We have this tendency to make every single moment productive—checking our phones in the grocery line, responding to texts in the car, emailing while working out at the gym.
🙋🏼♀️ Guilty? Yes, me too.
…and this sends our brain into a tail spin. Overwhelm, overstimulation and anxious thoughts increase.
Multi-tasking is the opposite of being present.
Last week I was truly feeling like I couldn’t handle one more thing. I had stuff that needed to be done, but honestly I just let it go…which is new-ish for me. Me in my 20s would have pushed through and made it happen, but me in my 30s listened to those beautiful body signals.
Could I have pushed through and gotten more clients, done more for work, made more money. Yes, but at what cost?
My brain and body were at capacity!
I was sitting at our neighborhood cafe, and it reminded me so much of our time living in Europe, were people just exist. They don’t multi-task as much over there.
And it hit me, one major reason I was overwhelmed (besides the fact that I had just moved and was solo parenting 3 small children), was I was trying to do too many different things, AT THE SAME TIME. (You? Me? No, we would never do that 😉)
I was trying to step into multiple different shoes at the same time. Was it working? Nope, of course not.
Explore + learn…
📝 Overwhelm as a Defense Mechanism
📝 How to Loose Your Phone and Feel Good About It
Reality is, our brain and body can’t handle everything at the same time. Even our health and wellness—we can actually stress and wearing our body MORE by doing too much, adding in too many supplements, trying to accomplish too many health goals at the same time
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Some like the analogy of choosing what balls to juggle or choosing what hat to put on today. I love to think of this as choosing what shoes to step into today. I don’t know about you, I don’t juggle, BUT I do wear shoes each day.
I started writing a little note in my calendar with what shoes I’m going to step into today, or morning, noon and night. So I can be fully present then move to the next thing. The guilt, the anxious thoughts, the overstimulation has DROPPED like crazy!
Sometimes it’s even just a few minutes of saying no to cleaning up the kitchen and yes to a dance party with my kids.
Being present calms our stress hormones, balances blood sugar, restores our brain—allows us to have more energy, get deeper sleep, get more done big picture and have more joy in life!
Choose…
productive
restful + re-charging
organized + tidy
playful + adventurous
energetic
communicative + social
reflective
spontaneous
present
Choose to focus on foundational wellness habits…
*Nervous system balance holds the key to everything else—because you are shifting the body into a place of capacity and energy to do the work it needs to do. How amazing is that?!
nervous system balance*
digestion
rest + sleep
energy
hormone balance
making nourishing meals
exercise
What shoes are you stepping into today or for the morning, noon or night?
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