. It feels like a part of life
that you get to be a part of. And so
that is one reason that I'm a huge advocate for
self care. Guys. Oh my goodness, I feel like I
talk to everyone in my life and I'm like, okay, well,
how well are you recovering? How well are you taking
care of yourself? How well are you this, that and
the other? Because it's so easy to overlook and it
(10:12):
feels so selfish, Like especially with the hobbies for me,
like the rest, the skincare, like all of those things,
the hot bath, whatever it is, it just seems easier
and less selfish because I mean there's really no like
financial spending towards it. You can easily see your return, right,
(10:34):
and it's a return on your investment towards your work,
right taking a breath. Okay, now I can work longer
hours tomorrow, or like, okay, now I can spend more
time in my family. Right, Like when you take a
break in the sense of like resting, it's easier to
rationalize you're not there's no other like. It's just less selfish.
(10:55):
It feels less selfish. I don't know how else to
explain it. However, when when you start doing hobbies that
you spend money on, like sewing or crocheting, or plants
or gardening, that's when you really start to feel like, okay, wait,
maybe self care is a little selfish. Like I just
spot this and there is no gain for my family,
like there is no gain for my career, There is
(11:16):
a no gain for my sport. There is a no
gain for anything other than the fact that I freaking
love it and I'm having so much fun. And that
in and of itself, especially for people who don't really
spend time on themselves or money on themselves, can feel
so wrong. And I am here to tell you, over
the last few months of me leaning into hobbies for
just myself and no other gain. It has been the
(11:40):
best thing I've ever done for my mental health. It
has been the best thing I've ever done for my family.
It has probably been the best thing I've done for
my sport because it's allowing me to break away. It's
allowing me to recharge in a way that's like motivating,
in a way that I'm like, yeah, I actually do
really like this again. I want to go back to it,
(12:00):
because before I would just hyper fixate. I would hyper
focus and I would just do what I needed to do,
and then I would be spent. At the end of
the day, I would have no time to just enjoy life.
So I know that was a lot. I really just
wanted to share with you guys self care, where I'm
(12:20):
at today, what I've learned, what I've seen through these
new practices. I would love for you guys to try
the timer thing out for yourself, Like I want to know,
Am I the only one? Like I can't be, But
I want to know if you do it, maybe what
is your self care practice? That's what I also want
to know, because, oh my goodness, one of the best
(12:40):
things that I love about going and doing speeches or
Q and a's is after I get to talk to
the audience and learn like what they do for themselves
and those specific topics, and I learn so much. I
always feel like, oh my gosh, I have like a
whole new set of tools that I'm gonna try. Thank you, guys,
So please feel free to share reach out on my Instagram.
If you loved this podcast, leave some stars, leave a review.
(13:04):
I love your feedback. I really just am enjoying taking
some time sharing what I've learned and what I know
to be true. And I can't wait to show up
on the next episode. We have one more episode for
season two, and so I hope that you're ready because
I'm going to bear my soul as I always do
(13:25):
every Tuesday. But regardless, thank you. Take care of yourself today.
Set your timers. Find a hobby that brings you joy.
It is not selfish, and even if it is selfish,
honestly you deserve it. So thank you and I will
see you guys on the next episode. Bye.
Host
Brenna Huckaby
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