Nurturing Habit

Nurturing Habit

Nurturing Habit is a a bi-weekly show about the ways we nurture ourselves as whole women so we can live more complete and vibrant lives.

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August 12, 2020 31 mins
Sheltering in place during this pandemic is especially hard for mothers who are introverts, especially when your kids are very small. You just.want.to.be.alone, but that space and quiet is really hard to come by.
 
In this Summer Break re-run episode, I share a bit of my own story, finding my way as an introvert and a stay-at-home mother. I also offer suggestions for how introvert moms can bett...
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This summer break-re-release is an episode where I break down the philosophy behind the KonMari method, and how to apply it to more than just your house. After you listen, I want you to review what is - or was - in your life pre-Covid, and what you WANT in your life now.
 
There is so much we want but still can't have. But what are you actually relieved to no longer be doing? When you get to start do...
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    Being turned on means to be ready. Not, in this case, for sexy stuff, but to be ready to invite life in. Do you feel open to that invitation? Or are you instead worn out, exhausted, and touched out? 
     
    Motherhood - life - doesn't have to feel this way. But if you are waiting for someone to swoop in and fix it, you might be waiting a long time. 
     
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    In this summer break re-release, I get personal about how I tended to myself in a particularly hard season; what worked for me, where I set boundaries, what I did to nourish myself. 
     
    I hope you will hear some ideas here that you can implement in your own life. Ideas that make you think, "Huh, I hadn't thought of that as self-care!" But it is. It totally is. And the effects will last a&nbs...
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    How do you talk to your kids about the hard stuff? Illness, death, violence? Racism? 
     
    If you feel completely unprepared for these conversations, this episode should help. While there is no one script to cover all the different conversations, there are some general guidelines that will help you feel more confident and brave, no matter what the topic. In this episode I share a rough framework th...
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    Do you feel like a good parent every day? Or do you snap and get frustrated, say things you regret, and wish you had different kids?:
     
    1. Welcome to being human during a pandemic, so give yourself some grace.
    2. You don't have to be stuck here. Doing your own personal work - increasing your awareness, mindfulness, and self-care - can change everything about how you parent.
     
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    Uma Girish believes that this pandemic is here to teach us something important. Uma is an author, speaker and life purpose coach, and she believes that you are here, at this moment in time, on purpose. What can you learn from this experience? How can you support and usher your kids through it so that it has greater meaning than just being paused? 
     
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    "I need help following through on doing things that are good for me," is what she said to me, but what she really needed was:
     
    1. permission to be ok with choosing her self-care time over chores
    2. identifying some hidden inequali...
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    Last month, life shifted for everyone. I expect you are feeling the deep impact of that right now. I'm personally writing this five weeks into sheltering at home, a month into school closures and my partner working at home, and no end in sight. 
     
    Every woman I've come in contact with is feeling the strain of this massive shift in our time, income, and the ways we emotionally support ourselves a...
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    Today's guest is a song doula. You've probably never heard of that. I hadn't either! 
     
    Chelsea is a singer and songwriter who works with women to begin to write their own songs, But that process, as she will describe in this interview, is so much more than learning how to place the chorus and the verses or how to set a story to music, 
     
    it is about learning how ...
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    March 25, 2020 24 mins
    We are in a period of time like none any of us have experienced before. It feels overwhelming, scary, and stressful. There are so many decisions we are trying to make every day, in an environment where we have never made decisions like these before.
     
    So how the heck we figure out what we should do when we are uncertain? When everyone has an opinion and they don't necessarily make sense, or they migh...
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    Would you stand in front of a bus for your kids? Are you making decisions that are the equivalent of many tiny steps in front of a bus, over many years? The outcome is still the same - and it isn't good for you or your kids. Sometimes we do things that are great for our kids, but are actually a detriment to ourselves. And then we feel really stuck in this decision.
     
    In this episode, I coach a d...
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    February 26, 2020 27 mins
    What you'll hear in this episode
    • How Erika found herself again after being swallowed by motherhood.
    • Why roller derby is a great sport for finding your strength and determination.
    • How being in a community with people with all different kinds of bodies can really shift your relationship with your own body.
    • How to sell your work without feeling sleazy.
     
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    December 13, 2019 10 mins
    Do you know what you need most in each season? Does winter feel different to you than other seasons? Winter is so much harder for me than any other time of year, which requires some major commitment to my self-care. Which, as I confess in this episode, I've not been doing. 

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    • how I have to care for myself differently in the winter
    • how I've been failing to...
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    Guest Melissa Camara Wilkins, award-winning blogger, speaker, author of Permission Granted: Be Who You Were Made to Be and Let Go of The Rest, talks with me about the ways we can give ourselves more permission to be our whole selves, and what that can do to expand our way of living.

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    Sometimes what you need to pull yourself out of a funk is cozy slippers, hot tea, and deep conversation. Other times, what you need is permission to slam your body into another strong woman while roller skating. 
     
    When Erika Tebbens found herself drowning in motherhood after moving across the country to a new community, the way she found herself again was through the surprisingly fierce communi...

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    October 18, 2019 24 mins

    It is so easy to make friends when you are 4, or 8. Right? "Hey, do you want to play with me?

    Yet it feels so hard when you are 33, or 48. "Um, hi, I think you might be cool and I'd kind of like to know you." 

    AWKWARD.

    This episode is all about making it feel a little easier to make those first connections with new people. Because what I've discovered is that we can actually learn a lot about how to make friends from how our k...

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    Does your home feel chaotic, overwhelming, and like there's constantly too many small things to keep track of, so you aren't making any progress on any big goals or dreams?

    Yvonne Marcus teaches Agile project management methods to moms, so they can more efficiently run their homes.

    In this episode, she tells us all about what that means, the basics of how to do it, and the kind of results that her clients are seeing - like drinking...

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    September 12, 2019 16 mins

    How do you feel about weekends?

    At various points in my parenting journey, I have dreaded them, looked forward to them, and felt entirely undone by them.

    A friend of mine admitted recently that she's been watching the clock on Sunday afternoon, counting down until bedtime, because in the morning she can send her kids back to school. And she feels kind of terrible about that. Another friend has been feeling bad about not focusing en...

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    How often have you wished you could just do something without being afraid? I know in my own life, fear is often the root of why I hold myself back, why I do not take that action or say the things I want to say.

    Enter Kate Swoboda, who has literally written the book on this topic. Kate is author of The Courage Habit,creator of YourCourageousLife.com and Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification, where I received my...

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