A (short) MEDITATION to Care Without Carrying It All

When the opportunity arises and you can take a moment to tune ‘it’ all out, if you so choose, maybe this brief meditation (almost four minutes) might resonate for you; a ‘time out’ to slow down, to let ‘it’ go, to momentarily put down the overwhelm. I acknowledge and honor where you may be, the experience you may be living, what you may be navigating, who you may be caring for in addition to yourself. May you feel ease, some relief and care for yourself and each other (those who you know and those who you do not yet know).

If we honor and care for your own capacity, would you agree that we make more room to care for and honor and ‘see’ others❓

May you find benefit. Wishing you the best.
Wishing you more peace inside. Praying for peace for all beings. ❤️🙏🌎

The title of this meditation shares the name of this 4 week virtual group program Nicole Schiener, (Registered Psychotherapist and Compassion Fatigue Professional), and I are hosting in February 2024 for Sensitive Changemakers, Helping Professionals, Caregivers and Creatives. @peaceandpossibility 😘
🌎✌️❤️

⭐️February 2024

⭐️PRE-APPROVED for 3 Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.

Join us to
Reduce overwhelm, reactivity and exhaustion
Prevent burnout and compassion fatigue
Develop and set better boundaries
Know what matters to you and what you want
Deepen trust in yourself

Know your limits
Know your wants
Listen to and make sense of your finely tuned nervous system
Practice body based exercises and trauma informed experiences to support you in caring without carrying it all
Slow down
Let go
Trust your intuition and somatic knowing.

We have designed this program to support you in protecting your time and energy and to honour your capacity and needs as a changemaker, helping professional, creative and caregiver.

www.CaringWithoutCarryingItAll.com

www.JulieinConversation.com

Thanks for tuning in to you.

Episode Transcript

(00:04):
Hello, and welcome to Julie inConversation, a special edition. A short
meditation for you to put it alldown for moments. Or you may want
to close your eyes and just letit go. Let whatever is feeling heavy

(00:31):
or overwhelming or creating distress, fromlonging to grief, to uncertainty or overwhelm.
May you just put it all downfor these moments and connect to what
is inside of you alive, vibrant, possible, relaxed meditation surfaced on a

(01:02):
previous episode, and so I've putit to music. It's just about four
minutes, so may you come backto it whenever you need. I do
share meditations of various lengths, andthis one was shorter, concise, all
packed into four minutes. So mayyou benefit. Thanks for tuning in to

(01:25):
Julian Conversation Julianconversation dot com. Mayyou enjoy, May you benefit? Thank
you for taking this time for yourself. How about you give yourself an opportunity

(01:48):
to put it all down, tojust let go of responsibility just for a
moment. What if you remove theweight from your shoulders, the heaviness in
your heart, the unease, diseaseor discomfort in your belly, the rigidity

(02:20):
perhaps somewhere located in your body.Can you relax, bring ease, flexibility.
Can you let go? Can youlet yourself soften by letting it go?
It? What is it for you? Maybe it's something specific, Maybe

(02:46):
it's just the overall feeling of distressor overwhelm or dissatisfaction or disappointment, or
expectation or desire. What if youlet it go for just right now here,

(03:08):
you and I together letting it go. I'm doing it too. Feels
good to just say I'm letting itgo. Should we say it out loud
together? I'm letting it go.Doesn't mean it won't be there when I

(03:30):
open my eyes again. But canI just be in this space imagining,
giving my body and my mind theopportunity to feel what it's like to let
go, to let it go,to slow down, to be with what

(03:53):
is here? When I do letgo, when I am present to myself.
When you are present with yourself andfeel what is there? When there's
more comfort in your belly, moreease in your body, more space at

(04:15):
your shoulders and at your chest andin your jaw. What can be created
and felt from this place in you? What can be dreamed of, imagined,
and expressed from this place. Whenyou put it all down, ya