050: The Secret to Self-Care in Real Life: 20 Ideas Beyond Bubble Baths & Massages
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Looking for the secret to self-care in real life? This episode is packed with ideas that go beyond bubble baths, massages. Let’s dive into the practical tips so you can start your own self-care practice in your real life.
Self-care is trending right now, and for good reason. Because if self-care means intentionally taking care of yourself: mind, body, soul, then absolutely, let’s start a self-care revolution! The problem? All the self-care lists out there seem to be packed with ideas that frankly seem unrealistic.
Because as much as I love a good bubble bath + hour-long message, this working mama--who’s balancing entrepreneurship, family, life responsibilities, and taking care of herself--well, let’s just say there aren’t a lot of bubble baths happening around here.
Here’s the truth about self-care: It’s simply about all the small ways you tune in, listen to your body, and take small steps to take care of yourself.
It’s about injecting a little self-compassion and mindfulness into your real life, everyday.
And, it’s about flipping the script from what you should be doing, to focusing instead on what feels really good.
So how to make it happen in real life? In this episode we dive into 10 self-care ideas beyond bubble baths, massages, and journaling
20 Feel Good Self-Care Ideas Beyond Baths, Massages, & Journaling
1 | Get up 15 minutes early and . . . read something that feeds your soul.
2 | Get up 15 minutes early and . . . simply sit and enjoy a hot cup of coffee or tea.
3 | Get up 15 minutes early and . . . start working on your dream.
4 | Take the extra 15 minutes of sleep.
5 | Create a no-phone in your room policy.
6 | Turn alerts off on your phone.
7 | Listen Up . . . Feel Good Playlist, Podcasts Forever, Audio Books
8 | Get Cozy
9 | Create a Hydration Habit
10 | Take a Break . . . Stand, Breathe, Move
11 | Break Up with Gossip
12 | Bring Your Own Treats
13 | Take a (Nap or Pick-Up) Break . . . Sit, Breathe, Move
14 | Check In: What Do You Need to Feel Good
15 | Create a Phone Cut-Off Policy
16 | 20-Minutes to Morning Success
17 | Gratitude List
18 | Acknowledge the Season
19 | Give Yourself Some Credit
20 | Gentle is the New Perfect
Resources
Take the Quiz! Wellness Personality Quiz
Website: realfoodwholelife.com
Instagram: @realfoodwholelife
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. If you're looking for this secret to self-care in real life, |
| 0:05.5 | then this episode is for you. Let's make it happen. Welcome to the Feel Good Effect, a podcast about |
| 0:14.1 | what it really means to be healthy. I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs. I'm a researcher, blogger, storyteller, and educator, and I know |
| 0:23.7 | firsthand just how hard creating a healthy lifestyle can be. In this podcast, we'll talk to |
| 0:29.6 | health and wellness thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries to deconstruct healthy |
| 0:34.3 | to help you feel good. |
| 0:44.5 | Hey, Feel Good at Beck Community. I'm so glad you're here. For those of you who tune in every week, I just want to say thank you. I appreciate you. And if you're a brand new listener, |
| 0:48.5 | welcome. Go ahead and hit subscribe on whatever app you're listening on so you have a brand new |
| 0:53.2 | Feel Good Effect episode every single week. We are celebrating the 50th episode. subscribe on whatever app you're listening on so you have a brand new feel good effect episode |
| 0:54.3 | every single week. We are celebrating the 50th episode of the feel good effect today. So to those of you |
| 1:01.6 | who have been here from the very beginning and to those of you who have come alongside somewhere |
| 1:06.6 | along the way, thank you so much for being part of this conversation about what it really means |
| 1:11.5 | to be healthy and to spread this movement. You guys are amazing. In the last solo episode, I talked a lot |
| 1:17.9 | about mindset and we talked about what it really means, what it is, what it's not, and how mindset is |
| 1:23.6 | really about shifting the way that you think. So today I wanted to share with you kind of a little bit |
| 1:29.0 | more about that and talk about this new mindset from Feel Good Effect should to good. You'll be hearing |
| 1:35.7 | more about this in episodes to come, but I just wanted you to be the first to hear about it that we'll be |
| 1:40.6 | talking about the mindset of should and those invisible thought patterns that |
| 1:44.9 | kind of keep us stuck. And then also talking about how to shift to good. So grounding in what |
| 1:50.3 | really matters to you and what really feels good and how to make that a way to change everything |
| 1:56.6 | about the way you're living. And if you want to be first to know about should to good and some |
| 2:01.4 | insider tips to start really working on shifting, you can head to realfood whole life.com |
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