The Peaceful Mind Podcast
Episode 82- Exquisite Self-Care


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You are listening to episode 82 of the Peaceful Mind podcast.
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Welcome to the Peaceful Mind podcast, a place for creating the peace of mind, you need to be the best mom you were created by God to be. If you want to bring more balance, more joy in more peace to your motherhood. This is the place for you. I'm your host, certified life coach at Catholic mom Danielle Thienel. In the name of the father of the son and of the Holy Spirit.
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Let's get started.
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Hi, beautiful mamas. I cannot wait for this episode to hit your eardrums, to explode your brain in a good way, in a way that has you thinking about something in a way that you might not have been thinking lately. And I think that being a, you know, couple months into the new year, it's a perfect time to stop you to have you pause and answer this question for yourself.
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And hopefully it will be in a way that you will finish out the rest of your day, your week and your year
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in a different way because you listen to this episode and started answering this question on a daily basis for you. Here's the question. What would it look like for you? If you. Exquisitely. Took care of yourself. If you gave yourself exquisite self care. Not just self-care, but exquisite self-care.
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What would that look like? OK, I'm just going to pause here a moment, which is something you don't really do. We actually edit these out in the podcast because I want you to think.
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What would it look like if you took care of yourself exquisitely? Now, the definition of exquisite is this in case one of the things your brain said was, I don't really know what that means. This is what it means. It's taking care of yourself in an extremely beautiful and delicate manner. It's taking care of yourself in an intensely felt manner, exquisite self-care.
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So then we go to self-care and this is what we're doing to take care of ourselves. So the description of how you are carrying that out would have to fit in that it is being carried out in a way that's extremely beautiful and delicate and intensely felt for you. OK. Is your brain saying that that would look like massages weekly? Is it getting your nails done? Is it just having yourself with a good book and a cozy place to read it with no interruption? Does exquisitely self-care for you look like you pay somebody else to clean your house? Does it look like you journaling every morning and spending a.
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Consistent time in your prayer life. Does it mean that you are making the time, wait for your friends and connecting with them and seeing them in person? Does taking care of yourself mean going ahead and buying that item for yourself? That feels luxurious? Does exquisitely taking care of yourself look like you? Having a plan of positive self talk and reinforcement when the old thoughts that of negative self-talk come in to your mind and has you feeling bad? Is it spending quiet time with your kids? Is it going on a date with your husband? Is it flossing your teeth every night or is it finally committing to writing that book that you want to? Is it going to bed a half an hour earlier? Is it waking up a few minutes earlier and starting and getting the exercise done? The first thing in the morning is it not putting off any more learning that instrument or that language that you want to? Is it deciding that you're not going to? Worry about that certain thing any more.
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And you're going to focus your energy somewhere else. I mean, I could go on and on moms with examples that are things that are activities or there some things that's expensive or things that don't cost very much. But only you know what you are doing to fill yourself up, to feel cared for, to feel taken care of. And it looks different for all of us.
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We have those kind of, you know, run of the mill. Not that they're not great things like, you know, taking a bath or going for a walk or just breathing in and out for a minute. You know, I remember when we had to take our self-care by locking the bathroom door, right? So kids, would it come in? Or maybe it was a closet going to a closet for you? I remember getting to the point when my twins were small that my husband came home from work and I immediately passed them over to him without saying anything, got in the car, drove to the local YMCA that I was a member of.
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And I actually didn't even get out and go in. I just stayed in the car. I just had my head on the steering wheel. And those are things that
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that you know, that we we know that when we get to the brink or when we have our just go to things that we believe that we're taking care of ourselves in that moment. But this episode is to get your brain and your thinking flowing that maybe we want to step that up a notch. Maybe we just don't want to focus on getting some self-care in or any self-care in, but we are now going to think about how it looks for us and what we can do that we would be saying that we exquisitely take care of ourselves.
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You deserve it, mama. You must find a way, because if you are doing that, if you are actually inspiring yourself by saying I feel cared for in such an exquisite way, can you imagine how you will then show up in your life and for your family if you are coming from that place now? Don't think that I'm asking that this has to be an all the time thing we we get to where we are putting our focus on different things in our lives, at different times, and we all have different circumstances that are going on for us, how old our kids are, what stage of motherhood we are.
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But regardless, I will not stop. The message of you needing to take care of yourself, so much so that your filled up so that it overflows into the world and not waiting to those points where you have to or you know, when it's like a rock bottom and then you finally have someone else say, Hey, you really do need to take better care of yourself, or you should probably start taking care of yourself.
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No, if you start thinking about this question now and start answering in it, making movements towards it, I promise you that your life will take a take on a different vibe, a different kind of aura. Will you be giving off? And we know, too, that if right now we're thinking, I don't know how to do that or I don't have the time or I don't have the money, I want you to raise your thoughts towards the heavens and ask God.
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How can I exquisitely start to take care of myself? Can you open a way? Can you show me a way? Can you give me ideas from you that align with your plan and your will for me and say, I know that you gave me this vocation of motherhood? I know you gave me this life and gifts to carry out. But I want to start taking better care of myself because I know I will be showing up as the best, most effective version of myself.
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And so I want to invite you to get started on this right away. I would love for you to tell me what ideas you came came up with when I asked you this question. I'd love to know what you're currently doing and then what you're going to now decide to do to set up your life as being exquisitely cared for. OK. Please drop me those in email or a DM on Instagram. Otherwise, if you want to take what I think is one of the greatest ways to take care of yourself, which is a regular weekly appointment with a life coach so they can help me up level my mental and emotional health that affects everything else that is going on in my life.
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Then reach out and sign up for a free call with me, and we'll make sure that even just in that one step of the call, you will feel as if you exquisitely took action towards caring for yourself. That's what I have for you this week, and I will talk to you again next week and until then take exquisitely care.
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Thank you for tuning in to today's episode of the Peaceful Mind podcast. Are you ready to take everything I teach you here and put it to work for your own life to really learn how to have peace of mind, no matter what is happening around you? If so, I'd love to have you as a client, as your coach. This is where you'll get personal and focused time on your own mind, using life coaching tools, concepts and proven life transforming wisdom all through a faith filled lens. To learn more about how we can work together.
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Come on over to DanielleThienel.Com. There, you'll see how to sign up for a free coaching consult and learn how to get started. Until next time. Peace be with you, always.
