140: How to Balance Being Gentle with Yourself vs. Using It As An Excuse
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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In this episode, we are talking about how to be gentle with yourself versus using it as an excuse. We cover what gentle and self-compassion really are and how a mindset shift can allow things to become more joyful and sustainable.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the feel good effect. In this episode, we are talking about how to balance being |
| 0:06.3 | gentle with yourself versus using it as an excuse. This is a question I get all the time, |
| 0:11.9 | and I can't wait to dive in and discuss this with you today. Let's make it happen. |
| 0:20.5 | Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel-good effect will help you redefine wellness |
| 0:25.2 | on your terms. |
| 0:26.9 | Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about achieving |
| 0:31.5 | another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you. |
| 0:36.9 | Drawing from cutting- edge science on mindfulness, |
| 0:39.2 | habit, and behavior change, this podcast offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for |
| 0:45.0 | more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life and allows you to embrace the idea that gentle |
| 0:51.3 | is the new perfect. I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter |
| 0:55.5 | and find the small shifts that create huge changes in your life. Thus striving, more ease. |
| 1:02.0 | It's time to feel good. Well, hey, feel good, bam. I am so glad you're here for this episode and conversation on how to balance being gentle with yourself versus using it as an excuse. So if you've listened to the show before or you follow my work, you know that I talk about this concept of being gentle with yourself. Gentle is the new perfect and how self-kindness |
| 1:29.8 | can really transform the way that you are in the world, your well-being overall. And I argue both from |
| 1:37.7 | a science-based perspective and the life-tested perspective that this shift and mindset is a game changer. It leads to more happiness, |
| 1:47.7 | more contentedness, and more resilience. But a question I get a lot when it comes to being |
| 1:54.7 | gentle and resistance, honestly, that comes up for people is this concept of how can I really |
| 2:00.5 | be gentle and still get what |
| 2:03.3 | I want to do done or not use it as an excuse. And recently on my Instagram stories, every Friday, |
| 2:10.6 | I try to do a Q&A. So open it up to any question that you want to ask. You can come out over there |
| 2:16.1 | at Real Food Whole Life. If you want to join in those, they're always fun. I get lots of different questions. But somebody |
| 2:21.7 | asked, how can I balance being gentle versus using it as an excuse? And recently, I had also |
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