How often do you use silence when you are having a conversation as a strategy? How often are you patient when you are listening to someone else talk? What if I told you that these are a couple of your superpowers, when you know how to use them in a helpful way for someone else? These are strategies that can work for both children and adults and skills that you can learn.

What are some tools or strategies that you use when you are feeling like someone else is trying to control you? Or maybe they aren't even trying but you give up what you want to accommodate them? Whether its to keep the peace or to be nice or because you decide that what they want is more important than what you want, you are still giving up your agency for them. Here is a way to balance it all.

All of the little decisions that we make everyday- big ones, little ones: they can sometimes lead to decision fatigue. We are going to talk about a personal document that you can create that can cut through all of the chaos. What if you had a guiding tool that made your decisions for you ahead of time by knowing which options beat out other options because they aligned with your values. It's a little shortcut to a lighter brain-load in your every day life.

Did you ever wish that it felt easier to say 'yes' to yourself for those decisions when you WISH that you would decide to do something a certain way for yourself, but you just keep on deciding the other way. Maybe you don't go exercise. Or you keep on giving in to your kids when they whine. Or you say yes- you will go to the event when you don't want to. If there was a hack to make it easier, then you could practice it until even the big decisions felt better to make. Well, there IS a hack an...

When we picture ourself achieving a goal that we have set for ourselves, how many times do we put ourselves into that scenario in our mind and imagine us as confident, happy, and no longer struggling with any challenges are problems. It sounds nice, but is it realistic? And what does that mean for how we are thinking about ourselves right now? Come and discover the reasons why we deserve our own respect right now.

There is a concept that comes from Finland called Sisu. We are going to explore what this concept is and how it can give you a different mindset in your daily life. The result will be clearing out some of the mental load that we carry in our brain to remember to get tasks done. If you find that you put a lot of things off until later on, then this is the episode for you.

Woohoo- we did it! We have shared 100 episodes together and this will close out our Self-Care Series. Altogether 11 episodes on taking really good care of you, so that you can be the best version of yourself. The version that you want to be. We are going to wrap up the previous 10 episodes and Celebrate!!

Who has your back more than anyone else in the world? You might have thought about your mom, your best friend, your partner...... But what about yourself? How big of a cheerleader are you are to encourage yourself along the way? Most of us grew up with a critical inner voice and it takes steps to relearn that kind of self-talk and to change it into a voice that, not only helps us, but that can be our biggest fan.

We have all heard how important connections with others are to longevity, quality of life, and our social and emotional health. But what happens when you know that you need connection and you just don't feel like it. Or it feels like too much when you are really needing to connect. Let's look at a new way to think about this that will make it all feel easy.

When was the last time that you tried something new. Were you good at it? Are there things that you have thought about trying, but if only you had learned how to do it when you were younger..... We hesitate to start something if we won't be at least adequate at it. We are more afraid to fail than we used to be as a child. Learn how allowing ourselves to do something badly can be another way to take good care of ourselves.