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Episode 168 – Thursday Lesson: Radical Self-Care with Cait Byrnes
Quote of the Day: “Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-respect.” –www.gatewaywomen.com
Guest of the Day: Cait Byrnes is a Holistic Health and Wellness Coach who works with women dealing with exhaustion, fatigue, and burn-out to help them feel vibrant and excited through nutritional education, emotional support and radical acts of self-care. She believes that women’s health is a feminist issue, because society teaches women in particular that they need to care for everyone else before themselves.
Passion: To inspire women to take care of themselves in order to carry on with their lives in a meaningful way.
The Skill: Radical Self-Care: Cheap and Easy Ways to Treat Yourself, Stress Reduction, and Nutrition
Importance of Skill: These skills are too often forgotten about in our busy lives, and because too often people feel guilty for doing so.
The Lesson: Radical Self-Care
- Cheap and easy ways to treat yourself: Epson Salt bath (1/2 cup Epson Salt, ½ cup baking soda – can add essential oils), Hay House Radio, Community Acupuncture, look to barter volunteer services at yoga studio, spas and community acupuncture establishments, guided meditation
- Stress Reduction: Watch stimulant intake: caffeine, chocolate, etc., use the 4-7-8 breath, exercise/movement, lavender essential oil (in bath, on linen, in car, in office – to make: 1 ounce bottle, ¼ rubbing alcohol, rest with water, 5-10 drops lavender essential oil), allow yourself to sit with the stress/anxiety and rather than pushing it down, let it out.
- Nutrition: Fueling your body in the right way will make you feel better emotionally. Find what works best for you, but general guidelines: be open to experimenting through food, use a Food and Mood Journal, get enough water (should be the first thing you have in the morning), drink 60-80oz of water a day, eat veggies of all colors, get enough protein and enough healthy fats: coconut oil, fish, nuts, seeds, avocado, have protein with each meal, especially for breakfast. Be mindful of sugar intake and processed foods, stay as close to the source as you can (raw vegetables). Stay on the outer rim of the grocery store.
Listener Resources:
- hayhouseradio.com (inspirational radio)
- pocacoop.com (community acupuncture)
- marc.ucla.edu (free guided meditation)
- Calm (cellular application – guided meditation)
- com/freebies (Food and Mood Journal)
- The Art of Extreme Self-Care by Cheryl Richardson
- Food and Healin, Annemarie Colbin
To include radical self-care in your life…
Envision: Envision achieving goals but consider why you want to achieve them. How will they make you feel? Keep asking yourself “why” until you get to the truth.
Explore: Use the Food and Mood Journal, see the resources above.
Execute: Schedule your self-care into your calendar, because it is just as important as work or medical appointments or taking your kids to their activities.
Advice to Listeners: Cait says that there is a chapter on how to ask for help when you need it included in Cheryl Richardson’s book listed above that is very helpful. She states, “…I think that women, in particular, feel shameful if we have to ask for help, because we feel like we’re super women and we can do it all, we don’t need anyone. Which, I mean, we are super women and we can do it all, but sometimes we need a little support and that’s OK…it’s so OK to need a little help or a little support in whatever way that is.” She adds, “…don’t let anyone shame you for incorporating self-care or for asking for help.”
Motivational Go-Do!
Go do your 4-7-8 breath anytime you feel stressed today! And… go to caitbyrnes.com/freebies to get a FREE Food and Mood Journal.
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