Self-Care Strategies with Julie Pouliot

Is your mental health stressed and overloaded?  Are you always in a position of helping others, to the point where it is affecting your health - while causing stress, anxiety, and even depression? Do you feel fatigued, overwhelmed, or, on the verge of burnout? Are you looking for strategies on how to care for yourself, while caring for others?  

In this Health-FULL episode: "Self Care Strategies to Relieve Stress", we uncover ways to build up your mental health amongst the stresses of day to day life. 

Perhaps you are a health practitioner, therapist, or, the caregiver of a loved one.  The exhausting weight of constantly being in a caregiving position can surely chip away at one's health.  Unless, strategies are learned to properly resource ourselves and move into a position of power, strength, and resiliency. 

In this episode, we hold nothing back as we share 30 years worth of caregiving advice. We ask Julie Pouliot, Registered Massage Therapist, for her expertise and advice on this topic. Thank you for watching, and we hope listening brings you improved mental health and hope for the future. 


- Introduction
- What is Somatic?
- Relationship with ourselves and others
- Safety and Presence and the effect on our nervous system
- Self care for Practitioners and Caregivers
- Know Thyself
- Know your needs
- Be kind to yourself
- Know your capacity and understand that it will change day to day 
- Running on low emotional capacity
- Self-regulation
- Balancing work life with home life
- Tips for caregivers of family members or friends with illness
- Take pauses throughout your day to recharge
- Placing our problems on the shelf, with the promise to come back at the end of the day
- Building resiliency
- The wounded healer 
- Trauma discharge
- Herring's law of cure
- How do you create a safe space for someone when you don't know the ins and outs of their personal needs?
- Validation
- Empathy and compassion
- Burnout and nervous system overload
- Building resilience by doing difficult things
- Mind over matter
- Making acts of service fulfilling to yourself
- Curiosity instead of judgement
- Conclusion

To learn more about Julie, you can find her on Instagram: @symbioticallyfluid

To learn more about Monica, you can find her on Instagram: @acu_osteo_nelson

To learn more about Forrest, you can find him on Instagram: @rebalance_mte