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I just love today's episode. Tara Pringle Jefferson shares her personal story of creating a dynamic system of self-care for herself as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur. She describes a feeling of having lost herself beneath her many identities in a way that I think everyone listening in will be able to relate to. Tune in to hear her best practical tools for cultivating daily self-care and powerful anecdotes about turning points in her journey to caring for herself more deeply.

The holiday season can feel fraught with overwhelm, tricky conversations, and the huge weight of internal and external expectations. To support you in showing up for your life differently this holiday season, I recorded this short episode to remind you that you are allowed to take care of yourself, set and maintain appropriate boundaries, and say no (especially when you really want to). These reminders are useful all year long, but I find that during this time of year it helps to keep them front and center

Today's episode features Audrey Holst. During our conversation Audrey describes practical tools for getting (back) into your body to help you care for yourself with greater nuance and accuracy. In her straightforward style, she shared anecdotes from her personal journey from feeling burned out to grounded in her body. Prepare to walk away from this episode breathing more deeply, feeling rejuvenated, and armed with great strategies for caring for yourself right now.

Mistakes, disappointments, and broken promises to yourself are inevitable, because, as hard as you might try, you are a human being and not a robot. Today's episode focuses on how to make BETTER promises to yourself and how to support yourself kindly and compassionately even when you don't follow through in the way you might wish to. Rich with practical examples and real life situations, this episode will show you how to harness your energy and pour it back into making better choices next time. 

Today's episode features April McMurtry, founder of The Moon is My Calendar. During our conversation, April shares so many beautiful stories and tools for deepening your relationship with your own personal energy cycles by cultivating a relationship with the moon. These tangible ways to tend to yourself can help ground you in the knowledge that you are a part of the natural world around you and assist you in nurturing your body over the course of the moon cycle and year. 

Today's episode dives into the sticky liberation of giving yourself permission to change your mind. This can be very difficult for the people pleasing humans of the world, like myself! Tune in to hear me share a personal anecdotes about how I learned to give myself permission to change my mind - and finding the careful balance between feeling flaky and taking personal responsibility. 

Today's episode features the brilliant Pace Smith. Pace and I had a fantastic conversation about figuring out what you need and determining how to advocate for those needs in your relationships. I am so grateful to her for how much she shared, because I had a ton of lightbulb moments for how to show up in my relationship with greater clarity! Throughout the episode, Pace shares personal anecdotes and tangible tools that help us connect with others more deeply and live with greater intention. 

We encounter questions about our worth whenever we are thinking about investing time, money, or energy into ourselves. We wonder, "Is the experience going to be worth our investment?" The subtle question underneath this question is, "Am I worth the investment?" Today's podcast episode explores investment, possibility, and disappointment as I explore how to make decision about your own care that feel really (really) good.

Today’s episode features Tanya Levy and Carrie Cox. During the interview, Tanya and Carrie share fantastic examples and real life anecdotes of how they care for themselves as they navigate their daily lives. From motherhood to boundary setting to honoring the creative process, this conversation highlights the transformation, ease, and messiness that happens when you begin prioritizing your own care and making space for yourself in your life.

We pour a lot of energy into identifying and asking for what we want and need, but what happens when you have the opportunity to receive what you’ve asked for? I’ve found that this can be a sneaky and unexpected minefield for women as they learn to prioritize their needs. Today’s episode is devoted to the practice of learning how to receive the things that you ask for – including how to navigate potential pitfalls before they occur.

Today's episode features freelance writer and photographer, Alisha Sommer. Our conversation focuses on three essential questions: How am I making meaning? How am I in relationship with my community? How am I in relationship with myself? Something that I admire about Alisha is her beautiful capacity for seeing the ordinary in extraordinary ways. Tune in to hear her powerful answers and a conversation about creativity, motherhood, and carving out space for herself in her daily life. 

As the Summer season fumbles through her bajillion retrogrades and eclipses, it seems that everyone I know is struggling through experiences of transition and transformation. Today's episode is dedicated to how to tend to yourself through big feelings and big personal changes. Tune in to hear me talk about my favorite tools you can use to support yourself right this second - even if you feel overwhelmed, stressed, or unsure of what you need. 

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation's leading experts on fat discrimination and body image. In today's episode, she reminds us that joy and fun do not have a weight limit. Her powerful words encourage us to care deeply for the bodies that we have right now, including unlearning many of the harmful messages that we have received about our worth as they relate to our size. I am so grateful to her for generously sharing stories from her journey to self-acceptance with us. 

Raise your hand if you've ever judged your needs or seen them as incredibly inconvenient. You aren't alone. The truth is, our needs can be messy. WE can be messy. Today's episode explores the reality that we are deserving of our needs and having our needs met no matter how we might feel about ourselves in any given moment. Tending to yourself is the practice of being in relationship with your needs, so that you show up for your life each and every day as whole and well-nourished as possible.

Today's episode features Michelle Ward, the When I Grow Up Coach! One of the things that I have always adored about her is how direct she is with her advice. Michelle reminds us that we may need to say no to in order to say YES to ourselves and to our dreams in a way that feels both encouraging and spectacularly doable.Michelle shares about how her self-care has evolved through creating her business, getting married, adopting her daughter, and surviving breast cancer, twice.