233. Overwhelmed? How Adding Margin Can Improve Your Life

HERself

Abby and Amy

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever gone through a rough stretch and it’s made you take a look at your life from a zoomed out perspective? Well that’s exactly where we’ve been lately. Both of us have gone through a stretch of illnesses for both ourselves and our kids that has made us reflect on what we want to stay in our lives and what we want to leave behind. And sometimes it takes going through a really hard period to notice these things.

In this episode we talk about how most of us live such busy lives that we don’t have any margin for sick days. And that includes for ourselves. We talk about what we call the “10-minute” support person and how neither of us have that. But instead of wishing we did, we share how we have the necessary conversations with our partners and friends, so that when we do get that call from school saying our kiddo is sick, it isn’t always falling on just us.

We want this episode to be the push you need to do some reflecting on your own life. What can you let go of? Where can you ask for help? What are your values and what can you do that is going to help you live in more alignment? Do you have the necessary margins that you need so that when something does come up, you’re set up to handle it in a way that feels best for you?

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0:00.0	Being able to have that margin isn't just for the sick days.
0:03.0	It's to be able to enjoy it more in the day to day.
0:06.0	Okay, so on a random Thursday you have an extra hour and a half
0:09.0	that you didn't account for?
0:11.0	Great. Could you go for a walk? Could you go to lunch with a friend, could you read a book, could you take a nap.
0:16.7	Like these are the things that having more margin will allow you to do, but you have to allow yourself to do it.
0:23.0	I'm Amy.
0:27.0	And I'm Abby, and as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.
0:34.1	But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.
0:37.2	Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions
0:40.5	and always being willing to grow with a purpose.
0:43.0	We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.
0:49.0	Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.
0:55.0	Okay herself community Amy and I have just had we've had a couple of months here between us getting sick our kids getting sick spring break and now
1:07.8	As we're recording this episode we're about to head on vacation. Yes, there's just been a lot going on and what we were talking about we've
1:14.6	been going for walks we've been having these conversations and we just thought
1:17.4	we'd pull it into the podcast episode for you guys to hear because we know that you
1:21.3	might be having these same thoughts, these
1:22.7	same types of experiences and it's taking a zoom out and just like looking at your
1:28.0	life and thinking okay what do we want to stay what what can leave, but also knowing that sometimes it takes a bad day or a really
1:37.0	hard stretch to notice it.
1:39.0	Like when you are living life and things are going well, you almost feel like you could be superwoman.
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